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The difference is the shape of the little squiggly marks.

Right. So I'm asking -- what else is there? What does the full meaning say? I'm sympathetic to informal logic taking priority over formalization, thou...

What on earth would the meaning of P -> Q be such that it differs from not-P or Q? It's not like P -> Q is in any way a natural language sentence. We'...

I think it's reasonable to say that science and philosophy are in a similar position with respect to whatever a "highest" discourse is. I think of the...

Yeah I'm not sure there. I can say I really enjoyed it though. Made me think about logic in totally new and different ways.

I really like this book for informal logic: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/arguments-about-arguments/27835C37D9CEDFA6BE9EFD11CA2DA5A3

Cool. I see the difference flipped about. I'm tempted to say we're doing philosophy and thereby blah blah blah, but that seems kind of cheap too -- ar...

I suppose I'm speaking in favor of philosophy so I really do mean it the other way about: that philosophy doesn't influence but is the beginning of th...

I'm not sure how to convince, but I do think there are stakes in philosophy -- even in the esoteric topics. The ecological, economic and political iss...

That's probably why I call it a curse -- I enjoy the reflection and the wondering, and I know it annoys others and so try not to do it when it does so...

It can, but usually it just irritates others :D

And, again, on the other hand... From an anthropological view there is the case of people attending church on special occasions, celebrating the Chris...

lol you're right. My accent coming through in the writing.

More to the question of the OP: I think that the belief in the resurrection is pretty important. At least it's on this basis that I argue that Mormans...

Definitely maybe. I've sort of thought of the neo-cons as Marxists who gave up on class struggle -- where there's nothing primitive about primitive ac...

You're ignoring what I said to point out a bad thing governments did. I'm fully on board with governments being bad. They suck. I'm not fully on board...

Generally speaking: The minarchists constantly reinvent the state, but at an even higher price. And, given that the state still exists, are not anarch...

If it's a gradual process then I think the 2008 financial crises is a hard event for you to reckon with. The 2008 financial crises occurred because of...

https://youtu.be/XFLQBUDa0uw?si=rWcM5_Wk4RHkP41n

Let's suppose we're all in agreement here. What then?

I don't think that private companies and the state are easily separable. I'm more or less saying that as soon as you abolish the state someone will re...

How would the private security companies operate given your notions of government here?: How would the private security companies' policies be backed?...

The reliance upon privatization sort of undermines this as an anarchist project -- private property requires rights to be enforced. Once you "privatiz...

True. It could just be a professional hazard of the cobbler seeing the world as a big shoe. The system of signs can be seen as an assemblage, too. An ...

"Tribal markings", insofar that we understand them in a wider cultural context as fulfilling a multitude of functions, I think is pretty close. The ot...

I believe you and I can always show how philosophical questions can reveal metaphysical presuppositions, and that these presuppositions at least help ...

I'm wondering, and suspect you would though I don't know, if you'd accept a similar articulation along the spectrum of literature. As in: "For me the ...

Some more thoughts that may not be worth it: Metaphysically -- if self/other is a complex of physical proteins performing a function then it seems we'...

Oh sorry. I don't know how much of the details are philosophically important per se, it just reminded me of the organism in your video because what th...

Is it not absurd, though?

Yeh. No matter what I say the keys are locked in the car I locked.

I think to accomplish something like that you'd have to stipulate Wittgenstein, almost. Not quite, because you can argue this or that about him, but i...

o yeah no worries. You said as much in your review. It definitely sounds up my ally. I just haven't gotten around to reading the pdf yet is all.

Aahhhh! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_leukocyte_antigen I was privileged enough to learn about that for work, at one point. I found the idea of ...

Listened to it. It sounds like a complex and meaty book that I'd be interested in. One critique: I would not reduce the negation of the negation to Ni...

It's nice to find a niche in which I could flourish; I'll tell Mom I'm a fertilizer.

Hrm! Apparently I didn't dig deep enough. Those labs would both be a lot of fun to work in.

That is -- making shit up and then seeing if it works(and finding that it usually does not). Though in school I call it "Guess and check"

Indeed. As long as capitalism continues to ruin the world I feel a certain comfort in the familiarity -- at least it's not aliens or their poop.

Yup. My inclination is to reduce philosophy to literature. First, excellent OP. I hesitated to respond until you gave me something more specific to la...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/07/canada-blob-mystery-solved?CMP=share_btn_url A gripping tale of a chemist performing tests on a bl...

:heart: :broken:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/dulce-et-decorum-est

So what do I owe you?

I suppose I don't really care if we call it democracy or whatever -- if our political actions lead us to war I take that as a sign that something is w...

Well, according to Wikipedia, authority on all knowledge :D -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle So seems others' agree with you based on readin...

Yul Brynner?

Heh. Fair. I'm not sure it's obvious Plato did due to the cave analogy. Would it be that hard for an aristocrat to hear the tales people tell and refo...

I think this is so far back in history that if you had some clear evidence you could publish a paper on it.

Makes me breathless.