I think we said essentially the same thing. I'd want to stress that the 'abstract ideal' is fundamentally a process model of capital, and what makes i...
I never could square myself with it though. Value's clearly something quantitative as it tracks socially necessary labour time, but it doesn't have a ...
Marx has his own value theory, it starts with the distinction of use value and exchange value, that road leads up to the different historico-logical m...
You've made lots of threads with low effort contentless original posts. I will keep deleting them. I left one locked after I gave the explanation of w...
You can't make an opening statement entirely out of unsubstantiated metaphors. This is the reason why I deleted the rest of your threads - lack of phi...
Finished Monbiot's Out of the Wreckage, How Did We Get Into This Mess? They're argued with excellent rhetorical flourish but are a little weak on disc...
I think this is close to what I meant, but articulated much better. I'll try and build on it. But at a later date. This is fun, thanks. :) There's a m...
I explicitly anticipated this kind of response in my post, though it was a long post so it's understandable it wasn't a particularly memorable part. B...
I'm sure there are more than 3 ways to do it, but those 3 jumped out at me. The first two were things I've seen before on the internet, the last one i...
Charging Heidegger with solipsism because of how 'being-with' works is something I've not seen before. I can think of two ways of doing it with misint...
Long story short, a thing happens which resists interpretation (or how you use 'habit') so much that it makes a load of difficult problems for everyon...
I think that post was unnecessarily technical. What I highlighted can be condensed a lot. While it's true that the formalisms for limits and continuit...
I imagine that threads like this are a safe space where we don't need to worry about giving William Lane Craig more misguided ideas about infinity. Th...
This was a reply to a PM by Street, but I'm going to post it here because the discussion here is going in the same direction. I think there's a way of...
I'd draw a distinction between paradoxes of intuition and paradoxes of formalism, not that they're mutually exclusive. Paradoxes of intuition are what...
Monbiot's like reading popcorn if you come from a similar political perspective. A lot of the value in what he writes are ways of usefully condensing ...
Read 'Out of the Wreckage' by Monbiot on the plane. It's nice to see progressive ideas clearly written with rhetorical flair. Things like: 'Humans are...
I quite like imagining the beetle being there though. A shadow cast by language equivalent to its agreed upon shape. A spilling of ink with each strok...
I like this. I think it highlights that all of the things which we build or do with language have piggybacked on other things bodies do. I think this ...
I take it that the private language argument shows that, well, language is necessarily social. This means that senses are established with reference t...
Use is fluid, use modifies the meaning of words, language is dynamic, two competent speakers of English know how to use the word pain just like we can...
What part of saying 'I have pain in my foot' to my partner is private? I'm referring to the pain, she's a competent speaker of English, we both have t...
Once everyone knows how to use the words, I can say I've got foot pain, and the meaning is the pain? The use is to refer to the pain, meaning is use, ...
I'm trying to see things from the beetle's point of view. People can be quite skilled at feelings talk, to the extent where from the sense of their be...
I agree with this absolutely. One of the motivations I had with picking a bone with @"Sam26" was to draw attention to the undercurrents of language. T...
The way I view this is that all uses of language, even when used in private, even when an inner monologue, even a 'half formed' thought are parasitica...
I don't think I'm trying to paint a picture of word use where words like pain attach to a pain. To be sure, in cases like the pain in my right leg, I ...
Bah, quitter. I'm trying to make the point that the public/private distinction is something that we regularly circumvent in conversation or usual lang...
By epistemic access I imagine a relation between a person and thing such that the person can come to know the nature of the thing. Which is a bit of a...
I like that this treats language as external; constituted by public criteria, dealing with things (in a general sense) in our shared world; even when ...
Yeah, was rephrasing what you said to show we're on the same page. Do you think that the potential energy the rock we've been talking about has isn't ...
Reflexivity of the accessibility relation just says that the actual world (whatever that is) is always a possible world (whatever that is). So: yes of...
I don't think the OP is pointing out anything particularly deep. Once you fry an egg the raw egg can't be gotten from it. Similarly, you can't make a ...
Maybe it's easier to see why this works if you substitute in P is 'this shape is a cube', Q is 'this shape is a cuboid' and R is 'this shape has at le...
It's a lot of conditionals, but the main thing that you have to notice is that you want to assume everything on the left of the =>, then show that ass...
Heidegger's central commitments throughout his work, at least as I see it (which should be taken with a pinch of salt), are the relationship of humans...
Heidegger's pretty hard to skim read. You really have to pay attention to how the sentences follow from each other until you get used to how he thinks...
Related but distinct. Heidegger is quite silent on ethics, even though he makes use of normativity in his account of making sense of the world. Techno...
A Cliffnotes summary with no academic references of Heidegger's view on technology. Heidegger cares a lot about the way people examine things. He care...
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