Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(Austro-Athenian Empire) Who Said This?
“Language is a code dependent upon the life rhythms of the species which originated the language. Unless you learn these rhythms, the code remains mostly unintelligible.” Guess the author. (Or see the link to the answer in the comments.) Although it’s a somewhat Wittgensteinian sentiment, I have no particular reason to think the author had…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Coronavirus Diary (46): Protest and Pandemic at Sea by Nightcap | Notes On Liberty
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Coronavirus Diary (46): Protest and Pandemic at Sea by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Roderick T. Long. Although the puzzle of whether or how identity survives through replacement of parts goes back to the Presocratics (e.g., Heracleitus’s river), the first mention we have of it in specific connection with Theseus̵…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Coronavirus Diary (46): Protest and Pandemic at Sea by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. The deal with Theseus’s ship was that Athens had a regular ceremony involving a ship that they believed went back (via periodic replacement of planks, hence the puzzle about its diachronic identity) to the original ship…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Coronavirus Diary (46): Protest and Pandemic at Sea by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. You’re right. Neurath’s boat, not Theseus’s ship, was built at sea. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Coronavirus Diary (46): Protest and Pandemic at Sea by Roderick T. Long
I think you mean Neurath’s raft, not Theseus’ ship. Two different puzzles. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Coronavirus Diary (31): The Dark Side of South Jersey by Irfan Khawaja
No final answer to the question, “How stupid can you get?” https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/04/these-men-snuck-into-six-flags-safari-during-coronavirus-lockdown-stay-out-cops-warn.html LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Coronavirus Diary (46): Protest and Pandemic at Sea
I’ve said this a couple of times in the comments, but might as well repeat myself in a post: the basic problem with New Jersey’s “lockdown orders”–Executive Orders 107 and 108–is that they were hastily drafted at the outset. That haste, though understandable, is taking a toll in confusion, chaos, and excess on the enforcement…
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(Policy of Truth) Coronavirus Diary (45): Dave Jarvis, RIP
Dave Jarvis died the other day. That’s him in the photo, on the left. He was one of the cafeteria workers on the Lodi campus of Felician University, where I work. He was a man of very words, and invited very few: though I knew him in a glancing way for twelve years, I probably…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on With Trump, All Things are Possible by Irfan Khawaja
He’s not Hitler. He’s Goebbels. LikeLike
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