link I'm just pulling quotes from The Metaphysics which mention first principles and first philosophy, because that's what I thought was referred to b...
How do you think the NLRA was passed? I agree that Reagan was a major turning point in the labor movement. Although I actually put it down to Carter w...
Well, then I'd say I think you're an engineer who has decided to edit the history books to suit your preferred outlook, and that you do not want to kn...
Obviously I disagree. But I'm not sure that it's an interesting disagreement for myself. As long as you agree "since the 1980's" then you see what I'm...
No. But I understand that a story on the internet is just a story, yeh? So I won't press the point. These were victories which were hard fought. To th...
I don't blame you. That's the story I was told too. I'd just say it's only a story. If you are a person who must work to live, then the labor movement...
I am not trying to be aggressive, but I will say that this is wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_Labor The labor movement was inspired by...
Historically the US labor movement has been composed of both radical and bread-and-butter elements. Without the bread-and-butter unionism you can't su...
I'd say this isn't lost on the majority of union people. I know that my preferred way of looking at unions is as institutions for working people to ob...
I found this today and it's definitely part of what I'm going to be reading. https://www.amazon.com/Levinas-Reader-Emmanuel/dp/0631164472 The rest of ...
It's about the only good news I see anymore. The IWW has been pushing for unionization efforts in the service sector since at least the late 90's, and...
I'd call it camaraderie :D -- @"180 Proof" and I get along well, and who likes to be alone? I think that from the existential situation it's enough to...
I am still thinking the thoughts, but I got to a point where I've assigned myself some reading - I got an idea for a bit of writing, so thanks for the...
Hrmmm... smells like - Kantianism! :D To which I'd say: go right ahead. Speak your mind. The abstruse nature of your reasoning will ensure that it nev...
Cool, I think we've arrived at an understanding. I understand you to be saying that it's not enough to count, but at least you see the pattern in the ...
Some additional thoughts: The measurement of temperature is especially important to chemistry. I could see that maybe boiling point just doesn't seem ...
I'd say "threshold point" is the exact thing that changed meaning. In the old way there is no point, it was just a matter of convenience that steam se...
Yes, I see that connection. In a way you could say that personal integrity comes before all other considerations -- including others, as has been poin...
Doesn't boiling point count? Hasok Chang speaks of two ways of speaking about boiling points -- the "Standard Temperature and Pressure" modern sense, ...
http://www.sites.hps.cam.ac.uk/boiling/ Came across this guy today. Cool little essay on the history of boiling points, and some experiments the guy d...
I think this thought of the image is something which existentialists attempt to stop. Isn't conforming to an image of yourself a good description of i...
Sometimes I just have thoughts come to me, and in this case that's all the thread was about -- here attempting a summation of sorts that captures many...
This inability to escape -- I agree that that's the theme! But I wonder why is "escape" the metaphor? (edit: not that you have to answer or anything.....
Fair. "Living with yourself..." includes Sartre and Trump. Both of them lived with the decisions. And regardless of the facts, philosophically speakin...
I agree. That's probably what I'm going for. I acknowledge that the extreme needs to be known though. Perhaps replacing "authenticity" with "living wi...
Just a category term, nothing more. Sartre, Camus, Heidegger, Levinas. (EDIT: persons I still puzzle through. I'm no expert on any of them, and "exist...
I decided to go ahead and vote "Yes" because some losses seem reasonable. I wonder about the notion of "paradigm". Would the so-called "quantum revolu...
I think this is the sort of ideal that scientists aspire to. One can even interpret Aristotle's physics in Newtonian language as a limiting case of Ne...
I think so. Feyerabend was clearer than Kuhn, especially on incommensurability. But I think I'm coming around on The Structure of Scientific Revolutio...
I agree that I don't see much loss... I wonder if the amount of loss matters? Or, maybe there's a way to demonstrate loss academically -- going back t...
I think this another good, accessible read: https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/lavoisier/antoine-laurent-lavoi...
@"Banno" has the right read on him, I think. He's always interesting. He shares his work for the public. He definitely has a unique perspective on the...
Though, I'll say just to give a little diversity here -- in the hopes that others will share where they began -- my first philosophical thoughts began...
I think this is the one part where you and I differ. While I have a limiting view of philosophy, since I see the two as kind of doing the same thing m...
Heh. Yes, despair. I had the thought this evening -- it also begins in anger. When things aren't right, but you can't articulate it -- philosophy begi...
Hrm, hrm, hrm... Yeah, I can see that Chalmer's is being Chalmers. :D He has a masterful command of the issue, he explains his opponents positions cle...
Definitely. And I'm saying that philosophy often serves as a kind of creative ground for the creation of new sciences -- it's called philosophy when n...
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