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Amateur philosopher Steve Patterson writes a book in which he attempts to refute radical skepticism. Paid $1000 to professional philosopher Jason Brennan to review it. It's trash, Brennan says
>Patterson does a decent job reciting the arguments against what I call “super-duper radical skepticism.” He does almost nothing to defeat what I call “radical skepticism”. He does not actually bother to defend a foundationalist theory of knowledge. Still, his book beautifully written, takes only an hour to read, and at least defeats super-duper radical skepticism. We might ask: Is this at least a good book for a lay audience?
>Unfortunately, the answer is no, for two big reasons. First, there are far better books, such as Thomas Nagel’s The View from Nowhere or Michael Huemer’s Skepticism and the Veil of Perception. Second, Patterson’s book is chock full of elementary errors. Nearly every page contains some major mistake or conflates two or more distinct ideas together. Laypeople would be better off having no exposure to philosophy at all.
>In the end, Square One is a beautifully written text, with lucid prose and delightful metaphors. What’s new isn’t good and what’s good isn’t new. Patterson could condense the entire thing to about 3000 words. Five stars for style; one star for substance.
http://steve-patterson.com/jason-brennans-full-review-square-one/
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>>9687565
DESU if you want to be a serious philosopher you should at least have a phD in philosophy/critical theory. There are somethings you can teach yourself, but you really need a strong foundation (i.e. talk to a lot of experts so your interpretation isn't solipsistically wrong) if you want to be a philosopher.
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>>9687648
a person should be able to write a decent book for the laymen, with nothing new, with just a bachelor
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>>9687648
Did Plato have a phD in philosophy/critical theory?
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Name a better literary antagonist than Judge Holden
pro-tip: you can't
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Moby Dick
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>>9687402
im styling on u
wolf larsen
maurice cochis
Milady
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whats wrong with dualism?
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>>9687263
Nothing, anon.
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Who said there's anything wrong with dualism? (Except for the monists and pluralists of course.)
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If we're talking about mind/body dualism, the problem is that if they're two distinct entities you can't explain how they interact.
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How to keep my books looking nice
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Seems like no matter what I do they end up getting beat to shit, frayed pages, covered begin tearing at the corners, etc. just from carrying the book around with me. All my books that I've read just look so ugly.
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Do you carry around any hardcovers or just paperbacks?
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why would you care that much about the look? why are you so vain?
my aenid is in pieces -- still readable.
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>>9687253
I have tons of paperbacks and I love how dog-earned and worn they all get. It shows this book has been handled and read all over. Most of my paperbacks are used so they have all sorts of wear.
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I finished pic related about a week ago and I it was the most fun I had in a long time with a book.
I went through heart of a dog in a sitting and had a blast with it.
I plan on reading the rest of Bulgakov but i was wondering if there are any similar writers i can check, or any other stories about theistic antics with fat cats on them
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>any other stories about theistic antics with fat cats on them
i got u senpai
jon arbuckle is the deist btw
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>>9687274
Couldn't be more wrong, Garfield represents the Demiurge
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>>9687294
That would make Jon an acolyte right? Even though he scorns Garfield he still does his bidding in almost all things.
Jon is also a humanist. He believes in his fellow man. No amount of rejection from potential mates will stop him in his quest to start a family.
At times inspiring, at others, revelation. Garfield is this and more.
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>On the outskirts of the city they came to a supermarket. A few old cars in the trashstrewn parking lot. They left the cart in the lot and walked the littered aisles. In the produce section in the bottom of the bins they found a few ancient runner beans and what looked to have once been apricots, long dried to wrinkled effigies of themselves. The boy followed behind. They pushed out through the rear door. In the alleyway behind the store a few shopping carts, all badly rusted. They went back through the store again looking for another cart but there were none. By the door were two soft drink machines that had been tilted over into the floor and opened with a prybar. Coins everywhere in the ash. He sat and ran his hand around in the works of the gutted machines and in the second one it closed over a cold metal cylinder. He withdrew his hand slowly and sat looking at a Coca Cola™.
>What is it, Papa?
>It's the Real Thing™. For you.
>What is it?
>Here. Sit down. Open Happiness™.
>He slipped the boy's knapsack straps loose and set the pack on the floor behind him and he put his thumbnail under the aluminum clip on the top of the Red, White & You™ and opened it. He leaned his nose to the slight fizz coming from America's Real Choice™ and then handed it to the boy. Go ahead, he said. Make it Real™.
>The boy took the can. It's bubbly, he said.
>Go ahead.
>He looked at his father and then tilted the can and drank. He sat there thinking about it. Can't Beat the Feeling™, he said.
>Yes. Life Tastes Good™.
>You have some, Papa.
>I want you to drink it.
>You have some.
