Yup, that's the one! Thanks. That worked. I already became stuck on the next step. :D -- but I figured it out by going back to the demonstration of C4...
To me personally? The most current, but clearly inadequate, means for our society to answer the question "By Whom and how are these children going to ...
Hrm -- I'm reading you as going back to your original post, then, whereas before I was reading you as allowing that marriage is real. So a marriage is...
I think that it's worth asking, in that case, what is the criterion of quiddity, what-it-is-ness, such that we can have names with and names without a...
The discussion has moved to other considerations, but I have some thoughts here. Aristotle is conceptually rich, so this is very much a guess in the d...
I think "counting" is almost a primitive. It's such a simple operation or concept that we'd have a hard time defining it rigorously. But I'd put "coun...
I think I'd respond by saying you're doing counting, which is neither addition nor quaddition. Counting is an entirely different, third rule where you...
I think you've changed your position a little, then. You're allowing some aggregates to have real relations, and claiming that there are some times wh...
I'm looking at Chapter 11 again this morning, and having taken a break for the nitty-gritty I wanted to see if I could understand the derivation of in...
Naturally, this is why I've been hesitant to speak in this know-much-of-everything place. ;) The lips are slightly disturbing in comparison to the non...
Are the lips recorded from a video recorder? They look like they're a part of a person who is behind the animation and putting their lips in a hole wh...
Heh. I suppose I'd say that it's only us chickens that have to step up, and that's the real problem. We're the leaders we have been waiting for -- we'...
If a couple is married and owns a house, does the nominalist say "no one owns the house" because ownership is jointly owned by two members of the set?...
I agree that classical logic doesn't deal with time very well. That's part of what allowed Kant to distinguish between Logic As Such, and Transcendent...
That helped me -- it's nice to have an interpretation that's been worked through by someone else. I didn't realize that GSB's algebra is formally equi...
There's a flag I want to put on "first cell", but it feels too off topic. Granting the first cell making a distinction, which I can agree with, it's i...
I think there's been a concerted effort to undermine unions. There's a lot of images of unions, like the mob (but so, so many others), which are popul...
OK So rather than a Cartesian subject: "One is always in one's world" has a phenomenological sound to it. The world is composed of distinctions, in th...
There are always more details, and often times they're important to a particular circumstance. I presented a simplification which was meant to highlig...
These all sound good to me. I'd even be able to point to some examples of people that fit. I'm not sure anyone would disagree with this list. They'd d...
You're in a better position than me. Years ago I read a substantial amount of Aristotle in English, but that's about it. Is it possible to act without...
"working against the company" is a bit of a stretch, I'd say. "the company" is primarily comprised of employees, after all. But the union is for the e...
Heh. That's an interesting conclusion, at least for myself, because I would push against it while maintaining that we have to cooperate. pointed out h...
I have empathy, but they're still scabs. I understand why they're doing it, but the choice they're making is still "My family is more important than y...
I accept the argument about Socrates and the Singleton Socrates. And I understand the paper to basically be directed towards essentialists (so it's no...
Carrying over my response here, though I'm fine with moving it back to "Belief" as well. My understanding of Aristotle's notion of essence is that it ...
That's at least pretty close to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_lie ? Or not? It's not brainwashing. It's myth making. My first thought is that if...
I think that's pretty much what a noble lie amounts to: it's technically a lie, but it's for a good, substantial reason of drawing the people towards ...
The one I was thinking of was learned of in passing, and I rather like my legs. It takes a lot of bravery to organize on a shop floor, or youthful ang...
:D A saying after my heart. But I've mellowed out. Union structures work to give some semblance of power to working people. The old forms stick around...
Right, I understand. I just mean -- look at the 1800's. The hours were longer, automation caused there to be a labor reserve army, and there were fewe...
I'm out of the game, and I broke my crystal ball awhile ago, but my sympathy for the future of labor has always been the service sector. But as long a...
I started as an organizer on my own shop floor and then eventually became a staffer for a different union in another life. But not so much union activ...
That's because it's meant to ;). At least so I'm maintaining, while maintaining that it's not possible to make the argument from duties to scab. But i...
When I said "mafia laundering" I wasn't making a metaphor. I mean there exist legal entities in the United States which are registered as unions but a...
When does scabbing not hurt strikers? "The strike is futile" is fear, as I said. So that worker is picking on the basis of their fear, because they be...
Yup. But here's where history can serve as a better guide to understanding the problems and decisions a worker faces. Union drives have succeeded and ...
I'd echo @"Banno"'s sentiments here. A particular worker is in a particular time and place. The scenario is already abstract from the outset: it's a d...
I agree here. Historical cases demonstrate how people have overcome various problems, or failed at overcoming various problems. What they lack in conc...
Families are rarely in a state of perpetual comfort. There's always something to take care of. This is the common mantra of the scab: "I understand wh...
I agree. That's why I thought that duty doesn't leave a choice. You may have a family. But do you think that the other strikers don't? They're already...
With that being said: I really like the last chapter because it's close to what I was writing out, once upon a time, when attempting to invent a purel...
Empathy. You see what happened to someone, you understand that you could have been the one, and so you leave something nice because that's what you'd ...
Typing out the ending, because it's probably the most interesting philosophical part: While I've admitted ignorance to certain parts of GSB's demonstr...
I said I'd wait but I'm not :P :D -- I finished the book today. But that chapter on time isn't clicking. I'm tempted at this point to just grant chapt...
The boss's weapon is fear, the union's weapon is anger. I prefer anger to fear. But many prefer fear. I don't think it comes down to duties as much as...
And let's see if I can finish it out now... (C9.12) from above shows how C2 can be used to obtain C9.3 more easily. Let C2's a= unmarked state, and b=...
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