Tweeting “like if you love naturalism and empiricism” so i know who to block

Are there any non-trivial natural language examples of “X is doing A in a B way” where A cannot be done in other than a B way - where the manner of doing something is essential to do the doing of it ?

Wittgenstein is obsessed with modeling following a rule on obeying an order but surely the latter is a species of the former. And then is the image of obeying an order just more concrete and workable?

Went to a publication workshop in my department (pitt is one of the MOST professionalized departments out there 😏) and it turns out the first step to publishing a paper is having an idea. Maybe im not cut out for this

Hegel seems super chill for the beginning of the elements of the philosophy of right and then all of a sudden its “the enslaved are just as responsible for their enslavement and the enslavers” and “slavery is a necessary moment”

First professional question: what do you do if you wrote a whole paper and it took you two years and its ready for publication but you aren’t sure if you’re right.

In my being normal and productive and professional era