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What would need to happen for London not to be the capital of London? If David Cameron declared Chipping Sodbury to be the new official capital of England, would it be the capital of England? If he moved the parliament and the executive there? If the wikipedia entries were changed? If there was...

Probably a fair diagnosis. I am trying to explain something difficult, I'm not doing as good a job as I want to or perhaps need to. To put this into context, I'm coming off arguing with a 'recovering objectivist' whose personal philosophy relies on reducing altruism to self-referentialism whilst...

*shakes head* You are assuming that the statement has to be 'true' or 'false'. If there are no facts, the objectivity of trueness and falseness fall away. I don't accept the binary you present, the precondition for accepting it is that there are facts. The fact that you're appealing to a...

I'm not saying any notion of value is contingent on there being facts, I'm saying that the notion of value you gf was working with was dependent on there being facts. You wrote, paraphrasing your girl; To me that's really clear, unless you're stating that there is no such thing as value. If...

Yet we disagree profoundly over quite a lot, so we are interpreting the words on the pages of this forum thread in significantly different ways - suggesting meaning is contingent on our individual narrative contexts rather than individually reaching the same closures using some kind of strange...

I am not being disingenuous. You are now the one indulging in sophistry.

How do you define the meaning of words without other words? How do you define the words you've just used to define the original word(s)? Have fun!

There are exceptions to that actually.

Not what I wrote. Please read again. I disagree. You need to demonstrate that I think (don't think you can). A sly dig, but ultimately a silly attempt to define the analytical school of philosophy as the 'real'. Yawn. So if you ultimately don't respect/grasp left-wing continental philosophy...

Don't specious and sophistical mean more or less the same thing? They are both ultimately interpretations. Sure I'm not denying it is a useful and probably necessary shorthand to describe those things as facts. But they are not objective facts, hot and cold *are* subjective states - I think...

The demand for the kind of freedom sought by philosophical libertarians, the demand for pure altruism, the demand for facts etc I think I've missed the point? Only kidding. I think that notion of value is dependent on the precondition of there being facts and so it's no surprise that the...

Slavoj Zizek, “The Fear of Four Words: A Modest Plea for the Hegelian Reading of Christianity,” in The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic, ed. Creston Davis (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009) 27-28...

To view it as an intellectual construct is probably to misunderstand the point. When yogis or whatever talk about God, or waheguru or the source, Mother Earth or whatever, they are connecting with a part of themselves. We respond to notions of the divine in a way that we can only otherwise get...

Forget Eagleton, he's not relevant here - that's my mistake. He's another ageing academic who has lived a life in academia. I find your definition of fact as true state of the world to be as empty as the definition of God as 'the mysterious'. They are both reliant on existential demands that...

Or really to many people at all. Who really cares if Luke goes first? It kinda makes some sense to keep the really crazy one until last, from a narrative perspective. But whether people can remember the order is immaterial. Hardly the man on the Clapham omnibus though yes? My suspicion is that...

To be fair, he did make a bit of a tit of himself when he stated that he could 'of course' state the full title of Darwin's Origin of Man. And then failed to do so when challenged. After having tried to make stock of the fact that many people surveyed (on his organisation's behalf) identified...

Anger is a pretty important part of love, though perhaps the most challenging. And there is a difference between joyous and joyful. Thanks for the mix!

I've listened to Oleku 20 times in the last 12 hours. But I'm enjoying this stuff a lot. Listening to Kiss in the gym has softened me up.

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The notion of childishness reminds me of the ol' Ken Wilber 'pre/trans fallacy' where 'romantics' elevate all non-rational states to the status of trans-rational. To be twee is often to take the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp 'A Child I Will Always Be' far too seriously. In a secular society...