I literally quoted Hume's exact words with some bolding. Like, the opposite of reading things into the text which are not there. On the other hand, Hu...
I was going to straight up delete this thread - because it is totally vacuous - but I figured locking it and leaving it up for the irony was too irres...
Alternatively, you can simply read, with more attention than you have so far given, your own citation: “When we look about us towards external objects...
I said nothing about modal logic. People have been talking about modality for centuries before the invention of modal logic. In any case, I refer you ...
As I said previously, if you are unable to address the question of modality, then you are unable to address Hume. That is just the case with your read...
Just to be clear about what exactly Hume acheived: the argument against induction shows that causality is not conceptual. You cannot wring causality o...
But Hume was not wrong. You've all but admitted that short of begging the question, you can't even address Hume's problem. And Newton's picture of the...
Then you're not willing to debate Hume. Which is fine, so long as this is acknowledged. You have more in common with Hume than you might think, then. ...
But the status of inference is just what is in question. Begging the question does not solve it. It's also worth mentioning that causality in nature i...
At best this is a confused statement, at worst a meaningless one. It is clear what logical necessity is. It is supremely unclear what 'physical necess...
Hume's significance is missed entirely if it is not recognized that the argument against induction ultimately resolves into in question of modality - ...
Will give it a go. I remember when At War With was released, and I used to write for a music publication at the time, and people were losing their shi...
Nah, but he's been on my radar since Against the Grain came out last year(?). The bloke you liked to a while back (on Gri Gri magic) wrote a bit about...
Yeah, I think this is entirely fair on it's own terms, but I suppose I just can't not see the piece from a critical-sociological angle which is the 'l...
*long, slow breath out*; man, that was brutal - and a useful foil for talking about Cat Person, I think. One of the things you can't do with the Oates...
Nooo, I think it's so, so, so important not to reduce this to sociopathy or at least personal pathology - thats what I meant when I said it's impossib...
Ugh, no. Philosophy is a discipline and a practice like any other - metallurgy say. You learn some techniques, hone your craft, create some good piece...
I read the story around the same time as the Aziz Ansari 'story' broke (I think because of it, the piece having been published about a month before), ...
It's not at all clear what you're asking. 'What more does philosopher have to offer'..? To who? For what? In comparison to...? I don't understand how ...
Ought to? Says who? I think you 'ought to' put your own question into question - why is 'use' so important to you? I don't demand that you ought to ha...
I don't think it's clear that there is 'a' purpose of philosophy although it certainly has been put to uses. And moreover I think there's an autonomy ...
"For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent." (1 Corinthians 1:19-20) Which ...
Yes but you're talking about the bloke who said that to be is to be reckoned with as a value of a variable. It's hard to get more propositiony than th...
Ah, I see what you mean but I don't think that's it. It's not enough to look at words/sentences in that 'present-at-hand' manner to 'see' propositions...
I've been thinking about this comment a bit actually, and one of the thoughts I keep circling back to is that if the Aristotelian model of problems is...
I didn't say I don't care about how it's received - the opposite. I want it to be received in a specific way, a way that deals with the issue at hand....
Good. That's the point - a well posed problem/issue shouldn't need some sort of journalistic fluff around it like . I don't care about that stuff and ...
Eh, I think your own issue is that you think of me as kind of subject-supposed-to-know but I'm still working through this stuff on my own terms. That,...
The Selfish Gene is unfortunately super outdated and rather badly misleading now, so I'd strongly advise against it. Dawkins' The Greatest Show on Ear...
:grin: I also like this one, although together with the last, it's darker than you might think: "Let us laugh together, on principle" - William Connol...
Well I didn't start an unnecessary war based on fabricated evidence that cost hundreds and thousands of lives - American ones included! - so you may b...
I don't much care enough for the history of the American presidency to give a well informed answer. I'm sure there were one or two that got shot befor...
Noah Moss Brender - The Meaning of Life: A Merleau-Pontian Investigation of How Living Bodies Make Sense Matija Jela?a - The Problem of Representation...
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