I you don't feel like having sex with people that are racially different than yourself, don't. But others might find it exiting or fun. What do you ca...
Always loved the Pretenders so much... :-) When it comes to loving me Don't stop I know there ain't no guarantee But don't stop Let's keep it shaking ...
If I tell you If I tell you now Will you keep on loving me? If I tell you If I tell you how I feel Will you keep bringing out the best in me? You give...
Herms Herms were marble or bronze four-cornered pillars surmounted by a bust. Male herms were given genitals. Herms originated in piles of stones (???...
Aristotle alludes to them. But you are right that these unwritten doctrines are impossible to reconstruct. Plotinus claims to record these oral platon...
It was often the case in classical times that a school would have exoteric and esoteric doctrines. The latter were not to be widely shared, and thus w...
Also therefore it's about dialoguing. The centrality of oral debate in Socrates in particular is pretty obvious. He could have written books but didn'...
A good student of past writers should know a bit of history therefore, and in particular it is wise to keep in mind what sorts of ideas could have lan...
Nah. We just need to stay aware that we can't reach certainty about what Socrates or Plato really meant. This in any case is not a philosophical quest...
(2) is doable, without any certainty in sight of course, but we can try and even perhaps make some progress along the way. Note that Plato may well ha...
I got bad news for you: Socrates is long dead and he never wrote anything, at least nothing that we know of. Therefore, all knowledge about Socrates i...
Because it cannot be proven true, and yet it must be presented as true or at least taken to be true. Collingwood's concept of 'absolute presupposition...
You are quite good at misunderstanding folks and words. An hypothesis is not something false. It is an idea assumed true, or supposed true, but not pr...
It IS the case, and it WAS the point I was trying to make. What were you trying to say? That there is a difference between a hypothesis and what the h...
I don't think so. Allow me to rephrase. Collingwood's idea is very close to the "noble myth". It says that certain hypotheses are good to make, irresp...
Again, Collingwood comes to mind: The logical efficacy of a supposition does not depend upon the truth of what is supposed, or even on its being thoug...
Ok but then, if there's no perceptible difference between a sim and reality, if the sim is just as good as reality, then whether you are a brain in a ...
It's a little known fact, but when Apo was a kid, his father brought him to the temple in (phila)Delphia, where a sybil predicted that, if he ever agr...
Mine too, actually. I am not accusing you of being a troll, but others than you who muddled the discussion on this thread. I am actually agreeing with...
That Essay of his is available online. It has been discussed in this forum. I haven't finished it yet, but his theory of presuppositions is elegantly ...
An internet troll is defined as someone who wants to disrupt the discussion rather than contribute to it. Different techniques are used, one of which ...
Sorry, I didn't mean to equate the concept of form with the one of presupposition. I meant: Plato's theory of forms underpins his thought like an axio...
This passage of Collingwood's Essay on Metaphysics may ring a bell. Such analysis may in certain cases proceed in the following manner. If the inquire...
True. My point is that the forms are not just any hypothesis, they are a fundamental, absolute presupposition, which underpins his way of seeing the w...
Some sort of 'pattern recognition' is fundamental for perception to occur. Forms therefore underwrite perception rather than being themselves perceive...
Actually, a few dozen nukes detonated over the main United States and Chinese cities would largely take care of the climate change problem, at least t...
The evidence either way is very slim, but if I had the time I would do the following researches: Research project 1: plot the number of violent death ...
I'll try and see where that takes me... I will start with the platitude or cliché that Africans have a good sense of rhythm. I think this is broadly b...
Oh it does... The Church educated Europe. The 'dark ages' are a historical fantasy, a form of nostalgia for an idealized classical era. All the ages a...
There are no counterfactuals, so this can't be proven, nor can the opposite. But it is a fact that historically, the societies that developed the fast...
You are confused and challenged because you are not looking at the right place. You are looking at the tools (concepts) used by Plato, not at what he ...
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