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I thought they were disenfranchised mediocre white males.

Yes. What is pointed to by Edison's use of "red"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59YN8_lg6-U Notice that Mr Edison is quite able to use colour words correctly. Of course, there are some things he can...

But only very superficially.

That looks irrelevant. Take a look at the relevant sections of Eco's essay. Modernism, with an emphasis on new thinking, criticism and the rejection o...

How?

Nothing; that's what a government is for. But see Honig's essay. Cooperation leads to far more good than does competition That's a fact that is perver...

Fascism does not have to be consistent, so it can happily both worship technology while rejecting the spirit of modernism in favour of a myth of tradi...

Of course. A good thread, a worthy question.

Well, if you are OK with a cult of tradition, rejection of modernism, action for the sake of action, persecution of criticism, fear of difference, app...

If you are saying that there is a play on will ad Will going on, then I agree. Otherwise, I'm not sure of your point.

We work from fundamentally different pictures. Kant's invention of the being-in-itself led to all sorts of philosophical garden paths; Schopenhauer be...

Umberto Eco's analysis stands out.

The point that life involves a sort of striving is well-made. There remains a logical issue here. The more @"schopenhauer1" shows that the Will is lik...

Yes.

I'm not at all sure to what this refers - or even if it was directed at me. But I winder if Proprioception is internal or external. How do I know wher...

From the OP: Having the idea of belief allows us to seperate what we think is true from what is indeed true. It allows us to be wrong. There are versi...

It's just that I would go further that I think he does, and reject the notion of a picture as a model that is distinct from reality. Doing so might le...

Do his criticisms amount to rejection? I'm not sure they do. But we ought take care as to what we think the picture theory is. The elements of the pic...

?520; but there are numerous examples. The picture theory is not absent from PI.

Not just I, but Anthony Kenny, too. In PI Wittgenstein shows how an incorrect picture of the world can be foisted on the unwary philosopher by a twist...

I gather this is a continuation of a discussion of which I have previously been unaware....?

Thanks. I'm not too familiar with Schopenhauer, so tell me, do you understand him as having thought that Will did not require intent? I have a hard ti...

Can I check that I understand - you are proposing something like that the will and the struggle against entropy are two aspects of the same thing?

Fighting against entropy might be something we could choose as a gaol, @"schopenhauer1". But we are not obligated to do so. Consider a counter example...

I've seen it used to great effect in intro philosophy; it quickly separates the goats and sheep. The goats get to do Honours. The sheep don't get past...

Didn't mean to imply you did. Just drawing attention to some other thoughts. It's the reason belief is important. Or better, that belief and truth are...

But they are not the same thing. Thinking that belief and truth are the same - or that one can replace the other - leads to all sorts of rubbish.

Fuck the system Perhaps this should be its own thread; but I will put it here, so it gets seen. You are on the back of a tandem, riding along comforta...

Unlike some, I am not so particular about having an answer. My basic physics tells me that entropy arrises only at a macro level, and I take that as i...

No, Creative; I think your picture of belief is far removed from my own. It seems you consider belief as a thing, a lump, a quantum, a substance. I th...

You will find plenty of folk hear who will agree to the primacy of entropy. I remain unconvinced; I still think that it might be a secondary feature. ...

Just in terms of making a coherent grammar around "belief". But I want to build up to that.

Sure, that's not too eccentric. For me, "the purpose of entropy" is a misappropriation of purpose. Entropy just is.

The written signs 'stand in' for the items in the picture of the world. Hence: What is happening is that the picture is presented as signs, using symb...

I disagree; belief requires the dissipation of the distinction between internal and external. The move I was considering next was to draw some sort of...

Isn't it just an error to say that since the total entropy of the universe does increase, that's the purpose of the universe? What's to stop you claim...

More on Problem two: Here's that divide between the inside and the outside writ large: It will not do to just assume that there is a private world and...

Problems with the OP: Five (My italics) Is the suggestion here that one's preference for vanilla over chocolate is a result of some explicit Bayesian ...

Problems with the OP: Four This seems to be saying that tautologies are only true because they are useful. That interpretation is upheld by Kaiser's a...

More on the first problem: The first issue is, if epistemology is about certainty, and not abut truth, what are we to do with truth? Should we stop us...

Problems with the OP: Three A trite observation, perhaps: Is the sentence "There are only two ways of knowing, empirical probability and logical neces...

Problems with the OP: Two Firstly, why prefix the word "real" to "truth"? Are there unreal truths? Not a big point, but it leaves one somewhat suspici...

Problems with the OP: One. There is a sense in which we can be rid of truth. After all, "Twice two is four" and "'Twice two is four' is true" have the...

So we can be certain of our intentions?

So if it proved useful To say one plus one equals one, that would be fine? One drop of rain meeting one more drop makes one drop?

thinking about it, things can be true just because they are useful. There are useful lies. So maths can’t be true just because it is useful. It must b...

just to be sure, is twice two is four true because it is useful, or because four is just what we mean by twice two?