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For words are wise mens counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the mony of fooles, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other Doctor whatsoever, if but a man.
I appreciate your detailed response. You have made me more skeptical about Weinstein's version of the events. Where I can't agree is that whether they...
This is a delicate issue. I see the value of the approach that starts within an individual brain/mind and works outward, and it's good for many purpos...
I think we may be running aground on our final vocabularies, and I'm not sure you have the story straight, especially since you didn't mention Weinste...
I understand that frameworks 'invisibly' determine entities as entities. It's as if we are convolutional neural networks that come pre-trained with fe...
Indeed, but I think it's easy to be so dazzled by insights that we actually forget to apply them to our own inquiry. It's one thing to grasp finitude ...
Yeah Bennington is still a little cute for my taste, but the prose is clear. His book is crammed with ideas. I like summaries, even if they are diffic...
How much context do you need for a gang of students chanting 'black power'? Or a mob of students gathered threateningly around a small female professo...
I actually like Bennington's Derrida. He writes strong English. Sheehan also writes strong English. I respect what both writers were trying to do. She...
I don't think we have to drag in all the academic heroes to tackle the issue of how the fact-value distinction is useful. I've read some of those guys...
Well at least Derrida is crystal clear. (Not really.) I've read some Derrida too. Some of it is great, but I found it overall less relevant than what ...
I also thought there were many pointless blocks of text. I'd also still recommend it to others as worth looking at, but I'd be upfront about what I do...
I've read plenty of the man himself. I still don't think it's clear. Of course you can give me your interpretation, but you'd be one more secondary so...
I don't think you can see it, but you are misreading me. It's not just the quasi-religious pseudo-scientific nonsense going on in gender studies. It's...
My first quote was from Being and Time (1927) and I praised it. I've mostly read 20s Heidegger and mostly not read post-20s Heidegger. I've also read ...
It may have been silly, but they scored a hit with the dog park rape culture paper. The journal didn't just publish it. They celebrated it. They lappe...
I like this. Indeed. Holding dear what is existent especially stands out for me. One of the things that keeps people from violence is the sense that a...
Some of it is a contempt for the college kids for being such pussies. But I think Shapiro is a joke too. Zizek I like, since he knows he's never quite...
That's a good point. Personally I'm not that worried about it. I was already dying before I started paying attention to politics, in the usual sense o...
When I think of moral progress, I think of an expansion of rights. Free speech was used to criticize slavery and argue for female suffrage. It was use...
IMV, the complete absence of a shared background between people wouldn't even be called disagreement. They wouldn't have anything to disagree about. I...
Indeed. I'm suspicious of this 'totally else.' What I see is various groups dreaming up a future that...ignores the problem of the existence of other ...
I basically agree with you, but I don't like the word 'metaphysics.' Must we commit to a position here? How has our species accomplished so much alrea...
'Pure' democracy is mob rule. Individual rights like free speech exists to protect the individual from mob rule. These rights become important exactly...
I agree that the empiricists sometimes tried to bolster their spirit or attitude with an obsolete metaphysics. That's where the footnotes to the empir...
I understand your concerns. Still, I read Wittgenstein as pointing to a mostly unnoticed background that makes such disagreements possible/intelligibl...
FWIW, this reminds me of phenomenology. The stuff that is usually too close for us to notice is uncontroversial, but only after someone manages to see...
'Pomophobe' is just a word that amused me when I chanced on it. If I seem a little aggressive toward a certain style, then that's yet another style (o...
That's matter of how you want to play 'intentionality.' If I trip and start to fall, I don't consciously decide to put my arms out between my face and...
I haven't interacted much, but I've followed this thread closely. There's been talk of ostracizing the baddies, but then Shapiro is somehow a viable b...
That's the point. So much of what we 'know' is not consciously known. At the same time such skill is fundamental to our success or failure at a task. ...
Pi is computable and therefore has a finite description. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_number 'Most' irrational numbers are not computable,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO1agIlLlhg Whiteness is the most violent fucking system to ever breath! And where exactly does such an idea lead to i...
I agree that conflict is crucial. We read to expose ourselves to other perspectives. The point is to be surprised, challenged, offended, and thereby i...
I think you get Paglia's attitude right. I understand both where Paglia is coming from and why some find her tactless presentation offensive (she's cr...
I'm open to that point, but are we talking condemnation or censorship? Free speech only matters when it offends someone, when someone thinks it's ridi...
From that article: This is how I feel. Activating fire alarms when there is no fire is especially indefensible. Requesting that tenured professors be ...
Hi, Pattern-chaser. Have you looked at this? https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sufficient-reason/ It seems to me that we look for causes because they...
I think you'd like the part that starts at the bottom of page 62. http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~nunez/web/SingaporeF.pdf More generally, I suggest check...
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