In the game of chess certain moves are prohibited. The rules are specific to the game. One could make that move in a game that is like chess with the ...
It should be noted that since antiquity the question has not been whether or not Aristotle held that the heavens are eternal but rather whether what h...
Reading this after the Heidegger thread that unfortunately has been relegated to the Lounge, I see the potential for a grave risk. Heidegger attempts ...
More to the point, it is about using the same terms with different demands on the meaning of the terms. It is not about shutting down constructive deb...
And this is how the game of dissimulation is played. Trump and his followers object to legal investigations, but at the same time attempt to discredit...
There is a difference between the logic of a language game and an underlying logic of language. Analogously, the rules of chess are not an underlying ...
His anti-establishment rhetoric helped to get him elected, but he is no "man of the people". He is every bit the kind of elite he rails against. Trump...
It is unfortunate that this has been moved to the lounge. The article speaks for itself. It does not require a thesis or demonstration of commitment i...
It is typical of apologists such as yourself to jump to Trump's defense by making vague accusations that portray him as an innocent treated unfairly b...
What form does he want and expect these protests to take? Given what has happened in the past, it does not seem likely that they would be peaceful. Bu...
He does not present them as theories put forward by the Pythagoreans. The premises are his own. In the beginning of 1.2 he repeatedly says "we" not th...
It is one thing to say that the irrational religious meanings of the term needs to be negated. It is quite another to say: and: There is nothing irrat...
The irrational religious baggage is something you and others are carrying. You are conflating a particular reified belief with the much older and more...
Melodie Stenger, with the support of Aristotle, suggests that the reason why something appears to one person to be one thing appears to another to be ...
I don't recommend either Jowett or Cornford, except if nothing else is available. I recommend Allan Bloom(pdf) It is what I used when I was teaching. ...
Genesis has the concept of the ways of things but not of their nature. The movement of the snake, moving one way in order to go in another, reflects i...
The failure to distinguish between two different kinds of bodies, terrestrial and heavenly or primary body, leads to false assertions and conclusions....
If one starts from the belief that God exists and that God is good, then it follows that good exists. But the same holds for any number of things. If ...
But others do recognize them as a valuable contribution here and elsewhere. You have shown more patience over the years with certain people, and are f...
What should not be overlooked is how much of what the snake said is the truth: God confirms this: Being like a god is a main source of our suffering. ...
In the Tractatus he makes the distinction between "the world" and "my world". That distinction does not carry over to the later writings. What can be ...
It may have no bearing on your project, but Wittgenstein's focus on seeing aspects, ways of looking, and ways of seeing run counter to the claim that ...
This is so twisted I did not even bother to attempt to straighten in out. Once again, typically, it is not clear whether he thinks this is what Aristo...
No, I didn't. To what end? You have shown yourself to be incapable of separating and distinguishing between what Aristotle said and whatever it is you...
But does this speak to his claim about a certain kind of unnamed object? 2.7 opens: He goes on to say that color is not visible without light, and the...
A good example of eternal unmoved movement: In Plato's Republic Glaucon says astronomy compels the soul to see what's above. Socrates responds that as...
The real problem of evil, the misfortunes we suffer, would remain. A theological reconciliation does nothing to change that. Put differently, the real...
You use the exoteric/esoteric distinction as a blunt instrument to twist and distort the text so that it will mean whatever it is you want it to mean....
Something unchanging always remains what it is as it is. Some quick comments: There is little or no agreement as to what Aristotle means by 'God'. Thi...
Looking into it, the "certain nature", might be the transparent, Gendlin but it might be what makes something transparent. Reeve As to the kind of obj...
So, on the basis of an unexplained omission in one compilation you attempt to dismiss parts of the text that appear in fuller translations of the same...
I don't know which translation you are using but both Stocks, whose translation appears in several places on the internet with those lines intact, and...
I know very little about schools of interpretation, but I do not see how interpretation can be avoided. If you are satisfied with your interpretation ...
Not the same, but rather, my argument is that there is a politics of knowledge which apparently from the quote Cato failed to understand. Cicero on th...
Do you interpret this as an indication of the difference between politics and philosophy? In what way? In Plato's Apology Socrates says: There is a di...
My intent is not to attribute some claim to you but to clarify for the reader. The standard translation 'actuality' is misleading. It can be understoo...
No. What I see is a disjunction. From PI: For the later Wittgenstein it is the logic of our language as presented in the Tractatus that is misundersto...
Without too much exaggeration, the only thing they have in common is the word 'logic'. The transcendental logic of the Tractatus is not simply the log...
The latter Wittgenstein rejects the transcendental logic of the Tractatus. This is not a continuation but a repudiation. The continuity is on the othe...
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