Leontiskos

Indeed, similar to what I said in a different thread: This goes to ' point that—as I would put it—ratiocination involves temporal succession. We do no...

Aufklärer - "Enlighteners" They realized that the call to "sapere aude" was premature, and required a more educated populus before it would be able to...

You planted your foot directly in the can of worms. The bacterial flagellum is ground zero for debates surrounding irreducible complexity and intellig...

And there's nothing wrong with that, although it does deviate from the previous topic of the butterfly effect, chaos theory, and the "tending of the b...

- You have demonstrated my point most effectively with your brazen misrepresentations and lack of desire to even understand what is being said. My pos...

Okay, good. I agree that it would be a mistake to study books to the exclusion of all else. The question that then arises with respect to knowledge an...

Sure, but the difficulty occurs later, when the cheerleaders for Scientism are fast asleep and the real questions arise. --- - Yep! :grin:

I do end up ignoring users who can't drum up anything more than shoddy strawmen, actually. It was wise of you to cut off that sentence after the comma...

- There is a consistent stopgap associated with your account of subjectivity (e.g. desire, intention, belief). Whenever the dog starts sniffing around...

I often wonder if this odd commitment of Banno's derives from his Wittgenstenianism:

In an ideal world the poster of a thread would be able to determine the posting limit within their thread, and perhaps a user would be able to determi...

I don't see that our exchange has been of anything approaching high quality. Perhaps the quality would have been improved if there had been limits. Se...

Really? I literally wrote that post after you wrote your reply. :roll: Yes. It is the technological equivalent of, "Take ten deep breaths before respo...

- Interesting. Or perhaps a category that is meant to be more specialized and on-topic as far as the threads go.

Good post. :up: I think it has shifted a lot over time, and I again invoke . This is not necessarily a bad thing, but we have to recognize the potenti...

See the sentence prior to the one you quoted: The point here is that such a rule does not have to apply to each thread equally. So they don't turn int...

Yes, I agree. I have been part of a no-editing forum, which is a bit extreme but over time it really improved my contributions. I think a few minutes ...

I look forward to someone engaging my suggestions in a more-than-superficial manner. Something like (3) would unquestionably "discourage participation...

You are obsessed with contradicting me. My first point: I had considered writing a slightly longer post as a separate thread, entitled, "On the Promot...

Have you found that your trolling has become better or worse as you approach your 90's? In any case, I am flattered that you spend so much time readin...

It is a case in point that you and Clark were both too busy disagreeing with me to even notice that I gave a character limit, not a word limit. Your f...

There is a difference between characters and words. My post was 1,785 characters. I am only suggesting 500 characters for OPs, which at a minimum is a...

Not according to the Site Guidelines and How to Write an OP.

I agree. I disagree. I don't even know how this is supposed to be a real argument. If "participation" is defined as unthoughtful contributions, then t...

Discourse can be dialogical, but it need not be. Still, a book can be a page in a discussion. Not infrequently in history have books been written in r...

Ah, good. I see what you were saying, now. Yep.

It is that, but I think the philologists would object if we were to reduce language to a social construction, or if we were to reduce it to the matter...

For the Quadrivium, but not for the Trivium. The Trivium pertains to communication, generally speaking. Yes, but one must begin with communication in ...

I think books are the highest form of discourse, and to criticize books is a fortiori to criticize every other form of discourse. Hence my point about...

Classically after studying the Trivium (of grammar, logic, and rhetoric), one would study the Quadrivium: Astronomy, the study of number in space and ...

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Except that without such logic one will not be able to draw inferences, and this will limit their knowledge. The question of how the conclusion relate...

Or is it how to draw new conclusions from what is currently known?

No. And we may want to work towards OPs that are more than a single sentence long.

The skill of grammar allows us to understand what others are saying, and this skill is going by the wayside. Those who read well tend to be good at un...

If the Barber shaves them, then they don't shave themselves If they don't shave themselves, then the Barber shaves them An absurdity arises when "they...

- Uncle Sam?

To be something is to do something, and to be a philosopher is to do philosophy. If philosophy requires the study of books, then that which prevents o...

It seems to me that anxiety is a generalized or disseminated form of fear, and fear is aversion to an undesirable future possibility. Like fears, some...

It is true that a lie cannot be represented by formal logic, as it pertains to intention. Still, Augustine defined a lie 1500 years ago, "Locutio cont...

Trying to overcome the principle of non-contradiction with the "Liar's paradox" is a bit like throwing a broken toothpick at the Bull of Wall Street a...

Right, but is it possible that his self-same statement is both the truth and a lie? I say that it is not possible. Someone may be telling the truth or...

Then why do I have 13 new replies from you today, 11 of which are in a single thread? You're a spammer and I don't have time for this stupid shit. Get...

It seems that you have no clear idea what I am supposed to have said: Which is wonderful: you run around accusing people of lying and you have no idea...

Does bookkeeping involve wonder and investigation? I'm not sure science is bookkeeping at all. It seems more basically to be an investigation of the u...

Yes, but it seems to me that in this case we are considering the assertion, "I am a liar," or, "I always tell lies," rather than, "I am lying." To lie...

- I've addressed this before. "You habitually do such-and-such." (e.g. "you are under the spell of material implication") "No I don't!" "I think you d...

Okay, I appreciate that. Again, trying to get to the point: If no one in their right mind would say or mean X, then X is nonsensical No one in their r...

Yes, good. You were replying to my argument about speakers, and to disregard "whether in right mind or not" is to misrepresent my argument. It does li...

Still playing dumb, then. I've yet to find anyone online who intentionally misrepresents their interlocutor as often as you.