Yes, you would care about looks, wouldn't you? Words and looks, the substance of the liberal political imagination. Then there's nothing to discuss. F...
I'm arguing that people like Shapiro got to where he is by means far beyond that of his power of speech alone, and to restrict responses to those mean...
Brecht's lovely little poem comes to mind: Step foward: we hear That you are a good man. You cannot be bought, but the lightning Which strikes the hou...
A thought prompted by this: I don't think the liberal has any capacity to think of political action beyond political speech. Words simply float free o...
I'm not convinced by any of the readings of §128 put forward here so far. Right now, I'm inclined to read it as an ill-tempered sneer: 'you can't put ...
No, I want a non-hypocritical political sphere. One in which the politics at work in platforming some dickhead like Shapiro is acknowledged as politic...
I'm not 'equating' the political sphere with anything. What counts, and does not count, as political, is the political act par excellence and the libe...
Hmm, fair enough. The triple negative(!) is tricky - we cannot show that it is impossible that effects exist without causes. But yes, the point bears ...
But I'm not interested in what the theses are. At least, not in this passage. I'm interested in why, were such to be produced, "it would never be poss...
Produce the quote. We can take it from there. As far as I know, 'to make this point', he denied the principle of the uniformity of nature; or at least...
I agree that this is a point that Witty makes, but is that the point being made here?: How does one derive the above (what I quoted of you), from this...
Mmm, that 'theory' simply collapses into description is the most strightforward reading - especially if your counter-objection holds - but for whateve...
I've tried to bring this out in many of my comments here, but I refer you to this one in particular. I'll only add that I too think that these section...
Yeah, I've come to a similar conclusion. :up: §128 This is another very tough one, thanks again to any lack of elaboration on Witty's part. The immedi...
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't believe Hume said that it was possible that events can be uncaused. Rather, he said that it was impossible to esta...
Hmm, I don't think that works: "The work of the philosopher consists in marshalling recollections... of just what it is that philosophy is trying to d...
§126, §127 Not much to say about these other than they recapitulate, again, that philosophy is descriptive and subtractive, and not explanatory. That ...
§125 §125 is a slightly deeper exploration of math that was broached in §124. In particular, it takes contradiction in math as a working example. If, ...
Hmm, I think Witty's point deals more with facts 'of' math: things like Goldbach's conjecture, the 'neverendingness' of transcendental numbers, how to...
Whether or not you can or cannot 'think', you are a stakeholder in how you are governed. Your comprehension of how you are governed is irrelevant to t...
If you took a shot for every time someone in this thread unnecessarily qualified something with 'objective' (objective truth, objective fact, objectiv...
Mmm, the best part! Watching cherub-faced liberal dupes then vomit out defenses of free-speech in response (oh so enlightened, oh so sophisticated), w...
Cavell on modernism and philosophy: "The essential fact of (what I refer to as) the modern lies in the relation between the present practice of an ent...
I won't speak for Maw, but I imagine the 'strategy' is not to 'cook up the Paglia incident', but to elevate it (an already existing 'incident') to the...
Did anyone say that 'Paglia is vouched by Koch Brothers'? Here's what Maw said: "The Atlantic published another article on Camille Paglia paid for by ...
Sorry, what's bullshit? The line literally says: "This article is part of “The Speech Wars,” a project supported by the Charles Koch Foundation, the R...
They're paying for - or at least funding - an article on Camille Paglia, which is exactly what Maw said. Not sure what you're getting hysterical about...
Um, the article literally says this at the bottom of it: "This article is part of “The Speech Wars,” a project supported by the Charles Koch Foundatio...
Yet more Cavell - On Horror and the Human: "I do not expect that horror movies really cause honor, but, at best, "horror". But I also do not know that...
But I don't mean this: I meant the defence of free speech on the grounds of protecting it from machinations of power as though access to the 'marketpl...
My bad! It was quite a few posts back. And yeah, the conception of language as a maze of different (kinds of!) streets is a very nice one and well wor...
§124 §124 comes in something like two parts, with the first part acting as somewhat of a recapitulation of a lot of what has been said so far, and the...
This is probably one of the few sensible things said in this thread so far. The middling liberal approach taken by many in this thread looks at issues...
Some readable, contemporary recc's, continentally inclined: Elizabeth Grosz - The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism Martin ...
The 'argument from aliens' ('could aliens have the same math as us?') always struck me as interesting because it's so ambiguous, despite it seeming no...
Did you cite the critic in acknowledgement? Probably would have been a good idea. But don't fret too much. You did the work - the reading - along with...
§122, §123 A lot of ink has been spilt on Witty's understanding of the 'survayability of grammar' (@"Fooloso4" linked to a nice article on it here), b...
§121 This one's pretty straightforward on the surface but I just want to quickly relate it to the passages around it, because it can seem to come a bi...
Ahh, this is so interesting! Have you looked into the connections between physiology and perception? Or more generally animal ethology and perception?...
Okay, I apologize, and I'll try not to speak like that to you in the future. My frustration comes from the fact that you're responding in terms that h...
OK, well I guess the point - or at least, my point, my takeaway, is something like: don't take your eye off the transcendental. I think this is what I...
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