I think I'm in that position I get to where I feel like anything I say on the matter looks wrong a moment after saying it -- at least in terms of look...
Training them how to think, not in metaphysics. Is it really that hard to see how today's leaders went to Ivy League schools a whole lot? I know I say...
Heh. I'd say that I'm not being that bad :D -- but I'm also not explaining myself well. I am directly answering your question, though, because I thoug...
Eh, I should say by post-Aristotle, I'm specifically referring to late antiquity -- so before our modern world. I think modern philosophy is pretty mu...
I think I'd say neither. In relation to Aristotle it's hard to say, in my opinion. Was it as literal as an uncreative and tired copy-editor smugly nam...
I think this puts too much causal emphasis on philosophy. That is, anti-social persons will be attracted to absurdism, but it's not the expression of ...
As @"Amity" already said, but just in case anyone else is holding back out of a sense of topicality, the more poems and interpretations of poems the b...
First I should say I'm no expert on Aristotle either, just an enthusiast who in another life would have dived deeper. Just to keep things honest. I'd ...
I'd disagree here. @"Banno" is taking the right approach by putting metaphysics in a lower position, IMO. You can define it how you like, but the hist...
This is exciting: I have a copy of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience that includes printings of the original artwork that he drew into...
We must imagine ourselves agreeing with Camus.... :D I don't think there's any one way to read a text, so there's no way you have to read it. I'm more...
I think that it'd be easy to justify self-destructive behavior from the point of view of an absurdist. However, I think I'd say that the reason Camus ...
Heh. I'm often surprised by what others say of a poem. I think it's part of the pleasure: in some way we enrich our understanding or experience or rea...
Naw, not at all. Maybe not the most natural reading, but I think that's part of what I really enjoy about reading and sharing readings of poetry -- wh...
OK, that helps me. I was thinking how depending upon the old man the poem could be read as affirming the speaker, but that makes more sense for the re...
Yup, that's exactly what I was saying. So literal meaning is whether or not a statement is true or false. (note how this won't work for interrogatives...
That's a wonderful one. In part it shows polarity really well since the words are the same, just being read in a different order. But also I like the ...
The reason eugenics does not work, scientifically speaking, is that it's false. All morality aside -- we are not determined by our parental genetics. ...
I'm going to show my rough aesthetic side here and say I just thought it was kind of boring. Thinking about it after I could justify things, but watch...
Heh, yeh I figured it out. It's the ending of each stanza that has that Limerick-y quality that had me going to that form (thinking in terms of form n...
Yup, definitely. In a way I can think of your restriction on poems as rule 1 -- whatever we might, down the line, generalize for the purposes of aesth...
The literal meaning is, reducing the poem to P "P" is false The poetic meaning -- in the context of the thread the poem is clearly about the superfluo...
Not a cheat at all. That's exactly the sort of thing I'm looking for -- more poems and people's reactions to them. And it was lovely to read. I wouldn...
So in my first and mistaken reading of you, I would say elucidation of poetry would require more poetry, as has been offered. And I didn't make the co...
Well, that's entirely my fault, looking back. Let me try again, straight faced -- I think when you say: I took that to mean "a poems meaning is an aud...
Thinking it'd be fun to stage a production of Waiting for Godot where you add in Barney at the end bursting through the back wall saying, "Hey, kids! ...
Only if we wanted it to be noumenal, though. If we wanted it to be phenomenal, then as the Gods of the meaning-verse we could make it phenomenal, and ...
I agree. I will note that I actually aesthetically enjoy rigid readings of poems, in the sense of applying some kind of aesthetic criterion(s) to inte...
While I feel more confused than when I began, I'll say one positive thing I learned is I'm not really sure what I want from a theory of truth -- and n...
Well, that's no fun :D. And I don't think it'd help much: if politics isn't in the business of talking, it's in the business of shooting -- so silence...
Kind of. And kind of not. I only mean to highlight that the problems of Marxism are problems of human organization on the international scale -- that ...
How else does one win the nation-building game? I think that dictatorship, at least on the economic level, is exactly what's in place -- it's either t...
I agree! And I'd say that it is not. All the concerns about the one true Marx are understandable -- due to the anti-communist propaganda machine that ...
To spell out my position in the most literal manner for your convenience: there are people who get paid less than they should be paid, and what I'd ch...
I'd cut out "and have a decent job" -- that's clearly saying there are jobs for people who count, and jobs for people who don't count. So if you don't...
Through collective action. It's not necessarily but is usually violent collective action. Whatever a state's genesis, though, in maintaining a modern ...
Well, this isn't doing a lot to dissuade me from Marxism's work on capitalism. My belief is that markets cannot exist without a government -- they are...
Yeah, that makes sense to me. I certainly don't want to be read as saying either that they cannot or must -- if anything I've been pushing against not...
My first response was "No idea" :D -- but that's no fun: To get back at truth, it seems to me that if there's no ur-Language, or at least rules for al...
Finished A Nice Derangment of Epitaphs today. I think I get along with its conclusion rather well -- I really do suspect there is no such thing as a l...
That's interesting. New for me, at least ! :D -- This makes sense to me. The only conclusion that doesn't really make sense to me is that probability ...
It looked to me like it fell to the same problem as any other theory of truth, but with more interesting results. The "interesting results" were defin...
As I read the OP, the scenario specified that premise 1 and premise 2 each have a 65% chance of being true, rather than the implication having a proba...
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