All Categories - metalogic/metaethics
March 3, 2022
Philosophy, as I see it, is the care of reflexivity, i.e., the care of the 'self' of self...
February 11, 2022
One point of comparison is that we include dialectical definitions (the term isn't so important...
January 4, 2022
Sketching how what we might call ‘real platonism’ would differ from received ‘platonism’ in...
December 29, 2021
Reflecting on countable nonstandard models of arithmetic, we first get two results that seem...
March 18, 2016
In Platonic dialectic as I currently see it, arguments typically regarded as directly asserting...
March 5, 2016
There’s more than one way of taking this line, certainly, and it seems part of Sellars’ style to...
January 14, 2016
1. Frege’s first great idea, slightly refined through subsequent mathematical experience,...
September 17, 2015
A very rough translation (really just Google plus a first pass at corrections) of the closing...
August 10, 2015
I have long suspected that groups are exemplary eide. Understanding proceeds by contraction and...
August 5, 2015
...stripped-down, given in the course of a remark on Sartre. The context is relatively arbitrary...
July 26, 2015
[This post is superseded by 'Minimal Sartre' (2018), which can be found here, here, or here.] ...
June 7, 2015
Let us speak of the kind of hierarchy that actually exists, and whose concept is metalogically...
May 26, 2015
Higher-order thought spied, from a distance, on the production of consciousness. It made a...
April 30, 2015
Note that the problem at Charm. 170d-171a is not, “The medical man knows nothing about medicine,”...
We have recalled the Form of the Good in three formulations: (1) The Form of the Good is...
March 10, 2015
The Form of the Good is that there is not a being which identically is what it is of and is of...
March 10, 2015
The form of the Good is that there is not a being which identically is what it is of and is of...
March 2, 2015
'Of course, a machinic intelligence does not care about its existence in any profound, emotional...
February 23, 2015
Aristotelianism, and the Neoplatonism that inherits it, consist in mistaking the order of the...
December 15, 2014
1. Nobly, with one hand, as tautology: 'Of course we care more about the whole than about any...