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A fallacious appeal to authority is not 'evidence'. It's laziness and shitty pseudo-scholarship three times over.
September 26, 2020 at 08:12
Yes, this kind of 60,000ft view is made for outsiders and neophytes to satisfy a misplaced craving for generality. It takes the ignorant or the impude...
September 26, 2020 at 08:01
It has a multitude of styles and approaches. Davidson being as different from Sellars as different from Anscombe as different from Nussbaum as differe...
September 26, 2020 at 07:39
No, I consider these 'invalid' because 'the analytical form' corresponds to nothing but an incoherent fantasy that exists nowhere but in your head. Ir...
September 26, 2020 at 07:27
There is nothing to deal with. You're speaking at a level of generality so broad as to be useless. There's no there there.
September 26, 2020 at 07:22
I'm about as much a proponent of 'the analytical form' as I am a coconut. What I am against however, is the peddling of ignorance by the ignorant and ...
September 26, 2020 at 07:19
Perhaps one way is to rethink the notion of convention. Here's a question: can a singular, novel use, establish a convention? Can a singular, novel us...
September 26, 2020 at 04:59
Ah yes, the same Michael Huemer who also said that "Many people interested in Continental philosophy are perfectly nice people. That said, analytic ph...
September 26, 2020 at 04:05
Gonna go with 'not a fuckstick'. Otherwise imma sit here and watch you hash our your identity politics which you so enjoy.
September 26, 2020 at 00:05
Oh gee, TwoBit selectively quoting to shore up his shitty efforts to muddy the waters? Who would have thought?
September 25, 2020 at 19:05
Falling off a bike and getting hit by a car is a 'terrible tragedy'. Sending allegedly trained officers with lethal weapons to barge into a wrongly ta...
September 25, 2020 at 19:00
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1308890342138286088 Just another day of cops shooting autistic boys in the back. Threatened by someone more ment...
September 25, 2020 at 18:27
As for the names of right-wing terrorist groups: Proud Boys, Atomwaffen Division, Patriot Prayer, Boogaloo, Rise Above Movement and quite literally hu...
September 25, 2020 at 18:13
Yes, they're radicalized by ignorant dipshits who buy into and sprout the propaganda you transmit like the good little pawn you are. And it's not "rig...
September 25, 2020 at 18:01
Read: "I'm a dupe for propaganda and recite the views fed to me by it, regardless of the facts".
September 25, 2020 at 16:40
Zen Kant?
September 25, 2020 at 13:21
Without commenting directly on this debate - which is largely trite - it does seem to me to issue forth from an interesting oscillation: is meaning a ...
September 25, 2020 at 09:48
To riff a bit more on thoughts inspired by the paper: I think the distinction between 'passing theory' and 'prior theory' is really interesting, and t...
September 25, 2020 at 08:43
The first 3 essays in that collection are indispensable. I want to start a thread on the first essay at some point. Especially on the bit about rules ...
September 25, 2020 at 07:46
https://twitter.com/ShaneOliverAMP/status/1309306589204029446
September 25, 2020 at 06:16
One of the reasons I chose the Cavell quote I did (the second one) was because it tries to make quite explicit that 'preference' is not at all what is...
September 25, 2020 at 05:52
A thought: had Breonna Taylor been hit by all the bullets fired by her murderer, he would not have been charged at all. He was charged, in other words...
September 25, 2020 at 03:44
Yeah. This shit is like the idpol of philosophy. Drama for the small minded (not this thread, @"Janus" - which rightly de-tumored Banno's - but those ...
September 25, 2020 at 02:25
:up: There is heaps written on the philosophy of space; Bachelard's The Poetics of Space, Lefebvre's The Social Production of Space, pretty much anyth...
September 24, 2020 at 17:55
Ah, what a wonderful paper. I like all these little read-along threads you do @"Banno". They make me go through essays I've been meaning to read but n...
September 24, 2020 at 14:52
Ah yes, the Animal Liberation Front and Nazis, basically the same if you're a fucking brainlet.
September 24, 2020 at 12:41
So I started reading this and to my pleasant surprise it is not written like ass, which alot of (early?) Davidson is. Might finish it!
September 24, 2020 at 08:50
But the wall that got shot definitely required justice because who the fuck cares about dead black people when private property was harmed? White wall...
September 24, 2020 at 04:20
I always find this point unintentionally hilarious. I mean, gee, would it be like there's something... wrong about... how... minorities... are treated...
September 24, 2020 at 00:04
In other news, while American pissants continue to quake in their shitstained boots over fantasies of antifascist violence, Trump supporters are activ...
September 23, 2020 at 23:35
American cops routinely shoot people in the back, with their hands up, or even lying down - to mention nothing about their routine use of strangulatio...
September 23, 2020 at 23:27
Putting this out of its misery.
September 23, 2020 at 16:32
Wait till I say that this is an objective relativism. Now enjoy the show.
September 23, 2020 at 11:18
No, because we are magnanimous. And also take delight in uh, testing such threads.
September 23, 2020 at 07:19
So much so that Einstein thought he should have named the theory of relativity the theory of invariance instead. As for the OP: there is no such thing...
September 23, 2020 at 07:16
Just to be clear: the whole 'resisting arrest' narrative is itself horseshit. While it goes without saying that resisting arrest does not warrant summ...
September 23, 2020 at 04:25
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September 23, 2020 at 03:22
Amazing how these small government fuckfaces all of a sudden become cop scrotum fondling simps as soon as it's black people being murdered by them. Th...
September 23, 2020 at 03:19
Check-out every now and then; good for your health. Also NOS is not a person he's just a kind of jar of living urine.
September 21, 2020 at 16:55
The village dumpster makes this place more interesting.
September 21, 2020 at 16:52
If only Charles Kinsey had complied. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwHJL5X97Do If only Breonna Taylor had, I dunno, shot herself so the cops didn't ...
September 21, 2020 at 16:34
Ah the 'liberatrian' cop bootlicker makes an appearance. No doubt before he praises the head of state for being a great leader of government anytime n...
September 21, 2020 at 16:29
The rather miserable fact is that cops don't murder black people because they hate them. They murder them because they are indifferent to their lives....
September 21, 2020 at 16:11
Angry? I'm having fun :D
September 21, 2020 at 15:46
Lmao now you're just changing the point to something I never said. How do you get by being so pathetic?
September 21, 2020 at 15:42
Don't give him hints, you're spoiling the fun!
September 21, 2020 at 15:26
Amazing. You're actually this dumb. I think I'm in love. I literally used the numbers you quoted in your post (plus a quick google search re: demograp...
September 21, 2020 at 15:21
I used your own stats :rofl:
September 21, 2020 at 15:08
To America's credit, at least some of them deal with Nazi's the correct way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlUxCsQMuwY
September 21, 2020 at 14:36
Don't insult our national hero, scumbag.
September 21, 2020 at 14:29