Posts by twsh@scholar.social
(DIR) Post #9jIvC4XqkX2HV0APAW by twsh@scholar.social
2019-05-29T13:42:33Z
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@codesections I have a 3340 which I bought 3 and a half years ago with Ubuntu on it. At the time, the major factor for me was how cheap it was on sale, but I haven't regretted it. I do all my work on it, which is mostly reading and writing text. I wish it had a nicer screen sometimes. It looks and feels very sturdy.
(DIR) Post #9n0n0HqgUsnhO7ygts by twsh@scholar.social
2019-09-13T13:17:03Z
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This is the best advice for writing a #philosophy essay that I know of: http://www.jimpryor.net/teaching/guidelines/writing.html
(DIR) Post #9tKJuytBKsXUKFGfcu by twsh@scholar.social
2020-03-23T17:46:02Z
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I have never taken a formal course in generative syntax; I audited a course for graduate students during my PhD but it was very introductory and I have forgotten most of it.I have some familiarity with what philosophers say about, e.g., Chomsky's programme as a big picture approach to the nature of language, and I have read some of his work.What's a good resource for me to pick up the basics that I am missing?#linguistics#syntax
(DIR) Post #9tKJuz9qKvrn9v3yb2 by twsh@scholar.social
2020-03-23T17:47:32Z
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I found this. Do any experts have opinions?https://open.ed.ac.uk/generative-syntax/
(DIR) Post #9wyyaq29PX1uCpjgdU by twsh@scholar.social
2020-07-11T16:55:46Z
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@codesections Pandoc treats `<...>` as a link. Maybe that could be used elsewhere? The problem is that you have to write the full url including `https://` or whatever. But your proposal would require assuming something about that.
(DIR) Post #A0YOsNqWjrrU0kfs2K by twsh@scholar.social
2020-10-26T12:02:58Z
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@christianp I don't have anything helpful to say. But I am reminded of teaching students from a logic textbook which first defined formulae such that they had to have brackets and no ambiguity, and then introduced a procedure for abbreviating the formulae by removing brackets. I spent as much time trying to teach the procedure as the system it was supposed to simplify.
(DIR) Post #A19ZNQhGPsvZRWmVsG by twsh@scholar.social
2020-11-13T08:34:13Z
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@craigmaloney Do you have recommendations for starting to learn Go? A colleague took me through the rules once but that's it.
(DIR) Post #A19kYJ2sIt6eOTHLcm by twsh@scholar.social
2020-11-13T12:57:21Z
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@craigmaloney Thanks! @EdS
(DIR) Post #A1lXw4Da8GD7CqfMSe by twsh@scholar.social
2020-12-01T10:19:39Z
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@Cyborgneticz That's terrible. It's the last thing departments should be doing now.
(DIR) Post #A1rUGIDiY3EhYZsVMm by twsh@scholar.social
2020-12-04T14:13:14Z
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I'm not sure how to articulate what I want to achieve, but here is an attempt:I want #Vim full screen. I want to have the cursor near the middle of the screen (vertically) even when I am adding to the end of the file. Otherwise, I find that I am always looking at the bottom of the screen.`set scrolloff=x` for some big x isn't what I need, because it only works if I am not working with the end of the file.
(DIR) Post #A1xgA14NlW2p1g2pnc by twsh@scholar.social
2020-12-06T14:58:13Z
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I'm going to try to articulate a philosophical position that I care about and some of its consequences. I'm interested in what people think.We produce and consume sentences of natural languages, such as English. These sentences have meanings, as do the words in them.We are not always in control of what those meanings are. They are not fixed by our intentions, and we might be wrong about what they are.#philosophy #language
(DIR) Post #A1xgA1IYunO3jeg9tw by twsh@scholar.social
2020-12-06T14:58:44Z
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This can be illustrated by thinking about names, and about predicates for kinds.A name means the object named; typically, names are acquired without any independent relation to the object.A predicate means the kind; typically, predicates are acquired without any independent relation to the kind.'Independent relation' means direct contact with the object/kind, or possession of some description which picks out the object or kind.
(DIR) Post #A1xgA1adpZqgdj8b56 by twsh@scholar.social
2020-12-06T14:59:09Z
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In both cases, the expression means whatever it means, and this is not determined by the speaker who acquires it.
(DIR) Post #A1xgA1xgRuHRnBuzzs by twsh@scholar.social
2020-12-06T14:59:51Z
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This view has consequences.Some names/predicates are not linked to an object/kind. I might use such a name/predicate, not knowing that it is empty. I think that I thereby said something, but I didn't.It is not obvious when one is in the good case as opposed to the bad.This is a specific case of a more general point: I might say things that are not what I intended to say. There is no way to guarantee that this doesn't happen.
(DIR) Post #A1xgA2FlMgk4hGNRB2 by twsh@scholar.social
2020-12-06T15:00:15Z
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This view is heavily influenced by 'anti-descriptivist' and 'externalist/anti-individualist' lines of thought in 20th century philosophy of language. I get the impression that it is not something widely believed outside of that niche in academia, but I might be wrong.I think that some people react to it with something like horror; they think that we must have more control over what we say than that.
(DIR) Post #A34AbCUr0zZdmjJN0i by twsh@scholar.social
2021-01-09T15:23:20Z
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I think that I will attend this online workshop on open access publishing in philosophy:https://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/blog/2020/12/10/the-challenges-of-open-access-publishing-in-philosophy/#philosophy
(DIR) Post #ADo26hlGvrI0PM5gPo by twsh@scholar.social
2021-01-11T10:40:24Z
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A list of open access philosophy journals. It's based on the contributors for that workshop and some I knew about. Additional suggestions welcome. :BoostOkay: * αnalytica http://www.analytica.phs.uoa.gr/* EJPE https://ejpe.org/journal* Lato Sensu https://ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/latosensu/index* Locke Studies https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/locke/* Philosophers' Imprint https://www.philosophersimprint.org/* RECERCA https://www.e-revistes.uji.es/index.php/recerca/index* THEORIA https://ojs.ehu.eus/index.php/THEORIA/
(DIR) Post #ADo26iDdEPyTpJMKcS by twsh@scholar.social
2021-01-11T10:41:52Z
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* Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy https://www.jhaponline.org/* Ergo https://www.ergophiljournal.org/* Metaphysics https://metaphysicsjournal.com/* Semantics and Pragmatics https://semprag.org/index.php/sp
(DIR) Post #ADo26miGWSr5lTiqvI by twsh@scholar.social
2021-01-13T16:39:26Z
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I believe that dialectica will move to open access:http://dialectica.philosophie.ch/
(DIR) Post #ADo26mmWGeG3yfiFYO by twsh@scholar.social
2021-11-26T12:24:50Z
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Another open access #philosophy journal:Journal of Spinoza Studieshttps://jss.rug.nl/index