Hell yeah, sounds good to me. :D So we're similarly situated, but I'm still interested in the ideas and differences, and I'm going to keep it to reduc...
I prefer Kuhn, too. I'd say that my approach to the question has been heavily inspired by his approach to the philosophy of science -- treating scienc...
I'm interested. The conflict I was attempting to bring out was roughly between mechanism and teleology, and the difficulties reduction has with this a...
"volition" is too squishy to count as a theory, I think, unless we mean folk-theory. But then I'd be hesitant to use "observations". I think what I'd ...
I think with what I've said thus far I should say "we do not know", but I feel we cannot know. Just because of the sketch I already gave to say where ...
I'm glad that I'm at least sensible to someone other than myself. Definitely going out on a limb here, but responding to your ending about the beautif...
Oh I wouldn't go so far as to call it an account. This is all very rough, scratch-pad level wonderings on my part. Usually I do this in a notebook, bu...
Trying to address your post @"Fooloso4" You would assert that and that we need to look at the two-sidedness of reduction, needing to know both what we...
I'm wondering if @"apokrisis" has an opinion on this they'd be willing to share. My intent in using the metabolism example is to say, hey, yes, we can...
I tend to think of functionality as a result of happy accidents, and then natural history. And there's nothing wrong with cherrypicked examples, becau...
I'm thinking that my mechanics example is a good one to work through, along with the mechanics to biology contrast. So let us define a theory, first. ...
Happy to hear that Harvey thought this section was definitely one with gems buried in a lot of muck that needs historical explanation to be of interes...
M'kay, cool. I guess I just have a feeling about an answer to the question, more than anything. So I was attempting to work out that answer in the thr...
I'm not going to lie, all this about what determines the amount of money that should be in circulation is a bit dry, but here's one of the gems Harvey...
I'm having a hard time coming up with a response. I've written a few and then I feel like it's entirely wrong :D I can't tell if we're in agreement he...
Hey no worries. I'm glad to do it. For the 21'st of February you'll stop at this paragraph on this page. I'll keep updating every week so you can foll...
Fair points. So the belief that "The most basic "stuff" of the world is physical" and the belief that "all that comes to be, life, consciousness, mind...
I think I'm tracking. I didn't think you were positing eliminativism. More bringing up difficulties that come to mind. I'll admit to not reading the N...
I appreciate you even trying, because I too am stumbling. Ontologically I'm an absurdist, or at least that's how I like to put it now. I'm obviously s...
"Who designed the designer?" is a question, not an argument -- so I'd say it is neither valid nor invalid. I think your argument is a strong statement...
That's a great question. Are physics and biology a distinction between species which branched from one another, or are they of a distinction between k...
Picking up where I left off (weekends are for rest) -- Even More on the Differences Between Time-chits and Money (and how that doesn't add up): Heh, t...
One of the things I keep thinking of is how if I were to deny the reduction, in a way that, too, would be a transcendental condition on the history of...
Oh no, I don't think they'd make that simple of a mistake. So not the latter. I haven't read Schrodinger's book, so I cannot comment on that work, onl...
There's a habit of thought where we come to see things with respect to that thought a lot. So with Popper you have this account which supposedly solve...
Some distinct theories that we still hold that don't reduce to one another though they do receive support from one another, which is one reason why we...
Heh, well I'd say pretty good, considering you're on the losing side of the debate :D -- but that's clearly just what I think, too, so hey, it's alway...
I'd argue against this form of reductionism. Scientists haven't stuck to any methodological consideration for thousands of years. What works is depend...
fyi, if you are following along with the marxists dot org website version, Tuesday's reading gets us up to everything before this point: https://www.m...
For theodicy? Not in my opinion. If karma plays the same role as heaven/hell, then it serves the same purpose as papering over inconvenient philosophi...
One thing I'm wondering about -- I'm interested to see how Harvey begins to bring out the structure of the Grundrisse, because he mentioned that in th...
The chapter on money -- begins with criticizing the belief that owned metal and monetary value are in any way related. And while fights with Proudhoun...
Only in matters of money. Though I acknowledge that it was a training, and not a natural inclination. But I'll note that even in adopting that attitud...
In the introduction there's a number of times Marx really "shows his ass" -- and this is where my heterodoxy comes into play -- where he truly believe...
I think I'd like to split up these questions into three: 1) Can a person inherit family guilt, or be subject to some kind of original sin outside of t...
Finished up the introduction reading today, and I like this quote from Marx on methodology because it relates to a number of debates we have on the fo...
An anecdote of the phenomena: I remember a contract negotiation where part of the bargaining unit cared more about the difference in pay between thems...
Bingo! In a regulative sense I think it makes sense to talk of the real meaning -- at least somewhat historically grounded, roughly responding to this...
Hey, if a guy has the power to give me something fair, I have a buck in my pocket. I don't need to benefit him. I think that's pretty much it. "Oh, I ...
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