/lit/ - Literature

>>22288904
How is Aristotle's position sophomoric? The Paradox of the Arrow is a fallacy of composition. Of course the arrow isn't moving in any one frozen moment. Time is the dimension over which change occurs. Without change there is no observable time dimension, which is as true in Minkowski Space-Time as in classical mechanics.

Also, for all his "I am le based physicalist, we must dispell the evils of mysticism," Russell primarily is motivated to deny the reality of change and that cause exists to save his precious propositions from problems with temporal and modal logic. This was a fool's errand anyhow because later problems with logic and the death of logicalism in mathematics fucked his project anyhow.

But what is Mr. Realist's theory of meaning. Ah right, we understand language by "grasping," eternal abstract objects, propositions, that exist outside space-time with our minds. Great physicalism bruh.

It's funny because there is a logic but subject to incompleteness and undefinability, and Russel rejected it because he got filtered by The Science of Logic. Objective Logic was the all along. The Greater and Lesser Logics will be considered masterworks for centuries while the Principia is already not but a historical curiosity.

>>21904282
Don't bother with words. You want to be analytical, rigorous!

Analytical philosophy was developed as a reaction against Hegel, but now Hegel has sublated analytical philosophy, giving us this perfectly understandable form of the dialectical.

Much clearer!

https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Science+of+Logic
https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Aufhebung
https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Hegel%27s+%22Logic%22+as+Modal+Type+Theory

>>21898665
It was partly this >>21898761, and partly a joke because these are generally regarded as some of the most difficult texts to read in philosophy, or really of any discipline, so stacking them all week by week is fairly ridiculous.

Houlgate suggests dedicating an entire semester graduate seminar to the first 15% of the Logic and has a 500 page book dedicated just to that. Whitehead is also notoriously opaque and difficult.

That's why I threw in the mathematics used to formalize Hegel in recent years too. Obviously it's ridiculous to jump into it in a week.

While new and without the pedigree, Floridi's non-introductory work can be similarly difficult, although he mostly writes fairly accessibly since philosophy of mathematics/information is already so unpopular that books for specialists are for a tiny pool.

>>21880708
What Hegel does to you.