If convention X is in play in every society, convention X cannot be a social construct? The logic is problematic as it's possible, logically, that con...
Americans are, by and large, feckless and too addicted to their screens to revolt. A fantasy revolt is enough to give them a narcissist-charge. That's...
Another weakness in Davidson's argument: "Given the underlying methodology of interpretation, we could not be in a position to judge that others had c...
Davidson makes an unwarranted knowledge-claim, no doubt aligned with his dogmas and presuppositions: There is no basis for claiming the existence of o...
Davidson doesn't make the claim that "there isn't one". He says there's no basis (no scheme-content distinction to provide the basis) for making the c...
"It is impossible not to recognise at the core of all these aristocratic races the beast of prey; the magnificent blonde brute, avidly rampant for spo...
Davidson's inconsistency relieves the pressure of the most troublesome paragraph, quoted above: "Nothing, however, no thing, makes sentences and theor...
"For we have found no intelligible basis on which it can be said that schemes are different. It would be equally wrong to announce the glorious news t...
Again, this paragraph appears the most troublesome. Open to anyone's thoughts on it: "The trouble is that the notion of fitting the totality of experi...
(Still re- and rere- and rerere-reading the paper and requisite secondary sources.) Davidson's essay appears to conclude on a far more skeptical note ...
"Anti-Oedipus" is more opaque but also more fun. Deleuze and Guattari. Examination of fascist personality structures flows out of Freud's ideas of fam...
Erich Fromm was an extremely influential German-American psychologist and wrote several books on the subject. I think you'd really find his stuff illu...
No prob, it's really a fascinating subject - it's important to self understanding to know something about the fascist in us all (the desire to be boun...
Crowds and Power is a more modern book. I think Marcuse gets into it too. Lots of interest in the subject, historically speaking, mostly psychologists...
Erich Fromm wrote extensively on the subject. Along with Le Bon, Trotter, Freud, Wilhelm Reich and many others. Mass or group psychology. Not sure abo...
A troublesome paragraph, with a footnote: "Nothing, however, no thing, makes sentences and theories true: not experience, not surface irritations, not...
Thank you for your beautiful analysis. Moving through the essay at a snail's pace noting possible subtle catalytic phrases. "Languages we will not thi...
This looks helpful: "4.3 The ‘Third Dogma’ of Empiricism Davidson’s rejection of the idea of an untranslatable language (and the associated idea, also...
A Davidson thread is available for those who want to learn and play. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/7043/davidson-on-the-very-idea-of-a-con...
I think because the "6 or 9" example was linked to "spatiotemporal situatedness" Banno's notion of "a view from everywhere" was linked in your mind to...
It wouldn't, obviously. It would limit us to a human perspective. I'm not sure "the view from everywhere" is linked to spatiotemporal perspective. I u...
Folks use the expression to circumvent a variety of communicative difficulties. Folks learn that when communicative difficulties - of various kinds - ...
"It's indescribable" is indeed a description. But, in light of its non-specificity, it's a poor one. As connected to visuals: there would be no transf...
I agree with that. Unless we accept that "you and I and the humans are 'embedded in language'". That is, all the humans, all embedded. Banno's view-fr...
It's a peaceful thing to be named among the unremembered. It gives me peace to think of it and I think of it often. The peace of world-decay. Of cours...
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