Sorry, I don't get the joke you're making. If P2 is false, we're done, presumably? I looked through the rest of your post but couldn't make sense of h...
As to the Sorities Paradox, it is Premise 2 that is false – one is often at liberty to say that the addition of a single grain creates a heap where th...
The demand that there be an exact criterion determining what is or is not a heap comes from a mistaken metasemantics – the assumption is that words ha...
Robert Aquinas McNally – The Modoc War: A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America's Gilded Age Peter Guardino – The Dead March: A History of the Mexi...
I do agree that a philosophy that doesn't spend its time making shit up serves a largely negative function, so can't survive as an independent discipl...
Who is honestly puzzled by fictional entities? Who is confused about what they are? Is there anyone who is worried, for example, that they will run in...
Since existential generalization is a rule of inference in an artificial language, whether it applies in this case is up to how the logician defines t...
Roughly, it begins with things philosophers say as its data, rather than questions presented by the wider tradition. Its focus is on creating technolo...
I've read quite a bit of analytic philosophy, as well as some about its history. My own view of the matter is that 'analytic philosophy' ended around ...
It looks like a verbal question. You could treat meaning that way – but I suspect it wouldn't capture many of the things we mean with the ordinary not...
The World as Will and Presentation – Arthur Schopenhauer Outlines of Pyrrhonism – Sextus Empiricus Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges The Incredible Shrink...
Benjamin Madley – An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 Brendan Lindsay – Murder State: California'...
Yeah. I've been reading lately about the genocides in California. The Californios and Oregonians were also 'just defending themselves,' and so on. The...
Yeah, my guess is a lot of people with a blind spot for Israel have some sort of Abrahamic belief. The current understanding, as far as I know, is tha...
So talk talk about X is not to talk about X, but to talk about how we think about X? Even if this were so, philosophers aren't any good at the latter ...
Not me, it's the person using the defense. I was just pretending to be retarded = I never meant to find out anything anyway! So philosophy 'teaches ho...
This is the old 'I was pretending to be retarded!' defense. It's news to me that philosophy's not supposed to actually teach anyone anything! But of c...
The Kantian is no better, in thinking that the nature of the mind, or whatever it might be, can be unlocked in the same way. The object of inquiry is ...
I think philosophy is weird in a way fishing isn't, in that fishing doesn't have a professed aim it manifestly fails at, and has for thousands of year...
I wouldn't think it was that weird, if he just did it once in a while, and maybe to try to get someone to stop fishing. I don't really discuss philoso...
Of course. But I think being good at fishing is a real and useful skill, whereas being 'good at philosophy' doesn't really entail being good at anythi...
I'm not sure people who are educated in philosophy are doing better than fisherman, so that they have any special insights into 'mistakes' they're mak...
I honestly haven't read as much of either as I'd like to have. I have been trying to make an effort, though, especially with history as regards my hom...
I have no issue with just discussing things, but philosophy doesn't do it self-consciously, so it always ends up in its old traps. A more clear-eyed d...
My view of philosophy is a bit more prosaic. It's just a bad method of inquiry, based on misconceptions that we have no reason to bind ourselves to an...
I think the chief achievements of OLP are at a meta-level: it was the site of the invention of not only of metaphilosophy (including the journal of th...
I definitely think being taught critical thinking, rhetoric, and some sort of informal (not unrigorous, but informal) logic is good. But to the extent...
Yeah, that's right. But I think his mono-causal model is a bit oversimple. It's more just that we lack certain metacognitive abilities having to do wi...
I don't think there's any one reason people make these sorts of claims – emotional issues is probably a big one, but not the only one. Other people pr...
Indeed. Later OLP understood that it wasn't doing linguistics or sociology. The commentary on ordinary language was from 'within' native knowledge of ...
I don't have any thoughts on what it means 'to me,' but 'OLP' typically refers to a few strands of thought in analytic philosophy, mostly spurred by e...
If you want to make a thread about phenomenology, fine. I would even talk about it there. I don't think your description of it is right – phenomenolog...
Not really – it's more that as a strand of philosophy it's been subsumed into the larger analytic ethos. There are a few defenders of the approach lef...
Yes, I think for the most part philosophy is bad inquiry, and bad inquiry is often mistaken for deep inquiry. Realizing this often causes philosophers...
Again, I don't care that you prefer some philosophers over others, or thought they were super deep or whatever. It's just not relevant to the thread. ...
Well, I just did read it. It's about the Royaumont Meeting of 1958, the division between analytic and continental philosophy, and the extent to which ...
I think that, in a thread about OLP, coming in and listing a bunch of random philosophers who never engaged with it and have nothing in particular to ...
This is totally off-topic and has nothing to do with the thread. No one asked you for a list of philosophers you happen to like, which is all this amo...
This list doesn't make any sense, since it includes philosophers who wrote their major works prior to or during the time OLP was being worked out. Ror...
I don't think philosophy died – it just went on doing pretty much what it did before when people got bored of one way of doing it and moved on. It's a...
I don't think there's much point in trying to convince people. While OLP is good, it relies on a certain psychological leap that it never figured out ...
I've spent a lot of time reading the 'canonical' OLP philosophers, and I tend to think that to the extent OLP exists, it's just an expression of a mor...
John didn't say that he thinks it's raining. What he said was that it is raining, but he thinks it isn't. And that is true when it's raining but he th...
This doesn't make any sense. You can't just say that something is true or not without knowing what's being said and what the non-linguistic situation ...
We're not describing an action or event as true (which I don't think makes much sense), but what someone said. Whether or not 'it would happen' isn't ...
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