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Was that list from ChatGPT?

I could not get along with this one. Knausgård has the most Norwegian man's narrative voice imaginable. He represents the ancestral urge to escape lon...

You need to write an OP. I'll close the thread.

Madness.

I too welcome you! Great posts.

I believe so yes. I enjoyed your counterexample. Removing symmetry stops you from setting up a partition of things into that which is relevant and tha...

It was deleted because. It's very dense word salad. @"EdwardC" - please put more detail into your points and questions. I'm going to close the thread....

The only way of understanding anything is to assign symbols to bits of it. Paying no attention to the silent process of individuation which allows the...

@"Leontiskos"

Equality is transitive. A) 2=1+1 B ) 1+1=4/2 C) Therefore 2 = 4/2 Similarly, when relevance is transitive. A) X is relevant to Y B) Y is relevant to Z...

Interrogating the question which can be asked repeatedly. What I was saying is that there should be a guarantee that the question preserves relevance ...

Aye. It's an argument that if you make philosophy the most expansive and the most foundational discipline, you end up making philosophy able to be don...

Equivalence relations work like equality. If you knew that x = 2, and that 2 = y, then you know x = y. Imagine that X is relevant to Y and that Y is r...

Yes. Yes. And also that the top paragraph and bottom paragraph are equivalent.

Here is another spanner. Assume that if philosophy is the strictly the most expansive discipline, every claim should have philosophical importance, bu...

You mean that you claim that if X is a subdomain of Y, then studying X is also studying Y?

Alright. Several claims at work. All of them inequivalent. The first is that the study of the totality of some domain X entails substudies of subdomai...

Yeah that's the inference I want you to flesh out. You have: 1 ) X is a subset of Y 2 ) Study of X is a subset of study of Y. Why does 1 entail 2?

Why though?

Broadly speaking I wanted to use the Frodo example to highlight some challenging properties of the question sequence that would need to be in place fo...

I don't think it follows that one discipline is more primordial/foundational than another based on the "what is your justification for this?" question...

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Take the discussion about the excesses of reactive left wing culture elsewhere @"Leontiskos" @"Swanty" , @"Christoffer" . It is an interesting topic f...

It is difficult to have any charitable interpretation of his remarks, in particular, given that he'd used a white supremacist organisation as a source...

I don't have the background to think through this unfortunately.

Not transparently so, to me? Consistent systems capable of first order arithmetic can't contain their own truth predicate, so we don't put the predica...

I imagined Srap and I were talking about how the formalism in mathematics doesn't start at its "grounds", in the axioms. I imagine Srap and I are reac...

You can give a few token examples of... collections... using blocks, hands of cards, sweeties, square of chocolate, desks in their class, and just hop...

Someplace to start writing without having to explain yourself. I honestly think that's it.

Yes! Following that thread leads you either to ill definition or infinity, neither of which maths teachers are expected to teach. One of my students g...

I think our bar for profundity is different. Kids trip up on stuff like: a ) x+1 = 2, solve b ) x+1 = 3, solve because they think that x in the contex...

Absolutely! You paint a picture of knowledge as a monolithic yet untethered abstraction. Monolithic, in the sense that the static body of knowledge pe...

I want to "yes, and" this. Primary and secondary education is also an unholy union of parenthood and peer socialising. It is the "village which raises...

Yes. It involves both. Stimming works like a stabilising perturbation to arousal. The overall effect is down regulatory. A bit like eye jitter is requ...

True play? Of course what's going on is play.

Aye. And that's about autistic cognition more generally, rather than the role stimming plays in it, or Baggs' stimming routine. There might be somethi...

Remove "merely". Nor do I. What about stimming? Indeed. They are playing. Having formed a routine out of stims.

Yes and. Both. Have you ever been about autistic people?

That strikes me as incredibly reductive. The specificity of Baggs' conduct has been dissolved into a broader glut of sensorially infused and creative ...

Everything Baggs is doing is a stim. The stims seem to form routines. That's pretty normal autism stuff.

Yet you can distinguish an infant's behaviour from a neurodivergent person's stimming, like they do in the diagnostic protocols for it.

Didn't you say the same holds for everything we do though?

I suppose where the above gets complicated is that being able to stim like that allows a form of stimming play, which is what Baggs is doing. But it's...

I don't particularly agree with this, in application to stimming anyway. To the extent I understand what you're saying. The intentionality associated ...

Those ones probably don't count as stimming. Since they're not repetitious in the context of the stimmer's life. It's both, a self regulatory perceptu...

What do the sensations enact?

Were you meaning to construe the sensations as symbols?

How complex.

Another reason it doesn't make sense to see their behaviour as language. You watch the video, it's a series of perceptual and sensory exercises. There...