Tag Archives: deibert

1st thoughts re: blog vs. notebook

By escrubb | Published: 09.09.2009
[The following was typed from a notebook, then edited w/AbiWord, then pasted to the blog. Hyperlinks added at that point. If the post were composed online, the hyperlink choices may have guided more than they have] In the following, I use the word ’cause’. I wasn’t that cautious while I was using it, so feel [...]
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Deibert: tightrope and loyalties

By escrubb | Published: 07.09.2009
I’m always uncomfortable when ‘materialism’ determinedly walks in the room (oops, I applied agency to an abstract concept again…). Hairs tingling on the spine and so forth. Descartes and Democritus tap,tap,tapping at my chamber door. So I’m glad that Deibert seems to take the relevant accusations of determinism seriously. But it’s a thin rope on [...]
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