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This I believe is the key point of lecture 4. The reading is quite difficult with numerous twists and turns, so I won't give a full interpretation wit...
May 10, 2025 at 02:42
Yes, instead of referring to money as "dough" or "bread", we should use "bacon". Gotta go... I'm in charge of bringing home the bacon.
May 09, 2025 at 12:04
I like the circle analogy. The Absolute, as the premise, is the cause of the Hegelian dialectical process, but it is also what is supposed to emerge a...
May 09, 2025 at 12:00
Hmm, parts and whole, in relation. Doesn't this amount to "a system"? I'm in the middle of reading the next lecture, concerned with systems.
May 09, 2025 at 00:46
Yeah but, it was used as two distinct words. Maybe spellcheck at play? I'm just being unexpected, hopefully in a nice way. I'd say Chef Wise is well e...
May 09, 2025 at 00:35
A great name for a great philosopher such as yourself, "Chef Wise". Have you tried spaghetti yet Chef Wise?
May 08, 2025 at 11:11
Your new example, "empty" and "full", only shows that these two do not properly qualify as contradictory terms, in the context of those fundamental la...
May 08, 2025 at 11:07
Did you read the quote? Maybe it's incorrect by conventional interpretations of Hegelian dialectics, but it is what Adorno is arguing about Hegelian d...
May 08, 2025 at 02:22
Being and nothing are only made to be two sides of the same coin, by doing violence to the concept. When they "disappear into Becoming", that is the s...
May 08, 2025 at 02:03
I figure what he is saying is that the concept ("Being" in the example) must be abused (defined in a way which is inconsistent with what it really mea...
May 08, 2025 at 01:00
We are taking about P and not P therefore the LNC and LEM apply. The qualification of "possibly" creates an exception, a violation. Why do you see the...
May 07, 2025 at 10:45
They don't speak about different things, they both speak about the very same thing, P. One says P might be false, the other says P might be true. With...
May 07, 2025 at 02:13
I don't think you quite get what I\m saying. In the context of applying the fundamental laws, the phrases tell us the same thing. That's theory, not p...
May 07, 2025 at 01:41
I don't believe we can really say that Plato had an ontology. Think that's strange? Look at the quote from Adorno, p32, in my post.
May 06, 2025 at 21:53
That the end is excluded from the idea leaves the purpose of usage totally to the discretion of the user. So mathematical ideas are super versatile, t...
May 06, 2025 at 13:21
I really don't see the difference. By the fundamental laws, there are only two possibilities, true or false. Therefore "P might be false" means the ve...
May 06, 2025 at 12:42
It's dependent on interpretation of a thorough reading. Plato's writing is commonly divided into three stages, early, middle, late. Here is a brief ex...
May 06, 2025 at 12:09
We were talking about "possibly P", and "possibly not P" as having the same meaning. Each means that neither "P" nor "not P" is true. How can two phra...
May 06, 2025 at 01:48
Jamal touched on this above, but at page 26, he appears to approach a negative part of positivity. Notice how saying 'if you have nothing positive to ...
May 06, 2025 at 01:39
The problem is that this supposed alienation, concept without object, is a very true aspect of reality, what is at the base of creativity, like I expl...
May 05, 2025 at 23:51
I don't like this concept-object confrontation, and I do not see the need for it. It appears like it will reduce the activity of mind to mere represen...
May 05, 2025 at 12:22
I don't get your point. Of course "P" and "not P" say different things, they are opposed in meaning. And, LEM says one or the other must be true. Yes,...
May 05, 2025 at 11:38
When he talks about "confronting concepts with their objects and, conversely, objects with their concepts", isn't this exactly the type of identity ph...
May 05, 2025 at 01:57
As you can see, I don't like. Rhetoric employs a number of different means, some logic, some not, depending on the circumstances. We cannot class appe...
May 05, 2025 at 01:24
There is no reason for him to mention "The enormous power of Hegel", and speak as if he's awed by this mysterious force of ideology. How is that consi...
May 04, 2025 at 23:57
You are the one who said "the right logic for this is Rhetoric", implying that rhetoric is a form of logic. It's clearly not. And, as I said, logic ca...
May 04, 2025 at 20:50
The problem though is that "Rhetoric" is not necessarily logic, it is language intended to persuade. If we class the language which deals with what is...
May 04, 2025 at 11:18
Ok, what I said was completely an exaggeration, not an interpretation which remains true to Adorno's intention. It seems I have an odd subconscious ha...
May 04, 2025 at 11:07
I don't see it. Wikipedia tells me reification is a form of alienation. So that would be the opposite of this negation of the negation, which leads to...
May 04, 2025 at 02:11
Yes, but that "it's not a static thing" does not imply that it's not an object. Objects are not necessarily static things, so how is reification impli...
May 04, 2025 at 01:27
OK, but objects are not static things either. So how do you draw the conclusion of reification?
May 04, 2025 at 01:16
And so... Where's the reification?
May 04, 2025 at 01:07
We are not talking about the situation after a future reduction though, we are talking about the current situation now. At the present time, neither "...
May 04, 2025 at 01:00
What is it a reification of, "society"?
May 04, 2025 at 00:40
So, he goes through a bunch of meanings for "positive" and distinguishes two principal uses, "positive" in the sense of good, and positive in the sens...
May 03, 2025 at 12:45
It's good to see that we agree, once in a while.
May 03, 2025 at 02:00
I don't doubt the consistency of S5. Did I say that one system of logic, or another is not consistent? No, I pointed out two systems of logic which ar...
May 03, 2025 at 00:46
You seem to have a limited capacity for understanding. What I said was: I then proceeded to explain the reason why the two are inconsistent. If that p...
May 03, 2025 at 00:14
Duh...
May 02, 2025 at 12:14
The issue, is that you are making "possibly be" into a predicate. By doing this you violate the law of excluded middle, because the meaning of "possib...
May 02, 2025 at 12:09
Yeah, there it is. A relatively new type of logic which is not based in the fundamental three laws, and openly averts these laws. It's really not a bi...
May 02, 2025 at 02:14
Thank you. I'm going to take a look at the senses of "negative" referred to. I'm intrigued by the way that "negative" is associated with bad, and "pos...
May 02, 2025 at 01:52
The basic laws of logic apply to the the way the world is. They are rules concerning what we can say about things. Adding to this, "or could have been...
May 01, 2025 at 10:34
Your replies are very predictable. When you do not understand the concept, walk away instead of learning.
May 01, 2025 at 02:09
I interpret this negation of the negation in the following way. The rebellious subject sees the institutions of society as restrictive and infringemen...
May 01, 2025 at 02:05
The concept of "possible worlds" itself violates the fundamental laws of logic. To predicate of "a world" that this world is possible violates the fun...
May 01, 2025 at 00:44
Yes I noticed this. We employ different principles for categorization. I interpret that passage like this. In the case of "reality", nature is constra...
April 29, 2025 at 11:48
I think that's exactly the point made by the op. "Symmetry" is a sort of self-refuting idea, which we allow to have existence in our minds, but it is ...
April 29, 2025 at 00:56
In: The Forms  — view comment
Plato's "Symposium" is a very good source as a tutorial for understanding "Forms" through the theory of participation.
April 29, 2025 at 00:49
Like I thought, two different meanings. I think the op uses the word in the following way: "the quality of being made up of exactly similar parts faci...
April 28, 2025 at 23:54