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I'd distinguish between ideology, nation, state, and party. Communism is an ideology, nations are historical claims on territory, states control natio...

Cool, that helps with what comes next in the reading too. I asked about the tunnel thing trying to understand Subversion (why doesn't Figure 2 already...

With Figure 2 on page 61 do you believe there are supposed to be two imaginary tunnels? One from a to b and one from a to outside b?

That seems to be the easiest way to parse things, I agree. Imperatives do not fit the form, so they cannot be either true or false. I guess here we ha...

In modern lexicon doesn't communism not work more or less by definition? The empirical record on the whole phenomena is all over the place, just as it...

OK I think all that GSB is saying in that paragraph, in simplified terms, is that re-entry doesn't allow us to use the arithmetic to solve for the val...

I'm inclined to say there is a fact, but that it's not the fact which justifies, say, the license conditions for someone to perform a wedding. The rul...

From Chapter 8, p43-44: Perhaps a way to put it, and to go back to an earlier distinction: Theorems are statements in the meta-language about what we ...

heh. OK I've seen this before. But still good to watch again.

Yeah, this is the first time I've come across that too. This is cool though. Thanks for sharing.

Heh. It gets worse. You reminded me of the album so I decided to cue it up in YouTube as a playlist, and I have to do the same for every song :rofl:

lol I had to click through 2 warnings about how harmful that song is to see what it was. This is the one I'm listening to tonight: https://www.youtube...

I'm still crawling my way there. This morning I didn't have time to do my little bit of philosophy to warm up the mind. Hopefully with two of us we ca...

Yeah, I'll admit it's complicated. Or at least vague. I don't know if the truth is the best assertability condition, though, because here we have trut...

I am a moth jumping from light to light, but I usually come back around. This morning I find myself going back. In particular as I proceeded I started...

I think it'd depend upon how we're trying to judge if someone knows something or not. With arithmetic those conditions are spelled out in books and ha...

Today we're talking in the meta-language about the object-language of yesterday, or right now we're talking in the meta-language about the object-lang...

I just wanted 1! Those PTA people are such prudes.

Keeping the analogy between Hume and Kripke's sceptic: Hume's questioning of the place of causation doesn't yield reliably workable results. Scepticis...

I've been trying to think of a good response @"Janus" but have been unable, so perhaps this will do better. I believe this expression may be close to ...

Indeed! Or, as in North Carolina's entry: ""Drink". Other areas of the country think of "drink" as an alcoholic beverage. When I first moved to Oregon...

Looking at the "other" categories made me laugh. Especially the paragraph-length entries :D -- they must have just let people put anything in "other",...

Fair point about the target audience. I'm asking about the speaker of the essay. If Kripke isn't offering a resolution, then I'm asking: what about th...

The way that makes sense to me is to read the essay as presenting Kripkenstein's views, rather than Kripke's. Is that how you're reading it? (which, t...

True. If I'm understanding the argument: in place of truth-conditions Kripke resolves the sceptical problem with the sceptical solution that the commu...

I want to post Kripke's summation of his own argument. On page 107-109: Because it makes sense of your questions :D -- when I first read your question...

How do you respond here to @"Ludwig V"'s point? Here there's a few bases from which we could confuse one another: arithmetic as a practice, arithmetic...

I'm not trying to do philosophy asof math. I don't think I'd reduce rationality to rule-following either. I think what @"Janus"'s position amounts to ...

The joke I always tell is "we got our 2 weeks of autumn!" (or spring) Sometimes it lasts longer than that. But sometimes....

Some religions use psychoactive substances. Some religions condemn them. I'd say that if we're talking about an ethical impulse towards drugs then we'...

I love walking in cities and towns (most of my walking is there) but it's not to be distracted. I look about but there's something to the rhythm of it...

Hrm! I don't know that I'd accept "we know our own actions in a more immediate way than we know others' actions" as a true sentence, but it'd be for b...

I'd say that basic arithmetic's genesis is in abstraction more than counting. But whether that's a good reason or not is up to you. Mathematics is str...

Well, if they're not derivable from counting then your argument against quusing isn't really talking about the same kind of thing since you've outline...

I disagree that arithmetic is basically counting for the reasons I've stated: there are some numbers you cannot count to which you can get to within t...

Ahhhhh.... OK I think it clicked now. I figured out my mistake. I was treating "m" in (3) as embedding the crosses to its left, but in fact it's along...

I think the changing scenery, the rhythm of breathing and walking, and the relative lack of things to pay attention to in particular is what makes wal...

Yup. The first line states what f is and that's how I was treating it. \left. {\overline {\, fm \,}}\! \right| = \left. {\overline {\, m \,}}\! \right...

Cool. I think that's enough of the concrete side of things for me to feel like I have a footing again. Thank you again for your explanations @"wondere...

To be fair I was just trying to parse the argument as is rather than trying to interpret it in terms of Kant.

Yeah, but.... I'd say it's Heidegger that has the plank in his eye. He didn't fail to embody his own ideals. What he ultimately deemed as authentic li...

For Laws of Form Relays may be the better bit of technology to look at, though they function the same as the transistor. Looking through wikipedia at ...

OK, cool. That was what I was thinking, but realized I didn't know. Given the topic of the book -- a kind of proto-logic prior to logic, or from which...

Being able to count "1" is significant, as is being able to recognize when you have 0 of something. Then the journey from 1 to 2 is the act of groupin...

This is great. Thanks again for taking the time to write out these explanations. Of course, though, this is what I want :D I think what I'm wanting to...

That's remarkably clear. I've struggled to put together a QM primer before only to put it aside because it's hard to even understand, and so even hard...

The abacus might be a bad example for me because it would emphasize what I've said: I can certainly count the beads on an abacus, but I don't know how...

Hrm! That helps me understand the feedback part very well -- so thank you again for taking the time. When Set is grounded the voltage from R3 no longe...

Thanks! I'm going to type out what I understand from your explanation and the diagram and guess work, and I looked at this website too. The story of a...

Me either, which is what I was trying to get at by asking for a criterion of quiddity. As I'm reading Fine a definition is necessary, because Fine acc...