#459

Think I understand this and I think I like it

#460

Lol sorry everyone, I genuinely didn’t mean to be so obtuse

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#461

Corner sofas

#462

Going in 2 footed on the continental school. Philosophy brexit.

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#463

Sir this is a Pizza Hut

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#464

Like, how all the letters are big and easier to read.

#466

I think he’s saying that this whole imbroglio is epiphenomenal

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#467

I still can’t understand what you’re getting at in the second paragraph, could you explain? :slightly_smiling_face:

#468

solidarity is possible once proper knowledge of our material conditions is achieved thru lived experience init. we can feel each other’s pain and pool information via books and research papers and that as a result. i think they are saying that if you write from this perspective it’s inherently valuable.

#469

(i think)

#470

Can I boil your reply down to ‘if we try and empathise with eachother and make an effort to read about each others lived experiences we can achieve solidarity’?

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#471

yes, yours is better actually

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#472

i’m glad we’ve boiled all this down to one sentence. It’s like when you’re over the word count at uni and had to reduce 500 words to a paragraph and a reference to one of the set texts at 5AM

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#473

I reckon I’d quite enjoy capitalism if I had any capital

#474

Erm basically that knowledge can be claimed through understanding our experiences in the world, or through using abstract reasoning (or other ways but ignore them for now). Mostly just saying that all knowledge ultimately derives from experience in one way or another, even abstract reasoning, and denying that isn’t a good idea. But I guess it’s more complicated than that.

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#475

this made me remember “Experience must teach me what reason cannot” and then I remembered that this was John Locke and then I remembered that I read this in a book in the library at sixth form more than 20 years ago and then I remembered that reading and remembering are also experiences too and that only reasoning will allow us to investigate the truth of experience

and then I went to bed because I have to get up early for work tomorrow so I can maximise money-making

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#476

I like I can pay for someone to plow my driveway in the snow, rather than having to shovel it.

#477

snow-plow library

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#478

Mr Plow
That’s my name
That name again
Is Mr Plow

Its only just occurred to me how funny that jingle is

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#479

Which in turn tee’d up David Hume to most fully develop the sensory/psychological element of human knowledge - probably the most enduring Enlightenment development (especially now we widely accept that humans are more governed by ‘sensation’ as opposed to ‘reason’, work essentially finished off by Freud/Jung etc. in their discoveries that, frankly, we’re all over the place)