Implicit in this argument is the additonal argument that if a news outlet doesn't adequately promote the correct ethical side, financial pressure should be placed upon that outlet to get it to change its course.
I'd argue that it is this type of reasoning that has led to the politicalization and delegitimization of much of media where you go only to your own personal trusted news source for any information. — Hanover
The article makes clear that NYT readers believe the NYT has an ethical duty to promote Biden and never to provide fodder to the right. — Hanover
My question is whether anyone disagrees with what I've said and believes that the press has a duty to stake out a preferred social objective and then to use its power to promote that objective? — Hanover
Do you see the press as a legitimate political force ... — Hanover
... leaving to the reader the conclusions he wishes to draw? — Hanover
Thankfully the justices can all read the plain language of the Constitution. — NOS4A2
You're quoting the concurring opinion. — NOS4A2
The majority mentioned the laws already in place to jail and disqualify insurrectionists from office. — NOS4A2
Congress must “prescribe” specific procedures to “ascertain” when an individual is disqualified under the 14th Amendment.
They probably should have mentioned that Trump was already acquitted of insurrection, as well. — NOS4A2
... on the basis of some hare-brained theory, — NOS4A2
There is one issue brought before the court and decided by the court. Per Curium. 9-0. And that was whether those who tried to remove Trump from the ballot were wrong in doing so. They were. You ignore it. — NOS4A2
(https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/03/supreme-court-trump-colorado-ballot-disaster.html)The majority says that Congress must “prescribe” specific procedures to “ascertain” when an individual is disqualified under the 14th Amendment. Such procedures, of course, do not exist today. And without them, the majority insists—in just a few paragraphs of sparse reasoning—the insurrection clause cannot be enforced against office seekers.
... reaches out to decide Section 3 questions not before us, and to foreclose future efforts to disqualify a Presidential candidate under that provision. In a sensitive case crying out for judicial restraint, it abandons that course.
(1)The world is all that is the case.
(5.634)Whatever we see could be other than it is.
Whatever we can describe at all could be
other than it is.
There is no a priori order of things.
(5.632)The subject does not belong to the world: rather, it is a limit of the world.
(5.62)The world is my world: this is manifest in the fact that the limits of language (of that language which alone I understand) mean the limits of my world.
(6.51)Scepticism is not irrefutable, but obviously nonsensical, when it tries to raise doubts where
no questions can be asked.
For doubt can exist only where a question exists, a question only where an answer exists, and an answer only where something can be said.
(6.53)The correct method in philosophy would really be the following: to say nothing except what can be said, i.e. propositions of natural science—i.e. something that has nothing to do with philosophy—and then, whenever someone else wanted to say something metaphysical, to demonstrate to him that he had failed to give a meaning to certain signs in his propositions.
(bold added)“Although federal enforcement of Section 3 is in no way at issue, the majority announced novel rules for how that enforcement must operate,” Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in their joint concurrence, referring to the section of the 14th Amendment that contains the insurrection clause. The court’s main opinion, those three justices wrote, “reaches out to decide Section 3 questions not before us, and to foreclose future efforts to disqualify a Presidential candidate under that provision. In a sensitive case crying out for judicial restraint, it abandons that course.”
Liberalism as we now understand it is the idea that no conception of the good life is to be imposed, and everyone is to be allowed to pursue their own notion of the good life. — Leontiskos
My earlier comment about epistemology was in jest, and yet that seems to have been your read on these Daoist "parables." — ENOAH
[CV, p. 47].The language used by philosophers is already deformed, as though by shoes that are too tight.
Huizi [his friend] said, “I’m not you, so I certainly don’t know what you know. And since you’re not a fish, you don’t know what fish like. There, perfect!”
Zhuangzi said, “Let’s go back to the beginning. When you asked how I knew what fish like, you had to know I knew already in order to ask. I know it by the Hao River—that’s how.
Only as I know things myself do I know them.
(6.36)If there were a law of causality, it might be put in the following way: There are laws of nature.
But of course that cannot be said: it makes itself manifest.
(5.1361)We cannot infer the events of the future from those of the present.
Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.
(6.37)There is no compulsion making one thing happen because another has happened. The
only necessity that exists is logical necessity.
(6.32)The law of causality is not a law but the form of a law.
(6.34)All such propositions, including the principle of sufficient reason, the laws of continuity in nature and of least effort in nature, etc. etc.— all these are a priori insights about the forms in which the propositions of science can be cast.
But they seem to be as inscrutable, and hence as propositionally useless, as Kant's 'things in themselves' — Janus
(5.55)We now have to answer a priori the question about all the possible forms of elementary
propositions.
Since, however, we are unable to give the number of names with different meanings, we are
also unable to give the composition of elementary propositions.
Do you read it as suggesting that we can know any "internal properties" of objects, or is all we can know of objects "external properties"? — Janus
But where is this used by Wittgenstein in the Tractatus? — Banno
objects by themselves don't do much of anything — Sam26
If I am to know an object, though I need not know its external properties, I must know all
its internal properties. (2.01231)
If all objects are given, then at the same time all possible states of affairs are also given. (20124)
From what I've read and heard things in this statement are not objects. — Sam26
A state of affairs (a state of things) is a combination of objects (things).
We're not at the object stage yet. — Sam26
Facts for Wittgenstein are states of affairs which are not things (not a list of things like table, chairs, mountains, etc), but the arrangement of things and their relationship to each other. — Sam26
(2.02)Objects are simple.
(2.021)Objects make up the substance of the world.
That is why they cannot be composite.
