Throughout the 2000s and early 2010s, it was often remarked how the US Republican Party had far more "discipline" than their rivals. That is, they wer...
Now this gives me an idea for a book I had in mind. I really enjoyed Christopher Buehlman's "Between Two Fires," a historical fiction/fantasy novel se...
Interestingly enough, the book that kicked this thread off makes a case for a certain type of relativism. Plato's Good falls into the category of "thi...
That's a good quote. I think the idea of meaning being defined by social practice causes particular problems for nominalists. On the one hand, I don't...
:up: I had forgot the ethics was so short because my copy had an introduction as long as the book lol. Another classic. Big fan of Murdoch too. I do t...
Passive voice might be another example. It's perfectly grammatical, and should be used in some cases. It can also be used in order to make things ambi...
Isn't that the very point of contention re Kirpkestein, that it seems obvious that Robinson Cursoe can develop practices off on his island? It seems t...
:up: In a way, it seems like there is always sort of nothing but God. I think. Aquinas is tricky on this point. God is present to all things and gives...
Ok, I was honestly just trying to be helpful in pulling these out. I see that you have gone back and made it clearer. I would just point to two things...
What logic? You seem to be saying something like: "an entity is free if and only if it is free from its inception." I do not see a demonstration of th...
I am not sure about that. Is an embryo free or self-determining? A baby? A two year old? A teenager? At some point, people seem to gain more of an abi...
The Socrates of The Clouds has the advantage of being quite funny though. "Huh? We don't deal with mortals here; we're contemplating the Sun. Oh you w...
I did, but I will admit that I had a hard time following it. My point would be that looking to Plato for a discussion of radical skepticism might not ...
Two things are important here: First is that skepticism had its heyday after Plato, with the Academy itself having a "skeptical period." So, while thr...
I was just rereading Boethius' "The Consolation of Philosophy," and I've decided it might be the pound for pound greatest moral work of all time. It's...
Is the idea here that necessity needs to be imparted by something else that is necessary? But consider the case of being dead (as opposed to simply no...
I'm inclined to agree with you here. My point relates to those who would make the claim that there is only appearance. That said, I have to ask, is yo...
An oft missed point. If appearances are the only reality then there is no meaningful appearance/reality distinction. With language, this often seems t...
I don't know if I totally followed all of that, but I do think it's true that lack of novelty or its maximization end up having interesting similariti...
Sounds like a pretty serious problem for an interpretation of Wittgenstein to have. Is this supposed to be a communitarian interpretation of Wittgenst...
Sex expression = phenotype expression related to sex. IDK, sometimes it is used for sex-related gene expression too, but that's less common. Either wa...
Well, you have to consider the framing here. Plato, for instance, lays this view out in the Timaeus as the goal of "becoming like God," and this would...
I could see an argument that the function of sex in the species is not the same as the sex of an individual, sentient animal of any sort, for whom sex...
It seems like this is less ambiguous in the aggregate. We wouldn't say the number of chromosomes humans have exists on a spectrum because trisomies oc...
The only reason continentals haven't caught up here is because they're too busy debating if they exist or not or exactly how it is that the nothing no...
That's a great example, and one I shall start using since it is a little nicer than the "shit smells like... well shit to humans; flies love it," I ha...
I have a great deal of sympathy for some forms of adverbialism. It seems to get something right, namely that conciousness is processual, not a bunch o...
Thanks. I have practiced quite a bit because it's hard to place Hegel in dialogue with other ideas without breaking it out of its own weird way of spe...
I actually considered bringing up the example of televisions, radios, etc. On the one hand, yes, we could say these are "indirect" in that they involv...
No, I don't think so. I thought you were saying they were unconnected because your response to "people can learn to communicate ideas across cultures ...
Yes, historically and throughout disparate cultures and eras, and through all different minds. Hegel lived before Darwin. I think his ideas could make...
I am not sure if I get your meaning. In Hegel's view at least, this unfolding isn't the cognitive discovery of some agent. It's the movement of all of...
Right, I don't disagree with you, but that goes to my other point. If unconscious inference makes something indirect, then all knowledge is necessaril...
I don't think the problem requires "severe idealism." Hegel's idealism is generally labeled "objective," because it affirms the existence of nature as...
It's very hard to give an account of knowledge that transcends the nature/mind, subjective/objective divide. I would imagine this is why recourse to p...
This certainly covers some of them, although I would replace "ignore" with "sidestep" or "discount as confused." I would tend to associate this view m...
Wasn't he charged for unrelated sex crimes? He wasn't convicted if I recall, rather there was a warrant out for him to be questioned in regards to cri...
I made a thread a while back on a related point. Essentially, I was looking for a formal way to state that it doesn't make sense to posit things/prope...
Sorry, I don't mean to be oblique. It's that I think accusations of dualism really depend heavily on the exact formulation involved, so I don't want t...
If "direct knowledge" is aphenomenal knowledge, it wouldn't seem to make sense as a concept. So I think the disagreement is about the relevance of the...
I'll share my favorite phenomenology-based explanation: Sokolowski's real focus in thought and language though, not perception. He goes on to elucidat...
I think this is precisely where indirect realists make their hay. When you hear a foreign language you don't know, you hear sounds, not words. If you ...
I would disagree that populist movements are only ever responses to corruption. The backlash against the Democratic party in the South over the end of...
I'm not sure I understand you. What is different, Nature versus Mind or science vs a Nature/Mind distinction? IDK, science seems to make mention of th...
Right, that was the first question, but you ignored the rest — "what would be a property that exists "in-itself," i.e., exists in a way that doesn't m...
Everything is "shit posting" and covered in multiple levels of irony, but I've seen enough of these spaces to be quite confident that there are a dece...
I don't see how this is the case. What would be an example of a property that is known without interaction? Moreover, what would be a property that ex...
Right, and this would be the work of reason, transcending current beliefs and horizons. But we need not stop at Gadamer's "fusion of horizons." Since ...
Well, I assumed I was talking about the telos of governance in general, as defending/empowering freedom, ensuring justice, etc. I don't think the func...
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