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If, in your reading, the 'standard realist position' turns upon nothing other than the contradictory dicate to both know and not know X at the same ti...
November 15, 2019 at 01:22
I interpret it as I read it.
November 14, 2019 at 03:16
It is literally his second proposition: P2) In order to know whether or not "the being of X is independent of its being known," one must “know X when ...
November 14, 2019 at 02:47
To put my objection another way: the realist position doesn't hinge on finding something out about the world (about X and what we don't/know of it); i...
November 14, 2019 at 01:11
In: Hong Kong  — view comment
Nonsense. As if one ought to wait for concentration camps before raising hell. And your blithe dismissal of the 5 demands says more about you than abo...
November 14, 2019 at 00:42
I'm challenging the idea that a realist would agree with the OP's presentation of their position. So yeah, you're right, but only to the degree that w...
November 13, 2019 at 10:00
I don't have much to say about this.
November 13, 2019 at 09:29
This is fine as far as it goes but it doesn't address my main objection: that it's not something about X which we must know ("know X when X is not bei...
November 13, 2019 at 08:56
In: Hong Kong  — view comment
Actually this is what they want: 1. Full withdrawal of the extradition bill 2. An independent commission of inquiry into alleged police brutality 3. R...
November 13, 2019 at 04:14
This seems contentious. It seems to me that the realist claim would turn upon the limits of knowledge as such, and not knowledge about some thing or a...
November 13, 2019 at 02:26
Yeah, nah.
November 12, 2019 at 03:20
My takeaway is rather different: not that math and logic are atemporal and aspatial, but rather, that they are normative practises, techniques, employ...
November 11, 2019 at 08:57
Perhaps the first thing to point out is that it's not at all clear what this could possibly mean: if a definiendum no longer entails its definiens, in...
November 09, 2019 at 07:07
In a way you're right - one of the implications is a kind of short-circuiting of the whole debate: perception, as a matter of interaction, is neither ...
November 09, 2019 at 03:53
Sure, if you beg the question, anything is possible.
November 09, 2019 at 03:11
Says the post that shunts everything into the artificially constructed vocabulary of 'experience' from the get-go.
November 09, 2019 at 02:53
As Banno noted, this exact thing - wearing inverted glasses over a prolonged period of time - has been a well known scientific experiment, and there's...
November 09, 2019 at 01:34
Woah woah woah. I donno if this kind of highly charged erotic language is allowed here.
November 08, 2019 at 14:18
This is really good stuff! I especially like the section on warrant, the use in this context which I'd not come across before. It's nice to have a nam...
November 08, 2019 at 09:37
Debatable, but not particularly worth debating. -- As far as continental philosophy goes, I like Catherine Malabou's characterization of it as broadly...
November 07, 2019 at 13:55
This seems an odd characterization. One of the more common critiques of 'continental philosophy' is it's almost utter neglect of epistemology.
November 07, 2019 at 13:29
:ok: Survival of the fittest might - and can and does - translate into survival of the most cooperative (though not only this).
November 07, 2019 at 11:04
No. This is your thread. What is it about?
November 05, 2019 at 12:04
A comic? Seriously? Does your thread have a point? You listed a bunch of Wittgenstein buzzwords, briefly invoked Chomsky - a thinker who could not be ...
November 05, 2019 at 12:01
What you think Wittgenstein - Investigations Wittgenstein - says this?
November 05, 2019 at 11:45
This is an anarcho ska-punk band waiting to happen.
November 05, 2019 at 09:57
This discussion was merged into Immodesty of an Egoist Mind
November 05, 2019 at 00:38
This discussion was merged into Immodesty of an Egoist Mind
November 05, 2019 at 00:37
This discussion was merged into Immodesty of an Egoist Mind
November 05, 2019 at 00:37
Christian Marazzi - The Violence of Financial Capitalism Read this over a couple of days. Was a bit too condensed to be particularly useful, but the e...
November 04, 2019 at 11:01
:snicker: But really, OP is 150 years too late.
November 04, 2019 at 02:53
Yeah, I thought the last chapter - along with the legal analysis in chpt 4 - were the most original of the book. I think you're entirely right too in ...
November 01, 2019 at 09:04
70 pages in, and it's pretty fun so far. I think Graeber gets a bit of flak for coming off as a bit glib, but he's got the chops to back it up so I do...
October 30, 2019 at 03:59
Just quickly - need to sleep - my hunch is that everything turns on negation, and the ability to treat negation as positive: to treat 'not-X' as a pos...
October 29, 2019 at 17:07
Daivd Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years Maurizio Lazzarato - The Making of Indebted Man: An Essay on the Neoliberal Condition Maurizio Lazzarato - ...
October 28, 2019 at 11:23
It's not the new kinds of subjectivities that need to be 'taken into account' per se - at this point I take it for granted that different kinds of sub...
October 26, 2019 at 08:59
My interest is 'two-way': what can thinking crowds in terms of subjectivity tell us about subjectivity itself? And what can it tell us about crowds? (...
October 26, 2019 at 02:41
Antinatalism.
October 25, 2019 at 17:02
Sure.
October 25, 2019 at 14:45
Ha, the thing is that Moore's self-description betrays what he actually says - he says he's not talking about political expediency, but his whole disc...
October 25, 2019 at 10:34
:up: New thread here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/6909/ethics
October 24, 2019 at 00:46
Not flawed! It tells us something about the world that it must be 'modelled' in this way (in any way): it is 'objectively the case' that you must incl...
October 23, 2019 at 12:30
Ok. Then it's just irrelevant. That's fine too.
October 23, 2019 at 12:27
True. But you want to say something about perception by asking it. Still silly. Yeah. I would only be careful: we are of reality, and don't stand outs...
October 23, 2019 at 12:23
No, no. If there are no people (or perceivers, rather) then there is no perception. It's a bad question ('how would one perceive it if one were not ar...
October 23, 2019 at 12:14
If that's what you get out of that, okay.
October 23, 2019 at 11:40
I don't philosophize off the back of linguistic connotations. We bring a great deal of ourselves to what we perceive. Any study of perception will tel...
October 23, 2019 at 11:38
Re: agency - I wouldn't say that agency is like a kind of 'not as good' way to speak of subjectivity. I would rather say something like: subjectivity ...
October 23, 2019 at 11:35
Ah but you're wrong. Valuation is built-in to perception. It's why we are susceptible to visual illusions, it's why people have visual disorders where...
October 23, 2019 at 11:33