This is certainly true, but lack of reason is not the same thing as disrespect for reason or arguing that it is involved in justification for some cla...
That's not really it; that would be a much more narrow diagnosis. The argument is that the validity or reason and argument is discarded selectively, a...
In my attempt to make the OP short enough, I may not have explained the phenomena I am getting at. The relativist enters into misogyny when they deny ...
I was going to say the same thing. Anyhow, some things have to be reality rather than appearance. The appearances versus reality distinction starts to...
It might be that this way of thinking comes out of libertarian intuitions. Given libertarian free will, we cannot "know" how a person/persons will act...
I honestly have no clue who he is outside of having had the book recommended to me. The book doesn't seem particularly conservative so far; the argume...
I find the terminology on this sort of thing incredibly inconsistent and frustrating lol. :rofl: Are there a good parallel words for "visualizing" tha...
Well, consider a statement made during the Korean War such as, "the situation is extremely dire, and the UN forces have collapsed into a chaotic rout....
Interestingly, many models of how conciousness is "produced" would suggest that thought itself is also a sort of communication, as well as the product...
There are lots of distinctions. Let me just throw out the few I am aware of and see if that helps: "Faith that..." versus "faith in x..." is the most ...
I'd have to go back to the original article to see how it is intended. It does seem to me that the idea of the P-Region corresponding to the actual re...
Socrates, Boethius, Origen, and many others died for living out/preaching their philosophy. The latter two were subjected to prolonged torture first a...
The virtues are the skills and talents needed to attain eudaimonia. There are many, so speaking of "attaining virtue," singular, would be similar to s...
Arete could also be translated as "excellence," and for Aristotle it was deeply related to perfection. This would be the use of perfection in sentence...
Both, I guess. The fallacy of composition is to assume that because a certain type/element of thought is linguistic, that all aspects of it must be — ...
Perhaps more to the point, do we actually think that people with aphasia have no content to their thoughts, that there is simply "no one home," in the...
That's partly my point. Once we know what a rule is, we can make them for dogs, cats, ourselves, etc. Kirpke's point about rule following is ostentati...
Gotcha. I am only vaguely familiar with Davidson. I assumed "a process of ‘triangulation’ must occur, whereby the content of the thought someone is ha...
The counterfactual seems tough here. If there is a lone astronaut on a mission out past the Moon, and a freak particle accelerator accident someone ge...
I just reread Boethius' "The Consolation of Philosophy." Such an amazing book. If ethics was going to be taught in schools (and it really should be), ...
I think we can avoid this question if we take Wittgenstein's advice about not looking for all encompassing theories in PI to heart. Unfortunately , Wi...
Are they wrong in virtue of the fact that a bologna sandwich was never elected to Congress or are they wrong in virtue of the fact that the database h...
Is it self-evidently true that Moscow must be the capital of Russia? It seems to me the larger issue is if you were simply to put something completely...
So the discovery of the period table occured because one day someone said "this is by definition true?" We know water is H2O because someone happened ...
Ah, so when the Roman capital moves to Milan people learn about this to memorize it... how exactly? How exactly did people come to memorize the fact t...
One wonders then what the utility of language classes are then, or how it is that people living in a foreign country come to speak its language. :roll...
Yes, and most (arguably all) facts fail to actually fall into your category. No, "cats are animals," is verified by experience. Consider that we could...
Isn't it an objection to say that the definitions of the terms in play are arbitrary and not tied to reality? Or more to what I think Quine's point wa...
If we have this sort of nearly infinite database that corresponds to all facts about the world, why even bother with genus and species? What is the va...
How so? Counterfactual analysis is probably single biggest tool used in the philosophy of causation. If Aristotle never writes anything, it is clear t...
I don't think so. Let's take B-minimal properties first. If all we care about is the plate being depressed, then the B-minimal properties will include...
The whole point of the "9/11 didn't happen," meme popular on places like 4chan isn't that people actually think that the government falsified the cons...
Yes, exactly. That why P-Regions not allowing for multiple realizability seems like it might be a bug. In general, it seems we would like to have mult...
I'm a bit more cautious about that. It seems like the die is already cast on logic generally referring to formal systems in philosophy. I was searchin...
This is true, and it's worth noting that many of the "big names" associated with the movement rejected the label. It's seems like only younger scholar...
Right, but the question was: "did elements of the Nu/Alt-Right grow out of/use ideas from post-modernism?" not "does Nick Land understand Deleuze in p...
This is an interesting, well framed post. But I find myself disagreeing with most of it, so I'll just throw out why. I would consider what the fear of...
Land isn't responding to only Deleuze, although it seems likely given some of his lines that he would say he is doing to Deleuze what Deleuze claims t...
Excellent point. Its worth questioning if the changes in the brain associated with perception could rightly be called "representations," as is often d...
Well that is certainly true. That and we often fail to consider how other people are using the terms "direct" and "indirect." It has occured to me tha...
Direct realism is formulated in many ways, but in general it takes account of the fact that we can be fooled by our senses. It would be odd if it didn...
A gateway to what? And is it always necessarily a gateway to something good? Doors are useful, but so are walls. Sometimes we'd prefer our gates stay ...
He's a radical libertarian in key respects, so it's much more the latter. However, I would still place him squarely on the far, reactionary right. Lan...
That's what I thought. But what makes this good? Is something or someone's "being good" identical with "advances technology?" If so, then can we say t...
I think it's interesting that you've decided to frame this in terms of productivity. What exactly are we producing and why is it worthwhile to produce...
I don't see where "blaming" comes into it, just the sense in which one is influenced by/comes out of the other. I do also find it worthwhile to distin...
Anyhow, it occured to me that the demonstrative nature of mathematics might make it harder for POMO to take root. Core ideas in POMO show up in the pr...
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