November 15th, 2023
- #2tweet a huge chunk of my work could be described as de-rhetoricalizing the question "why can't we all just get along?" to take it seriously and give a thorough answer
- a huge chunk of my work could be described as de-rhetoricalizing the question "why can't we all just get along?" to take it seriously and give a thorough answer
- and no it's not because there isn't enough along to go around. there's plenty and we can make more. the issue is organizing it.
- Moore's paradox helps lend a bit more structure to the nature of the "speak falsely" present first-person singular conjugation joke
- "It is raining, but I do not believe that it is raining" or "It is raining, but I believe that it is not raining."
- "this chair will hold me up, but I do not trust it will hold me up"
- "you're not my mother, but I do not trust that you're not my mother"
- this is a way to say a precise and important thing, that can totally be true
- the speaker is asserting that in some sense he knows his interlocutor is not his mother, but that also he fails to actually rest in trust of that fact
- likewise the capgras delusion thing, which ironically precisely the converse: I could imagine saying "you are my mother, but I do not trust that you're my mother"
- there's also a difference here between something like social truth that one might be acknowledging and gnown truth