That's hardly news though. Been the case since the Judean People's Front split off from the People's Front of Judea. Or there's overlap between emanci...
I've been there! Just in a touristy way, not camping. It is beautiful. My favorite Yellowstone story. Driving along with the in-laws, and we see some ...
Yes, yes, we all know you can make this sound more precise, but ceteris paribus conditions always grow toward infinity. How fully do you think you can...
That's a piece I was missing. Interesting. One thing I forgot about is kettle logic. (Freud's analogy for the 'logic' of dreams. Comes from a joke abo...
Roughly just an "arguing first" view -- that logic is not a handy tool waiting to be used, pre-existing our use of it when arguing, but that the rules...
Here's my favorite passage -- and for @"Wayfarer" the most beautiful description I know of the "subject of experience" -- and in this one there's a di...
Do you often say two things simultaneously? He's already gone, that's the point of the whole passage and why I posted it. Our mental lives are oriente...
Alas, so have I. I remember -- this may have been 25 years ago -- arguing on the defunct ANALYTIC-L mailing list that producing reasons for your belie...
Is it? Consider that if I assert A, and you convince me of ~A, then when I join you in proclaiming ~A, am I contradicting myself? No, of course not, y...
Nice. There are times when the obvious truth of this really hits you, and it's just as true that we learn an enormous amount from other people. Someho...
Very interesting! One of things @"Isaac" and @"Count Timothy von Icarus" seem to have been arguing about for some reason circled around this "generic ...
These days, I'm attempting to sing a different tune.. To wit, here's what I've been thinking about -- unfinished, but it's time to post something. Bei...
Did you see that ludicrous display last night? What was Wenger thinking, sending Walcott in that early? The thing about Arsenal is, they always try to...
Yeah. One's from the protagonist's point-of-view, one's not. Or do you think it was impossible for Nolan to write or film the 'subjective' scenes? Als...
'Intractable' is all I meant there, but I was trying to resolve the ambiguity in "due to its first-person character." If you're demanding the book be ...
So is the argument that consciousness is off-limits because it's first-person, or that one of the things psychology needs to account for is that it is...
So what? I think you're aware of this discussion in exactly the same sense that I'm aware of this discussion. Why should I define a special me-having-...
The grammatical differences among first, second and third person sentences present some interesting quirks, Moore sentences for instance. But other th...
That's perfect. Temperamentally I'm much closer to Graves, but, as he suggests, it's not always very satisfying. And there's reason to doubt the capac...
D. H. Lawrence's first book of poems was called "Look! We Have Come Through." Robert Graves reviewed it, saying, "Perhaps you have, and a good thing t...
Heh. This thread is about clutter. I agree with your remarks in spirit, the charming and damnable heterogeneity of it all, but I still think there is ...
So still on topic. My eyes glaze over when there's a lot of "That's not what I said," and "That's not what I meant." To coin a phrase, Why should we t...
Maybe none. I only skimmed the exchange you were having with @"Isaac", and don't want to take sides. It's just that this caught my eye: In other discu...
That's more or less the idea. If logic stands above and apart from our practices, it hangs in the air. More later. Given modus ponens as an inference ...
Not sure about "transcends". I talked about this in @"wonderer1"'s thread, the difference between not reported and not reportable, and the difference ...
I've been mulling over your post and I don't have a simple response to it. I might spend some time actually looking at the Phaedo and then start a thr...
I want to say there's a famous holograph of Balzac, page with the title of the new book at the top, and the rest of the page is full of calculations o...
The general view is that there's good persuasion, which follows the rules of logic, and bad persuasion, which doesn't. I'd rather switch that around a...
@"Wayfarer" @"wonderer1" I want to add that this is not the only option. I'm interested in @"Pantagruel"'s suggestion that there may be more of the an...
Yeah, contrary to the story I tell over in the intuition thread, every time I see someone driving aggressively I try to tell myself they're rushing so...
Certainly. That's very nice, but there's a lot more to say. We only can know a little because of the creatures we are. Bandwidth is small and reality ...
Always been an important word to me, yes. The nasty version of "Man in the Arena" is the quote from Steinbeck: "Critics are like eunuchs gathered arou...
No. My issue wasn't really with the use of history per se, but with how it was or wasn't connected to other points being made, which would hold for an...
I remember the specific moment I decided to trust my intuition. I was in college, at the library studying, and some guy came in and dropped his books ...
No I didn't! I like the point about proxy victims. That's similar to points you've made before about how to understand the statistics of risk, stuff t...
Good one! Should have thought of that. (Heard a fascinating theory along these lines of the origin of organized religion: there have to be burdens, li...
You understand, right, that it doesn't matter if the idea was factually accurate? It's how Americans wanted to think of themselves, and how I learned ...
You're probably right. It's my childhood reading of history I'm referencing. I withdraw aspersions I cast in the direction of Sherman. Was Patton also...
I hope no one minds me going back to this part of the thread. There's something here I don't understand. Both of you describe reality as approximating...
I'm not sure I would, though it would fit nicely with that thing I posted about risk long ago. But you hit the other thing I wanted to bring up! Every...
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