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I don't think you'll find that in Capital unfortunately.

The social character of labour being the production of goods which satisfy needs for sale; then the magnitude of value, arising from the relationship ...

I had a similar experience on salvia, in which this inner demon was revealed as a pontificating coward and a scared parasite. The obsessive self mocke...

Last section: The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof Whatever the fetishism of commodities is, it can't be characterised by analysing use...

You can start, I have other things to do.

Love belongs to the form of life rather than the sentence. A lossy presentation is a feature of every definite proposition.

The underlying relationship between affect and its expression is of a mismatch of registers. Were it that I could speak only my mind, I could express ...

Only if you join my hermetic circle of overly mathematical Marxism.

It's not exploitation if it's TPF. :)

I might be able to finish what I set out to do in thread this weekend, at least that's my goal. I'll have a good crack at it on Saturday. It shouldn't...

In my experience graph theory concepts are very difficult to explain to applied researchers and very numerate people. They only seem simple in princip...

Here is a link to the paper. When would reading start? I plan to finish the last section of Chapter 1's value theory in my Marx thread before going in...

I've wanted to read "On the Hypotheses which lie at the Bases of Geometry (1873)" by Riemann for some time now, it's somewhere between mathematics and...

I'd never let a being on topic get in the way of a fun post to write. Here's a few Youtube channels. Cool videos on calculus, loads of animations to g...

Indeed. It all requires work, and different areas require developing different competences. Intuitions at one stage can become theorems at another; ju...

Not so with Euclidean geometry puzzles! You end up thinking in much different terms from algebra operations; the choices in constructions you can make...

Interesting, I just got the double angle one by applying the 'equal arc length swept over by a radius => equal area swept out in the circle' calculus ...

I breezed up to doubling an angle. Now I'm stumped. I'd add that sometimes the 'simple way'; the guiding intuition; isn't always accurate, as it's qui...

This is amazing!

A lot of the unemployment measures the government uses were redefined when the current Tories took office, a process which began under Blair. I'll try...

You know this is accounted for in the definition right? This is how the definition works. 'For all epsilon greater than 0...'

This means you don't understand the distinction between a limit of a sequence and its elements. You would if you spent more time studying the links. W...

I'm not actually avoiding your argument, wondering why the limit can be said to exist when it is in the closure of a set (a supremum or infimum) rathe...

Limit points don't have to be part of the set of convergent function evaluations towards a point, they just have to be in (metric) topological space u...

Perhaps if you understood elementary calculus you would realise it is not an error.

What's the epsilon which is too large for convergence as determined by the standard epsilon-N construction for the series (1/n)?

Long break, but the next section is short: 3. Transition from the General form of value to the Money form (form D) In terms of the algebraic structure...

I think in n dimensions all the time. :(

We don't really have to fear current learning algorithms taking over the activity of theorising. We don't even have to fear them taking over predictiv...

Baden took the words from my mouth. There's nothing wrong with it, it's just that there's not much to chew on.

Not read it, it's been on the pile for a while. Though so have most books I've heard of. I summarised my perspective recently in a PM to @"Streetlight...

Disclaimer: revisiting After Finitude makes me suspect that the following is a very poor exegesis of the argument, and probably should instead be take...

Well then, I'm sorry for lumping you in with every other joking dismissal of continental philosophy as 'fashionable nonsense'. I'm glad that you have ...

Because a well reasoned attack on continental philosophy would be a good thread and stronger support for your position than simply antagonising me.

If you have a good argument that all continental philosophy is worthless, incoherent nonsense perhaps you should start a thread on the topic rather th...

Oh no, I was asking for textual evidence for your attribution of 'I study them because I like them and that's the only reason anyone ever studies cont...

Quote me where I said that they're worth studying because I like them. Stop putting words in my mouth. This in group/out group bollocks you're doing w...

Hah. The only reason they're respected is that they're entrenched in the field! You can reject literally any scientific discourse with this. You can d...

Yeah, I've not read his other works, just secondary literature on them. Even in After Finitude things get exceptionally chaotic. I dislike that in unt...

I'm still quite sure that there is an anti-'scientific metaphysics', through the opposition of scientific reductionism to some kind of ontological hol...

Eh, seems I was hasty in my skim-reading, I thought we were currently having the 'science is reductionist' debate rather than the other one we have, '...

I don't really know what you're talking about. How does moral authority come into asking questions about nature, social systems etc? Ecology question:...

Not that I've payed much attention to the discussion, but this seemed nice to reply to. Underlying this (and @"Wayfarer"'s post to which it responds) ...

Whether the dirty tricks are legal or not, what matters is that they'll get away with it. No one in the GOP will go to jail for what they've done. If ...

Giving up when challenged with a dirty trick is exactly what will bring this scenario you fear about quicker. Retaliating to restore decorum is only p...

This imagined future with pristine preserved institutions would also have no voter presence aside from the lobbyists, who already get mostly what they...

I wish their opposition would be more ruthless. Unfortunately maintaining decorum against an opponent who doesn't and won't is a terrible strategy.

By we I meant the mods. I'm unsure why you think talking about the effects of racist politics is anything like supporting white nationalism. Regardles...

It's a shame he couldn't reign in his asshole flamer tendencies. I imagine the mods together have deleted at least 50 of his posts recently.

I believe we operate from the position that we've already seen through white nationalism and judge it accordingly. There's no scientific backing to th...