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Ukraine fires 5,000-6,000 artillery shells a day, says deputy head of military intelligence by AFP and Le Figaro Ukraine has exhausted all of its Russ...

He was not, from what I can tell. But maybe he will clarify what he was trying to say. The SS were only men. There were not 'an institution'.

For precision's sake, Sokal pranked Social Text, an academic journal published by Duke University Press.

Yes, something like that. We struggle with them, try and harness them or even defeat them. Like Jacob struggled with a god all night and for this reas...

Yes, one can try and approach essences, or point at them for others to see, or connect them to other ones in metaphors, or simply employ them what the...

I see nothing intrinsically impure about faith. All this seems like a pointless direction of thought to me, in search of some sort of ghost, a thought...

In this case, there's nothing voluntary about it, so you don't actually have a point. Because NATO was never meant to be a moral agent, but an effecti...

The UN charter does. Voting is an individual act, not an institution, so you don't have a point. Back to category error. NATO is a military alliance b...

But as Collingwood implies, there is no thought without premises. Without at its root some absolute unprovable presuppositions. An axiomatique is alwa...

I'm fine with poetry that helps relate to the essence of an issue, even with some rhetoric. In any case even a dry text seemingly avoiding any rhetori...

So you are making a moral argument. There are a few problems with that, in these circumstances. 1. The point made by Apo was about legitimacy, not mor...

Motives have nothing to see with legitimacy. Hitler had good intentions too.

Well, I guess it could be both unclear, uninformative and yet accurate. Perhaps I was wrong to assumes that deconstruction has a clear objective and f...

I beg to disagree. :-)

What interests me, personally and professionally, is the analysis and teasing out of hidden assumptions. I found out that Collingwood had usefully for...

Just like NATO has a right to welcome new voluntary members, Russia has a right to welcome whichever country, region or people willingly wishing to jo...

Don't be so hard on yourself.

And I believe that's the best possible answer to that question.

Which part?

Thank you. That was neither clear nor informative.

That sounds too rhetorical or poetic for my practical taste. I attach much importance to conceptual clarity. A good workman keeps a neat set of tools,...

Aka ideograms. Yes, modern math has rediscovered the power of ideograms. They are much more intuitive and shorter (essential almost) than alphabetic c...

Writing was historically derived from counting stuff. Oil, grain, sheep, cattle were counted for trade, and there was a need for some records for inve...

What does that mean in practice, though?

I'm curious about the 'gramatology' label. Saussure called his topic 'linguistique générale".

I'm familiar with Saussure so that'd be a good introduction i guess

Sette brevi lezioni di fisica by Carlo Rovelli. First book I manage to finish in Italian. :strong: :grin: It's very short though, as the title implies...

What does it do then?

I never read Derrida. May I ask, what's the difference between "deconstruction" and "analysis"?

I was pocking fun at it, not complaining.

The Centre for Strategic Communications (StratCom) of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has confirmed the death of Ru...

Personally, I tend to trust Biden far more than I trust Putin.

You guys should start a new thread on epistemology. Your conversation is off topic here.

It's not literally the same, okay, but that's what it meant.

So it implies taking Ukraine as far as Kyiv.

To force a regime change, one of the things one must do is take the capital city.

That's literally what Macron reported Putin telling him: Macron had said Putin "wanted to seize control of the whole of Ukraine. He will, in his own w...

It's the same effort, I guess, reported about at inception and a month later. The article I posted was from Kommersant, a leading Russian economic dai...

Yes. Remember ping pong diplomacy?

For those poor anglosaxons among us, whose press is generally trash and even worse in war time as Chomsky rightly points out, here is some good news f...

12 is the magic number. It always was, and always will be.

Why don't you call a specialist in the scientific study of human behavior?

Yes, I do. Human behavior can be studied objectively. You of all people should know that.

I've edited my answer.

When it is almost systematic, ie when the person almost never gets it right, and yet uses this trick a lot. EDIT: Also when the deformation, the bias,...

My claim is that some are more guilty than others, and that you in particular are a serial willful misunderstander. You do it all the time. There was ...

Generally speaking, when poster X goes through the trouble of rephrasing what another poster Y has already phrased, there is a risk for a straw man. I...

God, the biggest caca.

A good willed poster does not misrepresent systematically what he is responding to.

It is sufficient for people posting in good will. But nothing is easier to fake than misunderstanding.