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Here's something less amusing, but more pertinent than Hanover's reply: Why gut instinct will decide the most irrational referendum yet

Very droll. X-)

Education, Not Income, Predicted Who Would Vote For Trump One supposes that the critical capacity of the educated is the intervening cause.

I'm puzzled by this. Would it be less odd for him to think he was on a divine mission if he were rich?

It's the commodification of one's attention.

My counter to him would be stolen from the critique of Feyerabend. If anything goes, then those in power get the most say; "anything goes" means every...

Would that Landru were here. His was the closest we came to an argument in support of a post-truth world. I would value his opinions. And occasionally...

I am just being overly analytic.

So here we are, with a fascist president-elect. At what stage will truth reassert itself? If?

O:) So you think.

I agree; Thee are distinct reasons for belief, not distinct uses for "truth".

So is the failure to recognise bullshit a result of an increased need for critical thinking? Even here, where one might think critical thought would h...

The matter and form are understood post hoc. So, no. Why?

I must disagree. There is that curve where the top of the thigh meets the buttock.

spin and bullshit are distinct. One puts spin on a ball to control the direction it heads when it bounces. One puts spin on a truth in order to contro...

I enjoy a good tragedy.

The "like" button was the beginning of the end at PF.

An act is futile iff it will not produce a useful result; if it is without purpose. But purposes are not things we find floating around the place; the...

Screwdrivers make useless teapots. Until you set out to do something, yes, everything is futile. But as soon as you decide to do something...

I'm becoming increasingly confident that some here have not actually tried to understand "existence precedes essence" in context. For Sartre, existenc...

It just seems to me that if we are going to criticise Sartre, we should start by agreeing as to what he said.

Again, for Sartre, essence and existence can correspond for ordinary things; but what makes an individual human distinct is that they become what they...

To be clear, what is said and what it is about are quite distinct: one is words, the other a thing. That's not at issue. What I was pointing out to Wi...

Yep.

Can we be clear that for Sartre "existence precedes essence" only in the case of humans. Willow's last appears to me to confuse this. What is special ...

I do solemnly swear that I had not seen your post before I posted mine. You made a good point.

Brevity has its benefits. And yet skepticism is a philosophy. Hence Lambda's critique defenestrates itself.

A brief critique of essence. An essence of some item is the set of properties that are necessary and sufficient for some thing to be that item. A nece...

Don't leave out "in this way"... that "the world logically precedes what we say about it". There is an interpretation under which Sartre is both corre...

Yawn. The OP tells us about Lambda, not about philosophy.

So he is talking about the relation between existential quantification, predication and necessity. And he is saying that they are different. But which...

Logic? SO existential quantification is logically prior to predication?

That looks ok to me.

SO the claim is that the world logically precedes what we say about it? Can you seperate what is said from what it is about in this way? I think not.

Is it either/or? Especially if meaning and history are not separated. Indeed, is there such a thing as the meaning of a word? The notion that Sartre w...

Perhaps. I can't see that 'essence' makes much sense. The something that makes a thing what it is... Is that significantly different from "the reason ...

Thanks, March. So you are saying they are what we use to group things into sets or classes?

What is an essence?

This: http://www.alligator.com/albums/God-Dont-Never-Change-The-Songs-Of-Blind-Willie-Johnson-CD/

I don't think he would be very happy about it. Or than again he might be rejoicing in the existential freedom provided.

What of Landru Guide Us? I have concluded that the post-truth politics of Trump is all his fault. He should be here to defend himself.

SO I updated my profile picture - I'm not allowed to upload images here yet. My cup, as you can see, is now a hand-crafted ceramic, in shades of blue....

Soon.

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Hmm. What to make of all this.

This isn't a bad interface. I had dropped off PF before the sale. I'd had little of interest to say for a while; the arguments I had refuted just kept...

Morning, all.