@"StreetlightX" I think this is true on a meta level. People's beliefs about their own philosophical conduct are probably usually something like 'it's...
I wanted to make a note on a non-philosophical real vs a philosophical one. Let's take Zizek's real since it's probably a point of commonality between...
Jump up jump up and get down! I think this is very perceptive. It would be very easy to hypostatise an account of types by imbuing it with a metaphysi...
Well, that kind of thing usually happens in relationships. You and your partner have a personality conflict where're they're just wrong and you're jus...
Have you ever been in a situation where you made a decision and it was wrong, but not just that, that the way you make those kind of decisions gave yo...
Some of the things I was trying to condense. Simple because passions - feelings about stuff - inspire the reasons to fit the decision in the process o...
Have a series of self indulgent aphorisms. (1) Passions inspire reasons. (2) Thus using your morality is also creating it; as removing a shard of glas...
A lot less words than previously, but essentially the same meaning. Is so surprising that whether stuff exists is arbitrary when existence is embedded...
The giant object is nearly equivalent to the class of objects. Membership in the class is given by the ability to denote the member. If you restrict t...
Oh hey, Brassier has two lectures featuring clear exposition of Sellars on youtube. The Myth of the Given: Nominalism, Naturalism & Materialism. That ...
This post has two components, one is an attempt to sketch the construction of a ridiculously inclusive mathematical object which serves as the backgro...
@"StreetlightX", @"Pierre-Normand" Although I've mostly withdrawn from the discussion, the Sellars-Davidson thematic link is pursued by Rorty. It's an...
Also, if there's anything controversial we talk about it. It isn't like someone can delete pro-Palestine or pro-Israel posts depending on personal tas...
Mods aren't robots. We also aren't all on all the time. It's also likely that we will all respond differently to threads. Furthermore, if an OP has al...
If you don't think that it has any philosophical implications, I wouldn't put it in one of the philosophy subforums - and would ask such a question to...
I deleted threads of yours which had an OP with a single sentence, a blog link, and a terminology of science question. This is a philosophy forum, ori...
@"Nagase" It feels kind of dirty to be arguing about a specific counter-example to a far more general idea, if you'd want to transfer this discussion ...
It's strange to me that whether something is natural, rather than reflects what is natural, depends on their role in discourse. I can make sense of th...
Another aside, I'd be quite surprised if there wasn't an equivalence relation approach to tokens and types here, in terms of exemplifications. Like in...
Maths bit. This isn't meant as a refutation, it's an honest series of questions to see if you've got any internal distinctions between 'mathematical k...
This is an interesting example, as the formulation of the epsilon-delta definition of continuity was, historically, an answer to various problems abou...
In the context of this thread, I'm thinking that abstract objects are at most part of discursive practices - stuff we do with language. Steps linking ...
Will be more precise, original post was too much of a splurge. It's an attempt to link Sellars' account that you've presented with the Myth of the Giv...
Is there still a linguistic function for whiteness and other abstract particulars? Do they still have some mechanism? I get the intuition that a compl...
It's a constructed example of when you have two sequences of measurements, A and B. Whenever A changes, B changes. Whenever B changes, A changes. The ...
On second thoughts numerical correlation doesn't mean anything like A supervening on B. Two sequences A,B. A = (1,3) B=(-1,2) Cov(A,B)=(-1,1)(0.5,0.5)...
Wiki's a real battleground on this. You have enough evidence to make a comprehensive case for either side. The structure of the articles also encourag...
What I tell prospective students: Prior to college and university, think hard whether you want to go or not. If not, try to learn some employable skil...
Where does the distinction between what can be shared and what cannot be shared come from? Is there any way to tell if a thing can be shared other tha...
Don't worry. When I was 6 I used to help the dinner ladies at school tidy up the canteen after lunch. Because I did this every day eventually they gav...
It's a forum of hobbyists with the occasional but very rare philosophy academic gracing us with their patience. And thus it's nice place to have your ...
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