tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6331292467452860795.post4513007400418440861..comments2024-03-27T04:05:15.220-07:00Comments on The Sooty Empiric: Books I Have Finished 2018Last Positivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677699402952932577noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6331292467452860795.post-59268814836638717612020-02-02T08:09:25.896-08:002020-02-02T08:09:25.896-08:00For the record I don't think that's a fair...For the record I don't think that's a fair characterisation of the BLM activists - and in the postscript to that very documentary they had made up with Davis and were doing events together!Last Positivisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11677699402952932577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6331292467452860795.post-17995430015758467862020-01-01T00:53:21.320-08:002020-01-01T00:53:21.320-08:00Beautiful but it's only precepts of men. I bid...Beautiful but it's only precepts of men. I bid to read the KJVA and the Book of Mormon. You appear intelligent and looking for truth!!! One must have an open mind. PS Do you happen to have or gain access to a book called sooty face identity discover, black man (we are brown, different shade to boot) is Ephriam. Not worded correctly. The powers that be does not want us to read it unless one has 1200 dollars to pay for a book that was only 20 dollars not so long ago. Please ask your friends and professors. Google is controlling everything. Thank you for that great blog. I have about seven books to read. When finished I might have to get one or two of the books you've read. Thawadah. Seeking only the truth🤔❤️https://www.blogger.com/profile/17298994223626975636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6331292467452860795.post-91814121851120016522019-01-02T17:41:34.203-08:002019-01-02T17:41:34.203-08:00Appiah's account of "positivism" see...Appiah's account of "positivism" seems to follow Hilary Putnam's banging on about logical positivism and scientism that could be a bit caricatured. Several of the arguments Appiah makes in that chapter in Cosmopolitanism closely follows a 1998 lecture from Putnam about "nonscientific knowledge" or Appiah's less deflationary, more naturalized take on it, excising some of the tendentious parts of Putnam's arguments while keeping with the spirit of it.<br /><br />I was also watching TNG over the last few years finishing it on the 30th. On the "unity and pluralism" point I watched a documentary last year about Daryl Davis a black musician who tries to talk white supremacists out of extremism and the most telling parts to me was how the only time he loses his temper in the documentary is when he's talking to some Black Lives Matter activists who reject his sacred values, revealing the fighting creed behind some of the language for fellow feeling, unity and tolerance. It also made me wonder how much personality and life history contribute to the appeal of the cosmopolitan outlook. Davis parents were foreign diplomats and he attended a school with children of diplomats from around the world, like a model UN. The conditions in the Star Trek universe look more like that then what those Black Lives Matter activists experienced. We could also suppose Klingons are close enough to space republicans to make it a fantasy about a sovereign liberal multiculturalism with those people on the outside not completely unlike the black power fantasies that the BLM activists hold.diamondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01080755477633227921noreply@blogger.com