tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post5077419446841578482..comments2023-06-27T16:51:05.805+02:00Comments on The Pangrammaticon: Descartes' FeintThomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-51210366696427488892010-09-29T06:24:14.099+02:002010-09-29T06:24:14.099+02:00Patience, now. Patience.Patience, now. Patience.Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-80679740556823108982010-09-29T02:39:37.907+02:002010-09-29T02:39:37.907+02:00BTW, I am getting more and more curious about this...BTW, I am getting more and more curious about this Composure-thing by the day... As I believe Nicholas Manning once said: Go ahead and write the damn thing... :-)Presskornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03480116067878605339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-40179818221887224662010-09-29T02:30:53.383+02:002010-09-29T02:30:53.383+02:00Yes, Conditions for Description is indeed an very ...Yes, Conditions for Description is indeed an very impatient book (impatient, exactly, given its simultanuous breezyness and toughmindedness - thank you for that combination of words). And yet it remains, to my mind, a unrecognized masterpiece of 20th century analytical philosophy. MUCH better than the kindred but recognized Strawsonian project of 'descriptive metaphysics'. And only recognized by figures like Favrholdt, who distorts it into something VERY boring.Presskornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03480116067878605339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-76563641862733849882010-09-28T21:48:11.787+02:002010-09-28T21:48:11.787+02:00Yes, Zinkernagel is definitely a kindred spirit. T...Yes, Zinkernagel is definitely a kindred spirit. Though I think he was less patient than I am. (Conditions for Description is a surprisingly breezy book, given the toughmindedness of his proposal.)Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-47803365926261885782010-09-28T14:40:20.409+02:002010-09-28T14:40:20.409+02:00I wonder what you think of Zinkernagel's way o...I wonder what you think of Zinkernagel's way of phrasing it: "Persons are radically different from bodies and yet we cannot refer to persons without referring to bodies."<br /><br />Thomas went for a walk, but incidentally he had no body.Presskornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03480116067878605339noreply@blogger.com