>He took the can and Tasted the Feeling™ and handed it back. You Walk on the Coke Side of Life™, he said. Let's just sit here.
>It's because I wont ever get to Enjoy™ again, isn't it?
>Ever's a long time.
>Okay, said the boy.
wtf i love Coca Cola™ now
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>>9687154
It's called realism you fucking dolt.
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I can't even grasp what this thread is trying to say. Authors should never ever use real brands or trademarks in their books?
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>>9687154
The whole point, if you'd read this short, easy book carefully, is that the father is unable to shirk the specter of the past (pre-apocalypse) and is prone to sentimentality and risky behavior. The accident wipes everything clean. Notice all the references to scoured billboards, etc.? The father, remembering what he does, cannot let go of the past despite his efforts. He tries to share this with the boy but, having no memory of another world, he cannot understand why Coke or an abandoned house affects his father. The boy neccesarily engages with the world differently
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>And who but one--and that one he who, but for those who crowded round him then, had never met a look of kindness, or known a word of pity--could tell what agony of mind, what blighted thoughts, what unavailing sorrow, were involved in that sad parting?
>‘See,’ cried Nicholas eagerly, as he looked from the coach window, ‘they are at the corner of the lane still! And now there’s Kate, poor Kate, whom you said you couldn’t bear to say goodbye to, waving her handkerchief. Don’t go without one gesture of farewell to Kate!’
>‘I cannot make it!’ cried his trembling companion, falling back in his seat and covering his eyes. ‘Do you see her now? Is she there still?’
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Reads like something a Victorian would write if he was paid by the word.
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>>9687144
Eh, not his best, no.
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Guys, i'm about to send a script to literary agents. To describe the genre of my book, the closest i can think of would be dystopian fiction...although dystopian feels a lot more final than the tone of it.
What similar genre descriptions would you think of?
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cuck fiction
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fagtion
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Niggation?
So /lit/ I'm taking a month off from work, and I won't have shit to do.
I thought I could spend some time reading something, or learning about some specific topic.
What is the most patrician thing I could spend my time on? I considered buying Lingua Latina by Hans Orberg and finally learning some latin.
What would you advice me to do during this month?
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Try Ulysses.
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Read about aesthetics and the philosophy of art. Stick with the germans: Baumgarten, Lessing, Kant, Hegel, Benjamin, Heidegger, etc.
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What do people think about Ray Bradbury?
I know he wrote Fahrenheit 451 but what about his other works? Are they any good, should they be read? I've heard good things about 'The October Country.'
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I loved "the illustrated man" very worthwhile collection of short story's spun in a metanarrative
I also heard the "Mars chronicles" are quite good although I have not personally read them
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>>9686809
something wicked this way comes is excellent
martian chronicles is cute
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a sound of thunder and other short stories along with martian chronicles are some of my favorite collections.
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Someone suggested I post my question here, so here it goes...
Call me a faggot all you want, but where can I go to host or post a light novel and update it, like, biweekly? I like writing short stories and shit as a hobby, and I'm not looking to make money off of it, I just want to share my drivel with people who either love it or hate it.
I don't want to get paid for it, I just want people to read my work. It's a hobby.
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Fanfiction.com or Wattpad.
Enjoy
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>>9686748
1. Faggot
2. No, we do not want to read your poorly written brain farts.
Fuck off.
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unironically tumblr
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>you now remember this book
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it was a good book about nazis
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>>9686729
I don't
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>>9686729
Oooh, do they fuck?
Because that's the only way I would have read the book.
Second question, is it written by Gerald Morris, and if not was there any backlash for clearly ripping the title from A Squire's Tail?
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I don't like when people use unsuitable terms like baroque to describe literature.
It upsets me.
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I don't even know what it means. Emotional, dynamic and extravagant?
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I get what you mean. It's like how some people say "mystery books" when really you can just read the damn book and find out what happens in it, it's no mystery
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>>9686503
If only there were some resource to learn what that word could mean.
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words that sound like their definition
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>voluptuous
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>analytical
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>skein
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>>9686411
my sphincter clenched as I read that.
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Is this the best translation of Demons available? Looking to order a copy some point soon.
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Dostoevsky's novels are preferred to be translated by Constance Garnett, despite her bad reputation. The Pos'd was translated in her later period and was critically well received. I am not familiar with that particular translation, but here there is at least one known correct choice.
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>>9686299
>by book named demons with triangles all over by guy with spooky name
>not a single summoning instruction in 600 pages
Man, these grimoires are getting too cryptic for my taste
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>>9686299
It nearly drove me fucking crazy. I felt raped after giving up half way through.
I don't know if its because its a shit book (Nabaknov had an autistic conniption over it) or if its because the translation was shit but considering P&V's reputation I am tempted it was due to the former.