/lit/ - Literature

>>20513947
Das right.

Saved 2014

Butterfly on older laptop

>>16852659
Definitely the best edition

If its not on Libgen/ZLib or archive.org where do you go? Not being able to find a work is fucked up

Corncob has his moments, but he's definitely overrated.

Is there a cure for biological reductionism? Whenever I begin to reason about something I become aware that it is an illusion because the self exists in the brain and isn't going to be separated from it, then whenever I try and think about what I should be doing in conclude I think this way because of conditioning, i don't know why but this pulls the rug out from under me in discerning what's true or false

>>11355820
You've conflated metaphysical truth with actuarial truth and constructed an abstraction out of the amalgam of the two concepts. Which has led you to misinterpret his statements as being akin to justified true belief, instead of as a philosophical interpretation of a poorly understood set of principles within the epistemological assessment of value judgements as true or untrue.

When he says something is true, in metaphysical terms, he's saying that specific interpretations of the infinite range that are possible are more true than others with respect to the systems and mechanisms that humans use to interpret the instantiations themselves.

For example;

Burning all of your money is a possible solution to a financial crisis you're having. The postmodernist says that if you believe this solution to be true, then it becomes JUST AS TRUE as any alternate solution.

Peterson says that while burning all your money is just as VALID an interpretation as investing it wisely, and creating budgets to deal with your financial crisis, it's certainly possible to prove that burning all your money makes you retarded and wrong if you believe it will solve your financial problems.

They're diametrically, fundamentally, opposing ideas.

>>11131297
>>11131299
>>11131307

My fear is my writing style is unique enough to betray my identity even if I remain anonymous or use a different name.