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Thanks for the links, I'll be listening to them.

Nice.

One should look to context to discover the meaning of an utterance. That's pretty obvious, isn't it? The interest I was expressing by the OP is in the...

Family protest outing. Everybody put your bullet-proof vest on.

It's the child-zombies that freak me out.

The thread originated with a conflict between myself and BitterCrank over whether the people who invented crop irrigation should be called intellectua...

As much fun as it is to spar with arguments, I've become suspicious that all I'm doing with that is insulating my psyche, providing justifications for...

Was the first person who thought of irrigating crops an intellectual?

So I think we agree that influence over the wider world (beyond the Magi Tribe itself) is not what we consider when we name great intellectuals.

Just face-plant straight into it. That's what I do.

You can get some NY style cheesecake if you look at the whole thing very superficially, as if all answers are in plain view. You don't get any Chinese...

If money is power, anyone with wealth is influential. In a militarized society, soldiers influence. I shouldn't say intellectuals are never in charge....

True. Would you say the meaning of a piece of art is public in the same way the meaning of a statement is? There are cultures where that's how art is ...

If you'll call it "grave underlying instability" instead of "crisis", then we'll be in agreement.

I totally agree.

Innovation of any kind tends to arise more from a community than the individual. The fallen snow is to the snowball as random individual insights are ...

Yes, it appears as something independent. On reflection, it's apparent that an artist's time and place are part of the medium in a way. It puts an int...

An artist's job is to give the seed of inspiration what it needs to come into this world. Once the baby has arrived, the artist gives it up to the wor...

Good intellectuals borrow. Great intellectuals steal.

What of the Marxist view stands out to you as particularly significant at the present moment? The global economy isn't presently in crisis, btw. Doesn...

He's a hawk. That's all I know.

Dual citizen or resident alien? The American culture tends to drive Europeans insane. Have you suffered from that?

Marx didn't cause any of the social upheavals of the 20th Century, but I couldn't deny his intellectual influence. Uber had suggested Marx was one of ...

One of my copies has margin notes written in Chinese. I got it from a used book store. Agreed.

What would you name as significant examples of that influence?

Yep. :up:

Well it was 15 ft tall. Somebody should probably check. He arose from global angst. His thought was global revolution. Others imagined attacking the p...

Thankfully, the USSR collapsed and the stand-off ended.

What do you mean "holding your enemies population hostage?"

Have you been the US?

They have 1.37 billion people. That's a lot of bunkers.

If it was merely a goodwill gesture, China could have chosen a statue that wouldn't have resulted in protest marches in Germany. I'm sure the Chinese ...

Not sure. Maybe a prelude to a flex of its generous financial muscles.

Really? If it was meant as a symbol of a bond between Germany and China, why not a Beethoven statue? I sense something other than plain good will.

Are we waiting for a Second Coming?

:rofl:

Maybe, but why not celebrate Marx in China? Surely they can find a spot somewhere. Why bestow the statue on Germany?

You're thinking that it's standard procedure for countries to give statues to one another. One of the most famous cases of it: the Statue of Liberty i...

Rhino horns? I was wondering more about what China is hoping to express to the world with the gesture.

Knowingly supporting a harmful activity is unethical. By paying for meat, you increase demand for it. That's support for its existence.

Completeness comes at the cost of contradiction? I never would of thought of that!

That sounds fascinating. How would it be like breaking the 4th wall?

By "think", do you mean contemplate a model?

So it's part of your pre-reflective experience, but you don't experience it? My answer would be that the separation straight doesn't exist until analy...

You're reading an article on genetics. As you read, you aren't clearly aware of sentences. You're focusing on the points being made by the authors. Yo...

But do we freely enter into the world of a painting? Or does it grab us?

I was just reacting to Banno's comment that if it's unexpressable, it's nothing.

You seem to be saying that concepts aren't substantial. What do you mean by that? What are your ontological commitments? When I wrote that we are sepa...

"Really" is an honorific (according to Chomsky). You can try to go past phenomenology, but you never get too far beyond your own biases. We're just st...

What if you looked at propositions as phenomenology? "Heidegger struggles to free himself from traditional assumptions and our everyday vocabulary in ...