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I'm thinking of Hegel's analysis of perception in Section 2 of Phenomenology of Spirit. I just took a look back at the text and I guess he actually us...

Is your user name based on the brewery?

Thanks for the background! Super helpful

Yeah, I'll eat my words and admit this wasn't a clear illustration A better one would be the US govt and native american tribes.

Basically, besides the knock-down argument Un already provided, this is the problem with Marquez: So, yes, per @"Emptyheady", he's against slavery. Of...

Which is precisely to argue that the Southern plantation system was an illegitimate system of property and political rights. & Marquez has some very p...

Assuming that 'actual meaning' is 'denotative' is a tall order*. What do the following denote: 'the' 'or' 'whereof' 'solemnly' 'please,' 'begone' ? et...

When you say it 'should not' be used in ordinary language, do you mean the meanings expressed in sentences using 'nothing' should not be expressed at ...

Eh, everything creates cognitive distortions (cognition itself distorts). If you want to eradicate nothingness, you need to show how any actual, concr...

Whether it denotes anything (or whether it denotes nothing at all), we understand what it means, and we use it - and our understanding and usage of 'n...

I have a pet theory, but I don't know how good it is. So: & I take this to mean that while it is a fact that the sense-content was sensed (in sensing ...

Glad to have you on board. I envisioned this thread as a kind of free-form reading group, but unfortunately I've since become too busy to participate ...

What did you see as the parallels in those parallels though? I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing.

C'mon BC. Look at the posts that led up to this. Do you see the parallel? You can't just follow the details, the texture, the anecdotes. You have to s...

If the USSR won some global economic war it could also claim, as you did, that the US today (in the 'today' where the US is communist) is based on the...

Yeah? So if the USSR said the US should become communist, the US claiming its own economic system couldn't - or shouldn't - transition into a communis...

I've been fair to both sides. I'll entertain any rational - or even persuasive - argument. I talked with you for a while. I understand - I really do! ...

I think Kazuma chose to pull this section out of the text, because the author of the text states/signals that this is the main argument, the meat. Nor...

So this is where I'm at. I'm frustrated that people don't understand the OP, the essay it draws from, or Un's response. I want to debate it, and I'm o...

Yes, but, how do we decide on what's normatively intolerable? Marquez (and the OP) provide an answer. Do you disagree with their answer? Is 600,000 Am...

I don't know. There's definitely a lot of animosity. But there's also a clear argument in the OP, and a clear rebuttal in Un's post. It's not so messy...

I'm sincerely (sincerely sincerely, not just rhetorically sincerely) surprised people thought that I thought that anyone was defending slavery. I woul...

That's fair, you did.

Well, idk, i grew up in Maine and spent plenty of time in the woods, and you spend enough time in the woods, and come back: people seem weird. Having ...

So Un made a very good post: This, to my mind, is a knock down argument. Does anyone want to address it? Or do we all agree Marquez is right based on ...

You're not very good at this are you? You lecture ppl about not having read the paper, admit to not having read all of the paper, and fail to give any...

Here's an idea. Let's begin the discussion of any philosopher on the boards with a list of the awards they've won. And then if people disagree, let's ...

A Precautionary Principle for Institutional Change starts at the bottom of page 14. The irony here is painful. And the author, of course, does talk ab...

But this is a bad answer, for two simple reasons. (1)If those who opposed slavery had read and agreed with this article, they wouldn't have tried to c...

How does "Slavery" destroy his paper? Well, one for the reason Un has already laid out & 2, because someone defending, say, the US plantation/slave sy...

Thank you. But I'm still confused why you think the responses to to the post are "hilarious" when they hit the mark exactly.

So I've read the paper, and the substance of the article is the argument in the OP, so the all the same criticisms apply. The author does, indeed, bri...

lol

Again, the op presented an argument. The argument in the op was what people were criticizing, because that's how threads that present an argument in t...

No, did you understand my post?

How?

Ok, I think you're still confused about institutions. Slavery in the abstract is not a basic institution. The slave system in the american south was a...

No, but really, are you being sulky? I want to give you last one chance to show you're not being serious, before explaining how bad your line of thoug...

Look you guys, the OP presented an argument. In posting an argument, one invites others to address the argument on its own merits. That's what people ...

Could there be a more naked example of appeal to authority than this? Slavery in and of itself is not an institution, sure, but specific instances of ...

Where do you think we're going wrong?

Contextually, I think it's clear that Sellars is discussing seeing qua perception (and perception is not the same thing as sensation.) Yep.

Maybe I've misunderstood you, but I had the sense your model includes not just the world, but thought itself. Indeed, the two are inextricably bound t...

That system already at least half-exists (except in very rural areas) through (1)private schools and (2)property prices/cost of living variations acro...

Yes, but everyone here, with a personal qualification or two, is going to more or less agree with you. Feeling dissatisfied with the culture of standa...

The former necessarily involves an object external to me. (An "ostensible seeing" involves a belief in an object external to me, whether that belief i...

No 'phrase', but that quote taken in full. How do you understand that quote?

I'm not going to argue about the definition anymore.

Yeah, all I'm saying is the op is a bad,bunk argument for conservatism. If you're truly interested in discussing my own failings as an avowed progress...

bc i like it. Look, I know you think you have a promising new line - & its legit, in its own right - it just has no bearing on the op.