Artemis

In that vein, we can only speak of those things, of which we are knowledgeable enough to recognize our ignorance, and only to that extent. As for the ...

If we cannot understand those parts of reality, it makes no sense to try and talk about them. Or, to quote Wittgenstein: "What can be said at all can ...

No,is certainly not conventional. He espoused a "philosophy of contradiction" that is absurd, or, at best, just illogical. I don't see any reason to f...

We'll just have to agree to disagree. I realize Nietzsche is your personal pet philosopher. I don't think there's much I could say to sway you from yo...

There is, of course, an entire field of philosophy devoted to the very question of what it means to understand a text. Theories about the death of the...

To what end?

You're welcome. :kiss:

Well, for one you seem to lack an understanding of history if you think the ancient Greeks were cave men.

Right here you dismiss Plato on grounds of your very narrow reading.

Yup, I have. And although they believed in slavery and the superiority of educated men, they had a lot more to say about literally everything else in ...

Oh boy.... It's pretty obvious you're the one with an agenda here.

I mean, he does have his reasons, but generally Plato (and remember, we're only getting Socrates through Plato's eyes) was suspicious of literature. I...

A doctor at a rehab clinic told me once, talking about ger position on letting addicts leave the clinic before they're ready: "You wouldn't let a pati...

Not liking and not getting are two different things. Just FYI.

I think there is a lot of work going on in that direction, especially in the postmodern parts of Lit departments. People are getting more and more int...

Except, the ENTIRE book is that way. So yeah, to the bonfire it goes. (Trust me, I read it. I hate it, but I read it.)

It's hard to read more than a few pages of what amounts to a list of aphorisms. "When, however, ye have an enemy, then return him not good for evil: f...

Lol. no, I don't think that's accurate. Some Lit academics and Phil of Lit people think that's interesting, but it's highly unlikely that the entirety...

Just ew.

Indeed!

I don't know why you think that these aren't strong arguments. Logic: it's inherently illogical to try and make a logical argument against logic. You ...

What justification? I haven't offered one. You're the one making weird unsubstantiated claims.

So, I'm responding to your devil's advocacy... not sure what your point is.

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It's interesting that you specifically choose strength as a sign of physical prowess. I think that's a sign of us living in a male-dominated world, wh...

You got a whole lotta quips and a serious lack of arguments/proof/evidence.

I tend not to talk to people who dismiss my opinions on the basis of my sex. Sorry, not sorry. Consider yourself henceforth ignored.

Really? Cause I literally said:

Also, it's illogical to say, "since you don't know x to be true, and only believe it to be so, it is therefore wrong." The wrongness or rightness of a...

At least I know enough to preface my opinions with I think, and not just posit TESTOSTERONE! as some kind of definite answer. Hormones would be includ...

I'm not quite sure what you're saying here. I really don't want to get into this that deeply. For any scientific article stating x, you can find one s...

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Ah, well if YOU say so, then it must be true.

Perusing this article, I see that it's about gender differences and has little to say about women's emotional limitations. It says a few things about ...

Well, we all know that dead, white men have it worst of all. :smirk:

I tried googling it and that source isn't giving me anything of relevance. I think it's generally understood that men aren't socialized to deal with t...

Excuse me? What "emotional limits" should we women be aware of? And, just fyi, there are physical limits to the capabilities of men as well.

First off, why are you so aggressive? Second, what, then, is the POINT of your precious egalitarian movement? Third, we're just gonna have to agree to...

I don't agree with your condemnation of feminism, obviously. I think your view of feminism is simplistic. Nevertheless, I don't mind calling some anti...

She denied it in 2015. The alleged attack happened in the 80's. His career between those two dates seems not to have suffered, and it's pretty telling...

Famous people's careers have survived worse, I'm afraid. Remember when Sean Penn beat up then-girlfriend Madonna with a baseball bat?

I thought my "fruit" answer was doing it! But, yeah, if I try the way you describe, it does work.

Then don't. No need to be a jerk about it.

You're rude.

How does that discredit Earl K. Miller, Ph.D., a professor of neuroscience at MIT? From the article: "But in returning to the first task, the brain ha...

:roll: I gave you a pretty good explanation about evolution and the brain, plus an article with the view of a neuroscientist backing up my theory. I'm...

Welcome to the philosophy forum, dude.

Ummm, no, an explanation really only needs to do #1 on your little list there. But you're free to ask #2 and #3 as additional questions if you like.

Calories. Also, probably, the structure of the brain.

It occurs to me while I'm writing this, though, that I often do have multiple thoughts going. Like a main thought and a sub-thought. Like, I'm typing ...