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I don't know much about Kripke but it seems weird to talk about 'houses' as a rigid designator. don't those only apply to individuals or natural kinds...

Oh, Iagree, I didn't mean that as an example of reading meaning off physics. What I mean is that our understanding of what makes something something i...

Hey, I'm on of those people, and I don't think I'm being theological! (though if I am, I guess there are worse things to be) I mentioned physics becau...

@"Anaxagoras" You're getting ready to venture out into the jungle. What are your thoughts on borderline personality disorder (or NPD, HPD etc)?

Well, based on the context, the quotes are clearly meant to differentiate it from physical illnesses, and associated approaches to curing them. The pi...

A little tangential, but I think it's essentially related. One thing I've noticed in contemporary discussion is a kind a dialectic, where someone argu...

Alright, but to be blunt, that wiki description also applies perfectly to some like Andy Dick, say, who is just an asshole. I think there's a false di...

I have a close friend who had a similar complaint. His style was to be blunt, and it rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. (But also, he's tall and go...

I guess psychological approaches can go two ways. You can use them to undermine people's arguments, as a below the belt punch, for the sake of victory...

Yeah, I feel you. That might be my primary motivation for posting too, if I'm honest, only different things irritate us. I feel like it's a way of ext...

I'm not disputing that you're arguing in favor of the truth. Everyone is, or believes themselves to be, if they're ingenuously engaged in philosophica...

The truth will take care of itself though. As you know, being a realist, a truth is indifferent to whether someone knows it. Plus also, people are wro...

Well, there is something performatively solipsistic in arguing against people on your own terms, knowing they won't argue on those terms. (Though soli...

But I think if fdrake really did say that to you, in real life, and you had established he wasn't joking, what would actually happen is (1) you would ...

@"StreetlightX" I do think @"S" answered your question. There is a motivation there. It's just a reactive, rather than creative one. It's taking somet...

in any case, on to joshua!

I'm supplementing my reading with lectures from the Yale Open Course on the OT and the professor seems to think that might be it - that or, maybe it w...

Yeah, I've meant to read it for a really long time. I like it mostly so far, though the repetition in the pentateuch can be wearying at times.

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He's also really got a thing against the Roma. The settled/unsettled distinction that runs through the essay is unpleasant and has unpleasant implicat...

I admit, I'm probably missing something due to my own historical ignorance, but I don't understand the relevance of that to what we were talking about...

Chomsky's pretty smart though. He proved himself in linguistics, smart guy. Does that qualify him to speak on politics? Maybe, maybe not. But we know ...

Nietzsche, free spirit, wouldnt have added a question mark

Well I've had a couple drinks tonight, and I say to you all - vice is moral. what about that

Well I've had a couple drinks tonight, and I say to you all - vice is moral. what about that

It's not a bad tactic. As it stands, he's delegated the role of expelling bodily fluids in my room to his cat, who sometimes pukes. Maybe I'll just st...

If you're trying to determine the contours of your own responsibility (as Chomsky is), wouldn't you have to focus on those things for which you bear s...

@"Hanover" Mostly agree, but - I'd definitely be annoyed if my roommate got blackout drunk and mistook my closet for the bathroom. But if he made a so...

This seems like a legitimate worry. I htink the best way to draw out what you're feeling is to give an example where one of the two (action, will) wou...

Even if that were what the OP was about... - I'm having trouble gleaning that, at least from the OP alone...maybe there's some extra-thread context I'...

Stop trying to make 'fetch' happen.

It's kind of funny if you take out the definite article, so he's just talking resentfully about a guy named Will, who is Hegel.

Not sure if I'm interpreting this right - are you saying you identify as dark triad?

I'm sure you're right ( I haven't read Austin really), for me it was a pavlov association w/ 'slab'

The whole scenario (really, his whole life) couldn't possibly lend itself better to a screenwriter. I'm surprised W hasn't gotten the biopic treatment...

If you really want to go down the rabbit hole.

A quote from David Foster Wallace, which gets at this. (He seems to have been pretty dark triad himself, despite his compulsive need to present as a m...

Most people, deep down, feel like there is something unique about them, something valuable, that the rest of the world doesn't quite see or understand...

I think it works better if you don't try to glean a moral from it. It's just a really funny way to die.

This is genuinely hilarious, unlike most ancient jokes. It's like the opposite of Nietzsche going crazy with sorrow after seeing a horse getting beat....

Thanks for the considered response. I would certainly agree that Kant's analysis is not without its flaws. I do think, however (echoing Janus) that wh...

Oh, for sure. esp. Wittgenstein.

I feel like I've been antagonistic in many of my recent posts on some of your threads, for reasons beyond me. I like your OP and feel like most days I...

gotcha. I think it could be helpful to bring that experience into this thread as a kind of 'case-study' in order to pick apart exactly what went wrong...

The know-it-all you consulted appears to have had W's Tractatus-Logico-Philosophicus in mind. (Cool story about that book - apparently W began writing...

I sympathize. But it's probably the case that the other side also experiences your pushing on as missing the already identified problem, while also se...

Another way to put this is that the 'transparent' signs you've mentioned aren't just one of two options (transparent, opaque) and Kant & Locke blindly...

@"Theorem" Responding to you late, but here goes. It's been almost a decade since I read Kant's Critiques, so I don't have the textual references hand...

S, I did a breakdown of your OP, charitably steelmanning it, to show how it didn't work. I engaged with the form and substance of your argument, thoug...

Read back through the post again and see if you can find something that sounds like this: I'll give you a hint. It's the part that says the same thing...