John Doe

Okay, so as I promised yesterday, I want to try to analyze, or at least summarize, each section of this paper in mostly non-mathematical terms. This m...

Hi all, really sorry I missed out on the first day - something serious has come up all of a sudden so unfortunately I may be posting a little sporadic...

@"Moliere" @"SapereAude"@"Terrapin Station" @"Wallows" Hi all. @"fdrake" has offered to lead a discussion of Bernhard Riemann's "On the Hypotheses whi...

Sorry Wallows, I was waiting till we get a bit closer to the 13th just to tag everyone and remind them that this thread was kicking off. We're going t...

This is my intuition as well though I'm definitely not an expert. I know that you said you are unclear on how to argue for your intuition but for what...

I'm fairly confused by your phrasing of the question and the explanation that you give leading up to it but assuming I've understood you correctly the...

One of the top five best posts I've read on this site. Illuminating and thought provoking. :clap:

Thanks, I appreciate the recommendation. All I can really see from scrolling around that link is standard Cambridge UP books at exorbitant prices. Am ...

As long as this thread is bumped, I wonder if anyone has any insight into academically oriented websites that streamline the process of ordering the s...

Would you kindly point out what I'm making my case against? I don't really wish to debate a tautology. It's one of the coolest sentences I've read on ...

This looks to me like epistemic and value claims hiding within a tautology hoping to go unnoticed. Either we ignore it and some notion of truth self-j...

Philosophy always cuts both ways and is awash in a sea of motives. There are likely deep personal reasons for your inquiring into philosophy's use as ...

I suppose that I see you raising a variety of separate concerns we might try to articulate, such as (1) the loss of public political spaces (our polit...

Cool! What did you make of the book? Do you have a significant difference in mind between 'economic fascism' and 'inverted totalitarianism'? I think t...

There's merit to the idea for sure. You should check out Sheldon Wolin's notion of inverted totalitarianism. :up:

Interesting! My reason for thinking that Lukács is dealing at bottom with what he takes to be a moral concern is that Kant explicitly states (if I rea...

I get the rhetorical point but I don't know about this. I've always thought Peter Singer is the perfect foil for Heidegger's take on what pure nihilis...

I don't accept that you are serious about winning if you refuse, after repeated entreaties, to do any sort of basic research on candidates you put for...

Well because it's your right as a voter to believe that some particular candidate is the most likely to win an election, or the only plausible winner,...

Yeah, why trust a guy who gives you several verifiable facts you can check out for yourself when you can yell at him in all-caps instead. If you're in...

So you realize Mattis isn't a democrat, right? (a) He's never been registered as a member of any political party; (b) He's a Hoover Institute guy who ...

This seems largely right but it's clearly more than a mere incorporation or assimilation. It's also a challenge. Logos can no longer be understood apa...

This does seem to be a problem of sorts for Lukács. It's the same thing he does with Sartre ("One would need a dissertation..."). It's clear that he h...

What do you guys make of starting on Riemann in about a couple weeks; say, around 13 January?

Thanks! I think you're right, if I've understood your posts correctly, that the ideas being addressed in this thread are hopelessly entangled in a ver...

I will testify to this. I've been reading this thread since the beginning (though I am trying to stay out of the fray) and it is clear to the outside ...

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Hey, so, who wants to help me escape academia this Christmas by suggesting like literally anything else I could do with my life with a resume that con...

I have read the paper and took fairly extensive notes which I had planned to write up into a summary, so I am really sorry that I dragged my feet on p...

Yeah it's an interesting question nobody has the answer to. There's a huge mix of philosophers and scientists working together to better understand th...

So we need concepts and deduction to learn how to duck from a baseball flying towards our face? Then how do dogs and cats learn to do these things?

Well if you extend the meaning of deduction so broadly that it captures the acquisition of coping skills in embodied know-how, then sure, of course. B...

Well if you want to talk about the relationship between perception and conception then I think you ought to consider perception on its own terms. Othe...

Yeah, I gotcha. But OP starts out by declaring "it's easy to determine the perception of phenomena which impact the senses" - already gesturing toward...

I think you concede too much. When I duck from a baseball about to hit my head I get reality right without having to go to the trouble of deduction.

I'm a big fan of Lukács and depending on your time and level of interest, I suspect we could discuss this paper while waiting on Riemann since it's so...

I think that @"Banno"'s point is that there's no smoking gun here. According to my handy PDF, neither the phrase "contingent necessity" nor some cogna...

It's all good. I'm pretty easy going. I just want to talk about texts anonymously with some folks and learn a thing or two. :lol:

My first reaction was Ugh Rorty, then open it up and Ugh Derrida. But reading quickly I'm more impressed with the paper than I thought I would be! So ...

"In this game, it is not something that is represented, but is a means of representation we have given that object a role in our language game..." Hum...

Right, so doesn't Kripke's solution require a fixed referent? It seems to me the scary thing about Wittgenstein's point - the 'it hurts my brain' part...

Maybe? A meter is a meter seems to be "in a queer sense" both a necessary and contingent truth, which hurts my puny human brain when I think about it ...

You know you're allowed to create your own threads, right?

You might almost say that your running commentary is a measuring stick by means of which our discussion and assessment of the Philosophical Investigat...

If you want it (free, legal, etc.): Latest edition (fourth) I think this is a really great indication of where the text is headed though I have huge q...

Well, technically it's a note but as far as I understand it's supposed to connect up with 35. I double checked and it is definitely 35 in the Hacker/S...

This strikes me as the appropriate amount of time needed to read the PI. :razz: I think that we have to take "The Concept of Grammar in Wittgenstein" ...

That's the best way to do it in my humble opinion! Anyway, let's go for it. We can start whenever you feel ready. I think my position is that it's gre...

I really think we should wait until §§89-133 to start worrying about trying to work this stuff out, because as you point out, any discussion we have o...

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