You are viewing the historical archive of The Philosophy Forum.
For current discussions, visit the live forum.
Go to live forum

fdrake

Comments

This makes sense.
November 03, 2018 at 19:42
Yep! That comes later. The account so far tries to give a meaning to value pertaining to commodities, how they can come to have prices, how one magnit...
November 03, 2018 at 17:41
The most damning indictment I can think of for economics (which, surprising anyone who regularly reads my posts, includes Marxist perspectives on it) ...
November 02, 2018 at 21:05
The next subsection 'The Interdependent Development of the Relative Form of Value and the Equivalent Form of Value' sets out the conceptual character ...
November 02, 2018 at 15:18
It's a sad state of affairs when suffering from a debilitating mental disorder which often upheaves someone's entire life looks a lot like being an id...
November 01, 2018 at 13:36
And I nearly put 'God exists' in the academic list, you lot won't let me get away with anything. ;)
October 29, 2018 at 23:09
Yeah. I can see why my list of things could seem like I actually approved of mania. I've been manic before (clinically), it felt like a lot of fun at ...
October 29, 2018 at 19:01
I don't really think it's a useful question to ask 'what's the opposite of depression?', but if I'd have to guess I'd say mania. Unipolar depression h...
October 29, 2018 at 17:57
I don't know where the boundaries of philosophy are, so I've included some common sayings from IRL 'meaningful conversations': Things which are almost...
October 29, 2018 at 04:10
I broadly agree with what you're saying here. Intersectionality without paying attention to class misses an important source of variation in opportuni...
October 26, 2018 at 11:45
That remains to be seen. It's possible to be blinkered in some areas and not blinkered in others. I imagine that you're not particularly blinkered her...
October 25, 2018 at 15:26
@"VagabondSpectre", I've not responded with quote breakdowns because I want to respond to the general points you make rather than try to perform some ...
October 25, 2018 at 15:09
Intersectionality is an attempt to make people from all backgrounds heard on a methodological level. It has a generous intention of equality and inclu...
October 24, 2018 at 23:21
Intersectionality is nothing more than a call to listen to people's testimony from different backgrounds to learn about those groups. Nothing essentia...
October 24, 2018 at 22:24
Let's imagine that we're trying to find out about something that happened in our social circle one night. It makes sense to ask people who were there....
October 24, 2018 at 20:15
The passivity ascribed to commodities in forms A and B is a reference to their status as networks of 'accidental' exchange, commodities are traded for...
October 24, 2018 at 15:00
It's very difficult to disagree with the OP due to how it's framed. Everyone will agree that inappropriate emphasis should not be given to inappropria...
October 23, 2018 at 18:15
Going through the section more meticulously now, this expands on the exegesis for the Marx's solution to the deficiency in the expanded form and that ...
October 23, 2018 at 12:37
Diagram of all forms of value to date. Click to zoom. /uploads/resized/files/00/ef8l73vtc5ipkmd5.jpeg
October 23, 2018 at 10:28
So one puzzle here is that the general form of value (depicted on the right above) is consistent with the deficient expanded form of value (on the lef...
October 22, 2018 at 16:21
Marx proceeds to 'fix' these problems (lack of unity, indeterminate expression) in the expanded form. First exploiting the symmetry condition of the '...
October 20, 2018 at 19:33
The above diagram represents what I believe is the intuition behind Marx's diagnosis of 'defects' in the expanded form of value developed thus far. Ma...
October 20, 2018 at 19:24
The loss of determinate expression of a commodity's value in the expanded form above is analysed in the next section. 3. Defects of the Total or Expan...
October 20, 2018 at 18:02
Subsubsection: The Expanded Relative Form of Value The major new feature of the expanded form of value over the elementary form of value is that value...
October 20, 2018 at 17:40
Diagram of the expanded form of value. Lines between commodities denote instances of 'x is worth y'. /uploads/resized/files/w4/nhz04v5a1yfobors.png
October 20, 2018 at 16:02
Subsection 4: The Elementary Form of Value considered as a whole. This section is mostly a summary of the Relative Form and Equivalent Form sections, ...
October 20, 2018 at 15:41
It will be added to the list. Thank you for the reference.
October 16, 2018 at 19:51
Since you've already primed me to think of this in terms of the creation of the synthetic a priori and how that creation interfaces conceptually with ...
October 16, 2018 at 19:29
I sometimes get the feeling that analytic philosophers hide that they're talking about anything interesting by talking about language. So my eyes ofte...
October 16, 2018 at 19:10
I deleted your topic because it was 1.5 lines consisting solely of an injunction for your readers to forget their pasts, assuming I haven't confused y...
October 15, 2018 at 23:46
If you do have substantive criticisms, can you please quote my exegesis or Marx? I also want discussions here to be mostly textual rather than freefor...
October 15, 2018 at 20:31
Stop wasting my time then.
October 15, 2018 at 19:44
I get the sneaking suspicion that you're not putting much effort into studying the book or my exegesis of it. In one of the opening posts I highlighte...
October 15, 2018 at 18:57
I thought you'd be interested on Terence Tao's thoughts on the development of mathematical skill. He has three distinct stages of competence: (1) Pre-...
October 15, 2018 at 18:27
Let's hope that there's enough petroleum left to synthesise the required petrochemicals to meet the budding renewable demands of the apocalypse.
October 15, 2018 at 13:48
The remainder of the section is mostly reiteration through an example, going through Aristotle's analysis of value: The last paragraph, however, intro...
October 15, 2018 at 13:39
Little diagram of the structural oppositions/dual concepts in the value form: /uploads/resized/files/bn/3wrbvj6079ndct4p.png
October 15, 2018 at 13:22
So far we have that if 'x coats is worth y yards of linen', the exchange value of the x coats expresses itself as a definite quantity ( y ) of the use...
October 15, 2018 at 12:58
I don't think trauma does all the work of subjectivity as an idea, but I think it's a pretty good example of how a subjectivity works. I think it emph...
October 13, 2018 at 18:50
If I knew what stolen consent meant I might be able to respond better.
October 11, 2018 at 20:45
Stolen consent might not be defined, but manufactured consent is probably well understood at this point!
October 11, 2018 at 20:00
In defense of a dogma seems like a really fun article. I just started it and I'm impressed by the style, precision and generosity of the argument!
October 11, 2018 at 19:46
I wanted to chime in with something that looks to me as an example, though I'm mostly thinking of subjectivities in the Badiou-ian sense of 'subject-t...
October 11, 2018 at 18:39
This makes sense. I don't have the knowledge to bring out how Plato became distorted, though. What history are you tracing in this idea?
October 11, 2018 at 04:51
Then it's wrong. You don't actually need to go to category theory for objects which don't exist in the ZFC universe, certain large cardinals need extr...
October 10, 2018 at 20:54
Do some reading about it. Essentially small categories are those which have representations as sets and set relations/operations. Not all categories a...
October 10, 2018 at 20:34
Except it isn't any more! There's more to mathematics than what can be represented through set theory.
October 10, 2018 at 20:25
Yes.
October 10, 2018 at 20:09
That's not how that works. There are more categories than the category of sets, Set. Only things in Set are categories which can 'be instantiated' in ...
October 10, 2018 at 20:04
Some categories aren't sets though.
October 10, 2018 at 19:53