Why should we think reasons can only be causes? I'm not saying that they're not - only that, it requires some work to establish an identity between th...
Not in the least. Leibniz, for instance, will cash out the PSR in logical, rather than causal terms, and there is nothing prima faice 'unjustified' ab...
I came across Contra's videos not too long ago and tho the gags are super hit and miss for me, I think she's doing wonderful work, esp. with vids like...
Perhaps part of the issue is just how strange the idea of a 'sufficient reason' is. Here is a passage that might help, taken from Deleuze's lectures o...
If you don't keep the distinction firmly in mind then, as happened in your last thread, the specificity of sufficiency is entirely lost. So - - I stil...
Hm, this seems to me to be a different question. Remember, the question is not over which reasons are in play, but over the status of such reasons, wh...
As was pointed out I was quoting none other than you, and, if whatever Platonism you have in mind shares with Plato his mimetic or participatory under...
The one thing I'd add to my earlier comments to make the stakes a little clearer is that questions of sufficiency are, at base, questions of modality ...
But this is simply an analytic statement - which is to say, a tautology: "bachelors are bound by the condition of being unmarried". Well no shit. But ...
You said entropy is 'applied to' negentropy. That's what I said makes no grammatical sense. As for this: "Sure it does. Negentropy is a temporary stat...
Again, these are value judgements imposed from without, and which also, I might add, do not respect the level of generality at which entropy operates....
Sure I do, but is this 'striving' my 'root' or 'essence'? Does this question even make sense? What would even motivate this line of questioning? Surel...
Root? Again, from what POV? And why afford it any significance? These are value judgements, imposed from without, unmotivated but for a taste for shit...
Can be, yes, but I see no reason to. Nor even adopt or rather import and impose the langauge of 'essence' on the discussion, which is just alien vocab...
I take issue with this 'just' here. Surely, all the things you mention are indeed cases of localized negentropy, but they are quite plainly not only c...
To the degree that entropy is a principle it is a peculiar one insofar as it doesn't actually prescribe anything in particular (it might be better to ...
The recognition that a philosophy is of its time is hardly 'speculative sociopsychology'; it's an effort to stave off the supreme naivety of thinking ...
I don't really believe that these ideas are separable from 'Plato's views' (on women, on slaves, on foreigners), as though an amendment or rider tacke...
It's not entirely unmotivated. I've been reading Aden Even's book on the digital, and although he doesn't mention Leibniz at all, I'm almost entirely ...
Not at all. I quoted a representative study of Plato's thought. And yes, Plato's philosophy is full of just those kinds of retrospectively ratiocinate...
Yes, those individuals being Greek, male, and - serendipitous delight! - philosophers. Animals, females, slaves, labourers, and foreigners all being u...
"In a midrash that bears the title “Massekhta Satan” (“Treatise on Satan”), God has Satan appear before him on the last day to judge him. The accusati...
It's not a bad idea in principle - and yeah, ideas like it have been raised before - but 1) the forum mainpage software wouldn't distinguish between L...
I had to study the American penal situation once. It was horrific, and remains so. It makes me sad when I say that although I haven't heard of that pa...
I think there are few ideas more pernicious and ignorant than that which says that being educated about the reality of racial politics and racial hist...
The opposite Tiff. That's what the thread said. I closed it. My point is that it's silly to say I acted out of some 'lefty' bias - the thread's premis...
Hey now, the thread spoke of Trump's 'intellectual primitivism' and his 'truths' as being 'held by the herd'. This of course is fake news and any self...
No, my 'ostensible point' for moving the thread was that it was a rubbish thread. While it's cute that you arrogate yourself so that any action upon i...
For the record, I merged your 'Naked Truth' thread into the Trump thread as an alternative to straight up deleting it, which is, as a thread, what it ...
Presumably to have it filled instead by wife beaters like Rob Porter, thieves like Scott Puritt, and sexual assault defenders like Bill Shine. - And o...
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