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He admits to grabbing women by the pussy. Perhaps it is just boasting, but if so, thinking that this is something to boast about says a lot. The fact ...
May 11, 2023 at 21:46
If by oligarchy you simply mean rule by a few then by definition the rulers of a democratic republic are a few, although the few are actually many, bu...
May 11, 2023 at 21:34
As I am sure you know, the best people will not work for him. I don't think they could have done better at selecting impartial jurors, although team T...
May 11, 2023 at 21:15
There was a jury selection process.
May 11, 2023 at 21:12
If they let you do it without them wanting him to do it, it is. If he grabs them by the pussy without their consent then he is admitting to assault. G...
May 11, 2023 at 21:04
Well, he does posit a demon but I do not think he is demonizing our fallibility. We do, but he does not argue that this is reason for panic or a vorte...
May 11, 2023 at 20:51
You don't know what is to be done but think something should be done, even though you don't know that what should be done will make things better rath...
May 11, 2023 at 20:40
That appears to be what he is arguing. I don't know if he actually believes what he says though. He also argues that Trump was just boasting. I don't ...
May 11, 2023 at 20:36
How then can we reach it?
May 11, 2023 at 20:07
And how does that work?
May 11, 2023 at 18:50
And what is the alternative?
May 11, 2023 at 18:48
He is speaking as a "star" about what stars can do. On the other side of your misrepresentation, he is not talking about some particular person but "t...
May 11, 2023 at 18:47
The fact is, he supported Mussolini. If he thought that Mussolini and/or fascism could lead to democracy he was wrong. Are you suggesting that Trump's...
May 11, 2023 at 18:39
How do you reconcile socialism and fascism?
May 11, 2023 at 18:28
Another inept Trumpian apologetic. Michels supported Mussolini, you support Trump. Same difference. One fascist autocrat or another. Rather than the r...
May 11, 2023 at 18:13
Proof: He did not grab one woman he was talking to in front of the cameras, therefore contrary to what he said, he has never grabbed any women by the ...
May 11, 2023 at 17:45
He does not doubt that there are: At this point the ontological status of these things has not been determined. Only that they are: but perhaps nothin...
May 10, 2023 at 21:12
Although the common picture of Descartes focuses on the dualism of mind and body, it should not overshadow the unity of his work as a whole which incl...
May 10, 2023 at 18:23
As with the God of Genesis Descartes creates the 'objective reality' in the Meditations in six days. Without jumping too far ahead, a bit of explanati...
May 08, 2023 at 19:29
No. To doubt is to think. He says so explicitly in the third meditation quoted above. It did: (Second Meditation) He does not doubt he exists. That is...
May 08, 2023 at 13:49
There are different ways in which one might hide. An important and influential contemporary work on this is Leo Strauss' "Persecution and the Art of W...
May 05, 2023 at 20:02
There are two substances, two kinds of being, thinking and extended. He has a broad notion of what thinking is: (Meditation 3)
May 05, 2023 at 19:08
He took his motto from Ovid:
May 05, 2023 at 18:35
There is nothing fallacious about it. If you begin by doubting everything is there anything that cannot be doubted, anything about which you cannot be...
May 05, 2023 at 18:29
Unfortunately, this translation does not include the Dedication, Preface, and Synopsis. They can be found here Writing in the shadow of what happened ...
May 05, 2023 at 17:20
If you bring it up then it is up to you to defend it, not leave it up to someone who is not here to defend. What is the relationship between morality ...
May 03, 2023 at 20:26
Your ideal of well-informed, rational people with shared goals and ideas is nowhere to be found. The standards that might apply to science and technol...
May 03, 2023 at 15:36
With regard to the saying showing distinction: but: What is it that a proposition shows but cannot be said? There are two reasons why Wittgenstein att...
April 28, 2023 at 14:53
I agree. What I said is:
April 27, 2023 at 22:11
His a priori assumption is that there are elementary propositions. That in the final analysis we have a configuration of simple names of simple object...
April 26, 2023 at 22:25
I think this might be what is really at issue for you, at least in part, although it does not explain your apparent animosity. You like speculative ph...
April 26, 2023 at 22:01
How can we compare a proposition to reality without empirical observation? This needs to be read against what he says about metaphysical propositions....
April 26, 2023 at 19:58
These were direct quotes from the text. True propositions are those that accurately picture reality, propositions that state the facts. The totality o...
April 26, 2023 at 18:11
You have provided the answer: observation and empirical investigation.
April 26, 2023 at 15:46
How can we distinguish between and true and false proposition?
April 26, 2023 at 15:12
Following the Tractatus, there is a distinction between facts, which are a combination of objects (2.01), and statements of facts which are propositio...
April 26, 2023 at 12:38
Right: The problem is atomic propositions are an a priori assumption. He never identifies an elementary proposition. Without elementary propositions w...
April 26, 2023 at 12:21
I agree. What is the case, the state of affairs, the fact is that the baby (the thing) is crying.
April 25, 2023 at 23:25
A fact is not true or false. There are no false facts, only false claims and beliefs about what is a fact.
April 25, 2023 at 22:52
Here:
April 25, 2023 at 22:49
The fact is what is the case. What is the case is the baby is crying. You are conflating the fact and a statement of fact.
April 25, 2023 at 22:28
The proposition does not get hungry or need its diaper changed.
April 25, 2023 at 21:04
You posited an ultimate ground in the other thread before moving your response to me here. In defense of it you raised science and monism.
April 25, 2023 at 19:33
Since this area is for quotations rather than discuss I will leave off, but I have discussed Plato's zeteticism elsewhere.
April 25, 2023 at 13:16
What can be put into the form of a proposition is not a proposition. The fact: the baby is crying The proposition: the baby is crying The latter is ab...
April 25, 2023 at 12:55
Of course it is part of his later philosophy. The question is, where does it fit as part of his later philosophy? You say: What does it mean for logic...
April 25, 2023 at 12:41
So can the baby wants to eat the dog.
April 24, 2023 at 23:05
What he being said when the baby cries? It it communicating but is it trying to communicate and what is it saying? My dog will knock over her metal wa...
April 24, 2023 at 22:15
Plato, following Socrates, is a zetetic skeptic. This is redundant since both terms originally mean to inquire. He knows he does not know. He desires ...
April 24, 2023 at 21:46
Yes, we all have our preferences.
April 24, 2023 at 19:05