the idiocy of your remarks on homosexuals is enough to lay bare you need for the big e On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > "Kripke also makes the point that different names for the same thing can > highlight how the way we refer to something can affect the truth of > propositions about that thing, e.g. it’s true that Mary Jane knows that > Peter Parker is Peter Parker, and that Spiderman is Spiderman, but it’s not > true that she knows that Peter Parker is Spiderman." > > No disrespect to Kripke [though his 'Kripkenstein' is a misreading of > Wittgenstein, nor does it offer a correct 'solution' to the problems of > induction which lie at the back of Kripke's take on "rules", which he > treats as though they create a sort of inductive paradox - whereas > Wittgenstein's concern is with issues like how "rules" are shown given that > their sense cannot be said], but who denied this point? And how important > is it? Where do we go with it? I mean, which is here better: "Kripke also > makes the frequently overlooked and important point that..." or "Kripke > makes the bloody obvious point, admitted even by most school-children who > know something about Spiderman, that..." > > That people can present this Kripke point without acute intellectual > embarrassment explains why they are also the kind of people unembarrassed > that Popper is nowhere on their list [which makes room for Foucault, that > hardboiled egghead of gay liberation, and bothers to give an honourable > mention to "post-Lacanian readings of contingency and fate"]. > > Shame on you all. > > D > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> > To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, 16 January 2013, 0:24 > Subject: [lit-ideas] Aristotle beats Anscombe, Kripke wallops Nussbaum > > http://philosophynow.org/issues/93/Twenty-First_Anniversary_Survey > > Robert Paul > Secretary, the Heraclitus Society > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > -- palma, KZN *יד* וַיַּעַן עָמוֹס, וַיֹּאמֶר אֶל-אֲמַצְיָה, לֹא-נָבִיא אָנֹכִי, וְלֹא בֶן-נָבִיא אָנֹכִי: כִּי-בוֹקֵר אָנֹכִי, וּבוֹלֵס שִׁקְמִים. palma University of KwaZulu-Natal Howard College Campus, philosophy department Durban 4041 South Africa Tel off: [+27] 03 12 60 15 91 Fax [+27] 03 12 60 30 31 admn Y. Hordyk : [+27] 03 12 60 22 92 mobile 07 62 36 23 91 from abroad +[27] 76 23 62 391 EMAIL: palma@xxxxxxxxxx palma's office 280 (3rd flr of Mtb) from 2o13\o1 p212 on cognition p308 on rigidity p102 intrPHIL - check venues&schedule at administrator office TBA *only when in Europe*: inst. J. Nicod 29 rue d'Ulm f-75005 paris france ------------------------------ ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Cordoba corallo Cordoba* *miele filato uva* *luna di latte* *minareto* *nel cielo madreperla * *d'Occidente!* *Oh si! Cordoba flauto e tromba* *sogno e Paradiso* *festa di eroi* *riposo!* *Riposo anche per noi* *sabbia infuocata* *nell'inferno!* * * *FRANCO SOLINAS, LA BATTAGLIA, 1978* * *