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I am more deeply into Aristotle at the moment, more of a practical reason, phronetic fellow than his erstwhile teacher. They both sought a path to eud...

I think we need to distinguish more clearly that fascism and nazism are two different ideas and movements. They entered into an alliance, but the prot...

I know both essays, it was jamalrob here who a year or two ago encouraged me to read Schopenhauer because of Sch's great feeling for music, and I'm gl...

The OP made me have a look at the material by and about Amanda Baggs. She certainly performs as an autisticc; there seems some legitimate doubt about ...

That's surely seductive talk to any woman. Or how about...?

Clearly Ludwig needed a welder. Here also is a gratuitous photo of Tuesday Weld from two years ago, when she was 70. http://pdxretro.com/wp-content/up...

If I've understood this right, I agree with it: there is a constant dialectic between language that seems to flow through us, and a felt need to make ...

I too am busy, Aaron, thanks for engaging me in a reply. I confess I'm confused, if W-dale is into a sort of process-based metaphysics, why he's focus...

Sorry for slow response, I'm really busy on a course. This is not a sphere I'm well-read in, but there certainly is a big thread of modern-day semanti...

Well, as I said, I've been a fiction writer most of my life, listening to then constructing dialogue. I feel speakers and hearers agree on the need fo...

I don't understand. The Davidsonian theory is about assertions/propositions, right? Are truth-conditional propositions a significant part of the every...

To me 'Truth and meaning' is a better-written essay. Certainly I got to grips with it more easily. There are pdfs scattered all over the Web, I found ...

Having recently read 'Mind and World', though I confess I think I now need to reread it to get a proper grip, I think I am agreeing with the McDowell ...

Part of eudaimonia, living well, is to learn to think well, and then to go on and think well. I regard philosophy at its best as both an activity and ...

I think it's possible by developing a historical imagination of one's own to have two points of view which may or may not coincide: one, what seems re...

Thanks TGW

I don't understand how the rational sphere of discourse, as so defined, is somehow superior to other forms. I know you say in your next paragraph that...

Thanks for saying this, TGW. I've never studied Davidson nor been taught about him. So I find essays like this a near-hopeless struggle. And yet other...

For decades social democrats allied with left-leaning conservatives in a consensus that with growth, everyone wins. But this obscured the fact that th...

I have retraced my steps with Wolfenden, and then skip-read onwards. One core difficulty for me is that this entire strand of analytical thinking has ...

I will stick with it, though I'm afraid I only have time to pop in today. I am familiar with this sort of argument from McDowell. I try to go with it,...

Thanks Aaron. Your position seems related to 'ontic structural realism', insofar as I understand that, which is not an awful lot. I realise I am very ...

Coming late to this...just to point out, as I'm late to this party, that the supposed relationship between belief and action is not straightforward. I...

Sorry to take so long to reply, I'm doing a course and it leaves little time for reflection. I'm sorry too that I was rather slapdash with words and I...

I went to a talk the other day about Social Choice Theory that used the identical graph to your p. 19. For some reason the guy presenting it didn't me...

I for one hope you come back. I'll miss what you have to say.

I don't think this gets over my objection, that the real is understood by contraries or contradictories, implying there is no real-in-itself. What is ...

History of Irretrievably Forgotten Events. History of The Year After Next. History of The Only Unique Electron :)

I will take fdrake's ideas for when I create my ideal logic, and meanwhile accept the brute truth of TGW. It feels intuitively weird though that propo...

Confucius http://www.drcharania.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Confucius.jpg

I agree. My basis is a Witty-type one: we find the language contains 'should', and other people say it, and I find myself saying it too. As pattern-se...

I think the various meanings of 'real' only have a family resemblance, often involving contrast to their contraries or contradictions. The 'real' that...

As I have the strange feeling I was saying somewhere else...(maybe it's just deja vu)... I feel I've come to philosophy relatively late in life to cla...

Thanks and hello all :)