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Isn't that what the Iron Law of Oligarchy would require? But it, too, is an abstraction. Along with "individual". From the perspective of organizing, ...

Heh. Cool. I suppose, in spite of my Epicurean aspirations, I am a sensitive whatever. I appreciate the clarification :)

Owie-powie -- I feel I missed the joke at my expense. Not that I mind it. I put this in the lounge for a reason.

Yup. And it's not a conceptual distinction between individualist/collectivist that makes the difference. To be political you must have others. "Collec...

Also, fair. It's easy enough to say everything that is is equiprimordial. Things get confusing after that.

I don't think experience is a thing, so to treat it as if it is a thing -- like a drop, in analogy to water -- is a reification of what is not a thing...

Sounds right to me. And I'm fine with waiting until after we see a particular person do something or any other criteria we might imagine. So a plumber...

In comparison to the set of real numbers is it a bigger or smaller infinite? EDIT: A bit of a nonsense question in follow up to a nonsense question --...

That's interesting though because it shows how there should also be some qualitative dimension if we're going to say something like "A knows more than...

Heh. Sorry! How so? By overmining I understand there to be no objects. But prehension just puts objects on the same ontological level as humans by smu...

OK, got it. Coercive political power is identified with organization then. And cooperation is opposed to organization as well. In my previous replies ...

Heh. See, that's exactly what someone who is organized would want people who are disorganized to do :D That's what I mean. It reads like fatalism, whi...

If Michels is right about the situation he's certainly wrong about the conclusion: "Thus the majority of human beings, in a condition of eternal tutel...

That The Real Volcano essay in the book you linked was pretty great to read. I've been told I should read Whitehead before on the basis of things I've...

*nodding along, petting his cat, evil-like* Yes, yeess, yeeessss!!! :D Although I'd put it like this -- philosophy cannot differentiate itself from th...

I find it difficult to think of the brain as operating like a grammatic machine, and expressed as much in saying "Why neurons firing rather than conce...

:D Are you so certain of your foundations that you'd put them in analogy to architecture? Why not riverbed bottoms and hinges at the top? This, for me...

Maybe another way to put it -- Another meta-lingual category is rhyming. Time and rhyme rhyme, but that they do so is a convention of what rhyming is....

So far I've thought convention, as in stipulation, is the only way -- so it's trivial. Though I'm not sure meaning is entirely conventional, either. A...

I think the most sensical approach so far is simple concepts? But I'd still prefer to just use English rather than simple concepts -- it seems like En...

I like you drawing out the conclusions -- and I agree with these conclusions. My feeble attempt with nonsense was to show how an E-language can give s...

I cannot eat my cake and keep it, and that's not an analytic feature of language. Yes -- analytic statements lose all their advantages in my interpret...

I think I answered in the affirmative in my opening post, while relying on a theory of analytic statements that reduces them to convention.

I think the main motivation is recruiting more minds to the problems of political economy, and not being averse to abstraction too. I also want it for...

Yup. I think fallacies are most useful in self-reflection. It's good to point them out in that spirit -- rather than in an attempt to prove something.

I appreciate the goading. Today I finished the paper I linked and it's mind-bending. I have to read up on models to really make sense of it. If I can ...

I think this an interesting fallacy in that it is at least a dialogic dialogue-centric? fallacy -- it's explicitly in terms of a conversation, unlike ...

Less archaically though -- We agree analyticity is an aspect of language. I'm guessing that we roughly agree that analyticity is when a concept either...

Cool. So all Brambles are Unbrimbled Tembres. Unbrimbled when one removes a brimb from one who has been brimbled, and Tembre's being the Brimbled Bram...

It's because the I-language is not spoken that I doubt concepts are at work. We talk about concepts fairly frequently, and successfully. Freedom, Love...

I often wonder about the relation between machine-learning and human learning. I don't think it's clear what the token of meaning is in terms of an I-...

I was thinking an I-language would be anything but a concept. More charitably, because I don't think mentalese makes sense ultimately, I'd say an I-la...

Heh, I'm neither logician nor a Hegelian. But I am very interested in the project of formalizing Hegel's dialectics, and know just enough to be danger...

Had a morning thought about dialethia and the principle of explosion and Hegel, then googled up this paper to scratch that itch.

Heh, I was starting to think the same, in terms of being off topic. Somehow I do that...

I think that's what I've been saying? Though I'm acknowledging this more general notion of economy, where people did in fact trade goods and services ...

OK, so... it seems we're agreeing as long as we acknowledge that TRULY free markets, in the general sense, can exist without a state -- but when talki...

And you can see how that requires a state?

Alright, fair. It's just wrong. So not a truism. I want to restrict the domain of discourse for "market", with respect to neoliberalism, to capitalism...

I believe my response to @"frank" covers this. Is neoliberalism an ideology that connects itself to the bronze age?

I simply wouldn't talk of "markets" when it comes to the bronze age. Currency and trade aren't the same things as capitalism.

pointed out some of the events I was thinking of. There's a list on wikipedia, but some of those I wouldn't include because they're obviously of the g...

Yup, like them too. They trade in money, after all -- legal tender, and all that.

Yup. Unfortunately so. It should be an obvious truism.

Maybe what's needed is a good distinction between Keynesian state intervention and neoliberal state intervention to make the case... I mean from my pe...

But it happens a lot. 2009 was not unique. And it seems to be needed when those ideas are implemented. So that'd be a reason to include it. But was th...

Yeah, though I want to clarify I mean historical events rather than from the nature of an entity so this is a perspective drawing from historical know...

Well, that's what I mean by neoliberalism, anyways. LIke any good leftist I blame Nixon. ;) Not really, Carter did it too. And I agree that it's in re...

I'm wondering if analyticity is required for a generative grammer? I'm potshotting after reading the entries and @"invicta"'s thread -- but I think th...

Yup. Especially when you consider, in the USA at least, how much these issues are pushed to the side. Consider, for instance, Roe v. Wade. Who won on ...