Valentinus

Perhaps you should listen to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgvknp5kxlo Everyone is keeping to their own time signature.

At this point, it seems you are mostly interested in promoting a particular political point of view. Whatever.

I was thinking of it more as a proposition. So. not very historical as something that has to be weighed against other statements. It declares somethin...

You would lose the uncertainty of how it was approached at the beginning, The fragility of the ground to be asking about such things against the terri...

I am curious about is going through your head. I ask for a lot of things that don't interest my child. He is used to that. How to put it, we understan...

Is that a question? You could not ask it if it did not presume the contrary as something to be denied. Are you asking if being human is a hypothesis?

You touched upon a lot of issues I cannot answer for. I am not happy with that response but I figure this sort of thing requires being very honest abo...

Chalmers does not offer what a viable theory would look like. He points out what has been left out by what has been offered so far. So his attempt to ...

The demiourgos in Timaeus does a similar thing. The things that are made that we encounter directly are brought into being by some agent using a patte...

From my experience of being a male primary caretaker in the context of certainly being employable to do something else, it struck me how the kid (in r...

It is serious and there is little of its kind to be found elsewhere. Very little. I am reconsidering my decision to call the whole thing off.

I don"t know much about that application of the principle enough to differentiate present methods of science. I have read the Leibniz introduction of ...

I am familiar with pursuits of causes that become too enmeshed with circumstances to separate one influence from another. Are you suggesting something...

I understand those answers but will ask if that means you have no interest in causes, as discussed in the thread.

How did this purely internal thing come to be? If it is separated from all the other stuff, when did that happen? And if one is to accept such a possi...

You have cut to the bone of the issue. You may or may not agree with Spinoza but he tried to answer your challenge. Moving the arguments past whether ...

The alternative to the ex nihilo argument is equally not self evident. To accept the alternative would mean what seems like a new form of life is actu...

Maybe the persistence of the idea does not come from a set of convictions but a response to experience. I am not causing everything that happens but I...

Thank you, Fooloso4, for all the challenges you have given me and others. Je pars, TPM.

I do not understand the Stranger to be saying that "proceeding by the method of division, we would take the kind, "beautiful things", and divide it in...

Yes, the form is a plural neuter accusitive participle. What makes the reference to a single lie is the ??, which is a singular neuter accusative pron...

Previously, I had given the first part of the sentence that expressed the intention to lie, expressed by ??????? (bring into being) a ?????? (a contri...

Aristotle said one gave rise to the other: I will leave off from further replies for today. My wife is beating me with the chalk board the task list i...

If there are variations of ability between men then there must be some means of comparing them to each other beyond the horizon of personal experience...

Plato uses the phrase in the Republic 414b-c. I gave the Greek text for it here, in Shawn's OP, An analysis of the shadows. I supported my interpretat...

Thank you for making that observation. I have read a lot of Plato, some parts many times. I still possess The Collected Dialogues of Plato which I sta...

That proposition is addressed and deemed inadequate in the Theaetetus starting at 200d. That observation is also made by Socrates to note that Protago...

The Greek includes ?????, the word that is used for Forms, as an essential part of the description. The description does not turn 'kind'; and 'form' i...

That is hardly an answer to my question regarding the use of division in other dialogues. Cornford does a better job than Fowler of relating the use o...

The text refers to the use of Kind and Form in the following way: The Greek from the Perseus site for the first line by the Stranger (with the words i...

It should be observed that Baudrillard does not consider himself bound to a particular lexicon and uses "real" in other senses than as an opposite to ...

The Theaetetus does not claim that. The dialogue ends without finding an adequate account of knowledge. The 'paradigmatic' role of the Forms, spoken o...

The subjectivity is not refuted. The very portion of Theaetetus I am referring to is the acceptance of personal immediate experience. In the effort to...

Socrates was not denying things change. He was saying that if nothing stayed the same, there would be no knowledge. Plato is not content with Parmenid...

I am not saying anything of the kind. You proposed that the Sophist was written specifically as a refutation of Parmenides. I spoke of why that is dou...

Baudrillard is speaking of history in the Hegelian register and so should be seen together with Baudrillard's statement that the 'real' is dead in res...

While there can be no doubt that having the Eleatic visitor do the talking in the Sophist and the Statesman involves a markedly different approach tha...

Thank you.

In the literature of the early classics, there is a distance between the life of the sage and those who have have responsibilities amongst men. But th...

The text of that passage is: Aristotle appears to be referring directly to this part of the Sophist during his explanation for why there can be no sci...

The Stranger reaffirms the Parmenides denial while presenting the dyad of 'same and different' during the discussion of false statements: The Eleatic ...

The equality of persons as persons does not refer to their capacity or lack thereof. The idea is that, as a person, you are just like other persons, n...

Robin Trower and James Dewar rock my boat. This is a live recording. Pretty tight.

In the Theaetetus, Socrates refuses to trash talk Parmenides because Socrates had met him when he was young and had witnessed his sincerity. That is a...

Point to an example of that.

I don't understand the basis for calling the Stranger a Sophist. Can you point to one of the arguments he makes by way of example? The same Stranger s...

I did not mean to say that living with "ones own terms" excluded what is shared amongst us. As the only one you know who can observe what you know, th...

Maybe not. But how will you tell the difference? We only have our experience of ourselves to go on. So the idea of personal verification is spoken mor...

When you are not satisfied by previous statements and ask that the conversation happen on your terms. That presumes some familiarity with the matter a...

In the Timaeus, the qualities of Being and Becoming are starkly differentiated: In the Theaetetus, the dyad of motion and rest is found to be insuffic...