Joshs

I’m all in favor of these tariffs. Trump only won the election because his core MAGA supporters were joined by libertarian free-market neo-liberal bus...

Trump doesn’t believe in trade. He has said he thinks trade is ‘bad’, that there is always a winner and a loser. As a mercantilist, the last thing he ...

Is this what’s called anaphoric or prosentential logic? I’m thinking of Brandom here.

Doesn’t this kind of truth depend on a comparison or correspondence, even if only ‘taken as’ correct, between color judgement and optical colors?

In order to doubt anything, one must rely on that which is beyond doubt. In other words, one cannot exit all language games and still be capable of do...

One way of understanding ‘exempt from doubt’ is the way I suggested here:

Let me offer two ways of thinking about this distinction between ‘I know’ as epistemological and ‘I know’ as hinge conviction, and you tell me which o...

For instance , one could take as the ground of one’s superordinate concept of the masculine-feminine binary a biologically determined , universal set ...

And what can we say about the superordinate concept imparting to ‘masculine’ and feminine’ their intelligibility? How is it grounded, and what is its ...

I believe Project 2025 states that all facts must be derived exclusively from social media sources.

Where do hinge propositions come from, and where do empirical propositions come from? If only empirical propositions are the product of discursive eng...

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Wittgenstein argued that the general is never to be understood as including within it the particular, that there is no one thing that members of a cat...

It isn’t independent of any world. On the contrary, it is the product of practical discursive engagement with others and with material circumstances i...

What do you see as the ‘rules’ of ‘I have hands’ such that they hold across language games? Would Wittgenstein accept that there is any sort of unders...

Could you supply some quotes in support of your argument? I just read Moore’s ‘A Defense of Common Sense’ and section 4, where he brings up the exampl...

Seems to me the latter is what Moore was arguing. He believed ‘I know I have hands’ to be certainly true, but not subject to justification or proof. W...

Logic is objective because logic depends on an already constituted set of assumptions concerning what an object is. Therefore, logic can’t be used as ...

Supposed to be ‘I am drawn to the critique of both realism and anti-realism’. That’s what I get for doing all of my composing on an iphone while hikin...

Reading the debate between Chakravarrty and Poncock on epistemic stances and rationality, I am drawn to the critters of no try realism and anti-realis...

Its from ‘The Will to Know’

According to Foucault, Nietzsche details two kinds of truth, connaissance and savoir.

What do you suppose ‘uncontrived condition of the inborn human nature’ means? Do we have an inborn nature? Or do we contrive our nature through our in...

If not subjective nor psychological, then what? Grounded in empirical objectivity? You think Wittgenstein understands sense to be grounded by referenc...

In what way is the invention of a mathematical rule different from the creation of a language game/form of life? When Moore says ‘this is my hand’, Wi...

I consider the most important and radical implication of Wittgenstein’s later work to be his critique of Frege’s theory of sense as reference. Frege r...

I agree. Intuition isn’t really what I was after. Wittgenstein said it better.

It’s not human agreement , as though each individual voices their opinion and then the group arrives at a consensus. Socially normative meanings funct...

If we’re talking about Wittgenstein on rule-following here, then there is no intelligible meaning without rules, criteria, forms of life. But at the s...

If the rules of a language game make rational numbers intelligible, then isnt it a new set of rules that make irrationals intelligible? In other words...

I would like to hear more about how you understand the relation between the social construct of masculinity you are associating with the right, and co...

Then why did you write this?

I consider masculinity, femininity, homosexuality and all other gendered concepts to be social constructs which interpret biological features in ways ...

I read Nietzsche as critiquing both freedom of the will and the determinism of cause and effect. I follow Deleuze’s reading of the Eternal Return as n...

My guess is if one kicks without volition while asleep, one’s dream will not likely incorporate the kicking into a narrative where one has chosen to k...

I’m disconnected from these institutional structures. What you say may be true; I have no way of knowing. I have found that there tends to be a substa...

For Husserl such recognition requires a constituting synthesis , an analogizing transfer of sense from what has already been constituted as my immedia...

Sokal read post-phenomenological work, as did Jordan Peterson. Reading and understanding are not the same thing. Understanding a philosophical approac...

Not a meta-conviction, a contingent enactment of sense that must be reproduced continually if it is to apply beyond the moment of its utterance. At th...

And where how do you arrive at your identification of a scene as a ‘sand desert’? Is this not also an interpretation? The way we recognize a scene dep...

The basis of phenomenological and post-phenomenological thinking is that the starting and ending point of factual and and ethical analysis is the pres...

no, that translates into a thing which was said within a giventime within a given context within a given normative sense of meaning. I can indulge the...

It isnt a meta claim, it’s an enactment, an awareness of being ensconced within a discursive set of practices

Sure, correctness can be determined within the framework of intelligibility provided by an interpretation. But all interpretations ( language games) c...

I think a better example is the duck-rabbit drawing. Is there a way to refute the correctness of the perception of one or the other figures? Doesn’t t...

I would love to see how that would play out in reality. Thinking it through rigorously is more likely to expose the errors in the assumptions underlyi...

You can’t build a bridge where you have already defined the terrain as unbridgeable. Construing people via dichotomies like normal vs pathologically d...

I have in mind Deleuze’s reading of the transition from the death of god to the last man: Deleuze interprets Nietzsche as viewing Christ as offering a...

The death of god was just the preview. The death of man was what Nietzsche was after, a post-humanist world beyond a morality of blame.

If one believes that the model of medical illness is adequate to understand the behavior of serial killers, sociopaths, etc, then one has already succ...