Posts from January 2011
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Re: Feudal real estate
The Politics of Madness / was Re: [LeftLibertarian2] how many non-po
Re: labeling means and ends
Re: Feudal real estate / was Re: [LeftLibertarian2] Re: Positive ext
Re: how many non-political assassinations?
Gödel/was Re: [LeftLibertarian2] Re: Fear and Control: The TSA Case
Gödel/was Re: [LeftLibertarian2] Re: Fear and Control: The TSA Case
Mises and God/was Re: Fear and Control: The TSA Case
Comment on How To Do Things With Words by Rad Geek
MBH,
(1) If Jocasta is not really Oedipus’s mother, then there is nothing wrong with him sleeping with her.
(2) If Oedipus (reasonably?) believes that Jocasta is not really his mother, then there is nothing wrong with him sleeping with her.
Some people believe that if (1) is true, so is (2). (Generally because they are internalists about justification.) I do not believe that. Perhaps you believe it; but you claimed to be sussing out my views. Of course, if you want to cherry pick some of my views here and there, ignore the rest, then roll them up with some views I don’t hold, which you made up, and pretend that this constitutes a knock-down response to my views, I can hardly stop you. But I don’t know what you think it proves. Certainly, when I explicitly tell you that my view about justification is P, and then you immediately proceed to repeat a counter-argument that depends on the claim that I accept not-P, what you are doing is hard to count as an even minimally honest response. And I do know that it’s not a game that’s worth my time to play.