N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino

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in the anarcho-conservative meta-utopia yet to come, each community in the archipelago will retain the ability to expel offenders should they so wish

in fairness this is an essay collection

note: the book to whose chapter 5 he refers here is not that book but his ``the book of evidence''

chapter 1 of ``evidence, explanation, and realism''

the absolute GALL of peter to put this in a throwaway line at the end of a chapter

inference to the best explanation? oh you mean adding as many ad hoc epicycles in order to save some preferred phenomenon?

(ii) i suspect that establishing the necessary causation in any case like this would be so prohibitively difficult as to be a practical impossibility

all in all, not a terribly good proposal in purely practical terms if what you care about is efficacy

other things aside there are two practical problems with this

(i) depraved heart murder requires the committing of a ``dangerous and reckless act with wanton indifference to the consequences and perils involved,'' and demonstrating this in cases i suppose qt has in mind would be prohibitive

alternate hypothesis: the fusionist synthesis was always unstable and now, in absence of a defining enemy, the pre-existing fault lines are more salient

(probably a bit of both tbh, they're complementary)

read your lady some poetry before bed lads, cannot recommend it enough

(this might well work for your lads as well, and for a lady's lady, i simply have no data there, but it won't hurt to try!)

this in a place where summers are routinely in the mid-90s (mid-30s centigrade) and not-infrequently have tornadoes

God made the midwest to train the faithful

hat's a straight-up temperature of -18°C and a ``feels like'' of -27°C, for those not using freedom units

checking in on small town missouri where my folks live and

oh

oh no

lfg

i haven't watched it and am not going to; i learned my lesson with snw, not gonna waste my time

(you're right, of course, i probably would've found something to hate, i'm just as the good Lord made me etc)

(curley had a good paper on that connection back in the 80s or 90s, if i recall correctly)

i haven't read the treatises on government and other of locke's political writings closely in years (just the essay), so i wouldn't want to venture an opinion on that

hobbes thought highly of the ttp from what i recall, though, so maybe there's a connection there

(though in a less explicit way)

and almost certainly cicero too!

it'd be interesting to see how this meshes with the stuff in EIVp29-37s2

(i also think we tend to downplay the ways spinoza is an aristotelian these days, and the division of types of government and their corruptions is one of those; compare with politics iii 7/1279b4-1279b10)

not off the top of my head; i want to say matheron but i'll go back and look

(though i know some folks think ``reason'' refers at times to the second and at other times to the third kind of cognition, so that complicates things)

so reason/second kind of cognition hooks onto the order of nature, but intuition/third kind of cognition, being more active, rearranges ideas of the affections of the human body in a way that reason in that sense doesn't

oh cool; the interesting thing i've always liked in EVp10 is that it's not just about perceiving things according to the order of the intellect, but rearranging our ideas (``ordinandi et concatenandi'') to mirror it, which is much closer to mental satisfaction imo

as you know, i'm angling to change this

as to op's second remark (that there's little about this in english), this is correct; from what i recall the french scholarship is better about this

i suspect this is downstream from an anglophone prejudice that part V is hopeless, so we should mostly focus on I-III

strongly agree, though maybe for dfferent reasons than op; see for example his remarks on memory and the common order of nature vs the order of the intellect in EIIp18s and how that relates to what he says EVp21dem and its implications for the eternity of the mind

extraordinary work

Texas A&M, Under New Curriculum Limits, Warns Professor Not to Teach Plato

update: martin is replacing the module on plato with one on academic freedom

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