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Oh okay. I'll look for a way to work something like that in then.

You seem not to have actually read that post at all, because that is the "other" opening (the one that's currently up, that you were critiquing before...

So here's a quick attempt at that, looking at the current version post-revisions-based-on-your-critique: "It may be hopeless, but I'm trying anyway." ...

:lol:

I have added that reference back to my earlier essays On Language and also On Being, between the two of which are laid out what it means for a descrip...

Yeah I was excited to see you had a similar project when I first got here, and even seem to take a similar approach of trying to combine the good aspe...

I’ll just quote my response from the other thread here:

There is indeed an infinite regress there, and that is precisely why the normative equivalents of justificationism would be absurd; there is likewise ...

Thanks for that! I think the last is what I’m going for: it’s a book on the topic of the act of questioning.

The chapter on ontology is most of what I would write about metaphysics, though other chapters also touch on metaphysical things. I also don’t properl...

My question is what is it that you find pleasurable here, whether that be intrinsic or instrumental.

A little of both. Why are language, math, art, being, purpose, knowledge, justice, mind, will, education, governance, and the meaning of life all topi...

Trying to go to sleep but a quick partial response... I just gave an explanation of the target in the other thread. (edit to quote it here for posteri...

Thanks for the feedback. I give an account of what constitutes truth back in the essay on language and the meaning of words. I should probably include...

Things that aren’t just somewhere on that spectrum, but about the spectrum itself in its entirety.

I had this thought as I was going to sleep just now, and I was going to post it in another thread, but maybe I’ll just post it here. Before I even kne...

Or maybe because you're traumatized and broken inside and fundamentally incapable of enjoying things that should be intrinsically enjoyable.

BTW, if anybody cares to read the abandoned attempt to write this in narrative / dialogue form from about a decade ago, you can find that here: http:/...

That is heartening to hear, thanks.

I will share this one thought I had though, which sounded too defensive to share before but since you're getting impatient for a response: This sounds...

I haven't abandoned anything, I just have very limited time to do things on the computer these days, and haven't had time to say or do anything produc...

I have nothing if not that. I've literally been working on this for over a decade already, and I don't consider it "done". This is just the latest ste...

It sounds like you meant to address this to me, not Gnomon. I do know that contemporary analytic philosophy shuns system-building, but while I do appr...

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I never felt pushed into it by a sense of crisis (though I did end up turning to it in times of crisis). It was more of a passion or hunger, an advent...

Government is to state as education is to religion, and anarchists are only anti-government in the way that atheists are anti-education. (If you do yo...

Not act, but intend. People often act in ways they wish they hadn’t; that’s what regret is. Regret is a great way to frame this, if we ignore regret f...

It's not poisoning the well to say that a source appealed to is not reputable. In any case, I'm glad you just stumbled onto them and don't endorse the...

Okay, something different entirely then. Also, BTW, never heard of your source before and just looked them up: Regardless of their fidelity on this pa...

If you’re talking about Pluto, that’s really not an accurate characterization. The classification scheme (not a theory, just an arbitrary convention a...

I’m sorry. I’d like to try to improve, if you have any more specific directions on what is unclear, or questions that could help me clarify.

I’m not critiquing your critique, just asking for clarification. I don’t understand specifically which part you find problematic and why. I welcome sp...

Where? I think you might have misunderstood something. What would? Saying that I’m going to talk about metaphilosophy (for one chapter) before all the...

Okay, I tried to punch up the opening a little bit, by combining the elided bit from the last section that I quoted above, with the old first paragrap...

Thanks for the praise but I don't understand what's courageous. Are other people afraid to systematize their thoughts? I was taught that proper philos...

:up: If you live in a safe state, red or blue, you should be voting third party anyway, because to do otherwise is to throw away your vote. If you liv...

I don’t really follow the question, but if this helps answer it: I think mathematics necessarily has enough descriptive power, because we invent whate...

I'm not sure if I'm just unfamiliar with this area of ontology somehow or if it just seems so transparently confused to me, but either way I don't rea...

I'm curious if you read through this from the beginning, or (if you just clicked into a random essay) if you followed the links back to earlier essays...

Not sure what you mean, but I said "blamed" because crazy conspiracy people think that everything that has happened to weaken the church and state sin...

Primarily I am writing for someone like myself, especially someone like I was when I had first discovered philosophy and was trying to find, for lack ...

Can you elaborate on what kind of thing has not been covered, say just on one subtopic as an example? I.e. what questions from that subtopic have not ...

Godel’s theorem is not just about sets of propositions, it’s about axiomatic systems and formal languages. And a description of reality is not necessa...

I think it’s weird that particularly religious (Christian) people seem especially worried about the Freemasons, when they are an explicitly Christian ...

Having studied some physics and chemistry back in the day, from what I recall chemical properties were explained entirely in terms of the interactions...

Yeah we have a pretty deep disagreement. As I see it, judging something as the thing to do and judging it as morally correct are the same thing. If so...

I am not aware of any known difficulties in explaining the behavior of cells in terms of chemistry, or of multicellular life in terms of cells, and ch...

Exactly, this is why I was talking about consensus vs majority. Consensus means everyone gets to add their thoughts and everyone’s thoughts are fairly...

Agreed. Yes. No? That is also an intersection of those two distinctions, but not the one I’m talking about at that point. That’s why that passage lead...

And that’s exactly what distinguishes it from being identical with democracy. Anarchy may sometimes use democratic methods, and when it does it uses d...