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Student loan debt? No no, first they have to pay off their student lunch debt, because making it through primary and secondary education without starv...

Man wouldn't it be nice if the poor just stopped being poor that'd be really nice but in the meantime lets cut access to family planning and education...

I don't know that I necessarily look out for agreement among other so much as shared approaches or shared concerns. The thing I value most with others...

Not much painting necessary tbh, the dude's mental decline is there for all to see. Anyway, here's to another 4 years of Trump. Fuck Americans.

There's actually some interesting overlap with the classic objection to what is traditionally called the 'ontological argument' for existance God here...

Have you been on Earth recently?

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Ah I see. Interesting - this is actually a very Stoic conception of 'nature'. And the Stoics, believe it or not, connected freedom (or what you call a...

This is somewhat confusing - what does it mean to say that someone is defined to be a concept? I know what 'definition' means for words: a way of fixi...

Also, if we're going to commit shoddy errors of reasoning perhaps we can at least get the geneaological facts straight - Linnaeus dubbed us homo sapie...

Huh? Humans are notoriously bloody awful at thinking. If that's our 'purpose' we'd have better trot off into the collective night as we're a miserable...

Surely some words are concepts, but it's not clear that all of them are. Interrogatives, exclamatives, proper nouns, and imperatives come to mind as e...

Lol Reich is an idiot.

oh u talk too much shh

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Yeah I totally agree. Those who think that LA is the be-all-and-end-all of philosophy are infuriating. A major case of seeing everything as a nail whi...

lol dumb thing

I'm not trying to make a point I'm just laughing at you because you said a dumb thing which has been apparently repeated by other people saying dumb t...

Why would I be unhappy I can cure cancer this is great!

Idk as a rule all American political commentators are stupid unless proven otherwise.

I Googled crystal healing and now I can cure cancer gee thanks Google.

Collective idiocy is no excuse for individual idiocy.

lmao OK.

Wait you actually think this?

It's a very solid read. The first half of the book is actually more about the history of various peasant resistance movements against feudal power (th...

Out of body experiences hey? Hmh.

Cite?

The American constitution should be torn up and burned in whichever trash heap is nearest at hand.

Ah, I was going to mention the Euthyphro dilemma, but I see it's already been brought up. I don't have much to add here because I'm not convinced that...

I don't think this is quite right, but I think this partly down to how to phrased things with the dichotomy language/world. I need to modify what I sa...

I know! I feel that way too. I would have liked to have spent more time on preparatory reading (Hjelmslev and Jakobson in particular), but I'm reading...

Pierre Clastres - Society Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari - A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and ...

Sam's analysis of *anything is pretty embarrassing. Fixed.

This model of meaning is explicitly rejected by Wittgenstein, so I'll only say that whatever its merits, it is not what is in question when discussing...

If I may offer a middle-ground here: 'linguistic analysis', in the Wittgensteinian mould, is not - or should not be reduced to - analysis of language,...

Can't know with Certainty™.

Lol Americans are stupid

YES. Any time someone says 'A theory' and 'B theory' an adorable kitten dies. Had to give up two to make this point. Also... most mentions of Godel an...

Q.E.D.

Impossible.

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/7779/impossibility-of-nothingness I jinxed it. Bloody hell.

Silvia Federici - Caliban and the Witch: Women, The Body, and Primitive Accumulation Heard nothing but universal praise for this. Keen to finally delv...

Oh certainty is very much possible. But of course one can be certain and wrong.

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The forum is currently mercifully free of exactly those kinds of threads and is doing quite well regardless.

I think every mention of a 'theory of everything' ought to issue in an automatic ban, as should any thread which tries to play off 'nothing', 'somethi...

@"Banno"! I think you'll find this useful: how to spot crackpots.

One index would be the degree to which I'm willing to admit all claims open to revision, in principle, obviously.

Certainly. On the condition that I give up on being rational, which occurs from time to time, to be fair.

Also that 'socialism for the rich' is just standard capitalism.