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What a bunch of misogynist bullshit. These so called 'well established facts' would have any bearing whatsoever if (1) women have had the educational,...
January 26, 2017 at 15:31
But then, if you're disqualifying Arendt, Naussbaum, Foot or Anscombe, I'd suggest the issue lies in your judgement, and not the works in question. Yo...
January 26, 2017 at 03:23
'Translating history'? I'm not even sure what that means.
January 24, 2017 at 15:51
I didn't say that noble means good, although I did quote Nietzsche himself tracing the etymological significance of 'good' to nobility. So yes, Nietzs...
January 24, 2017 at 15:32
Not quite. The aristocratic in Nietzsche refers to all those who value ranking, or the stratification of society into differing ranks. It is a concept...
January 24, 2017 at 14:22
It's important to remember though that Nietzsche coupled his rejection of the self ("self-antirealism") to a realism about drives or impulses that swa...
January 24, 2017 at 05:41
Giorgio Agamben - The End of the Poem: Studies in Poetics
January 23, 2017 at 16:01
Ooooh nooooo! You grabbed a random paper off the internets and critiqued it! Whatever will I do??? Wait, nothing lol.
January 22, 2017 at 03:48
Well, proper names kinda just are ways of referring to singular entities. So I think there are resources in language to deal with this.
January 21, 2017 at 05:35
I don't think that's fair. My main complaint is that he's erasing the specificity of my position by translating it into terms - his terms - that aren'...
January 21, 2017 at 05:30
I guess? I'm not sure what you mean by the question.
January 21, 2017 at 05:12
Woah cowboy, that first quote isn't mine (is it?); and yeah, the second quote is quite specific that it isn't adequate to this task, i.e. the one set ...
January 21, 2017 at 05:10
But I didn't begin the discussion of formal logic to begin with - you did. I've tried to make the viewpoint I've adopted re: becoming and relations as...
January 21, 2017 at 04:52
I dunno, I think you're being a bit dramatic. I've never gone out of my way to comment on formalism without prompting, and my issues, where I do have ...
January 21, 2017 at 04:25
I think actually that this is fair, with the caveat that I will always try, as far as space and time allow for, to explain what I mean when I invoke t...
January 21, 2017 at 02:58
That's unfortunate. Part of the appeal of this approach is precisely that it's allowed me to make sense of fields as far flung as aesthetics, ethics, ...
January 21, 2017 at 00:27
There's a very useful distinction in democratic theory regarding the difference between enemies and adversaries (antagonists and agonists) - the diffe...
January 20, 2017 at 16:43
The unsubstitutable, the unique, the distinct, the inexchangable; that which has no equal or equivalent. It is what cannot be subsumbed under a regime...
January 20, 2017 at 13:16
Eh, your random opinion doesn't really matter tho. It's true that the notions discussed here are pretty abstract, but they are so of necessity, given ...
January 20, 2017 at 07:56
Yes - it's a limit precisely from the perspective of the already-individuated, which in this case would be the primitive function. But the whole point...
January 19, 2017 at 12:57
Okay, I wanna backtrack here a little because a) we've both misread the passage on generation, because of my out-of-context quote, and b) I wanna deal...
January 18, 2017 at 13:29
You must have a dim view of 'everyone' if you think 'everyone' is as rigidly dogmatic in their approach to conversation as you. But as we've establish...
January 18, 2017 at 04:27
A challenge? Please, don't flatter yourself. Your modus operendi consists of waltzing into a thread, declaring a position wrong from the point of view...
January 18, 2017 at 03:22
You can actually use a Taylor series to reconstruct a primitive curve (locally, around a singularity) with a single derivative. I couldn't tell you th...
January 17, 2017 at 17:30
The issue is that much like the quantum formalism, there are differing interpretations of the differential, and the general attitude in math is mostly...
January 17, 2017 at 16:34
This must be why they say ignorance is bliss. It saves you from this kind of embarrassment. As usual, the terms in play aren't so easily coopted into ...
January 17, 2017 at 12:56
Doesn't matter: The very fact that you're speaking of limits at all is to go awry.
January 17, 2017 at 10:18
Except I have no problems with reciprocal relations on the condition that what is reciprocally related are themselves relations. What's at stake here ...
January 17, 2017 at 08:53
Perhaps - and this just struck me - the best way to get a handle on this is to speak in terms of coupled rates of change. A rate of change, we can rec...
January 17, 2017 at 08:35
The point of much of this is to see how one would approach concepts from the point of view of genesis: that is, if we don't take for granted the indiv...
January 17, 2017 at 04:10
Interestingly, this was almost exactly Plato's solution: to posit the (supersensible) Idea of the Small and the Idea of the Large which things could '...
January 16, 2017 at 12:54
General enough to fit into the artificial coordinates of his 'system' of course. The whole thing is a kind of watered-down Hegelianism: if the singula...
January 16, 2017 at 11:00
This is a valid move I think, but I also think that it comes with a trade off, which is precisely to give up thinking about relations. That is, it's p...
January 16, 2017 at 09:50
Did they program that one for you too?
January 15, 2017 at 08:45
Yeah but who cares unless you're invested in that little cottage industry to begin with? Honestly, it's these self-referential loops that get us stuck...
January 15, 2017 at 08:15
The only thinking is thinking again, thinking otherwise : ) Everything else is doxa.
January 14, 2017 at 12:47
It isn't though. Maybe one day it'll hit you that your pre-fab Apospeak isn't applicable here. Maybe one day you'll even respond to the singularity of...
January 14, 2017 at 12:06
Medium <> Message. Again the Kantian conflation.
January 14, 2017 at 10:28
Not at all curious - it isn't science's job to think the singular - it is methodologically bound to ignore it! - and no one with a taste for philosoph...
January 14, 2017 at 09:17
But this is just a warmed-over Kantianism that gets everything back to front. As if the world cares about the definteness of terms. Nah mate, its you ...
January 14, 2017 at 07:30
I wouldn't use the term unnatural though, or rather, I wouldn't set them in opposition to each other; I would say instead that the laboratory setting ...
January 14, 2017 at 02:18
Sure, if it makes you sleep better dude.
January 12, 2017 at 23:14
Lol, jargon jumping by me when you're the one who can't read and impute terms to me that I never used in the first place. Like three times. Please. Yo...
January 12, 2017 at 22:16
Cheers. One of the advantages in thinking of randomness in terms of equipotential is that is allows us to bypass many of the tricky debates about caus...
January 12, 2017 at 15:20
Again, the term spontaneity is yours. I did not use it in my original post(s), and I would prefer to avoid the word altogether if I could. Novelty - w...
January 12, 2017 at 12:22
But you are asking a bad question. The question itself is wrong. It's like asking: is the rock falling off the cliff ethical, or not ethical? The righ...
January 12, 2017 at 11:49
But this is a misformed question: the point is that randomness (qua equiprobability) is indexed to motivations and expectations of an inquirer (not 'm...
January 12, 2017 at 11:23
One can accept Bergson's critique of possibility without subscribing to his metaphysics wholesale. Nuance isn't hard. As for your question, I never sa...
January 12, 2017 at 10:06
Because as per Bergson, possibility as a modal category is always a back-formation: it takes what exists and then retrojects it's possibility as an ex...
January 12, 2017 at 08:25
It's the word Bateson uses - and yes, I know you like 'constraints'. And I do believe that spontaneity is a part of nature, but probability or possibi...
January 12, 2017 at 08:09