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Clapton has a distinctive poise, a use of space that is almost on a par with that of David Gilmour, and yet appears in much harder heavier riffs. List...

Who? Here's an analysis of why Clapers is worth a listen. His contribution is significant.

But you and I can do better... Did you peruse the links to SEP articles on each?

AsI understand it, she was a long time critic of naturalism. For the rest, I think reason-explanations are causal-explanations when I read Davidson, b...

Two very different things with a similar name. Modal possible worlds, the sort Leibniz discussed, are used to discuss problems in modal logic. The man...

Well, Clapton was dumbfounded by Hendrix; so that makes Clapton a lesser god. Santana is a better showman than the others, but not a better guitarist....

G. E. M. Anscombe’s Reply to C. S. Lewis’s Argument that “Naturalism” is Self-Refuting https://matiane.wordpress.com/2020/10/01/g-e-m-anscombes-reply-...

Oh, I wouldn't want to go there. I just like the word. Nice mosques, though, I hear. I'm looking at This. Odd, that I should have been unaware of this...

I like the word "Uzbekistan". C. S. Lewis?! Ah, another gem of which I was unaware. Now I have to find out more. Thank you. At first blush your accoun...

Quite so.

I've been trying to get my fingers to play Bell Bottom Blues. It's a simple riff, but I can't make it sound right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1o...

Indeed, it might be better for you if you do. I recommend your not reading anything from now on. It will only upset you.

Smile. The mistake in the OP is to take Nietzsche seriously.

Yep. A job he could not keep, spending the rest of his life wandering, towards madness. Romantic, hey? Don't you really what to be like him?

Yes, he lacked the social skills needed to keep a job, or a friendship.

I think it would be true, for the simple reason that there are far more unfulfilled adolescent males of all ages than folk with wit, intelligence and ...

Folk are not going to like this thread when they notice it.

Yes! Philosophy for adolescent failures.

Nietzsche fulminated too much to be what he most desired; that very act prevented him from achieving perfection. If he were around now, he'd be living...

:wink: Isn't it odd that American rock is so...derivative; pale imitations of their British overlords. Even the brilliance of Hendrix had to go to Lon...

As it should be. "quotidian" is a cool word. You've used it a few times recently. Nice. Perhaps you might comment on the Anscombe article? You listed ...

Influenced? The Blond Beast does not think, the Blond Beast acts. That you are here, in this forum, ensures that you will never be the Übermensch. Mor...

Yep. Indeed; a brief respite from nonsense.

SO neoliberalism is a religion.

Fascinated disgust?

Freddy Mercury overcome himself, his Parsi heritage, sexuality, "shy and retiring" personality, and grew as a performer at least until his break with ...

Well, that's not quite right. There's that the ball was shit by a racquet comprised of a handle, a frame, and strings that are bound in a crisscross w...

You missed Quine and Kripke.

Oh, no - you can read that. Mine's illegible.

Yeah, my bad. I kinda assumed that since we were talking about Philosophical Investigations, folk might be using the notion of rules from there. Silly...

The poor old US thought Australia had the Pacific under control... Now they have to send a diplomatic mission and pay attention Wonder if they are re-...

Yep. I've not been able to find out where it is from. It is widely used, making it hard to find the artist.

Yep. . Too analytic. Understanding the rule and implementing it are coextensive. As if a lecture on bike riding were enough to teach you how to ride a...

Whatever. It's a simple point: the proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Notice that it's equality, not equity, in the image? Some versions of the image have "equity" in the place of "fairness". In the first image, the boxe...

:up: It might be one of my old texts...?

Not an issue for me. They are not needed.

But if you can't do addition, you do not understand the rule. The doing is central. Both. What I am denying is that the whole of understanding a rule ...

Sure, it is an instruction. Sure, interpretation is part of understanding a rule. Wittgenstein's point is that interpretation is insufficient.

Seems that on your logic, because there are additions which you have not interpreted, you do not understand addition.

Ableist pejorative aside, that's a poor example. "You must walk up the stairs to the entrance" is not a rule. But if one understands "You must walk up...

Yep. Nuh. Understanding a rule requires that you are able to implement it. A child demonstrates that they understand "2+2 = 4" not by interpreting it ...

Be that as it may; I'll offer no opinion. Instead I am suggesting a methodological distinction between theology and philosophy. At the simplest level,...

Yep. Then according to the orthodox view, immediately resolves the paradox: Following a rule is not interpreting a rule; it is, rather, an act. Hence ...

That was more Kripke.

Yeah, that's really about Must, isn't it. I see no reason to engage with Kant, and he’s not known outside the parlour-game which passes for philosophy...

Interesting. Notice that effort, work, was required to lift the boxes, one onto the other? Equity is cooling, making things the same, leaving the boxe...

Meh. I think it’s more likely that either people don’t understand it, or don’t want to engage with Quine's work. This line gets us nowhere. I don't th...

Looks like Plotinus; but I won't enter further into that discussion.

Well, that sort of follows from his dates. But we see Aristotle through a Christianising lens, one that came via Islam and neoplatonism. I won't prete...