Bacchus

I'm aware of Popper, but I can't say that I give much credence to his work. I could probably write a book on my problems of his theory of falsifiabili...

I'd say that near-everything is subjective, certainly including language. Think of a word, any word, it's a collection of sounds that we use symbolic ...

@"T Clark" Sure, we're all trying to say something, but it doesn't matter what the author is trying to say, what matters is what you or I or anyone el...

@"T Clark" Those are the things that are important to you, and that's fine. That's not the issue, the issue is why is the interpretation of the author...

@"TheMadFool" Your proposition that "we are evil" seems to rest on the idea that the aforementioned rules are some sort of definitive example of good,...

@"T Clark" Your point seems to rest on the idea that the intention of the author is the authoritative meaning, and to that I ask — why? Why is what La...

@"Mitchell" Well, the way that you worded it, made it seem like a statement about Nietzsche the man. However, even though Nietzsche the man was anti-r...

@"Mitchell" That's not an interpretation of his work, that's a statement about the man himself. It seems to me that you're having difficulty separatin...

@"Mitchell" I don't think that it's a matter of the author being mistaken or not, the meaning that he derives from a text is certainly right for him, ...