#308

Reminds me of how Foucault refused to cite huge chunks of Marx Because he thought people would realise that those words weren’t his.

Of course, I read this in a book

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#309

all right Elon

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#310

There will be one for every Sonnet too.

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#311

I was gonna dig into this but I’ll await the proper thread and we can all have nice mugs of hot takes about Shakespeare

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#313

yeah I kind of am tbh I think

#314

does this come down to “books are bad because i haven’t written one”?

great take

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#315

I’ve probably written more of philosophical value on DiS than many published authors. what’s the distinction?

#317

very admirable but what are you using to do the scrutinising?

#319

You’ve not said much in this thread I didn’t read in my second year of uni tbh.

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#320

I feel if I made a logical fallacy I’d be able to notice it or it would be because I’m falsely interpreting my own thoughts after the fact.

#321

that’s good, even less need for academia for me then

#323

Das Zentrist

#324

I think it’s more likely that it would destroy my brain

#326

at what point did it change to a bear in a little car?

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#328

no I haven’t

#329

‘Mr Nice’ by Karl Marx

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#332

Instead you would get the prejudices of the person telling you instead though?

Maybe I don’t understand your point entirely, but wouldn’t they need to have read it in a book (or equivalent knowledge repository) before passing it on to you?

The platonic ideal of knowledge free from authorial context is an interesting one, but if you replace authorial context with the messenger you’re in no purer a position.

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#333

I don’t accept or believe that reductio ad absurdum is a fallacy, to call something absurd or extreme is not an end stage of an argument or discussion.

ad hominem - I have explained all of my thoughts in this thread separate from people’s character.

#335

Today was a good day to not go on dis

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#338

it’s a fallacy because somebody coined it and wrote it down? I don’t see why that would affect whether I think it makes me illogical. I absolutely get to define that for me