Yeah fuck this bitch. If those four men did nothing but exist-while-turbaned, and she was so ignorant as to have them kicked off a flight over her unf...
No, don't lower your standards of reading so you can write better! The trick is to write about these very tough philosophers and what they say in a wa...
Henry Staten - Nietzsche's Voice Noson Yanofsky - The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us Mostly finished my l...
§88 OK, last one before things start to ease-up and we get to the 'Wittgenstein rants about philosophy for 40 paragraphs' section. Anyway, §88 is a re...
§87 §87 now carries over the discussion of doubt into the discussion of proper names (which we left off in §79, and in which, to roughly recall, it wa...
§86 Much like §85, §86 also serves to integrate some of the apparently disparate themes so far addressed. Indeed, it explicitly relates itself back to...
§85 §85 brings together a number of important themes covered in the course of the book so far, although if you blink, you might miss it. For, by linki...
§84 §84 introduces the question of doubt into the mix. Lots has been written on Witty's take on doubt - especially in the later sections on pain, and ...
§82, §83 Not much to say about these as they are fairly straightforward: just as Witty questions the exhaustion of meaning by definitions, here he que...
The next few sections mark what I take to be another change in theme, giving explicit attention to the nature of rules, which have periodically croppe...
I deleted it. If you want to make a point about truth or whathaveyou, go ahead. No need to use a very raw, very contentious event to make that point. ...
§80 §80 continues with yet another variation on the theme of definitions not exhausting meaning, this time treating common nouns ('chair'), instead of...
https://aeon.co/ideas/tidying-up-is-not-joyful-but-another-misuse-of-eastern-ideas "Worse than the bizarre uses of Sun Tzu are the seemingly endless h...
Gonna try and work my way back into some momentum for this... §78 §78 works to cast the whole of the preceding discussion about definitions into a dis...
Yes, there's alot here beneath engagement. It's the gems one must look out for. It's simple self-respect to know when to ignore someone and their argu...
I happen to agree with Willow. Fallacies are so basic as to be entirely philosophically uninteresting. If one is arguing over fallacies, one has cease...
I've actually read a paper on beserker rage in a philosophical context! It's by John Protevi, and might be of interest to you. It's available from his...
I believe the idea is that the less pinned, the better. There's only so much real estate, and we want to save it for discussion. Fallacies and biases ...
Just as a side comment - I've been reading Witty's Remarks and Lectures on math, and doing this excercise in this thread has been super useful in gett...
But the only selection criteria at work here is death: the strength of the monkey isn't relevant. Natural selection is 'indifferent' to how you die; o...
To be fair, I didn't quote anyone! That said, I was implicitly responding to this: - the wording of which I mirrored in my first post here ("sexual se...
Heh, I wouldn't say 'no reason at all', but rather, for more interesting and varied reasons than we are usually prepared to countenance. For sexual se...
Unfortunately, this is not true. Or rather, for quite a while its been thought to be true, but has begun to crumble under large swaths of emerging evi...
Sexual selection is not a mode of natural selection, but an entirely different mechanism of selective pressure. Not only are they distinct, but they c...
'Natural' in 'natural selection' isn't redundant though. It serves to distinguish it from, say, sexual selection, which Darwin also wrote about. This ...
Originally posted by @"philosophy", merged here: "In his Critique of Pure Reason, Kant argued that knowledge does not conform to objects but, rather, ...
Speaking for myself (so may/may not be applicable to you), this tends to come from finding myself undeserving or unworthy of such affection. Actually ...
@fdrake”: "Aw man, behind on this and §3 (of section I!) is really killing me, even with your exposition. I get that the overall aim here is to show h...
§75 §75 continues Witty’s expression of skepticism regarding the exhaustion of a concept by its definition. So to the pair of rhetorical questions: “I...
§74 §74 expands on the theme of understanding-as, this time tying it to the question of perception: the question of 'seeing-as'. In fact, part of what...
I wanna say that exactly how these are cashed out depends on the idealism in question. A certain reading of Plato, for example, reserves what I called...
But why not materialism? This seems evasive, but to build off your mention of a vulgar materialism - why must materialism always be vulgar? Is there n...
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