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Good. All your beliefs should be, in principle, open to revision. Congratulations on meeting the basic requirements of rational thinking.

Ellen Meiksins Wood - The Pristine Culture of Capitalism: An Essay on Old Regimes and Modern State Was a toss up between this and some other Deleuze-i...

What I would have expected - for the American government to fuck over its most vulnerable people in favour of the rich, i.e. exactly what they did - i...

Yep, there was a massive transfer of wealth from the public to the private sector for mistakes made by the private sector, the mistakes of which, inci...

A lesson perhaps that if the rich and powerful live in perpetual fear, everyone is better off. Or as social media reminded me the other day, we ought ...

I don't doubt it. Most social security across the developed economies was instituted because elites were scared shitless of communist insurrection at ...

This speaks more to the utter insanity of contemporary American conservatives than it does to anything else.

Oh, to dream....

Contrary to common misreadings, Kant expressly resisted and actively denied the conflation of the a priori with the innate: "The Critique admits absol...

Depends I guess. If one holds to the classic (simplified) conception in which truth can only be predicated of propositions while facts simply are stat...

Sure, but one is hard pressed to speak coherently if false facts are admitted as a class of facts. One might as well speak of true lies (not impossibl...

Facts are not truth-apt. Truth-aptness refers to that which is capable of being true or false. There are, however, no false facts. Facts are incapable...

You could do this (both sound odd to me, to be honest), but this seems like a stipulative definition, in which case it's not clear what the impetus fo...

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This seems prima faice inadequete. If you index facts to the past, one is hard pressed to make sense of straightforward statements like: "it is a fact...

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If Bloomberg wasn't in the race, Americans would invent a Bloomberg to be in this race. His running is exemplary of American politics.

Goddammit, Scott Aaronson, the computer scientist, gave a better defence of philosophy than most philosophers I've known, and it's wonderful. Asked wh...

Then you haven't engaged with it enough!

Yeah, this seems exactly right to me. I mean, to believe in God, and to make it philosophically consistent, requires some pretty crazy leaps of imagin...

I guess I quite enjoy theological discussion because "Because God Say" acts as kind of creative-constraint. Theology is useful as a thought-exercise: ...

First time I've agreed with you about anything, ever.

Kandinsky krew reporting! https://i0.wp.com/www.guggenheim.org/wp-content/uploads/1923/01/37.262_ph_web-1.jpg

Yeah I think that's absolutely a thing. The characters in the basement themselves even make appeals to their shared class position (I can't remember t...

I'm happy to leave it at that then. I doubt we're going to agree over this, and I don't think you've read what I've wrote particularly well. I will sa...

I just like helping the disabled, physically or otherwise.

Nope, not getting distracted by your usual attempts to change the subject. You have a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad understanding of scientifi...

Except the experiments I mentioned have nothing to do with any of that so maybe come back when you're done parading your utter, shameless ignorance of...

This is an oxymoron. All scientific observation is observation of effect. We discovered that atoms have nuclei because of the effects of particle scat...

Yeah Wayfarer has, uh, issues understanding what 'observation' entails in scientific contexts. As long as it relates to science you can be sure he wil...

We're only two pages in and the OP this thread was zombiefied from 6 months ago, so I think it's fine to simply let conversation continue as is here.

This discussion was merged into The burning fawn.

Can't wait till the destruction of Americanism. America - and the rest of the world - will be better off without it.

If you are incapable of providing grouds for your assertions - of answering the most basic of questions, 'why?' - then I'll leave you to it then.

Of course I am. It's literally the basis of all rational assessment. It's worrying that this seems so puzzling to you.

It's not clear what one would be agreeing or disagreeing with. Without an argument the position is impossible to assess, and everything that follows f...

The second para is just more bare assertion. Still waiting for an argument.

How does it follow? As it stands this is an enthymeme - it's missing a premise that would make it a complete argument, or indeed, an argument at all.

It's only because he knows what Baden did last summer.

I think these are fair questions. I do think they are overdetermined though, by a focus on mandatory artist statements, which is not something I'm at ...

Without responding point by point, I do agree that much of what happens to the rich family is undeserved (yet the real question is about the structure...

Biden is being absolutely murdered in NH. I knew he was an unlikable fuddy duddy but this is next level. Maybe Americans are not entirely shit.

Um, you asked how the title could refer to the rich family, and I quoted the director explaining just that. Not sure what you seem to be confused abou...

I mean he's only the director of the film but yeah sure totally a strech.

To quote Bong himself: "Because the story is about the poor family infiltrating and creeping into the rich house, it seems very obvious that Parasite ...

:up: It's an incredibly naive reading to think that 'parasite' refers only to the poor family, and not - perhaps especially so - the rich one too (to ...

She had cancer and a heart disease - seperately. She'd been sick for years.

I don't want to be rude, so I'd prefer not to.

No. Most people are not at all vague when they claim to know something. This thread is what happens when language goes on holiday.

No.