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This kind of process as not creating any knew knowledge, just potential confusion, is exactly what Wittgenstein is talking about from what I understan...

That there cannot be a justification is the concept of bedrock beliefs. Sure, but this adds no content to our idea of truth. Real is just another word...

This is not really an issue. There is no problem in knowing that the noumena maybe otherwise than what we are inclined to imagine about it, that whate...

The only contradiction involved is the SCOTUS ruling that the first part of the sentence is logically independent of the second (contradicting the bas...

Yes, Wittgenstein is simply correct. "I know I have a hand" or then more basic sense experience that makeup that "knowledge" if you prefer (i.e. I kno...

Anyone wanting to continue the debate, after 1 minute of searching on youtube I found this lecture series: 10-week course for non-science majors focus...

Then maybe you weren't interested enough in these topics as to be well informed to have a serious discussion to begin with.

You'll die eventually, does that mean you should take no actions to sustain your existence? All the Jews would have died anyways, is therefore the Naz...

No it does not help everyone. Being a slave in a factory or in a mine or being murdered by poachers or ranchers doesn't help you. It also drives envir...

In other words, it cannot meet demand in a sustainable way, not even close. If it can't even get even close to meeting demand, it's a completely irrel...

Present the figures then. Environmental policy is a disaster, that's why we have environmental problems so severe that studying the mechanisms and pro...

This isn't determined by environmentalists, but mostly by the mainstream media and corporations and the super wealthy. This happens in a few ways. Fir...

This is simply not true. China has had the fastest rise in standard of GDP and living standards (according to our shortsighted metrics), but at large ...

In either case, the tradeoff in management is due to deadlines, materials and skills. For writing a philosophy book you can take as long as you like a...

It doesn't seem to me a controversial topic among historians, the whole printing press and internet parallel. It's been something that has been talked...

It's a historical parallel that is of course not exact. I didn't come up with it, I heard it from a historian. There is a basic historical hypothesis ...

Which claim? As I mention above: that our time is similar to the post-printing-press pamphlateering Era, or about how it would affect writing choices?

What do you mean by evidence? By pamphleteering, I'm simply referring to the end of Monarchy days where everything was censored so authors had to get ...

Though I agree with these points, the list and explanations seem more motivated as an admonition to professors to not do "bad public philosophy" becau...

We had a whole conversation about the Greek and pragmatism thing. I'm using this existing conversation as examples of problems. Then why are you askin...

I have not seen arguments written from scratch. The reason to seek out where these "original to me" ideas have been discussed before is to scrutinize ...

I say numbers, and you give me one number. At least put in the effort and provide numbers.

Yes, I would agree arguments start at premises (though it's possible some will disagree even here). My point is that isms are not premises. If you don...

Shouldn't you also trust the devil you know at this point? I seem to remember that's also a solid principle when it comes to evil dealings.

There is basically nothing uncontroversial in philosophy. If you're purpose is to do serious philosophy then you need to seek out the opposing point o...

You're not getting my point. Writing well according to whom? It seems pretty obvious to me that the general goal in writing and the audience must be s...

This definitely warrants discussion too, but my main point is that many philosophers have been pretty clear that their goal isn't to be "concise and s...

Yes, definitely the advice makes sense for many purposes. However, without the purpose the advice is putting the cart before the horse, especially if ...

I address this: I am aware of this interpretation of the words. The OP uses these terms, so I don't see why I won't use the terms of the OP to refer t...

Yes, from I can tell, this post is in response to criticism from @"I like sushi" of @"Pfhorrest"'s book; in particular deciding an audience (which I l...

Certainly few authors view their work as perfect, but it's up for debate what they would view as potential improvement. For instance, Aristotle was el...

Good thing you don't necessarily disagree, as it's not an ad hominen. Ad hominen must be in the structure "This person is an idiot, therefore what thi...

Thanks for asking and curiosity about anarchism. As a general point, anarchist view that coercive authority structures corrupt moral and political lan...

I have zero qualms calling your philosophy professors idiots. Let them come here to defend this adage themselves if you are certain of their authority...

I did not miss it, that is why I say you are in an uncomfortable position. You know what you must do, to advance in philosophy, but you do not know if...

Whoever taught you this is an idiot. Essentially all of the philosophical cannon, however you want to define it, does not assume the audience is stupi...

I've been following your exchange with on your book and here as well. I like sushi is providing you useful advice. To make any advance in philosophica...

Anarchists generally differentiate themselves with any self-described "Marxist communist", most vehemently on the statist compatibility. All historica...

Yes, so my question in the context of how was using "government", so answering my question would have required addressing the meaning of the word as r...

Anarchy advocates direct-democracy, of one form or another, but is not reducible to direct democracy. There is more moral and political content to ana...

My question to you?

Well, thanks for going and reading an anarchist text. Kropotkin also says literally "we want no government", so it is a point worth discussing, just n...

Which anarchist proposes this formula?

Anarchist organization would also have just as much tendency towards a de facto monopoly of force as any other. What anarchists want to avoid is a cen...

Voting creates no imperatives. As for authority, voting for anarchists does not create authority in the statist sense of people with essentially all t...

Which anarchists have you read? Maybe we can help with better understanding them.

Yes, I definitely agree with these statements. Yes, I did not mean to imply the basic political argument is complicated. If people are equally free an...

Anarchism is not distinguishable from democracy in the abstract sense of "people power". In this sense, anarchism is simply standard democratic argume...

I used the term "moral authority", because I was talking about moral authority. The outcome of a voting process does not create new moral imperatives....

Yes, I agree. I mentioned the "what does it look like when this doesn't happen" example of MLK to contrast with examples where these issues are clearl...