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See this sentence? Is it right? If you ask ChatGPT, it will not go and check against Sartre's corpus. It will simply choose likely next words and stri...

Shame they've been banned these last three years.

Then it is a disparity that, on the increasingly rare occasions of your putting together an argument, your predominant method is analytic.

If so, then only because it is by now ubiquitous. By finishing his account of analytic philosophy on Rorty and Goodman, Sartwell leans overly towards ...

Yeah, I have some difficulty in understanding an account that has all social institutions tending towards oligarchy while denying that there are any s...

, Neither of you gave reasons for your view. SO here are a few of the argument sot be found in Popper, applied to the case in hand. The supposition th...

You'll find in in various archives. Crib notes at Wired.com: https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2018/02/poppers-poverty-historicism

So what I'm getting from this thread is that few have read The Poverty of Historicism. It's a worry.

Oh, indeed, just so. But he may not have been au fait with the young wiper-snappers and their fancy scribbles. Kripke was 8.

First, thank you for addressing the article. Much appreciated. Indeed, but I read this as a result of ambiguities in the formulation of the supposed "...

Well, were diamonds and boxes used back then? Given that there was not at that stage even a standard notation for predicate calculus, I doubt there wa...

I thought the same thing, but could not quite see how to fit it together. Jan Dejnožka has argued that Russell had a quite sophisticated modal logic, ...

Perhaps in reference to his interpretation of Leibniz Cosmological argument - see The Philosophy of Leibniz section 109, around p. 206. "But as the pr...

Still laughing.

Insufficient to save this thread, it seems.

Trouble is, as is explained in the article cited, the notion of "oligarchy" is so loose that it might be applied to any form of specialisation or lead...

Well, no, not prima facie; do you want to argue the case? And still, that it happens does not imply that it ought happen.

All well and good, but so what - the silence, I can see a point to; but what part in your story was played by an esoteric inner circle? Are you sure e...

Again, that esotericism is done is a long way from that it ought be done.

I go further and argue that it is central to rationality. Rationality is a community enterprise, public and shared. Openness goes hand in hand with cr...

"Philosophy proper" - the sort of philosophy done by true Scotsmen? That it was practiced does not mean that it was good practice. The secrets hidden ...

Well, to be sure, there is, by following the teachings and becoming enlightened—or not. That is, that the Guru fucks children does not in itself mean ...

Well, there are the obvious problems of esotericism, which we perhaps need not list. It's pretty much anathema to the Western Tradition. https://www.b...

Pragmatism would again have us throw out the baby of truth along with the bath water of scepticism. Trouble is, folk expect too much from truth. Sayin...

What we have learned here is that will not accept correction. When he is shown to be wrong he will instead double down. It's not a good look. By way o...

So this is a thread about criticising religion. A ways back I started a thread on what religion was. I ended up with the notion that included ritual, ...

Guilty pleasures.

Terminology. I, and I think this is the standard view in biology, would differentiate between "selective breeding' and "natural selection", reserving ...

It's important to remind ourselves that strange attractors can be either a description, or a metaphor. SO, to take on your example, the market is not ...

Did you have a read of the article? The critique of step four struck me as pivotal, since it is structural. the critique of step five highlights the p...

Unless you like really salty pickles, halve the salt. I use a bit more mustard - like twice as much.

Horror of horrors. I mean to get back to a close analysis of Danièle Moyal-Sharrock's book. What I think it of the utmost import to note is that On Ce...

Folks, have a read of this:Why Michels’ ‘iron law of oligarchy’ is not an iron law – and how democratic organisations can stay ‘oligarchy-free’ Being ...

There's studies as show that those who examine Choice magazine reviews in detail tend to be less satisfied with their purchases.

Here's the recipe, more or less. Looks thus: https://img.bestrecipes.com.au/Vwi2ZUMc/w643-h428-cfill-q90/br/2014/06/pickles-958038-2.jpg Keep your rel...

Your posts here have been thought provoking. This last takes me back to some work I did on organisational decision making many years back; work that a...

Never, as it turns out.

...somewhat astringent

Each is as much a better way of saying something differently as of saying something new.

The frost got the tomato vines so yesterday was spent pulling them out, today making mustard pickles with the green tomatoes. A small batch, Five jars...

We could easily find examples of the use of those heuristics hereabouts. It was their misapplication that was more widely discussed, see for example H...

Did you notice The Philosophical Toolkit? There was a bit of discussion around it. Several tools are listed. I suspect that the (self-conscious?) use ...

Yes, a study for a curmudgeon... Yeah, that's the misanthropic aspect of critical thinking. It might easily become a source of alienation, hence not f...

Well, for a start, philosophy is pretty antisocial. For example my immediate response to your "I often wonder is there a point where useful self-refle...

Damn you for adding to my reading list. The prose looks... interesting.

If you have a choice, best do something else. Serious. It's not good for you, and probably ought be discouraged in children. Certainly philosophy is n...

:grin: Being a failed mathematician, I'll get all analytic and point out that the arguments and strategies philosophy provides to us have a more gener...

Again, here is the problem with the OP: An infinite causal chain does not imply a causal loop. Not even metaphorically.