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And every one said, who saw them go, ‘O won’t they be soon upset, you know! For the sky is dark, and the voyage is long, And happen what may, it’s ext...
March 13, 2021 at 10:33
But we don’t care a button! we don’t care a fig!
March 13, 2021 at 10:17
Odd thing is that in Victorian times pink was for boys and blue for girls...
March 13, 2021 at 09:52
Oh, agreed - I was just pointing out that some folk differ on using that designation. Cheers.
March 13, 2021 at 05:45
No. Doubt requires a background of certainty. And certainty is far more common than philosophers think.
March 13, 2021 at 05:36
Special pleading. Pretending that the distinction fits all cases by ignoring those that it does not fit, or calling them names - "a defect". ??
March 13, 2021 at 05:33
Sorry, but the very notion of a contradiction in nature is confused. Nature is not the sort of thing that can be both true and false; because a fact c...
March 13, 2021 at 05:30
Says...? That is my preferred usage, too, but not everyone's. The point being that there is no correct usage, just convenience. There are hermaphrodit...
March 13, 2021 at 03:55
:smile: Philosophy is not the tool for doing philosophy.
March 13, 2021 at 03:50
If you like - for Witti the within-person dynamic is either going to be pubic, and hence a part of the between-person dynamic; or private, and hence o...
March 13, 2021 at 02:57
Arn't you just treating a social distinction - male and female - as if it were physical?
March 13, 2021 at 02:40
Noticed this little edit; No.
March 13, 2021 at 02:38
...and that leaves me cold. It looks deliberately obscure. And what little of it that I can comprehend is misguided: "There’s no room for each partici...
March 13, 2021 at 02:38
Where?
March 13, 2021 at 02:28
Hmm. Not as interesting as it might have been. Poetry only appears more apt than philosophy for this sort of discussion because it is so loose. In the...
March 13, 2021 at 02:09
...I think you made that up. Subjectivity is critiqued in PI; so suggesting the primacy of intersubjectivity strikes me as problematic. So I wonder if...
March 13, 2021 at 01:59
Cheers.
March 13, 2021 at 01:51
Indeed; and I have been at pains to point out that this is incorrect.
March 13, 2021 at 01:49
...and learn guitar.
March 13, 2021 at 01:30
Oooo, that's a good question. And a puzzle. There's a few directions one might go, from subservience to the squattocracy to reliance on mateship. But ...
March 13, 2021 at 01:23
Do you suppose the increased interest in Heidi over the last few years is related to the rise of autocratic thinking? To the acceptance of obscure bul...
March 13, 2021 at 01:16
Again, I am addressing the OP. You just do not like what I have to say. I'm still waiting for you to explain where you talk about organisations in the...
March 13, 2021 at 01:08
Do we start with Leviathan? Or go straight to the construction of social reality. Perhaps some philosophy might be done here after all...
March 13, 2021 at 01:01
Posts last wins.
March 13, 2021 at 00:57
I did. Where?
March 13, 2021 at 00:54
Where?
March 13, 2021 at 00:52
No, individuals exist. And have rights. But so do organisations and societies. Your analysis leaves these out.
March 13, 2021 at 00:45
No, it's your obsession with self.
March 13, 2021 at 00:40
"Going along with the system" is all there is to 1+1=2. All you have done is recognise that you are part of the game. When you talk to the trees, you ...
March 13, 2021 at 00:37
Because consistency is non-contradiction, and contradiction occurs in language. Calling reason into question is self-defeating; any argument against r...
March 13, 2021 at 00:34
Yep, one who is consumed by themselves would not see the relevance. The extreme individualism that underpins such thought sits outside of ethics, not ...
March 13, 2021 at 00:26
...along with making your bed and washing the dishes? This strikes me as teenage whining. Growing up involves taking responsibility not just for yours...
March 13, 2021 at 00:09
That's incoherent; entitlement is a social contract; you have no entitlements not granted you by us.
March 13, 2021 at 00:07
Yes it can - and demonstrably, it does. You can fight, but you cannot wage war. You can make paper, you cannot print money. You can become a vigilante...
March 13, 2021 at 00:06
You just do not like what I have to say.
March 13, 2021 at 00:02
...the rest of us believe that the state ought act so as to protect our shared interests in the face of recalcitrant individuals.
March 13, 2021 at 00:02
ingenuity implies originality. You are just parroting sovereign citizen junk politics.
March 12, 2021 at 23:58
More of the same.
March 12, 2021 at 23:55
...then you mean something curious by "understand". One checks that a child understands addition by having them add various numbers; one checks that s...
March 12, 2021 at 23:42
No, a teacher.
March 12, 2021 at 23:07
As pointed out previously, the forum has a rash of Sovereign Citizens. Perhaps a vaccination...?
March 12, 2021 at 23:04
You wish to change the topic of your own thread? TO make it a critique of Sartre? Go back on topic.
March 12, 2021 at 23:02
...and I, that you have never read Philosophical Investigations... Indeed, I'm only familiar with Being and Time from excerpts and secondary sources. ...
March 12, 2021 at 22:49
Why do they bother you so? Whence your figure of 10,000? Non-binary gender: Population figures contradicts that figure.
March 12, 2021 at 22:41
And you won’t have some acquaintance with their philosophies without the slightest idea of how to interpret the way they lived their lives. Your point...
March 12, 2021 at 22:36
Ah, but see the title. I addressed it directly. I took it from memory, from the entry on Heidegger in the Book of Dead Philosophers, which I commend t...
March 12, 2021 at 22:27
It might be better not to use thei term so freely. See the topic of the same name. It's not a word used by Wittgenstein, nor by his translators - and ...
March 12, 2021 at 22:17
Heidegger spent the Great War reporting on the weather. Wittgenstein spent it volunteering for the most dangerous tasks to be found on the front line....
March 12, 2021 at 22:11
But it 's not impossible. We do understand reality. You, for example, understand how to write in English on a web forum. In an attempt to deal with th...
March 12, 2021 at 22:06
Property is a social construct; who owns what is decided by convention. Looks to me as if you mistook a question of convention for a question of ontol...
March 12, 2021 at 21:42