Word salad pretending to be meaningful speech. — StreetlightX
I wouldn't, because there is no singular 'analytical style'. As if something as ephemeral as 'style' determined anything at all in the first place. — StreetlightX
I literally do not know what you mean by this. — Srap Tasmaner
A fallacious appeal to authority is not 'evidence'. It's laziness and shitty pseudo-scholarship three times over. — StreetlightX
es, this kind of 60,000ft view is made for outsiders and neophytes to satisfy a misplaced craving for generality. It takes the ignorant or the impudent to think anything substantive can be said on the basis of it. — StreetlightX
I wouldn't find this an acceptable way to talk about "modern philosophy" or "Marxist philosophy" or "feminist philosophy" or "German philosophy". — Srap Tasmaner
It has a multitude of styles and approaches. — StreetlightX
(And the same with "continental philosophy.") — SophistiCat
No, I consider these 'invalid' because 'the analytical form' corresponds to nothing but a fantasy that exists nowhere but in your head. — StreetlightX
There is nothing to deal with. You're speaking at a level of generality so broad as to be useless. There's no there there. — StreetlightX
I'm about as much a proponent of 'the analytical form' as I am a coconut. What I am against however, is the peddling of ignorance by the ignorant and arrogant. — StreetlightX
I am genuinely puzzled by this, because it sounds like the sort of anti-intellectualism I expect to find anywhere but on a philosophy board — Srap Tasmaner
Of course it says a lot that the zealot for 'reason' here is indulging in a couple of totally fallacious appeals to authority while offering about as much substantive critique as an empty juice box. — StreetlightX
If you want to see real life puritans try questioning the value of the Analytical form and see what happens. — JerseyFlight
I responded to himself because he kept disrupting conversations and I wanted him to stop doing that. I tried a couple different ways of doing that -- well, they seemed different to me -- but I don't know why. It's really clear this is just an ideological thing for him, and I shouldn't have allowed myself to get sucked in. — Srap Tasmaner
Religion and politics and ethics are philosophical domains rife with emotion. Most of the problems in these domains stem from confusing their subjective "truths" with objective ones. — Harry Hindu
Personally this risk element is what I find attractive about this forum. It makes me cautious about what I post, and sharpens my thoughts. And, as others have mentioned, being subjected to this risk, can result in surprisingly good new ideas. I feel it is extremely poor form however, and well out of order, to try to ban somebody because your personal philosophy cannot reasonably stand up to theirs. That would be school yard bullying, in my opinion, not philosophy. — Pop
Analytic philosophy, as I understand it, is a tonic, a roborant. It's a cure for what ails philosophy to the extent philosophy is assailed by the grotesqueries and mummeries of certain practitioners, which arise from the misuse of language — Ciceronianus the White
What a fucking dipshit. — creativesoul
The last forty or fifty years can characterised in terms of the application of analytic techniques to areas previously not consider part of the analytic analytic - Phenomenology, psychology and psychiatry, social theory — Banno
It is as if he sought to cure alcoholism by interrupting the winos on the street and smashing their bottles and beating them up. — unenlightened
He has defended all statues, including the statues of the first African American regiment, abolitionists, and Frederick Douglass. He wants MLK, Harriot Tubman, Booker T Washington, Frederick Douglass, Jackie Robinson in his “heroes park”. — NOS4A2
These are the actions of a racist president? — NOS4A2
I have noticed a turn towards more of this kind of ad hom also, and I think good practice would be to label it, also a third party. If we see someone ad homming in this way, even if they are doing it to a poster we disagree with or has their own basket of fallacies, we should label it out and demand they make a case, critique a position, support their own position. — Coben
I am more worried about people like you and others that want to silence the ideas of other people just because the don't like them. — Sir2u
other then instituting some rules of engagement or such. — Pop
I'm saying that, for the most part, it's not worth the effort of engaging; they won't be convinced to change their minds, so you'll just be wasting your own precious time arguing against a brick wall. — Pfhorrest
If some people do want to spend the time to give a quick rebuttal for the sake of onlookers, then that is valuable — Pfhorrest
I'm saying that threads like this complaining about the existence of shallow unreasoning religious people are little better. — Pfhorrest
This is true of Analytic philosophy for neglecting the experiential/embodies/practical side, but it's also true of Continental philosophy for neglecting the mathematical/ideal/linguistic side. — Pfhorrest
I'm as anti-religious as they come and I think threads like this one are just as low-quality and (for lack of a better word) disruptive as the shallow little-reasoning religious threads are. — Pfhorrest
I generally think the best solution to that kind of problem is to ignore it — Pfhorrest
I'm going to make a single point and then leave you to your crusade. — Srap Tasmaner
Bertrand Russell... He was also a prominent antiwar activist among many other things. — Srap Tasmaner
Michael Dummett, one of the most prominent philosophers in the analytic tradition essentially suspended his professional work for a few years to campaign for immigrants' rights and racial equality. — Srap Tasmaner
The point of these examples and of the Tarski quote I posted isn't that analytic philosophy can save the world, but that we don't need you to tell us the world is on fire. — Srap Tasmaner
Seriously, is there any way to compare a bunch of hyped up bible blathers to the nazis? — Sir2u
If you get upset by them I think it says more about you and your agenda than theirs. — Sir2u
In any case why are you seeking to make this about me, rather than addressing my arguments? — Janus
To say Analytic Philosophy is nothing but "empty ideas that lead nowhere" is a dogmatic pronouncement — Janus
This is no better than religious puritanism which arrogates to itself the right to declare what has value and what doesn't for others. — Janus
Training in Analytic Philosophy may sharpen the critical intellect — Janus
Mostly Spinoza, the German Idealists, Heidegger, Whitehead, Wittgenstein, some Peirce, some James, some Dewey, some Frankfurt School, a smattering of Foucault, Derrida and Deleuze, bits and pieces of Zizek, — Janus
A highly emotional state will illicit a highly emotional response. Not that it is a justified response, but it is a typically human response. — Pop
The difficulty, as I see it, is in separating emotion from reason. — Pop