Cool. Yeah, people who haven't looked into the history of 'free will' - i.e almost everyone - don't tend to realize what a culturally partial, histori...
I was referring to the idea that 'free will' was in any way at stake in philosophies before its contrived invention by the modern Church fathers. Simp...
I don't doubt this, but I think a good first step is in putting to question the very vocabulary involved: freedom, but no 'will' please. This I think ...
Yeah, I'm aware of those moves, but I'm still of the mind that 'free will' has been so compromised by hundreds of years of theological poison that it ...
The OP's question has been answered, and there's an active thread about religion in the forum already, so this thread will be closed. I'll move some o...
Why yes I am aware of the prevalence of third-rate scholarship on the issue, cited frequently by philosophical dilettantes happy to anarchonisticly an...
"According to the few details we had as of the weekend, the GOP has agreed to speak only to the man and woman concerned, thus confirming that there ca...
I was adressing the question of motivation - why now? - as are most who (including Ford herself, I imagine) cite this fact. I.e. it makes this less li...
To interpret a lack of action as a statement that 'it was not a big deal' is both naive and incredibly misinformed on at least two levels. Psychologic...
I've only made it to the end of the 3rd page in the thread so far, but this is a really nice way of putting it. What immediately stood out for me is t...
I think I have an idea of what you mean, if only because I think I've struggled with similar thoughts before as well (and still do, though their inten...
I dunno, I'd be sorry to not class language as a member of the continuum in that it strikes the middle ground between expressiveness and pragmatics. M...
Working backwards: Ah, let me be careful about distinctions here: the 'primacy of doubt' I referred to in the OP is not a primacy that I attributed to...
Sure, but this experience-of-language is not what relies on (intersubjective) trust: we trust (or not) what is being said, not that something is being...
This is really cool, I didn't know this had a name! This accords to one of the most central insights - as I take it - of deconstructive thought (Derri...
One other issue of possible interest here: the reflexivity of language, the fact that the lie can put into question the whole institution of language ...
I'm closing this thread. If the OP cannot be bothered to articulate its own arguments and instead demands that others simply refer to a series of vide...
Yeah, I actually agree with this, but this touches on a point which I'm finding the hardest to express, which is that despite the imagery of a gradati...
It doesn't though. You have to beat alot of math in to place for it to adequately 'reflect the countability of the world' in the form of highly specif...
Hmm, but I'm not sure that the spatial aspect of mathematical reasoning is quite as suppressed as I think you're stating (I'm not sure if I'm reading ...
'Free will' wasn't even a thing until some boofhead Church father decided to make it the cornerstone of his theology. There's nothing 'perennial' abou...
Yeah, I agree that tokens and types only make sense in relation to each other (again, I had a really fun conversation about this in the thread I menti...
In terms of the schema here, I would understand math to be (among other things), a formalization of counting (just like logic is a formalization of re...
Quick note on poetry: on the imaginary continuum set up here, poetry probably lies somewhere in between gesture and language proper. To the degree tha...
"But one must not think ill of the paradox, for the paradox is the passion of thought, and the thinker without the paradox is like the lover without p...
Or, on economists' unblemished record of being utterly useless at predicting recessions (for which even the Queen even famously demanded why they were...
Yeah, for Dor - and I agree with him - this is exactly the wrong way around: language was first and foremost a specific communicative technology which...
Lolololol economics as a discipline has probably been one of the biggest institutional failures of human endeavour in all of history; it consistently ...
Yes and no; Dor's whole shtick is that to the degree language functions the way he reckons, then it is quite literally a social technology - not unlik...
Maybe I can put the point phenomenologically: the objection I find myself reaching for most often on a forum like this is not 'you're wrong' but 'that...
@"Csalisbury" ^ This, btw, is the kind of 'Deleuze-speak' I absolutely hate. Just quoting long passages with no attempt to explain or engage with the ...
While I agree that Frank's interjection is more or less entirely irrelevant, I do wonder - and this is a stray thought that I haven't fully thought al...
But wait, it's not about a third party: the authorization is taken from the problem(s) it sets out to address - it's internal to the philosophy, true,...
No, this isn't it. The distinction isn't between 'being the source of one's own valuation' or 'choosing from a series of pre-set options'. All 'option...
Minimally, that it deals with a distinction that makes a difference (or, ideally, makes a distinction that ramifies so as to make cascading series of ...
I've been reading Daniel Dor's The Instruction of Imagination and one of the things he says about language strikes me as appropriate to thought as wel...
Yeah, actually, this seems like a good way to put it: there is no guarantee that thought will hew closely to the significance of a problem. I'd hesita...
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