Moliere

I am sir. I'm glad to see your explicit rendition of possible worlds, because that was my fuzzy notion but you've made it explicit.

Yup! Much of the time they do -- but not always always. That's why it's still a science. We get it wrong sometimes, in the details. Theoretically I th...

I don't think those exclusive. There are necessary causes and stochastic causes, and others harder to define than these mathematical constructs. Maybe...

What reason? Yeah. I started there with I'm still thinking that if we accept determinism then the PSR is easy to establish, but cuz of stochastic even...

Only in a thread claiming things about determinism and the PSR :D Though I'd emphasize my viewpoint here: it's not the quantum level as much as there ...

For my part the addition of uncertainty in classical mechanics is enough to warrant some kind of stochastic reasoning with respect to causality. It ma...

I think that begs the question. Though to be fair to you -- to say the universe is a closed system is more or less to affirm the conservation laws are...

That mirrors my experience with anarchist spaces. Disputes, yes -- violence? No. It's all handled by talking through it with everyone. (EDIT: I ought ...

S'all good. I could have been less snarky and more friendly. But no need to apologize for expressing peevishness; we understand one another better thr...

OK I think I've figured it out -- if you've ever just "felt suspicious" of an idea in a philosophical text I think that's it because I can't really pi...

Oh, sorry. Anarchists.

Oh, for sure. Bad actors abound. But just to warn you, it is fairly popular in my experience in this subgroup.

For lack of a better term "identity politics" is largely viewed favorably by anarchists I've worked with. From a theoretical standpoint it makes a lot...

Yup. That's a true description of the big picture in various attempts. Also, if it wasn't clear, do not read Robert's Rules of Order unless you want t...

:rofl: Well that's reassuring...

Okiedoke. Then it's just a wondering on my part where I'm not fully following everything.

In the ideal there would be no central government at all. Federations could exist in various ways but they wouldn't be run by officers who are elected...

Also, I tried starting ND today. I can see what you mean @"Jamal" about how the difficulty has gone up a few notches. I've had to reread several sente...

Thanks :) I find myself conflicted often with his various remarks on happiness, and ideology, and especially the use of the term "bleating" -- reminds...

:up: Sounds good. You got outvoted @"hypericin" :D

The plan as I understand it is to post them in the Phil. Writing Activity 2025 subforum, whose contents appear on the front page. I'm good with adding...

:rofl: Hey, I don't know what's wrong with the rest of the world but reading old translations of 150 year old political theory is :fire: -- keeps me u...

Yes -- but maybe Einstein was wrong. Is the whole universe rightly described as a closed system?

So how can you claim: Unless you have first hand experience of 5000 years? Or is recorded history enough?

Something I found interesting in this lecture is the connection of speculation to depth, and thereby speculation to the appearance/essence distinction...

:up: Cool. Just wanted to make sure it's a bit of an analogy to the Big Picture -- something like a negotiated middle for people trying to do anarchis...

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Yup. That's one way to think on it. Though one can be part of a housing or grocery co-op without being an anarchist, of course, these are some real ex...

Cool. It was my understanding that we'd be switching over to ND after Lecture 10.

Trade unions organize the workers at a place not owned by the workers, whereas a workers collective owns the place and runs it in accord with whatever...

Yeah, think of it like a municipality -- but rather than voting on representatives to vote for what to do everyone represents themselves and can speak...

Heh, yeah we don't need to simplify to that point. I think we basically agree -- I was just peeved you'd say that no one would ever say such and such,...

Different ways, depending on the particular anarchist you're talking to. Some general themes that emerge are an emphasis on horizontal decision making...

This demonstrates the difference I was alluding to, and you've already pinpointed as a difference -- the way anarchists speak about nature differs dra...

I can think of nitpicks, but I can't see how what I said is at odds with this. Also, is that the shortest version you got? :D

OK, this demonstrates a good theoretical difference -- something for philosophy. I'm gathering that you're speaking from the anarchists perspective in...

Yeah. Especially not my map, which isn't meant to go into details. If it needs to be said, yes, you'll find a lot of differences along the way -- incl...

There's a thing called "simplification" that we do to get the gist of an idea across. If someone doesn't know what a representative democracy is we do...

Yup -- that'd be the utopian version of both, but in terms of differentiating them and trying to wrap your mind around it that's a good simplification...

Oh, for sure. At least my experience says the same of the modern tendencies, though I've been out of the game so I couldn't say what things are like n...

You're not crazy. Many have tried, and you're welcome to too. What in particular could someone say to you, other than to say "keep going, I'm listenin...

The "correct in its domain of validity, profoundly innovative, immensely influential and has introduced structures of thinking on which we are still b...

Roughly, yes. I love that paper so much.

Good luck with your memoir. I hope your experience of dying right now isn't you dying right now. But if so I'd much rather have companions to talk to ...

:up: Means/Ends reasoning definitely differs between the two. I like your notion that communism is the theoretical they aspire towards, but maybe that...

A question to keep in mind for myself, then -- I thought of Sartre and Camus, but would defend them as "good" examples of blending the disciplines whi...

Good questions. One's I still reflect upon. For Marxism I recommend www.marxists.org as a resource. For anarchy I recommend An Anarchist FAQ. The wiki...

Cool. And, OK, good examples.

Good summary, and noting how this lecture is conceptually dense in that it's using more original terms than the first 8 lectures have. So throughout I...

This post by way of pointing out how our own conceptions on what constitutes philosophy are different, so we are talking past one another. The purpose...