Doesn't make a difference. But I've reached the limit of your equivocations. You're on notice for what is and is not considered sexist here, whether y...
I'm not sure that you know what self-parody is, but sure, ok. For someone who complains about being read badly, you sure have a singular inability to,...
Nah, it's pretty fucking disgusting, tempered only by the fact the whole piece of writing is so numbingly overwrought and self-unaware that the only w...
Wonderful book, even if, ultimately, I disagree with it's thrust! The reading of Davidson alongside Heidegger in particular is a tour de force. -- Jud...
Some resources for those interested - On the myth that testosterone largely accounts for differences in behaviour between men and woman: http://www.ab...
This looks fascinating. That said, as a reader with a background in psychoanalysis and post-structuralism, that emotions are 'constructed' or 'made' i...
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/13/1689254/-Lexington-KY-mayor-announces-all-Confederate-statues-are-coming-down-because-of-Charlottesville As p...
I would have figured that the removal - or not - of a statue ought to have been a relative non-issue regardless of the historical points either way. A...
I agree, but then, I also tend to think that 'the way we talk about things' is laden so heavy with metaphysical prejudice that we ought to trust none ...
Ah, but 'in practice' definitions rarely figure into our use of words. Definitions are always derivative, they're still captures, snapshots frozen in ...
I'm not convinced that such a neat division is really very applicable. Consider the recently released telephone transcripts of a certain American exec...
Heh, I was going to use Caligula as my 'Roman emperor example', but I thought that'd be too easy. Anyway, I guess it depends what one understands by '...
Don't make me bust out the magic line again guys. - Anyway, a contribution: Having not read the 69 pages of this thread, I wonder about this line from...
Hmm, I want to contend that it's not 'definition' that is at issue though, although it might seem that way on first blush. After all, definitions - st...
With the exception of the negro passage, what seems to be the issue? As it stands the OP is just a kind of extended 'I don't like this. Don't you not ...
This moves along the right path, but I think that in philosophy it's less a matter of 'in a sense...' than it is a more determine and rigorous 'in thi...
Explain. -- And no, there's nothing 'private language' about this - the whole point is a commitment to the 'publicity' of meaning, for it's ability to...
The opposite actually. It's precisely because what we make of 'construction' is entirely dependant on the use to which we put it that one has to be ab...
There are few things more entirely worthless than relying on 'how words are commonly used' in order to aim at conceptual specificity. That 'constructi...
To bring you back to your own words, you said only that we make certain distinctions 'because we can' and 'because it allows us to produce more catego...
There is no reason to believe that multiplying categories for the sake of it would be any more conceptually enriching than it might be conceptually de...
I'm not saying that one shouldn't or can't draw a distinction between what might be called 'formations' and 'constructions'. I'm saying that, if - not...
Hmm, I think there's a confusion about what is meant by 'value' here. To say that a distinction is motivated by a value is simply to say that a distin...
Vox's guide to Obamacare is pretty excellent reading: https://www.vox.com/cards/obamacare I also found their explanation-via-cartoon also wonderfully ...
But notice how in your scenario, the very bounds of what it means to 'pick something up' are more or less taken for granted. What is being squabbled o...
The most basic way to understand this I guess is as a rather simple linguistic or logical point: any distinction without a difference is… not a distin...
Bergson once wrote that "a philosopher worthy of the name has never said more than a single thing: and even then it is something he has tried to say, ...
Very briefly, because it's late and I want to reply better tomorrow: the level of abstraction I'm interested in is, to be a little enigmatic, ontologi...
Look, to olive branch a bit - the justifications for where we draw our elementary distinctions are of profound, profound importance. Our very ability ...
But the category mistake lies in considering the university a member of the class of which library belongs. Your reply does not make this assumption, ...
Why ought we? In the absence of a reason or motivation to make a distinction that seems otherwise unnecessary, yes. But your examples are not at all c...
I don't understand what you're talking about. I was under the impression that we were discussing the scope of what it means for something to be a 'con...
I don't understand what a 'center' or a 'point of view' has to do with constructs or formations, and why either would be important to the latter in an...
Is this reasonable though? Surely this simply widens the circle of exceptionalism to a kind of 'life-exceptionalism' - from anthropocentrism to biocen...
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