economics and philosophy

[anosognosia]

It's interesting watching the varied reactions to the surprising success of Ron Paul's campaign in the Republican party

Comments

[4inquiries]

This is a helpful insight, thanks.

Does anyone have an idea how the tension between the one and the many should be read into the education system?

[countessm3]

I think the whole problem is the arbitrary assignment of meaning and value to capital, which in itself has no use value. That said, I'm not a socialist.

[anosognosia]

I think you're right, though I would say we should distinguish between real capital and what only pretends to be capital. Typically we do not make any distinction like this, and our social-economic goals amount to moving money or numbers around, thinking that this itself does something, when often it doesn't--as when market dynamics undo the significance of the change: if you have more money but prices are higher, your more money doesn't actually count for anything. Worse, often real capital is destroyed in the name of fake capital. This confusion between what does and doesn't have real value is definitely something I am trying to invoke in the OP.

[the_new_lemon]

When considering either horn of this dialectical dilema, we must first ask ourselves: is this option Yablo-conceivable? Only then can we do whatever it is one does when something is Yablo-conceivable.

[anosognosia]

Your userpic gives me the epistemic presentation of knowing that Yablo is, and I know that what is must be possible for I find myself unable to conceive of an actuality without at once thinking that that thing must be possible, from this I infer from your userpic that Yablo is possible. But if the act of mind by which your userpic gives me the epistemic presentation of knowing that Yablo is is called sensation, what is that act of mind by which I am given the epistemic presentation that Yablo is possible? Surely this is conception, in which case it follows that I can conceive Yablo. Or at least I find myself epistemically presented with an ability to conceive Yablo. Perhaps it will turn out that I am in error.

[the_new_lemon]

Note, however, that the userpic itself is merely a visual representation of Yablo, and the epistemic presentation within which you claim knowledge of Yablo is really a second representation given by the senses. We must conclude from this that your purported knowledge of the being of Yablo comes from this double representation, which means that your conception of Yablo must be based solely on the possibility of Yablo rather than direct knowledge of Yablo's being, for the actuality of Yablo cannot be found in mere representation. Thus, you are in error in respect to the possession of knowledge of Yablo's being, although the possibility and conceivability of Yablo is preserved by other means.

[anosognosia]

In most cases you would be correct. However, let it be said amongst all that I at once will Yablo and know Yablo, and this knowledge is but the unity of my willing and knowing. And so Yablo is given immediately as the fact/act of my original conscious in which it becomes through its internal activity that which is capable of conceiving, through the primordial intuition of the Scribbly One.

[mindcontrol]

This is the complete opposite to the comments I read at the bottom of Yahoo.com news articles. Thanks for having a cogent opinion about a contemporary political issue.

[paulhope]

This is why the various 'open' intellectual movements (software, data, access to research, etc.) is so important