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I find it odd that Cebes seems convinced by the argument at (72 b-d).
May 14, 2021 at 21:46
Yeah, you are. I'd like a clear run at the dialogue; your interjections detract from that for me. It seems I am not the only one who thinks so. By all...
May 14, 2021 at 21:38
Gotta love a cliffhanger...
May 14, 2021 at 21:34
We could try appealing to his better nature... @"Apollodorus"? Your objections having been duly noted, please allow the thread to continue without obt...
May 14, 2021 at 21:27
Of course. There is an obvious methodological error in I am not surprised to see this in Apollodorus, having observed a habit of first forming a concl...
May 14, 2021 at 21:17
An interesting wedge... I have long found the discussion of recollection unconvincing; but this shows how it might have seemed plausible to our Greek ...
May 14, 2021 at 21:16
This pleases me immensely; A consensus would make this thread mere scholasticism. That's Aristotle, not Plato...
May 14, 2021 at 21:02
Indeed, Apollodorus comments on the proceedings are unhelpful and unwelcome.
May 14, 2021 at 21:00
You don't want to learn. It threatens your Christian values. https://www.livescience.com/48103-evolution-not-random.html https://www.newscientist.com/...
May 14, 2021 at 20:41
Natural selection is not random, nor chance.
May 14, 2021 at 07:21
Sure; what can't be said, don't say. There's a muddle in the first sentence of the OP{ in that it suggests a supernatural explanation for "happenings"...
May 14, 2021 at 00:05
That's pure observation... The odd thing about the descriptions in science, in contrast to the title of this thread, is that it doesn't much care what...
May 13, 2021 at 23:44
Philosophy by name-calling.
May 13, 2021 at 23:33
Whinging boomer.
May 13, 2021 at 21:49
Religion is stories someone made up. Science is stories someone worked out by looking around and checking. It's an important difference.
May 13, 2021 at 21:47
Yep. There's no philosophical content here.
May 12, 2021 at 21:17
AH - thank you.
May 12, 2021 at 20:31
...and I have a question, too. Presumably - I haven't checked - the word translated as "art" is "techne"? So immediately we are involved in the issue ...
May 12, 2021 at 09:23
Ah, here it is! Thank you, @"Fooloso4"; it would be remiss of us not to take advantage of having someone who knows what they are talking about to hand...
May 12, 2021 at 07:59
In so far as he cares, which is little, Banno thinks your interpretation eccentric, and your offence feigned.
May 12, 2021 at 07:35
yep.
May 12, 2021 at 03:28
then the question is unanswered.
May 11, 2021 at 23:28
Where, exactly? Or could you provide a summation, perhaps?
May 11, 2021 at 22:48
...and bad mathematics.
May 11, 2021 at 20:52
See PM
May 11, 2021 at 20:49
Waffle? So you thought I'd called you a cunt? How odd. Rest assured, if I had desired to call you a cunt, that's what I would have done. There's a cer...
May 10, 2021 at 01:15
I flicked through it. I think you are right. I would. Several.
May 09, 2021 at 05:30
What insult? I didn't think I'd got there yet...
May 09, 2021 at 05:23
Doing what is in your best interest is not the same as doing what is right. Serving yourself is not being moral. Doing what is in the best interest of...
May 09, 2021 at 02:01
Yep. It's hard work. The forum is plagued with dilettante waffle. Which are you?
May 09, 2021 at 01:51
No mistake. Ethical propositions state what one ought do. @"Seditious" still has to address the issue of what to do, with or without social coercion, ...
May 09, 2021 at 01:48
What are non-physical neurones? OR is it the information you think non-physical?
May 09, 2021 at 00:56
Consciousness is reflexive.
May 09, 2021 at 00:43
SO we might proceed by citing a paper or book on necropolitics and having a conversation about that particular item. That strikes me as preferable to ...
May 09, 2021 at 00:39
Perhaps we can look for a meeting point. I'm reading the chapter "They are both worse!", in which Žižek points out the third alternative in any dilemm...
May 09, 2021 at 00:32
Oh, sure. But that isn't the question in the OP - it's about reading as opposed to making shit up. Unless one need a university education now in order...
May 09, 2021 at 00:21
But what you said relates directly to this thread - you happened to provide an excellent example just after my last post here.
May 08, 2021 at 23:58
Take a look at Critical Race Theory, Whiteness, and Liberalism, in which @"ToothyMaw" admits not to have read much critical theory. https://thephiloso...
May 08, 2021 at 23:51
I don't think so. Think I might go read Žižek's A Left that Dares to Speak its Name; It has better jokes.
May 08, 2021 at 23:47
Call me a boomer if you like, but I sort of think that knowing a little bit about a topic is a not unreasonable prerequisite to entering into discussi...
May 08, 2021 at 23:41
Funny, isn't it, how "literally" has come to mean its antonym.
May 08, 2021 at 23:32
Amusing to have this set out explicitly. I would have thought its absurdity obvious, but privilege hides privilege from the privileged.
May 08, 2021 at 23:28
I'm expected to reply here, but have nothing to say. "The solipsist achieves no practical advantage from advancing his views".
May 08, 2021 at 23:15
Psss. The thread fades gently into the night, having achieved little. It's telling - and somewhat amusing - that the thread ends with a discussion of ...
May 08, 2021 at 23:03
What's most notable about the OP is the lack of almost any discussion of Critical Theory, racial or otherwise. The first paragraph sets out some unsup...
May 08, 2021 at 22:51
Coalition and Morrison gain in Newspoll, and the new Resolve poll Haven't understood Australian voting since 1975.
May 08, 2021 at 01:43
Perhaps the trouble is, it's too fucking nice here. We can do "She'll be right" and "No worries". We can afford to have a useless, corrupt, self-satis...
May 08, 2021 at 01:31
He was called to do God’s work as prime minister
May 08, 2021 at 01:21