[lit-ideas] Re: Homage to Donal McEvoy
- From: "Walter C. Okshevsky" <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 18:40:10 -0330
Sounds like private reason to me. Kant requires public reason for truth and
justice to prevail in a Republic of Ends. "Fisticuffs" is hardly an adequate
answer to "What is Enlightenment?" (Unless you're really, really good, and you
overthrow the champion. But if you lose ....)
Cheers, Walter
P.S. I have been asked to speak on Kant's conception of "Enlightenment" at a
conference. I accepted. Does anyone know anything about this? I certainly
don't.
Quoting Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>:
> In my private culture, such philosophical disputes are resolved by fists. It
> helps to drink a few before, and a few after. :)
>
> O.K.
>
>
>
> On Monday, February 24, 2014 10:51 PM, Walter C. Okshevsky <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> Many thanks, Robert. I see I'll need a fresh bottle of Oban to appropriately
> savour these wonderful definitions. Adding more definitions to the list is
> certainly more entertaining than Scrabble or Monopoly.
>
> Cheers, Walter
>
>
> Quoting Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>:
>
> > Uxbridge Dictionary of Philosophy
> >
> > This dictionary, an illegitimate but fertile offspring of the Uxbridge
> > English Dictionary <http://www.alspcs.com/main.html> and the Philosophical
> > Lexicon <http://www.philosophicallexicon.com/>, was started by Anthony
>
> > Gottlieb, author of *The Dream of Reason: A History of Western
> > Philosophy* (Penguin
> > 2001). Suggestions for new entries should be sent to Hugh Mellor.
> >
> > *A fortiori*: There are at least 40 papers on this already
> > *A posteriori*: He is talking out of his arse
> > *A priori*: Someone already said that
> > *Abstraction*: Stretching stomach muscles
> > *Accidental property*: Windfall
> > *Aesthetic*: Pain-inducing
> > *Argumentum ad baculum*: Back-stabbing
> > *B-theory of time*: Time is honey
> > *Bad company objection*: 'That's what *they* say'
> > *Canonical form*: Clergyman's track record
> > *Chinese Room*: Restaurant with effective but uncomprehending waiters
> > *Chinese Room Argument*: Dispute in a Chinese Room (q.v.)
> > *Contingent proposition*: Unnecessary remark
> > *Converse*: Prisoners' poetry
> > *Copula*: Small policewoman
> > *Demiurge*: Weak inclination
> > *Determinist*: Ambitious colleague
> > *Disposition*: Here (see also 'dat-position')
> > *Dualist*: Disputatious
> > *Endurantist*: Patient listener
> > *Entailment*: What Manx cats envy
> > *Error theory*: Your theory
> > *Ex post facto*: The proof is in the mail
> > *Existential import*: Cheap foreign philosophy
> > *Extensional operator*: Masseur
> > *Extensionally adequate*: Stinks but otherwise OK
> > *External relation*: Foreign family member
> > *Fallacy*: Male-dominated
> > *Fictionalist*: Liar
> > *Formal ontology*: Black tie metaphysics
> > *Framework*: Conceptual zimmer frame
> > *Genidentity*: Jennifer's essence
> > *Goedel's Theorem*: 'Every system of truths contains at least one
> > misrepresented by popularisers'
> > *Heterological*: Preferring the other truth-value
> > *Idealist*: String of suggestions
> > *Internal relation*: Embryo
> > *Intuition*: Under instruction
> > *Material conditional*: A device for drawing material conclusions from
> > immaterial premises
> > *Mentalese*: Dualist painkiller
> > *Metaphysics*: Just encountered a branch of science
> > *Monist*: Philosophical whinger
> > *Naturalist*: Bare particular
> > *One over many*: Head of Department
> > *Ontic vagueness*: Indeterminate credit
> > *Ontological commitment*: Longevity
> > *Overdetermined*: Tries too hard
> > *Paradox*: Military airports
> > *Physicalist*: Muscular naturalist (q.v.)
> > *Presentist*: Generous gift-giver
> > *Property dualism*: 'What's yours is mine'
> > *Propositional calculus*: The science of pick-up lines
> > *Reductionist*: Administrator
> > *Second order desire*: Wish for a refill
> > *Semantics*: Sea-going parasites
> > *Specious present*: Gift-horse
> > *Sorites Paradox*: 'Philosophers never lose enough hair to become bald'
> > *Supervenience*: Large toilet
> > *Surprise Test Paradox*: Students are never ready for the exam
> > *Theodicy*: Companion piece to Theiliad
> > *Third Man Argument*: I can't see what's wrong with this, but X can
> > *Thomist*: Bibliophile
> > *Transcendental Argument*: Enables philosophers to endure the toothache
> > *Transworld identity*: Frequent flyer number
> > *Two-place relation*: Family member with a second home
> > *Universalist*: Academic poet
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > The foregoing is rom the *Uxbridge Dictionary of Philosophy *
> >
> >
> >
> > http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/dhm11/DictPhil.html
> >
> >
> >
> > The UDP is itself one of the the sub-categories of David Chalmers'
> >
> >
> >
> > *Philosophical Humor * page
> >
> >
> >
> > <http://consc.net/phil-humor.html>
> >
> >
> > Despite what you may think, David Chalmers is a very smart guy.
> >
> >
> > Robert Paul
> >
>
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