Well, one can't obviously deliniate conditions of use prior to there being some circumstance in which they arise. All I'm saying is that to say talk o...
Right, so the intelligibility of 'ordinary language' is itself indexed to conditions of use: this is entirely fair. But you've simply assumed without ...
Indexing intelligibility to 'ordinary language' (if by this you mean 'language used commonly') is quite clearly wrong. People may and do come up with ...
But 'properties-talk' is very fraught (no less fraught, I think, than 'universals-talk'): this little train and this small ball are both toys for John...
While I largely agree that the question of universals is more or less rubbish, it seems to me that its no less a jumping of the gun to say that the qu...
Interesting stuff. One thing it has me thinking is this: in the OP, I had to try and condense Rosen's presentation by focusing heavily on the idea of ...
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by 'involve any incommensurability'. The idea is that if one assumes commensuribility, then the Zeno paradoxes are...
One of the things I like about Wittgenstein's approach is that he 'accepts' the number line on the condition that it isn't leveraged to ground a 'gene...
Yeah, it's a question of ratios: the ratio of the sides to the hypotenuse can never be made commensurate (which means that the 'size' of the unit isn'...
Just briefly - about to sleep - one of the things Rosen develops is that - to continue the balloon analogy - while it's true that Weirstrass developed...
Just to round off my references, compare also Deleuze: "In the history of number, we see that every systematic type is constructed on the basis of an ...
Just wanna come back and address these together as they all hit on similar points that I think deserve to be expanded upon. The idea as I understand i...
But this seems to be an incoherency: what you want to ask is something like: how can we know something that, in principle, be known? But this is not a...
But how is this not just a fancy way of phrasing a tautology (and thus a triviality)? 'The only things we can measure are those things that we can mea...
Ah right, so Nietzsche was like the Nazis because they had criteria of 'political exclusion'. But of course, all politics is nothing other than the ne...
This 'just' here is doing a lot of work, and it hides over an equivocation: a measurement on its own doesn't really yield any knowledge whatsoever; a ...
Consider modifying this bold bit to something like: 'what it is to have that property is just to be interacted with in a certain way under certain con...
But what is the status of 'us'? You're treating 'us' as an exception that is somehow different from 'everything else'; but this is just what is unwarr...
What is this 'the thing' 'independent of that measurement'? It's like asking 'what does red look like in the absence of light?': it's not that it look...
But this would only be the case if you ignore the specificity of the experiments involved. The cool thing that QM teaches us is that measurement is ju...
The problem with these kinds of claims is that they take a tautology - the fact that the results of measurement cannot occur with without acts of meas...
Pretty sure Heidi is just a foil for the larger point, but I would prefer if the foil weren't so shittily fabricated. Not that Cic can help himself fr...
Yeah, the equation of Heidegger's 'nothing' with some fuzzy fear of death or anxiety over non-existence has nothing to do with Heidegger's point. As F...
"State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it tells lies too; and this lie crawls out of its mouth: “I, the state, am the people.”...
Yeah, he's got a gift for setting things out clearly and starkly. I always enjoy his Guarduan articles. In other news, England is currently in the pro...
I don't know that one can speak of 'current science' as a reified whole. Just (individual) scientists and their views, organizations and their views, ...
The whole problem is precisely over the question of 'completion'. The assumption of commensuribility turns on the idea that, once we 'complete math', ...
I have this book and need to read it! -- Also, the death drive is the mark of humanity. It's only because of our compulsions indifferent to satisfacti...
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