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Heh, you'll be surprised how much you can get through if you set aside just an hour of undistracted reading a day. Like, if it takes about 2 hours to ...
There's alot of equivocal writing about Lacan's 'three orders', but the best writing I know on the topic is Anthony Wilden's collection of essays in S...
So I'm about half-way through and I'm liking it alot. The title 'Spinoza and Politics' is actually deliciously ambiguous: it refers not just to 'Spino...
Anyway, I'm not here to debate this, this is your second thread on this topic, and if you aren't going to stick to addressing a particular mod-related...
No, it's just basic language 101. Ask people to clarify what they mean, obviously. This is just trivial communication etiquette, not some philosophica...
Philosophy is chock to the brim with 'stipulated definitions', and context ought to make clear when they are in effect. I trust members to call people...
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This is incredibly silly. A failure of X to explain Y cannot entail that Z must in turn be implicated. That's just a basic failure of logical form, le...
The argument doesn't stand or fall on the question of interest, as I pointed out in the posts on the page previous to this. So I dunno seems a like a ...
Yes! I think basically think that Wittgenstein basically hit the nail on the head with his reflections on math and that everyone else has more or less...
That's why I removed any reference to interest, so it would be literally impossible to 'sound like' that. Arguments I can deal with. Hearing imaginary...
To distill the argument most concisely, I'd get rid of any reference to interest at all, in order to clearly see the 'negative' import of the argument...
Yep. The universal acid, at work in math no less than animals. The death of God by caustic immolation across whatever asylum one wants to find for him...
The key passage is the following: "Mathematics may be the investigation of structures. But it is not the list of all possible structures: these are to...
If the Platonists had their way, what is 'real' would be the eternal, the changless, and the deathless: the diametric opposite of everything anyone wo...
No. That's what it is stipulated to mean. The idea that what is real cannot refer to things that are products of our activity is a malicious piece sel...
Exactly. The structure of the argument of the paper is that of a reductio. Those who see the paper as begging the question seem to miss this entirely....
Now that I think about it, to drive the point home, one might even consider taking into account the subjectivity of a cooperation, or the subjectivity...
I'm not sure if you meant to phrase it how you did, but that... would be a perfectly valid argument ('it is false that the tree is blue because the tr...
This is a great summary of the idea and helps alot to explain why thinking of subjectivities in terms of 'experiences' or consciousness is so wrong-he...
There's simply no possible world where Wayfarer's statement was made in good faith, or without wilful ignorance: the rudimentary confusion between the...
Either you haven't read the paper you actually qualify as a clinical imbecile. Rovelli's take on MP is not a conclusion he reaches - it is literally t...
No, Rovelli's 'M' explicitly excludes contradiction: "Then the platonic world M is the ensemble of all theorems that follow from all (non contradictor...
I believe that's exactly the point: M would be entirely trivial. This is the dilemma that the paper poses for Mathematical Platonism: either M is triv...
I don't understand how you can read this passage - which I agree with almost entirely - and not think to yourself: "gee this Platonism business is jus...
Right, so you want to have a debate over terms not employed by the paper... about the paper? Come back when you've read it and are prepared to actuall...
All you dribbled off was some irrelevancies about 'abstractions not being real'; this being a phrase not even found in the paper. Come back when you'v...
When your picture of reality has so little to do with reality then so much the worse for that picture. "But you're not dealing with reality!"; You can...
Totally agree. Insofar as we are (mostly) beings that count, and employ counting to engage in certain behaviors, it's simply unsurprising that our cou...
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