freecounterpoint: Is Alec Baldwin talking to Rot?

Thursday, August 04, 2011

Is Alec Baldwin talking to Rot?

4 comments:

Arelcao Akleos said...: There are so many sanctimonious d-bags on HuffPo, beginning with Alec Baldwin, that our poor little FCP moles seem humble servants of common sense and discretion by comparison.; 8/04/2011 11:14 AM
Tecumseh said...: Well, of course, there is a unique FCP mole lurking around PuffHo. Ergo, AB must be talking to him. It's just pure Kantian Logick.; 8/04/2011 11:19 AM
Arelcao Akleos said...: It's categorical.; 8/04/2011 12:32 PM
Tecumseh said...: Herr Kant sounds just like Herr Rott after several years spent out of the classroom, just fiddling with \lesssims and quaffing lagers in bräukellers:

Kant argues that there are synthetic judgments such as the connection of cause and effect (e.g., "... Every effect has a cause.") where no analysis of the subject will produce the predicate. Kant reasons that statements such as those found in Geometry and Newtonian physics are synthetic judgments. Kant uses the classical example of 7 + 5 = 12. No amount of analysis will find 12 in either 7 or 5. Thus Kant arrives at the conclusion that all pure mathematics is synthetic though a priori; the number 7 is after all seven and the number 5 is five and the number 12 is twelve and so on and so forth; in other words, they are universal and necessary. For Kant then, Mathematics is synthetic judgement a priori. This conclusion led Kant into a new problem as he wanted to establish how this could be possible: How is pure mathematics possible?; 8/04/2011 12:47 PM

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