Showing posts with label Philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Philosophy. Show all posts
Sunday, November 12, 2017

From a Commonplace Book

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You say you have a counterexample to my argument, but you must be misunderstanding me, because I did not intend for my argument to have any ...
Monday, October 14, 2013

J. L. Austin's Philosophical Papers is Available Online

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Awesome.  I was googling this book, hoping to use a 'search inside' function (either on google books or on Amazon or what-have-you) ...
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Wednesday, April 03, 2013

If Wittgenstein Lived in the Twitter Age

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...whatever a man knows, whatever is not mere rumbling and roaring that he has heard, can be said in three words. -- Ferdinand Kürnberger...
Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Quotes of the Day: Scott on Anarchism

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One day you will be called upon to break a big law in the name of justice and rationality. Everything will depend on it. You have to be rea...
Thursday, August 16, 2012

Thoughts on Yoram Hazony's Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture

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Note : Since this entry is long even by my generous standards -- just shy of 10,000 words -- I have made it available as a doc file here an...
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Proof That Plato Never Took Care of a Toddler

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Socrates : ...If you and I were to disagree as to whether one number were more than another, would that make us angry and enemies? Should we...
Saturday, June 23, 2012

Philosophical Anecdote of the Day

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J. L. Austin in wartime : During the war, Austin had been recruited to set up, and ended up heading, the "order of battle" section...
Tuesday, June 05, 2012

Clash of the Titans

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I've seen this awesome anecdote sourced to places like Wikipedia (whose current page on the topic seems to have deleted it, presumably...
Monday, May 14, 2012

Quote of the Day: a Kantian Argument for Objective Knowledge

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Kant frequently used a puzzling argument form to establish quite abstruse philosophical positions (φ): We have X -- perceptual knowledge, fr...
Sunday, May 06, 2012

Do Libertarians Believe in Slavery?

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Let me first start by clarifying my question in several ways. First, while it is, to some extent, a rhetorical question designed to point ...
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