tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post407141542773565696..comments2024-03-28T04:12:17.506-04:00Comments on the daily howler: WE CALL IT READING A BOOK: The logicians probably couldn't have helped!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-67633348023291504722022-07-26T06:31:25.840-04:002022-07-26T06:31:25.840-04:00Amazing your blog! I am so happy to see this usefu...Amazing your blog! I am so happy to see this useful information. I am Always reading your all post. It is a great website and a nice share. Keep Growing, congrats!Megri Digitizinghttps://www.megridigitizing.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-75070112901803343012021-09-27T11:17:59.791-04:002021-09-27T11:17:59.791-04:00how i got my Ex lover back after a divorced by th...how i got my Ex lover back after a divorced by the help of DR NCUBE a marriage/relationship specialist. contact him if you need help WHATSAPP DR NCUBE ON +2348155227532<br /> his em ail is drncube03@gmail.com.FRedd sharonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18117283417029118176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-8470943077655120512021-09-24T09:09:33.262-04:002021-09-24T09:09:33.262-04:00I happen to have seen this comment, so I'll of...I happen to have seen this comment, so I'll offer a correction:<br /><br />In the undergraduate course, I was phoned by the philosophy department at the end of the semester and was told that Professor A wanted to speak to me in his office. Modesty forbids my repeating what he said on that occasion, but for whatever it may be worth I received an A in the course.<br /><b>bob somerby</b>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-32111501002592971202021-09-23T15:51:10.284-04:002021-09-23T15:51:10.284-04:00Somerby wouldn't make a good faith argument if...Somerby wouldn't make a good faith argument if his life depended on it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-88046577209351187542021-09-23T15:42:55.208-04:002021-09-23T15:42:55.208-04:00Mao was funnier when he pretended he wasn't an...Mao was funnier when he pretended he wasn't an ass kisser of the elites.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-81808034673475571742021-09-23T14:36:07.137-04:002021-09-23T14:36:07.137-04:00Somerby in previous posts where he railed against ...Somerby in previous posts where he railed against “critical race theory” stated his view that a teacher’s students belonged to the parents, not the teacher. Thus, he is asking teachers to defer to parents’ views. Does that include philosophy professors? If so, how are they supposed to exercise their roles as members of the “guardian class”, the functions of which must surely include dispelling false belief, such as that espoused by untrained parents who are not members of this elite class. mhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08937133532381705347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-44678073418276780072021-09-23T14:31:10.523-04:002021-09-23T14:31:10.523-04:00“Save us, O philosophy professors, you elites of t...“Save us, O philosophy professors, you elites of the academic elites! It is your fault for abandoning the posts that Bob Somerby fancifully ascribes to you!”mhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08937133532381705347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-92172075150395542862021-09-23T14:21:37.874-04:002021-09-23T14:21:37.874-04:00In which world historical society have philosopher...In which world historical society have philosophers ever functioned as a “guardian class?”<br /><br />Socrates and Thomas More tried. Look where they ended up. mhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08937133532381705347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-70216450776946148612021-09-23T14:20:27.309-04:002021-09-23T14:20:27.309-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.mhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08937133532381705347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-65688419682352246452021-09-23T13:41:10.985-04:002021-09-23T13:41:10.985-04:00That's a crafty defense but I still feel it...That's a crafty defense but I still feel it's wrong.<br /><br />You're positing that we're inquiring about the limits of the past and how they affect a future action, in which those limits might have changed? The sentence fails to convey that eloquently.<br /><br />Guilty as charged on modifying the quote. I grabbed the quote off a google search because I wanted to verify that "being" was to supposed to be "bring", and incorrectly assumed that was the only inaccuracy.Rationalistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-18993638100282981382021-09-23T13:24:33.767-04:002021-09-23T13:24:33.767-04:00First of all, rationalist, you cleaned up Somerby’...First of all, rationalist, you cleaned up Somerby’s typo. He said “Were [sic] there any limits to what he and his supporters might do to <b>being</b> him back to power?”<br /><br />Secondly, according to the Guardian, this is the actual quote:<br />“Were there any limits to what he and his supporters might do to put him back in power?”<br /><br />Not a major difference, but still. <br /><br />Finally, you can interpret the sentence in this way: Did limits exist previously that no longer exist (as his supporters become more brazen, for example)?<br /><br />Were there limits to what they would do? Perhaps not anymore. Peril remains. mhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08937133532381705347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-52951551555792260552021-09-23T13:13:39.885-04:002021-09-23T13:13:39.885-04:00ma0 ma0 * ,!, ,!,ma0 ma0 * ,!, ,!,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-24495224902614493672021-09-23T12:52:29.487-04:002021-09-23T12:52:29.487-04:00Nope.
"Were there any limits to what he and ...Nope.<br /><br />"Were there any limits to what he and his supporters might do to bring him back to power?"<br /><br />If you use "were", you have to use "have done" instead of "do". Basic grammar.Rationalistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-59347570729543663902021-09-23T12:42:06.638-04:002021-09-23T12:42:06.638-04:00Same answer for every post. Never an intelligent t...Same answer for every post. Never an intelligent thought.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-13979517885004147822021-09-23T12:38:25.686-04:002021-09-23T12:38:25.686-04:00Nice blog, thanks for sharing with us this valuabl...Nice blog, thanks for sharing with us this valuable information. I’m always read your blog for and I have got a lot of informative blog for this.affordable digitizer embroidery in usahttps://www.migdigitizing.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-82969680512577615232021-09-23T11:19:21.305-04:002021-09-23T11:19:21.305-04:00"Peril remains."
So, your liberal-hitle..."Peril remains."<br /><br />So, your liberal-hitlerian cult's High Priests are scared shitless of The Commander? <br /><br />Yawn. Tell us something we don't know, dear Bob.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-30730023792623241812021-09-23T11:17:25.115-04:002021-09-23T11:17:25.115-04:00To the extent that logicians are also voters, they...To the extent that logicians are also voters, they think about politics as much as the next guy. That is their responsibility as citizens, but unless they are elected to office, they bear no greater responsibility for keeping Trump in check than anyone else in our society. <br /><br />Somehow Somerby got the idea that logic is more important than facts when it comes to decision-making. Plainly, he uses neither in his daily essays, but why should he think that logic could have corrected Trump's lies or reined in his excesses? That is what makes no sense.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-28644211901202502312021-09-23T11:10:29.507-04:002021-09-23T11:10:29.507-04:00"We'll return to the preface to Ludwig Wi..."We'll return to the preface to Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, "the most important philosophy book of the 20th century."<br /><br />We will be returning to the preface because Somerby never reads past the first few pages of any book he discusses here. It may be the reason for his low grades in his course on Wittgenstein.<br /><br />Where I come from, you actually read the books you discuss.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-26825153068737722992021-09-23T11:07:56.747-04:002021-09-23T11:07:56.747-04:00"Even in fuller context, the word "were&..."Even in fuller context, the word "were" doesn't make sense there."<br /><br />The word were does make sense. The book examines the constraints on Trump's behavior during a specific time period that is in the past. It is the right word for that reason. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com