/lit/ - Literature

>>22387055
>Feminist Interpretations of W.V. Quine
>As one of the preeminent philosophers of the twentieth century, W. V. Quine (1908–2000) made groundbreaking contributions to the philosophy of science, mathematical logic, and the philosophy of language. This collection of essays examines Quine's views, particularly his holism and naturalism, for their value (and their limitations) to feminist theorizing today.

>>17998089
People always sound way smarter than yourself when they talk about the obscure stuff they know. Wait a little before judging. Bust out your own obscure knowledge and compete. A lot of the times people I talk to turn out to know less than they need to in a given subject, and they lack the true capacity to a) synthesize even what they do know to be original and novel, and b) know things outside of that domain. For example, if we take your hyperbole seriously, then 20 year olds who are able to read 400 philosophers would be able to know more than just the basics of ancient, medieval, early modern, 19th century, analytic, AND continental philosophy. They'd be able to tell you they've read more major works about each of those traditions/time periods than even 70 year old professors have read. But they're wasting time hyperfocusing on Lotze? Not that I'm opposed to reading those kinds of people, I read a chunk of Herbart (one day I'll revisit and finish) and nobody does that. But you think any of these dudes could talk to you about Theodore Sider's Writing the Book of the World? Probably not. People always have lacunae, and the kids obsessing over some specific area always have really big blindspots elsewhere.

>>13074256
Have you considered that Kant was overly psychologistic in his analysis of true categorical judgments? The entire 19th century was spent de-psychologizing Kant (Herbart, Lotze, Bolzano, Brentano, Husserl, Frege). Do transfinite cardinalities mean anything to you with your limited visual space view? Was Godel wrong that some true arithmetic sentences are unprovable by any of us? What about Fitch's paradox and the death of verificationist theories of meaning and truth?

Pic related, you're not even saying something new.