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In reply to Rob Villa. She was sweet. The way she came across in her website was completely genuine. That’s what she actually was like. She had the same symptoms as you’re describing. I seem to associate those particular symptoms with the e…

In reply to sean samis. David, This is unfortunate, but c’est la vie. I would have gladly engaged with “the actual cases we’re talking about” as I did in prior comments, but in your last comment there were none. Not sure how I’m supposed to engage with…

In reply to sean samis. Sean, I find this comment, like most of your comments, frankly, to be a marvel of motivated reasoning, as usual backed by no evidence or examples or realistic engagement with the actual cases we’re talking about. I know fr…

In reply to David Potts. David, regarding your “brief list arguments against ‘cancel culture’”: Uncertainty of epistemic and moral judgment cuts both ways. If rendering a moral judgement is a moral requirement, then failure to do so is as bad as doing …

In reply to David Potts. David; Regarding: “I’d suggest thinking about the apparent contradiction I pointed out between saying that, on the one hand, cancelation can be acceptable, and on the other, we should never pass moral judgment on other people. …

In reply to sean samis. Hi Sean, For you, I’d suggest thinking about the apparent contradiction I pointed out between saying that, on the one hand, cancelation can be acceptable, and on the other, we should never pass moral judgment on other peop…

In reply to boydstun. References Dewey, J. 1916. Logic of Judgments of Practice. In Essays in Experimental Logic. University of Chicago Press. Hoopes, J. editor, 1991. Peirce on Signs: Writings on Semiotic by Charles Sanders Peirce. Chapel Hill: Univer…

In reply to boydstun. I don’t know what happened to the section breaks, but the third section I referred to is the last nine paragraphs of the post, the part after the strange colorful thingy. The paper I mention by Steven Pashko is here: https:/…

Included herein is some Peirce for setting, but I deliver a bit of Rand-Dewey concord in this post in the third section. I’ve left citations in place in this excerpt from my writings in OO Forum last year. I’ll put the References into a sub-post to thi…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Thank you. No I never made contact with her and after seeing this I regret it. Always thought she was sweet and that kind of fight is exhausting. I don’t think I’m “out of the woods” so we’ll …