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I hear armchair philosophers constantly gleefully dismissing his assertions about logic and realism and yet I've never heard anything remotely resembling a reasoned rebuttal. So tell me. How was Hume wrong?
Hume is wrong about induction because he didn't know about heuristics.
>>7927538
Hume wasn't wrong. Who told you he was wrong?
>>7927544
Heuristic reasoning especially when used in applied ethics can be unnecessarily harmful and holds people to a much lower intellectual standard than they should be imo.
What is the most 2deep4u book out there? Finnegans Wake?
not even close
finnegans wake is definetely abstract at times, but very pointedly so. in the end it's just a prose poem about a pub owner named humphrey earwicker that parellels his life to the folk song finnegan's wake and the fall of man. it's definetely not child's play but it's a concrete piece of english literature
>>7924408
Okay so what is?
A.non is a pretentious faggot when he says 'not even close'.
Pale Fire.
Absolom, Absolom,
IJ
Finnegan's Wake
To the Lighthouse (yeah, I said it)
What's your fondest memory of reading Harry Potter?
What is one scene you enjoyed the most?
Who are your favorite characters?
This is a comfy thread. Please no bullying or curse words.
fuck off
Get to fuck
>>7921649
fuck off
"Poetry critique thread; share, comment, etc.
>2016
>writing poetry
There is no good contemporary poetry, just get over it and create something truly original.
>>7900230
I sometimes think about this, do you think poetry is truly dead?
Tower of Ivory
Watercolored. I have been given a vision of foliage and trees.
Painted forest surrounding, sun teasing the branches, rocking in sky-spangled seas.
Beyond the cloudmeadows, an apparition of Mary I approach on my knees.
She is beckoning me, and the dragonflies drum over the singing of bees.
Her eyes are made of dirt. I am pushing my fingers into her head.
And her tongue notyetwilderness, with her silvery hands she silently said
a litany, while the centaurs wept for her son, the priest of the mountains, their lord who was dead.
She...
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What is your favorite economist ?
Foucault and his power economics.
>>7930672
He wasn't an economist.
He just was a philosopher
>>7930678
I think that he is an economist and my own opinion is sufficient to me, thanks.
Just ordered pic related.
What am I in for?
>>7927280
also why you dont just read it at your computer? its like 10 pages or something
I can't say.
>>7927284
Just trying to get back into reading.
Heard good things about it, so I thought Id start off with something a little short.
Why are so many librarians mean, fat, and old ladies ?
At my local library there is a lady librarian, she is old and fat and mean to everyone, especially the kids. I remember when I was a kid, there was an old librarian who was also old, fat, and mean to the kids. Today I had to go to two branch libraries and both of them had two fat, old lady librarians yelling at the kids.
Is that like a requirement for libraries? You know, all your librarians must have a BA and at least one must be old and fat and mean to the kids.
>>7923671
Sexual frustration. Just like everyone here on /lit/.
The one's at my library are nice. Also there's this South African MILF who's preggo and I can't concentrate on reading because I keep perving her up
Pretty much >>7923681 They fell for the "books get you laid" meme just when the pill came on the market. You'd be mad too.
so who would you put in or replace
or did wikipdia nail it
>>7923264
Confucius, Averroes and Buddha.
Heiddegger, Aristotle, Descartes.
>>7923264
Aristotle
Aquinas
Anselm
Kant
Spinoza
Marx
There's really no other list
Buddha, Confucious, and Averoes have like 0 fucking influence on fucking anything.
Hey /lit/.
How's your philosophy treating you?
Too bad you're falling for that millennia old meme.
You're too clueless to know about Non-Philosophy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-philosophy
Philosophy = outdated
"Laruelle's non-philosophy, he claims, should be considered to philosophy what non-Euclidean geometry is to the work of Euclid."
Philosophy= Newtonian physics
Non-Philosophy = Relativity & QM
>s-shut up, I've read countless book of philosophy, y-you can't...
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>>7922896
Did he like... create an antithesis (non philosophy) for my thesis (philosophy)?
>>7922917
He proved that philosophy is pretty much broken.
>>7922919
so... what's new?
What books have protagonists who are legitimately bad people?
all of them
>>7922162
Lolita
>>7922162
Well I don't the TCoL49 is one of them.
In fact I don't think there's many desu, but these sort of are:
> Notes from Underground
> Dom Casmurro
> Therese Raquin
What do you guys think about comedy in literature? Is there any writer who can actually make you laugh out loud?
Pic related
Well that Don Quijote book seem to be doing alright. Also reading Moby Dick atm, and Melville has made me laugh out loud several times.
>>7921796
It was John Kennedy Toole for me, Confederacy of Dunces was a masterpiece and it saddens me that he offed himself.
Catch 22 was pretty funny. There is some funny shit in Shakespeare's works.
>>7912424
Lankhmar, New Sun, Elric of Melbourne, Conan and Name of the Wind edition
Recommendation Charts:
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/3v2oXAY.jpg (embed)
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg (embed)
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg (embed) / http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg (embed)
>Talk about whatever you want basically, I'll just talk about the 10 authors I usually do
>>7922825
Adding John C. Wright to solid sff list, he is a pretty decent author. He is fun and the writing itself is sufficient. Not sure if I'll continue the series, but the first novel is a good one. Lots of techno fantasy with a surprisingly well constructed plot.
>>7922825
Just finished To Green Angel Tower, what did you guys think about it? I enjoyed it for the most part, but the ending felt a little anti climatic. Tad Williams other stuff worth a read?
What SF/F authors can you guys name who are ideologically left-wing? There seem to be a lot more right-wingers or libertarians from what I can tell, but confirmed lefties I'm aware of are: Banks, Le Guin, Mieville, Moorcock, and Robinson. Anybody else?
Is anyone else sad the way that art and literature seems to be progressing? I'm not going to be the guy who says that "art is dying" or whatever. But, there seems to be a sort of purity, sanctity to previous works of art, like the works of Shakespeare or Chaucer, or even the KJV that is impossible to recapture in the modern age. Literature has become so self-conscious and ironic over time, and it seems impossible to navigate the literary waters of the time and to still come out with a work of art of the same kind as the ones I just mentioned. I'm not saying...
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John Gardneer gets into that ith his book On Moral Fiction, I think you'll like it
And I definitely agree. I really don't care for all the bitter, ironic, and decadent wankery
>>7924712
Gardner*
>>7924709
>Is anyone else sad
I'm reading the KJV of Genesis and am amazed by how amoral most of the characters are, including God. The only other book that comes to mind as I read it is The Odyssey. Most of the characters seem to be rewarded for being sly and clever rather than being good. Cain gets his mark, but anyone who kills him is cursed. Abraham deceives Pharaoh and Jacob deceives Esau. Are there any "good guys" in Genesis? The book seems mostly to be about self-preservation rather than good vs. evil. Am I reading Genesis the wrong way by looking for some sort of moral teaching in...
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Talk to your priest.
>>7925863
I have no priest, faggot.
>>7925815
That is the old law. It is all resolved in the new testament.
Also remember that your morals are biased by 3000 years of ideology.
What are you honest-to-god qualms with his writing? No memes please.
I'm convinced that /lit/ just hates him because young people find a connection with his work, and anons like to act jaded and indifferent to anything hip.
>>7920612
I don't like his face, he has deceptive, sexually deviant, quite possibly homosexual proportions.
He writes entirely in cliches and infantile observations.
>>7920618
your mother writes entirely in cliches and infantile observations.
