Not at all. Admitting that one's desires are erotic and pleasure-chasing is all fine and dandy in the world of heavy metal. What's not fine and dandy ...
Thank you very much for such an intelligent and insightful contribution to this Thread. I've been thinking about the things that you've said, and I've...
It's just a convenient label that I made up, though I'm sure other people made it up before me. It's hard to be original. By "Hippe Rock" I just mean ...
True, yet Hegel and Nietzsche, among other thinkers of the past, had no access to the Dead Sea Scrolls, for example. Neither did Augustine, Aquinas or...
could be. I'm not really into the sort of jazz that Miles Davis does, or the sort of jazz that Thelonious Monk does, for example. I respect them, I so...
Hmmm... Well, maybe. I'd say that English grammar is particularly strange in some ways. But it's a great language. I don't like reading Shakespeare in...
In that case, authoritarians would do well to keep in mind that the ordinary people of the United States of America, the so-called deviants, will not ...
Do I think that would happen? I've no idea. The police and the military aren't immune to corruption, ideological or otherwise. If they were, then ther...
Yes, I do. Assuming that the Waco siege is indicative of such differences, of course. I could also mention Ruby Ridge, or the Oklahoma City bombing, o...
All I can say is that I hope that the different radicalized right wing groups that have formed in the USA as of late don't keep proliferating. At the ...
Sure. As Ernesto Laclau would say, regarding the modus operandi of populism, the reclamos become demandas. Equivalence chains propagate to a polarizin...
Indeed. The fascist appeals to the irrational sentiments of his followers. He riles them up with vitriolic rhetoric about some other group of people w...
I'd willingly die for many causes, such as saving the life of a family member or a friend, for example. I'm not willing to die for a fascist cause, be...
Yes, but Aristotle's Prime Mover, which is pure form, is arguably not alive, at least not in the sense that trees, dogs, and people are. If, on the ot...
When I was a teenager I started to get interested in politics. I remember that we learned about the Second World War in school, and I recall that I co...
I think we can agree that fascism isn't a particularly coherent system of beliefs. It's based on sentiment, there is no rational ideology behind it. I...
Yup, I play the piano. I'm just an amateur, but I used to be in a rock band when I was younger. It was a sort of bluesy, progressive rock n' roll band...
Well, I reckon that you would need more than two sentences, unless each sentence is some kind of Kantian paragraph. You'd have to explain to the drunk...
There's no pubs in Argentina, it's just not part of the culture. I mean, there are bars, as in, establishments that specialize in serving alcohol, but...
Well, no offense Banno, but I think that alcohol might be more culturally significant to Australians than to Argentines. I'm not in the habit of expla...
It doesn't strike my ear as nonsensical, at least not necessarily. For example, suppose that Truman's form is his soul. If so, then it's not evident t...
Some contemporary Aristotelians suggest that Aristotle didn't think that artifacts had forms, because they think that an Aristotelian form has somethi...
I'm all for common sense. That doesn't mean that common sense is infallible. There are cases in which it effectively fails. The problem of Material Co...
But then you run directly into the problem of Material Constitution, that's my point. I have no idea what that is, I don't live in Australia. Is it? W...
Essentially, yes, as far as the syntax goes. I disagree with Russell's and Quine's parsing of the corresponding formulas, though. Indeed, it remains t...
I find that counter-intuitive. The flat piece of clay that I'm looking at is clearly not a human-shaped statue, so how could it still be Athena? You c...
I never made the promise that my proposed solution actually works. It might be nonsense. I'm aware of that possibility. But the problem of Material Co...
@"Banno" let me try another "sales pitch" for my proposal. Allow me to compare and contrast it to Quine's. I agree with Quine, not Bunge, in treating ...
Is it a necessary presumption? Doesn't matter, for this is a point in which I'm willing to part ways with Bunge. Not if the properties in question con...
More or less, except that I have no use for the notion of a domain either in this proposal that I'm working on. But that would be more or less the cor...
Sure, but in saying ?(x)fx, you're saying two things, you're making two declararions (or declarative speech acts): 1) you're saying that some particul...
It would seem that way. So far, I see no reason for not doing exactly what you just said: to drop the distinction between free and bound variables in ...
Because it seems to be a necessary requirement of the hopefully novel solution that I'm working on in response to the problem of Material Constitution...
Think of it like this, , if it makes any sense. I believe that in the formula ?xPx, "x" is a free variable, not a bound variable. Why not, if it's qua...
Maybe I meant to say "bound" variable instead of "free" variable, but the notions of free and bound variables is also something that I'm currently wor...
Coltrane is far too abstract for my uneducated ear, that's why I gravitate more towards metal. Because there's abstraction in metal, but not to the de...
But I don't say "Pegasus=x", because the phrase "is Pegasus", in the case of Px, is not the "is" of identity, it is the "is" of predication. Like when...
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