http://www2.phil.cam.ac.uk/~swb24/reviews/Eco.htm Well it looks like your ex-contributors are as pig-ignorant as Umberto Eco, poor misguided souls. So...
Which is the actual world, and which is the counterfactual world? (A). I go to Asda. (B). I don't go to Asda. But all modal logic depends on what is t...
Start off drawing three intersecting circles, giving 8 regions - outside all, A, B, C, A&B, B&C, C&A, and A&B&C in the middle. Then an 'all' or 'none'...
I've said it before, but clearly it needs repeating: The latter is true, by virtue of the fact that is countered, but the former is false; not all pos...
Indeed. Most philosophers. But there is also a tradition of philosophers getting crucified, of being obliged to drink hemlock, or being threatened by ...
I'm not sure I have that much to contribute... Back in the day, this was the Catch22 symptom, and was called "lack of insight". To put it crudely, if ...
It seems right to say that they completely undermine infallibility. Rather as a proof of contradiction undermines the truth of (at least one of) the p...
No. If you want to maintain your beliefs, I recommend not studying philosophy at all. Philosophy is always dangerous to the established intellectual o...
Try generalising the other way. Most white people are suspicious of blacks, and therefore they teat them with suspicion. They watch them more closely ...
It's obviously complete tosh. If work were good, then labour saving devices would be evil. Ban the wheel! Clean dishes are the good that make washing ...
I have the same problem with getting fit. I think if you want to climb the mountain of philosophy, you have to break through the logic pain barrier. A...
But never mind the chaos, never mind the so-called decision, and whether anyone can or will make it or has made it, the important thing is that Jeremy...
Here's your daily dose of paranoia fodder: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/18/sealed-v-sealed-robert-mueller-mysterious-case-subpoena?CMP...
Mrs Un and I were looking forward to our first ever Christmas with no commitments, because one daughter is in Aus, and the other is heading out to vis...
*Judge* __" I have no free will either; five years." It is a necessary assumption in making a judgement or a decision, that the result is not pre-dete...
https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2018/12/13/full-speech-sir-ivan-rogers-on-brexit/ Worth a look if you have time, or if you haven't try the Guardian's pre...
Thanks for that Suze, I know we are friends, and God knows there are plenty of disgraceful goings on here as well. But this is the pits. I hope there ...
It's very interesting you say that, and thanks for the general analysis too. The suspicion I have is that it is the UK that will break up, with N. Ire...
What the fuck America? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/18/judge-rotenberg-center-electric-shocks-ban-inter-american-commission-human-righ...
Yes, I'll try and nail it down, and hopefully that will kill it. I remember when the UK changed to decimal currency. The pound (£) didn't change, but ...
Prima facie, this looks to be plain false, given that 'we' (scare quotes because I was not consulted) have changed the designation. Presumably, the ne...
"The Latin phrase civis romanus sum (c?vis r?m?nus sum) (Classical Latin: , "I am (a) Roman citizen") is a phrase used in Cicero's In Verrem as a plea...
No, that's a different problem. By and large, the voters are not idiots, and do not expect contradictions to be implemented. But some politicians are ...
Excuse me for quoting myself from page2. So an excellent reason for not running the country by referenda, but by representation is that one needs to a...
I have some advice. Studies show (that's the new prefix to replace ,'And God said') that group singing is one of the very best activities for lifting ...
I commend to you The White Goddess, by Robert Graves, classical scholar and poet. His thesis in very brief is that Greek myth contains the disguised r...
It looks to me that the main problem with the deal is the backstop, and the backstop is there to protect the Good Friday Agreement, which is a treaty ...
"Why am I here?" said the grain of sand in the oyster. "I don't know,"said the oyster,"all I know is you're bloody irritating." But the pearl fisher k...
Read some Hume before you read Kant.He's one of the clearest of philosophers, and sets out the sceptical arguments that Kant addresses. Otherwise, you...
Those stats illustrate nicely the nature of the problem. Which is that 'a compromise is the worst of all possible worlds' is about the only thing both...
Here's a little article that might be of interest. https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/kurt-godel-and-the-romance-of-logic?fbclid=IwAR0m6ifJB0...
Donald Kalsched interview. So the psychological response to trauma is a defensive splitting, and the divided selves are mutually antagonistic. As long...
I wonder what makes you think that? I am old enough to remember when DeGaulle blocked the UK application to join the EEC as then was for many years, a...
Well a shrink whose breaking point is anything said by a client needs to get another job; they are a menace. I don't want to make a judgement at this ...
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