... Hi David, this is from their website and how they think why they are doing this: "Stoic Design started out in 2002 in response to a gap in the market...
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Steve Marquis
stevemarquis...
May 1, 2009 1:52 pm
Daniel writes: _________________ Â While I acknowledge the "taking time to come around" aspect of human behavior, AND I acknowledge I am not immune to that...
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Dave Kelly
ptypes
May 1, 2009 2:39 pm
Hmmm, Bauhaus seems to fit my criteria of simplicity and frugality, and Kevin's of functionality. Modernism, at the moment, seems counter-cultural and...
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locumranch@...
locumranch
May 1, 2009 3:33 pm
Imagine that you are a professional restaurant critic facing a deadline who just had a horrendous meal at a restaurant which is also owned by your employer. ...
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Curt Steinmetz
enkiduq
May 1, 2009 4:22 pm
In my own attempts to sort out what scepticism is and what it isn't, or at least what it was and what it wasn't, I have finally worked my way back to Socrates'...
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murrell91910
May 1, 2009 5:58 pm
Dave Kelly <ptypes@> wrote: << What would be Stoic principles or values with regard to architectural and interior design?...I've seen the Stoic values of...
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erasistratus1
May 1, 2009 7:48 pm
... This is admittedly a minor technical point, tangential to the fascinating thrust of this discussion on linguistic determinism. But Matt, as someone who...
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Kevin
kevin11_c
May 1, 2009 8:26 pm
I think Stoics and the Skeptics wished to claim the right to be the heirs of Socrates. Â Socrates often proclaimed that he knew nothing, yet he often argued...
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Amos
vivepablo
May 1, 2009 9:44 pm
Steve: There is another way in which core beliefs change or are changed besides conversion experiences or paradigm shifts. Let's say that I believe p...
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fvanderpoel
May 2, 2009 10:49 am
... This may help: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skepticism/...
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Curt Steinmetz
enkiduq
May 2, 2009 12:00 pm
About half of the articles in the online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy are helpful. The other half are like Peter Klein's article on scepticism. It...
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Amos
vivepablo
May 2, 2009 2:37 pm
Curt: With you around, who needs Wikipedia? That was not an insult, by the way. Amos...
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Steve Marquis
stevemarquis...
May 2, 2009 3:08 pm
Amos writes: _________________  Let's say that I believe p because I learned p as a child. However, with the years, experience shows me that not p. ...
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Amos
vivepablo
May 2, 2009 3:33 pm
Steve: Sometimes people change their beliefs, but don't acknowledge that change publicly, because perhaps family members all have said beliefs and to...
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Steve Marquis
stevemarquis...
May 2, 2009 4:37 pm
Jan writes: _________________ Â I guess your understanding of intuition is the counterpart of your disagreement with the "objective empiricist" that all...
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Steve Marquis
stevemarquis...
May 2, 2009 4:46 pm
Amos, I agree. But you have said 'sometimes'. I don't believe that to be the case for the people in question here. I have great respect for both Ds and...
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Matt D
locumranch
May 2, 2009 4:50 pm
Kevin says "However Stoics- who are not sages- are like Socrates in the respect that they admit that they are not wise (i.e. not constant), but like Socrates ...
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jan.garrett
chrys1943
May 2, 2009 5:22 pm
I don't think the Socrates of the Apology claims to *know* anything with total certainty. It seems to me, however, that Socrates has certain convictions...
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Kevin
kevin11_c
May 2, 2009 5:28 pm
Matt : Again, bivalent Dualist Conceit raises its irrational head. Who and what is this Stoic Sage that everyone prattles on about? Kevin: The Stoic Sage is...
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jan.garrett
chrys1943
May 2, 2009 5:59 pm
I still don't find a definition of linguistic determinism here. The situation of the imagined restaurant critic is not entirely a function of language but of...
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Curt Steinmetz
enkiduq
May 2, 2009 10:16 pm
Socrates is careful to avoid explicit claims of positive knowledge. But he nowhere states unambiguously either (1) that he knows nothing, or (2) that knowledge...
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jan.garrett
chrys1943
May 2, 2009 11:20 pm
There are differences between Apology and Republic. One of them is that Apology, while being a creation of Plato's, is also a direct tribute to an historical...
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jan.garrett
chrys1943
May 3, 2009 12:22 am
http://www.newstoa.com/newsletters/016.pdf...
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Curt Steinmetz
enkiduq
May 3, 2009 1:03 am
... Well, I figure as long as I am cursing the darkness I really should light a candle or two. Here are two more, and from the online Stanford Encyclopedia of...
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locumranch@...
locumranch
May 3, 2009 2:20 am
Dualism, Bivalence and Dichotomy all represent a Qualitative approach that presupposes an All-or-None/Either-or-Or/True-or-False/Right-or-Wrong/Yes-or-No...
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brunians@...
joshuageller
May 3, 2009 10:06 am
... This is an opinion. ... I consider discussions as to where Socrates stops and Plato begins to be nuncupatory in the extreme. And I commonly speak of...
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fvanderpoel
May 3, 2009 12:41 pm
Thanks Curt, these links are great! fred...
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Daniel
dtstrain
May 3, 2009 3:12 pm
It's a good thing my bank doesn't think of me in this way, lol :)...
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Gary Moore
gottlos752004
May 3, 2009 3:37 pm
... From: Gary Moore <gottlos752004@...> To: analytical-indicant-theory@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 3, 2009 10:30:01 AM Subject: WAKE UP CALL ...
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Curt Steinmetz
enkiduq
May 3, 2009 8:51 pm
... It's not completely clear (to me) what the point is that you are trying to make - but I have a strong suspicion that this is not nearly as good an example...
