Jan Plate
@janplate.bsky.social
Interested in all things analytic metaphysics (but mostly properties and relations). And classical music, I guess.
Congrats! An exciting time for you both.
February 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Congrats! An exciting time for you both.
You could try to change the key mapping on one of the two computers. That's how I cope with a Swiss keyboard...
December 1, 2023 at 3:30 AM
You could try to change the key mapping on one of the two computers. That's how I cope with a Swiss keyboard...
I'm team vomity foot. The brother will probably fall asleep soon even if awoken, and it may be too late already anyway.
November 19, 2023 at 12:41 PM
I'm team vomity foot. The brother will probably fall asleep soon even if awoken, and it may be too late already anyway.
Short titles aren't better. Papers with short titles are better.
November 8, 2023 at 9:16 AM
Short titles aren't better. Papers with short titles are better.
How about a filter or mode that replaces all pictures (except maybe profile pics) on one's timeline with links, to save bandwidth? X has it, and it should be easy to implement (I think).
November 7, 2023 at 12:37 AM
How about a filter or mode that replaces all pictures (except maybe profile pics) on one's timeline with links, to save bandwidth? X has it, and it should be easy to implement (I think).
That looks like a bit of lexicographic vandalism by some disgruntled continental.
November 4, 2023 at 10:44 AM
That looks like a bit of lexicographic vandalism by some disgruntled continental.
And it seems to be inaccessible from the xkcd website!
November 3, 2023 at 10:58 PM
And it seems to be inaccessible from the xkcd website!
Clicking on this in BlueSky web view opens up a 'full size' version of this strip. I had no idea this would happen.
November 3, 2023 at 10:57 PM
Clicking on this in BlueSky web view opens up a 'full size' version of this strip. I had no idea this would happen.
Even if it's very hard to find out anything much about (1), it can still be intellectually worthwhile to critique (2), explore (3), and clarify (4).
October 30, 2023 at 9:50 PM
Even if it's very hard to find out anything much about (1), it can still be intellectually worthwhile to critique (2), explore (3), and clarify (4).
The thing is, there's not just (1) the thing itself (morality or reality or whatever) and (2) the literature about it, but also (3) the 'conceptual landscape' of different theories that can be had about it and (4) our epistemic situation with regard to it.
October 30, 2023 at 9:47 PM
The thing is, there's not just (1) the thing itself (morality or reality or whatever) and (2) the literature about it, but also (3) the 'conceptual landscape' of different theories that can be had about it and (4) our epistemic situation with regard to it.
Translation: philosophers don't know what they pretend to be studying.
October 30, 2023 at 9:07 PM
Translation: philosophers don't know what they pretend to be studying.
That's very nice to hear! Thanks for your help. :)
October 28, 2023 at 5:11 PM
That's very nice to hear! Thanks for your help. :)
I'm basically following Brower, but he ignores the "unum esse per se non potest".
October 28, 2023 at 5:04 PM
I'm basically following Brower, but he ignores the "unum esse per se non potest".
I'm tempted to translate this as: "For when I speak of a 'master', he by himself is nothing if there is no slave. Hence, as the naming of one relative immediately brings with it another thing toward something, the one cannot exist by itself".
October 28, 2023 at 5:04 PM
I'm tempted to translate this as: "For when I speak of a 'master', he by himself is nothing if there is no slave. Hence, as the naming of one relative immediately brings with it another thing toward something, the one cannot exist by itself".
seipsum nihil est, si servus desit. Quocirca cum unius relativi nuncupatio mox secum etiam aliud trahat ad aliquid, unum esse per se non potest".
October 28, 2023 at 4:56 PM
seipsum nihil est, si servus desit. Quocirca cum unius relativi nuncupatio mox secum etiam aliud trahat ad aliquid, unum esse per se non potest".
Thanks, Eric! I'm guessing I'll have to go with my own translation, then, with some help by Jeff Brower and Google translate. The passage I'm interested in, which I found (partially) translated in Brower's SEP article on Medieval Theories of Relations, goes like this:
"cum enim dico dominus, per
"cum enim dico dominus, per
October 28, 2023 at 4:50 PM
Thanks, Eric! I'm guessing I'll have to go with my own translation, then, with some help by Jeff Brower and Google translate. The passage I'm interested in, which I found (partially) translated in Brower's SEP article on Medieval Theories of Relations, goes like this:
"cum enim dico dominus, per
"cum enim dico dominus, per