Yeah exactly - 'look and see' being the empirical principle par excellence. I think it also makes more sense when it comes to the phenomenology of sci...
Yes, exactly! I was thinking about this in relation to the little Galton board video you posted - funnily enough, the balls don't fall exactly into th...
:up: Some additional thoughts: For me, the most important take-away is the fact that for Anscombe, determination is 'possibility-relative': "We see th...
Certainly not one ball (you can't have a distribution of one ball). I don't think so - what motivates this question? And note that the question of pre...
Reading notes: So it seems like there's a few things going on in the Anscombe essay. Here are some that stood out: (1) Disentanglement of causality fr...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/07/jair-bolsonaro-coronavirus-positive-test-brazil-president I legitimately hope this son of a bitch drops ...
via Jose Benardete, I think the most concise definition of metaphysics I know - at least in it's classical guise: "Metaphyscis in its classic sense ha...
:up: The civil rights movement was wrought end-to-end with violence and it's threat, and anyone who thinks otherwise has had their history whitewashed...
Don't know how I missed this but this is kinda cool I guess: "New York’s City Council approved an austere budget early Wednesday that will shift $1 bi...
Well, from HKers perspective, they are resolutely anti-communist (China), so it's very possible for BoJo to use this to shore up his anti-communist cr...
Yeah this is fair. An exaggerated imagine against an exaggerated image. I'll cop that. Still, I think Jameson was essentailly right in his intro to Ly...
It's just so wildly upsetting. China just doesn't give a shit, and it has its hands in too many pies for many other nations to dare try and speak up. ...
A consequence of the approach just outlined is that the systematic use of complex symbols is not quite equivalent to a descriptive fact. For any trans...
This is ironic because the primary object of deconstruction was the subject. As in quite literally, 'subjectivity' was perhaps the first thing to go, ...
Lyotard was a theorist of postmodernity. He was incredibly critical of it, and the fact that he is often called a 'postmodernist' philosopher - as if ...
I don't really know what 'postmodern philosophical approaches' are, and neither do most people who use that phrase. It's a reference without a referen...
Fair enough. I'm trying to countervail the tendency of those in this thread who treat it as primarily an academic or even philosophical movement of so...
I did not say postmodernism 'applies' just to culture and aesthetics - whatever that would mean. The point is that it itself is largely a cultural and...
It's not about what it should be. It's about what it is - and that people need to understand what they are talking about before blabbing on about 'sub...
? I'm not sure what I said implied I was talking about 'some conclusions easily dismissive'. To call something aesthetic or cultural is not at all to ...
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