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(QC RSS) Or The Fire Department
it’s analingus week well, it WAS analingus week
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on London Calling: H.L.A. Hart on Place Names by Roderick T. Long
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Hart, Nationalism, and the “Invention of Tradition” by Irfan Khawaja
I don’t disagree with either of you, but both of your comments seem like variations on, maybe elaborations on, (2). I do think there’s a certain sense to the idea of a tradition being created by fiat. Imagine that people sporadically practi…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The ABC’s of Occupation by London Calling: H.L.A. Hart on Place Names | Policy of Truth
[…] example of this phenomenon, consider the allotment of place names to and within Jerusalem and the West Bank. I’ve written about this before at PoT, so I won’t repeat myself at length here. Suffice it to […] LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Postcards from Abu Dis (3): Where is the “there” in Jerusalem? by London Calling: H.L.A. Hart on Place Names | Policy of Truth
[…] consequential example of this phenomenon, consider the allotment of place names to and within Jerusalem and the West Bank. I’ve written about this before at PoT, so I won’t repeat myself at length […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) London Calling: H.L.A. Hart on Place Names
H.L.A Hart devotes chapter 10 of The Concept of Law to international law, and in particular to the question of whether international law counts as a genuine case of law. Though I’m open to persuasion on the topic, I’m somewhat skeptical of the idea that international law is genuine law, and find Hart’s arguments in…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Hart, Nationalism, and the “Invention of Tradition” by mlyoung57
I wrote this (paragraph below) before reading Michael Brazier’s response. It is a different way of making the same main point. I think Hart’s point is only that you don’t get a moral rule (or some particular cultural tradition, tendency, etc.) si…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Miscellanea: A Very Short Glossary of Military Terminology
For this week, I wanted to expand a bit on a comment I made on Twitter expressing some frustration at the failure of journalists attempting to cover the war in Ukraine (and thus interpret military experts for a lay audience) to master some of the key military terminology being used and to convey its actual…
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(QC RSS) Getting Her Up To Speed
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Hart, Nationalism, and the “Invention of Tradition” by Michael Brazier
There is a fourth position, which I believe is the correct one: social customs can be deliberately invented and forcibly imposed, but they don’t become traditions until they’re followed by people who weren’t present when they were inv…
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