Some more on chapter 2 -- So, following along with the axioms in chapter 2... [][] = [] and axiom 2 = . ? I tried messing with 's bit of code and look...
Re-reading Depth I think I'm getting it this time. (I'm doing this in bits -- in the morning I like philosophy to wake up my mind, and in the afternoo...
Alright, that helps. So we have our meta-language which we're speaking now, and that differs from the formal system being created with the use of the ...
:D At Taco Bell you could have at least ordered the nominally healthy bean/cheese burrito -- nominally healthy because you're still getting a lotta sa...
Which I hadn't thought about until now -- but the question "How to learn philosophy at all?" is not innocent specifically because Plato continued the ...
Fair point. You hooked me with your application of the book to this problem ;) And yup I don't think we're disagreeing. Maybe that's what's hard about...
Interesting use of the first chapters. Something I'm stuck on, from a first reading of the first two chapters, is the distinction between letting and ...
The art -- also betrays some of what I think of philosophy, that it is more an art than a science. Which is why I think it's a social activity found w...
One of the advantages of method is that it's something written down which allows others to test it. And then the method can be refined by others. In a...
And what would the data for certainty be? Cool :). Then I think I know what you mean, and I've answered the question with that thought in mind. It see...
Ah OK. I thought, because you had said your nature that you were affirming it as a positive thing, which would certainly not get along with any sort o...
I can understand what people mean by "100% certain" vs "99.99% certain" -- the former means they know it to be true and it's impossible to be wrong, a...
In the long run I tend to believe that methods are for training, and not for production. There's no method for making methods, right? So someone has t...
I'm not so sure. For instance what if the belief was truly certain and it only turned up false because the world changed? I am certain that my fridge ...
There we go! That's the stuff. I had Against Method in the back of my mind in writing this, and began to wonder about the place of method in science (...
In that case I'd say I'm completely certain of many things. But importantly, I've been completely certain of beliefs which have turned up false. So I'...
If it is possible to be 100% certain of anything then it must be the case that we can be 100% of something. If it is possible to be 100% certain of so...
Yup. Though I'll re-iterate that being a master of philosophy isn't the point so much -- learning how to paint is a good thing even if you don't becom...
True. I mean I consider what we do here to be a kind of relaxed philosophy, so even sharing here makes it "count" as philosophy in my way of thinking....
In its religious form, yes. Though you seemed to indicate that there's a philosophic form to Taoism which wouldn't. I'm not putting out necessary/suff...
Obviously it's unpersuasive, given your response. I wouldn't go so far as to say it's logically unsound. Where the form of argument ends and the examp...
I just fall asleep at the fire and wake up cold and sore before going to a proper bed ;) But that says more about me than your notion of philosophy. S...
If there's a distinction to be made between Taoist philosophy and Taoist religion then I think I'm still safe in the distinction between spirituality ...
Yup. Though there's funny cases, too -- not just tofrom Eastern religions, either. Consider Augustine and Martin Luther as interesting cases that will...
Stoics like Marcus Aurelius provide a good example of non-public philosophy, given what we have is basically his journal to himself. But then he was a...
Good point that the distinction between spirituality and philosophy isn't found in its publicness, and that spirituality is frequently pursued in a co...
To avoid too many layers of interpretation, I'll let @"Banno" speak for himself. I'll take the extra step and say it's more than useful, and actually ...
I agree it's your path. I wouldn't like the existentialists if I didn't think that there's something true to that. I'm not sure if you do need to brin...
Not exactly. I think @"Banno" is right in that there is something social to philosophy. "Inherent" is good enough for me, but I wouldn't say "necessar...
I'd say the same, I think. I've already stated that I have mental reveries on my own. I'd say that's spirituality in a way more than philosophy. Philo...
What's weird is that I don't agree with him, I just think his philosophy is amazing . :D So in defending him it's really more like "Look, you're not d...
I agree that the SEP is very much an academics philosophy, and as much as I love the academy I agree with you that the best philosophy isn't a cloiste...
I think everything can have a philosophical implication. This might dovetail with my reply below. Spirituality. The Catholic and the Buddhist priest h...
The bug bit me in college, too, and I just went from one book to the next in a historical list from the pre-socracratics to Marx, skipping the majorit...
One of the reasons I think books are important is very much because I'm an autodidact. It's how I introduce discipline into my thinking -- instead of ...
I probably don't. I just like to read it. But I want to note that "hard" is not "impossible" -- there are some people who manage to unite their spirit...
Oh certainly. But I hesitate to call my reveries of thought philosophy. A lot of the times, when I subject it to scrutiny, it's not really worth shari...
That's fair what you say about the dryness and dullness of a full on primary text. And I've read my fair share of commentaries to help me along too so...
echoes your profs suggestion, and I see its merits. A lot of times a person will become bogged down by an original text and it won't excite the mind t...
I think so, given that language is already a social technology, and that's what we usually do philosophy with. Speaking alone is like Robinson Crusoe ...
Yeah that's fair. I've let go of the desire to say what he really meant, but obviously it can kick up now and again. So the reference can sit alongsid...
wow I can't believe you'd trample upon my lord and savior ;D If you believe there's a heirarchy to texts, however, then the CPR will "trump" the prole...
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