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It's awesome all those mathematics books are available. In my opinion, tho, with the very rare exception of natural geniuses, math more complex than c...

New Star Wars is a great, well-constructed (edited, photographed, acted, written) movie. A million times better than the prequels. But, narratively an...

The subtext here is I think Brassier is being more than a little disingenuous. The cerebral contortions of his dissertation (which I'll admit I haven'...

If it's a slam dunk argument, it wouldn't be a burden. It'd be a stop sign. To call it a burden is already to implicitly acknowledge it as a provocati...

I sympathize with much of what you've said. I feel like I have a lot I want to add, but I'll wait until I have the time to start a new thread.

I have some sort of mental something. Been diagnosed w/ a handful of different things: bipolar, ocd w/ depression, borderline personality disorder, ps...

@"The Great Whatever" I can't say I've studied Berkeley much, but I have the bare acquaintance necessary to recognize Stove's account as smug confusio...

Worth noting, I think, that Brassier's characterization of the gem changes as the paper progresses. (A)From paragraph 32: ". Berkeley’s premise is a t...

Of course, tgw, it all comes down to pleasure so it really doesn't matter who's a genuine genius and who's not. The genius and the family-pleasing dop...

Hey guys pretty late to this convo BUT, I don't know, it seems clear to me that the force of Berkeley's argument has less to do with stupid "you're th...