I must be missing something in Omar's link. Is Britney into philosophy these days? Before I forgets, I wish to wish - yes, that's a second-order wish, though not transcendental by any means - one and all in this pub a very Happy Holiday season with much joy, prosperity, and fulfillment in the New Year. May old wounds inflicted upon one another during the course of heated argumentation in this admirably intellectual and inebriated space of reasons be forgot as we look forward to yet another year of critiquing the incoherencies of each others' basic philosophical beliefs. Na zdarovye, tovarishe! (Of course, you'll only be able to understand that utterance if you share the relevant form of life. Roar!) Transcendentally yours, Walter O. Quoting Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > --- On Fri, 12/19/08, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Sounds right to me > To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Friday, December 19, 2008, 4:18 AM > > Walter wrote > >>> The remarks garnered together by [Malcolm] and Von Wright as > "On > >>> [C]ertainty" are surely a testament to transcendental > philosophy. The fundamental and > >>> pervasive claim running throughout those remarks is that if you > doubted the validityof > >>> "hinge propositions," you would not be able to > coherently doubt > >>> at all, nor would you be able to make any knowledge-claims. > > Alas, it was von Wright and Miss Anscombe what garnered them. I'm signing > off now. All this excitement has worn me down. > > * I wanted to post this several days ago but thought that it might not be > appropriate. > http://www.bittenandbound.com/2008/12/14/bush-shoe-video-photos/O.K. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html