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"Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen." (That's the Wittgenstein, not the German saying.)
And have been! Careful attention to stylistic features has allowed us to get a pretty good idea of the chronological groupings of Plato's dialogues, for example, which helps us understand things like how his views…
And then using latinized words also makes normal things sound more technical or scientific than they really are. For example you can say "let's implement business process improvements" or you can say "let's do things…
It is interesting to notice that when people want to sound official or authoritative (in business documents, for example) they tend to lean more on long, latin-derived words rather than the plainer, earthier words of…
Philosophers tend to be interested in the "foundational" questions about math and other sciences. In the case of math, in practice this means that good philosophy departments will often teach courses on first order…
Plato is certainly very approachable, and perhaps Athanasius is as well; of course there are examples on the other side as well - Aristotle leaps to mind. Better, probably, to read an account of his logic than to try to…
The first paragraph reminds me of the great example by which J.L. Austin distinguished precision from exactness: a stick could be exactly, but not precisely, six bananas long. In the present case we could say that six…
This is really neat in concept. However, I would be cautious about the substance here. I took a look at one philosopher that I know well---Socrates---and several of the entries seem very doubtful to me. > We need to…
I dropped out of a PhD in philosophy and am now a software developer. Tinkering with some of my old papers is my main hobby these days. I also have little kids, so I don't get a lot of time for it, but I'm hoping to…
Dave Morton left after one month.
I think Austin would consider the "I take it that I'm sitting before a desk" in the second sentence of this article to smuggle in the offending suggestion right at the start. We say "I take it" when we have a general…
I was just reading a history of the Hellenistic world, and something like this seems to have been common in towns in Ptolemaic Egypt, and functioned as the main check on otherwise rapacious taxation.
This argument, including the "will the sun rise tommorow" example, is these days most associated (at least in philosophy) with the 18th-century philosopher David Hume. See here for example:…
As far as I can recall, the texts did not get any recognition within Ethiopia until the last century or so. A manuscript of the texts was originally found (in a monastery, I believe) and translated by an Italian scholar…
It's been a few years since I updated it, but I probably still have the only blog dedicated to Ethiopian philosophy: https://ethiopianphilosophy.wordpress.com/
It's one of the most influential papers in epistemology. The paper gave rise to the notion of the "Gettier problem" for the otherwise appealing view that knowledge is justified true belief. A great deal of epistemology…
Actually it is a genuine dissent because the majority decision did specifically address that scenario as well: > Applying patent exhaustion to foreign sales is just as straightforward. Patent exhaustion, too, has its…
This is by Bram Moolenaar, author of Vim: http://www.zimbu.org/Home/about-zimbu
The article I linked in a sibling to your comment sources several versions of this calculation in the footnotes, though I'm sure there are others as well: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-09-03/should-do...
> Had he taken the money he was lent or given at the start of his business career, and invested it into an index fund instead of doing his attempts at business, he would now have a net worth of $12 billion instead of $4…
I didn't say it was one way, so I'm not sure what you're calling bullshit on. Indian philosophy may eventually have equalled Greek philosophy in many respects. But in the Hellenistic period? What would you stack up…
The book I mentioned, The Shape of Ancient Thought by Thomas McEvilley, is an amazing one. That's the place to start. My now vague recollection is that the influence went first from India to Greece (via various other…
I don't really think they were barbarians in any very interesting sense, just that if there's some contemporary perspective from which you could have seen them that way it would be from a Greek cultural perspective. My…
Snaptravel | Toronto | Full-time | Full-stack/Back-end/Data | REMOTE ok within North America (preferably legally able to work in Canada) We're in the travel industry and still thriving - profitable and growing rapidly -…
Snaptravel | Toronto | Full-time | Full-stack/Back-end/Data | REMOTE ok within North America (preferably legally able to work in Canada) We're in the travel industry and still thriving - profitable and growing rapidly -…
"Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen." (That's the Wittgenstein, not the German saying.)
And have been! Careful attention to stylistic features has allowed us to get a pretty good idea of the chronological groupings of Plato's dialogues, for example, which helps us understand things like how his views…
And then using latinized words also makes normal things sound more technical or scientific than they really are. For example you can say "let's implement business process improvements" or you can say "let's do things…
It is interesting to notice that when people want to sound official or authoritative (in business documents, for example) they tend to lean more on long, latin-derived words rather than the plainer, earthier words of…
Philosophers tend to be interested in the "foundational" questions about math and other sciences. In the case of math, in practice this means that good philosophy departments will often teach courses on first order…
Plato is certainly very approachable, and perhaps Athanasius is as well; of course there are examples on the other side as well - Aristotle leaps to mind. Better, probably, to read an account of his logic than to try to…
The first paragraph reminds me of the great example by which J.L. Austin distinguished precision from exactness: a stick could be exactly, but not precisely, six bananas long. In the present case we could say that six…
This is really neat in concept. However, I would be cautious about the substance here. I took a look at one philosopher that I know well---Socrates---and several of the entries seem very doubtful to me. > We need to…
I dropped out of a PhD in philosophy and am now a software developer. Tinkering with some of my old papers is my main hobby these days. I also have little kids, so I don't get a lot of time for it, but I'm hoping to…
Dave Morton left after one month.
I think Austin would consider the "I take it that I'm sitting before a desk" in the second sentence of this article to smuggle in the offending suggestion right at the start. We say "I take it" when we have a general…
I was just reading a history of the Hellenistic world, and something like this seems to have been common in towns in Ptolemaic Egypt, and functioned as the main check on otherwise rapacious taxation.
This argument, including the "will the sun rise tommorow" example, is these days most associated (at least in philosophy) with the 18th-century philosopher David Hume. See here for example:…
As far as I can recall, the texts did not get any recognition within Ethiopia until the last century or so. A manuscript of the texts was originally found (in a monastery, I believe) and translated by an Italian scholar…
It's been a few years since I updated it, but I probably still have the only blog dedicated to Ethiopian philosophy: https://ethiopianphilosophy.wordpress.com/
It's one of the most influential papers in epistemology. The paper gave rise to the notion of the "Gettier problem" for the otherwise appealing view that knowledge is justified true belief. A great deal of epistemology…
Actually it is a genuine dissent because the majority decision did specifically address that scenario as well: > Applying patent exhaustion to foreign sales is just as straightforward. Patent exhaustion, too, has its…
This is by Bram Moolenaar, author of Vim: http://www.zimbu.org/Home/about-zimbu
The article I linked in a sibling to your comment sources several versions of this calculation in the footnotes, though I'm sure there are others as well: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-09-03/should-do...
> Had he taken the money he was lent or given at the start of his business career, and invested it into an index fund instead of doing his attempts at business, he would now have a net worth of $12 billion instead of $4…
I didn't say it was one way, so I'm not sure what you're calling bullshit on. Indian philosophy may eventually have equalled Greek philosophy in many respects. But in the Hellenistic period? What would you stack up…
The book I mentioned, The Shape of Ancient Thought by Thomas McEvilley, is an amazing one. That's the place to start. My now vague recollection is that the influence went first from India to Greece (via various other…
I don't really think they were barbarians in any very interesting sense, just that if there's some contemporary perspective from which you could have seen them that way it would be from a Greek cultural perspective. My…