Alright, I have a question about this. I thought I was following until the end here. As I understand it what Reimann is saying is that the displacemen...
Different ethical strokes for different ethical folks? I see the inverse. :D As far as I can tell you're saying that the fetus has value. Ok, so what?...
Yes! :D Reading him reminds me of an old math prof I had, actually -- his mind was so intuitively mathematical that what seemed like not worth mention...
I don't mean to invoke humpty dumpty, it's just that to myself it seems that the invocation of atomic number is just as arbitrary as color in designat...
It remains -- but does it remain because of the heat death of the universe, or does the heat death of the universe happen to appear significant becaus...
If we can say this of numbers, and water, and even that the atomic number of Gold is 79 and to find something else would simply be to misuse the word ...
Alright, I think I'm tracking now. I wasn't thinking of the line as somehow "fixing" position, and was caught up on thinking about how I'd actually fi...
A point of clarification for me. I'm trying to wrap my head around the idea that you only need one number to specify your location on a 2-dimensional ...
I was reading another paper about Reimann online, and from it I gleaned that I was sort of misreading "manifoldness" -- whereas I was sort of analogiz...
I wouldn't say that water being H2O is a priori -- that at least seems a posteriori to me. The oddity here, taking Kripke as correct and comparing to ...
@"StreetlightX" @"fdrake" That contrast between space-as-concept and space-as-experienced helped me parse out the last paragraph a lot, so thanks for ...
I will say that over time I tend to think of Kuhn as orthogonally to the other two. Feyerabend shared some of Kuhn's thoughts with respect to incommen...
That is to say it is logically impossible for Popper's criterion of demarcation to be false? Or do you mean to say that because it plays a prescriptiv...
I'm not sure that it's because of Popper. I'd say it's just because of argument. Is it a doctrine of science? I don't think that's quite right. In a s...
I take it that here you'll refer me to my copy of LSD? :D But you can answer the question too. Suppose the criterion of demarcation does not hold, and...
Usefulness is a dangerous cudgel. For one there are many pursuits whose fruit are only born on the wave of seemingly useless inquiries -- consider phi...
Hrmm? I don't think I said anything about intent, or that he was multiplying knowledge -- only that his approach isn't anti-knowledge, but rather agai...
I don't think that Feyerabend is quite so anti-knowledge as you're putting it. Rather, his stance is one that emphasizes a multiplicity of ways of kno...
To some extent -- sure. But not a universal prescription for all science. That's why I was saying that Popper's problems are one of scope and prescrip...
All of the above! Things should certainly be immune to criticism, and easy tests are far superior. Authority should reign supreme, and testable statem...
The problem with Popper isn't that he influenced some people to think differently. That is what good philosophy does, and while I disagree with Popper...
Just a quick note here -- I couldn't tell you. I was interested in reading the selection because of my ignorance of Lukács :) Well, I also want to say...
I do! It's his broad treatment of thinkers that sort of allows his logic to go through, too. Though I might say that the criticism isn't bourgeois mor...
No worries. :) We all have lives outside of books, and it's totally understandable -- I was late too. This is a bit astray, but something I thought ab...
Alright I just finished the Lukács paper. So I might say that Lukacs criticism of existentialism comes from a couple of different levels. One is that ...
Yeah, sounds good. :D it's pretty much all I was thinking. I guess I just feel self-conscious about suggesting stuff. I thought that https://www.marxi...
Preventing all harm to whom, though? I'd say we've reached something of an impasse here. The case for the harm to the potential of possible persons is...
I suppose I'd just say this asymmetry is false, then. Or, at least, I do not believe in the asymmetry between these. Preventing harm is only important...
Just a quick side-note -- valuing life unto itself differs from thinking that we should experience life, too. We do, after all, keep people in a veget...
Exactly! :D It does not matter until the child is born. Mattering can only happen if there is a someone. There is a cost associated with your axiology...
It doesn't address your argument at all because @"schopenhauer1" is making a different argument from you. :D Click on my highlighted name and you shou...
There is nothing about life itself that needs to be carried out, because needs only happen within life -- just like suffering only happens in life. Va...
I don't know if it's an issue as much as I would say that you should rephrase your argument -- because it's not the injunction that matters to you. Su...
. Thanks. :) That's what I think, at least. I'd characterize the effects of the universal anti-natalist as not so much preventing suffering, but rathe...
Let's just stick to your stronger argument, then -- as I haven't justified much of anything in this thread, I've been concerning myself with the argum...
My line of thinking here isn't about promoting an agenda, but rather what it takes for there to be an agenda in the first place. If there is no one fo...
Rorty is one of those philosophers I have never really touched, so for me it would just be novel and interesting to see what comes out. The particular...
I guess I'd go along with the other line of thought I dropped with @"khaled" with you, then. This seems to be the central belief by which you are appe...
Cool! I tried to find some free versions online and so far have failed. I think I have copies of those, but I'll come back with a different suggestion...
I'm going to drop the other part because I think it is less persuasive and somewhat obtuse. The part I'm saying is not obvious is that the negative ut...
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