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Just asking rather than answering my questions. Jim Jordan and Rudy Giuliani did not storm the Capital. Neither did Trump. My toothpaste fights caviti...

That is the point. What it means for Jim Jordan and Rudy Giuliani to fight is not the same as what it means for an angry mob to fight to prevent the c...

What is at issue is what Trump meant by those words. The situation in which he said those words is part of the linguistic context. See linguistic cont...

This is a good example of you doing what you accuse others of. Context matters. In what other way could the Trumpsters heading to the Capital have fou...

Once again Trump and the Trumpsters are the innocent victims who did nothing wrong. What evidence do you have of this?

Nowhere else? It is not clear whether your blindness and ignorance is feigned, willful, or as with so many Trumpists, an inability to see below the fa...

NO. The prosecution does have the burden of proof. We do not. There is, for example, no burden for us to trust someone we suspect of being a con man u...

Are you claiming that those who are prosecuting should presume he is innocent? How does that work? Should they not look for or present evidence of his...

One standard that applies to everyone including Trump.

Yup. That is why I said that NOS is conflating "much talk" with the judicial process.

The presumption of innocence means he has the right to defend himself against the charges in a court of law. That is exactly what is happening.

You seem to be conflating "much talk" with the judicial process. The presumption of innocence does not mean that he does not have to defend himself ag...

Here I think he is simply wrong. My mental state and whatever my meaning might be has no bearing on how to properly add numbers.

It is reassuring to know that we have saved addition from Kripke's skeptic ... at least for the time being.

If what is being done is in accord with addition then it does not matter which rule one thinks they are following. The fact that Kripke is able to mak...

Yes, it just so happens that allowing more citizens to vote and have their ballots counted may favor one candidate. Trump's fear was that in this case...

So if up until we get to this number, which as far as we know no one has ever encountered, there is no discernible difference between plus and quus an...

As long as we are dealing with quantities less than this imaginary number that has not been dealt with before, then there are a multitude of rules we ...

There is more than one sense in which we say someone is following a rule. If I if I ask a child what the rule of counting is more than likely she cann...

Kripke's skepticism is based on his assumption that there must be some fact independent of and other than the fact of the practice of addition.

Wittgenstein's solution to the paradox at PI 201 is that addition is a public practice. Rather than Kripke's appeal to what addition means to an indiv...

The argument presented holds for divine absence and non-existence as well.

I have developed a method for that ... Seriously, I'l start with a point of clarification: by cultivate I mean manage, that is, not allow it to grow o...

My thinking reflects my character or temperament and includes the idea that rather than attempting to exclude such idiosyncrasies they should be recog...

It is a kind of play that is not determined in advance by how one should play. Some might object that wandering about is not productive, but where one...

In my opinion the attempt to start with a method is antithetical to philosophy. It raises a whole host of questions, including - Why a method? Why thi...

Philosophy is a social activity, but who do you keep company with? Even keeping company with books can be a social activity. More often than not, an a...

I encourage you and anyone else familiar with Davidson to do this.

Yes, I agree. Cross-fertilization and interdisciplinary approaches are promising against ossification and border protection fortifications.

From Wittgenstein's Zettel: He accepts that there are facts, but facts do not determine concepts. We do not have the concepts we have because the fact...

Malcolm tells the following story

I am questioning the notion that philosophy has a distinctiveness that holds throughout its changes. What may be true of one philosopher may not be tr...

In the Republic and elsewhere there is diminution from what is simply best to the best we can do and obtain. From the truth itself to what in the abse...

This may be important for a few reasons: It is important not only for Trump's campaign, but for Federalist Society, conservatism, and the constitution...

Theory of anamnesis / myth of anamnesis. Potato potato? I don't think so. How we interpret a theory is not how we should interpret a myth. But whether...

I don't want to get too sidetracked so will keep this brief. The myth of anamnesis requires having at some time previous to this life learned what is ...

In the Charmides Socrates suggests that wisdom is knowledge of what you know and don't know. Our lack of knowledge of knowledge is at the heart of the...

The question of the thread is about whether philosophy is still relevant or, as you suggest, whether it ever was. Bacon is instructive with regard to ...

I think the scientific revolution was fueled by advances in mathematics.

Aristotle sums up the ancient position on knowledge when he says that all men naturally desire knowledge. Bacon marks the position of modern philosoph...

Certainly there had been scientific and technological advances, but nothing on the scope of the scientific revolution.

I am in general agreement, but would not characterize the statis as "disguised".

I am not sure he could. There is a peculiar disjunction is conservative circles, especially among the MAGA faithful. On the one hand a profound distru...

My first post was in response to your claim that: In so far as there is divergence it might seem as though the pull would be in opposite directions an...

But this is something that Trump and NOS deny is possible. Trump wants to move the trial to West Virginia not because a jury there would be more objec...

The dyad divergence and convergence is not resolved or reduced to convergence. There will always be points of divergence and points of convergence, po...

Yes, but value change. Although not the first, the case of Socrates gives us a vivid picture of the dynamics at play. He was guilty as charged. He was...

The whither and why of mankind takes pluralism into account. It is in line with Nietzsche's notion of the creation of individuals. The whereto is not ...

Knowledge brings change. This acknowledgement is at the root of our hybrid culture. This hybrid is not the culture of either of its roots. Technology ...

The history of the great thinkers and great books can be taught in such a way that it is about universal questions. It is in this way relevant today. ...