The book's point is an ethical one. I once meant to include in the preface a sentence which is not in fact there now but which I will write out for you here, because it will perhaps be a key to the work for you. What I meant to write, then, was this: My work consists of two parts: the one presented here plus all that I have not written. And it is precisely this second part that is the important one. My book draws limits to the sphere of the ethical from the inside as it were, and I am convinced that this is the ONLY rigorous way of drawing those limits. In short, I believe that where many others today are just gassing. I have managed in my book to put everything firmly in place by being silent about it. And for that reason, unless I am very much mistaken, the book will say a great deal that you yourself want to say. Only perhaps you won't see that it is said in the book. For now, I would recommend you to read the preface and the conclusion, because they contain the most direct expression of the point of the book.
Best drop this. It is a side line and rather pointless. — Banno
if you have all the true propositions, then you have completely described the world. — Banno
Nowhere does Wittgenstein say that we cannot know all the facts. Nowhere is that relevant to his argument. — Banno
(5.571)If I cannot say a priori what elementary propositions there are, then the attempt to do so must lead to obvious nonsense.
(5.557)The application of logic decides what elementary propositions there are.
What belongs to its application, logic cannot anticipate.
It is clear that logic must not clash with its application.
But logic has to be in contact with its application.
Therefore logic and its application must not overlap.
So too at death the world does not alter, but comes to an end.(6.432)
The world and life are one. (5.621)
I am my world. (5.63)
I don't know what this is supposed to mean. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle didn't think rational inquiry was useful? Is Plato sceptical of the dialectical having any utility? This would seem strange. — Count Timothy von Icarus
... he also seems to allow that they can point to, aid in the remembrance of, knowledge (e.g. the Meno teaching scene) — Count Timothy von Icarus
(73b-d)Well now, you know what happens to lovers, whenever they see a lyre or cloak or anything else their loves are accustomed to use: they recognize the lyre, and they get in their mind, don't they, the form of the boy whose lyre it is? And that is recollection. Likewise, someone seeing Simmias is often reminded of Cebes, and there'd surely be countless other such cases.
'I don't doubt it,' said Simmias; 'but I do need to undergo just what the argument is about, to be "reminded".
A person must be ruled over by the rational part of the soul to leave the cave — Count Timothy von Icarus
(Republic 516c-d)And suppose they received certain honours and praises from one another, and there were privileges for whoever discerns the passing shadows most keenly, and is best at remembering which of them usually comes first or last, which are simultaneous, and on that basis is best able to predict what is going to happen next.
Would it be more accurate to call this fallibalism rather than relativism? — Count Timothy von Icarus
just to be sure, is this what you think Wittgenstein is claiming in the tractatus? — Banno
Of course the propositions do not give a compete description of the world, but surely the facts do. — Banno
But if you say something about the world, it would be odd if what you say about the world were not true... — Banno
Everything that can be said about the world would not give us a complete picture of the world
— Fooloso4
Then I do not see how you can make sense of Tract 1.1 — Banno
Right, but you never will have all true propositions. All that we say does not limit what there is.
— Fooloso4
That's not the point. — Sam26
Quit trying to put words in my mouth. — Sam26
If as Wittgenstein believed, there is a one-to-one correspondence between what can be said about the world, and the facts of the world, then everything that can be said about the world, would give us a complete picture of the world. We would have completely described the world, given we have everything that can be said. — Sam26
I'm using depict in reference to what the picture displays, i.e., the content of the picture. Wittgenstein is saying that a picture doesn't represent its form, it shows or displays it. — Sam26
If you have all the true propositions, then you have completely described the world. — Sam26
If a proposition is true, then the picture, which depicts a particular form, correctly matches reality. — Sam26
(2.172)A picture cannot, however, depict its pictorial form: it displays it.
(2.15)The fact that the elements of a picture are related to one another in a determinate way represents that things are related to one another in the same way.
Let us call this connexion of its elements the structure of the picture, and let us call the
possibility of this structure the pictorial form of the picture.
(2.151)Pictorial form is the possibility that things are related to one another in the same way as
the elements of the picture.
(2.18)What any picture, of whatever form, must have in common with reality, in order to be able to depict it—correctly or incorrectly—in any way at all, is logical form, i.e. the form of reality.
(2.2)A picture has logico-pictorial form in common with what it depicts.
(2.22)What a picture represents it represents independently of its truth or falsity, by means of
its pictorial form.
If as Wittgenstein believed, there is a one-to-one correspondence between what can be said about the world, and the facts of the world, then everything that can be said about the world, would give us a complete picture of the world. We would have completely described the world, given we have everything that can be said. So, if this is true, then the limits of our language, i.e., everything that can be stated about the world, would completely describe the limits of our (or my) world. — Sam26
(6.37)There is no compulsion making one thing happen because another has happened. The only necessity that exists is logical necessity.
(PI 90)… our investigation is directed not towards phenomena, but rather, as one might say, towards the ‘possibilities’ of phenomena.
(PI 126)The name “philosophy” might also be given to what is possible before all new discoveries and inventions.
(129)The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something a because it is always before one’s eyes.) The real foundations of their inquiry do not strike people at all. Unless that fact has at some time struck them. And this means: we fail to be struck by what, once seen, is most striking and most powerful.
The problem with this perspective is that illogical thought is actually quite common, and even illogical speaking cannot be ruled out. — Metaphysician Undercover
The lack of an underlying logical structure is the position Wittgenstein moved on toward in the Philosophical Investigations ... — Metaphysician Undercover