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You all ought to burn that constitution too. It's an awful, anti-democratic document.

Ah the good old fantasy threat of governement over the real, tens of thousands death count that has actually happened, and continues to be happening. ...

It is really any surprise? Science forums regularly get inundated with hacks trying to use 'philosophy' to prove whatever pet theories they have about...

So if experience is a species of thought, and experience is how we relate to reality, I'm not sure how it follows that thought does not exhaust our re...

So one 'works with experience' in thinking. Experience is how we relate to the world. Does thought then exhuast our 'relation' with the world? Or sinc...

One wonders how to make sense of this. One works with hammers, data sets, roadways, and other people. Does one work with 'experience'? It's hard to kn...

If possible OP, you should try and check out Girogio Agamben's recently published Taste on this subject: "The relationship between truth and beauty is...

There are none. All philosophical thought is a risk, taken without guarantee and always open to failure. And it is a risk because it does not concern ...

Adorno's take on happiness has always haunted me, in a good way: "To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it. Indee...

In it's classic Aristotelian formulation, matter is simply that which can act or be acted upon; it is what Aristotle calls 'potential'. So matter = po...

lmao. Piotrek ?wi?tkowski - Deleuze and Desire: Analysis of "The Logic of Sense" Gilles Deleuze - The Logic of Sense Prep for a seminar on the LoS nex...

Anyone with any sense. Still, have a read of the first chapter of this.

Oh good. There have been few more oppressively onerous ideas than that of the 'real you'. Nice to see it being done away with.

That was really cool. That kind of data visualization though is everywhere right now. When you hear 'big data', that's what it involves. That kind of ...

He writes like an Italian, which is always a good thing. Also the whole book is so... Deleuzian.

Augustine was puzzled by time. But as I explicitly said when I invoked the example, I'm using the example in a different way than Augustine intended.

But this is all irrelavent to knowing the meaning of the word 'time', when used in most circusmtances. Certainly, it was all irrelavent to Augustine, ...

Ah, it's eating me inside that I've not yet read Vygotsky. That said, 'concept' is perhaps what I'm looking for; what are defined are concepts; meanin...

One (too obvious?) reference point this brings to mind is Augustine's famous discussion on time, where he says that if no one asks him what time is, h...

What I'm struggling with is that there's only really one word - 'meaning' - to express two different things. On the one hand, there's the game of aski...

John Sellars - Stoicism Carlo Rovelli - The Order of Time Rovelli is the physicist humans need right now.

But this is circular: if people acted like in my model, my model would work. Sure, but...

This would lead to a tragedy of the unfucked commons.

I agree, but might phrase this differently: the process I'm describing is how the little girl learns what it is to ask and give an answer to 'the mean...

I want to flesh this out more. I think one way to think of what I consider a common and usual approach is to consider meaning primarily a matter of de...

Clearly the conclusion is that Texas is one of the most feminist states in the US. Probably heralded by George "Fight the Patriarchy" Bush.

Doesn't matter.

Yeah, this is part of what I take away from Pitkin's comment that "The 'world' looked at was not just a collection of objects... included people, and ...

But it isn't a copying of the context. (how does one 'copy a context?' A context is given, to a degree - one acts in it; the child does not purposely ...

But this is not a case of that. The whole trust of the story is that the child has used the phrase in a new way, one that specifically doesn't simply ...

This so-called 'real problem' just is what Chalmers called one of the 'easy problems', so I'm not sure what's all that new here. And until consciousne...

Got an argument or line of reason or you're just throwing this out there? And what's any of this got to do with 'psycologism'?

Explain yourself.

Ha, I like it. If only because you're seeing cool stuff where it was just me being lazy haha.

Something I wrote in the PI thread not too long ago: "I've always disliked calling language-games 'contexts', and on reflection I think I know why: th...

Pretty chuffed with my photoshopping here. Silly lady ruined my symmetry. So I got rid of her. Pre: /uploads/resized/files/oj/xnx8qevj7bjgw1m6.jpeg Po...

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Yeah that's fair. I tried to give myself some wiggle room here by speaking of such variables as modular, but it's true that one could go alot further ...

This is true, and it reinforces what I was getting at re: variables of meaning. In the case of the Inuit who throws up or scrunches up his face while ...

Yeah, the point I was making (via Pitkin) is different from Cavell's, but different by way of what I understand as an elaboration and extention of wha...

Another way to think about the 'puzzle': why it is that in some circumstances, we say: 'oh, that's just what she calls it, don't mind her', and in oth...

Appendix: The White Knight's discussion of Haddocks' Eyes, from Lewis Carroll's Through The Looking Glass:

Now look whose being humourless :rage:

He's funny! He makes fun of everyone and everything, and does it with gusto. He wields sarcasm like a rapier, and it's just deliciously clever humor.

Nietzsche is one of the few philosophers who really does put a smile on my face while reading him. His writing glows with wit. Kierkegaard can be pret...

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No no, the other way around. 'Information transfer' is one way we do things with words.

Surely the former is a subset of the latter.

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I'll be away with reduced access to internet over the next week. Will hopefully catch-up when I'm back. Keep up the good stuff!