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Hello there, I just wanted to say I appreciate the posts of support here and in my PM box. After reading Everybody Wang Chung’s post* on Daniel recycling material for his blog I noticed another example while writing the above posts. A Quick Thought on Scientism and Logical Positivism I’m not quite s...

Part 2(f): Epistle to The North African ...and the Vienna Circle (most notably including Moritz Schlick, but also Rudolf Carnap, Hans Hahn, Otto Neurath, and eventual Carl Hempel, with Karl Popper as their persistent, friendly, in-house dissenter and critic)... The philosopher Karl Popper, too, bec...

Part 2(e): Epistle to The North African As a student of Mopologetics one must ask, blessed Blixa, what is it that draws Daniel Peterson to the likes of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Karl Popper? Both men could not have been more different in temperament or in the content of their beliefs, belonging to riv...

Back on 8 September 2020, I posted a brief blog entry (“ Can the study of history yield genuine knowledge? ”) in which, even more briefly, I cited a passage from Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method, 2d ed., rev., translation by Joel Weinsheimer and Donald G. Marshall (London and New York: Continuu...

Part 2(d): Epistle to The North African The insufficiency of Helmholtz to the “problem of method” is rooted in his poor application of Kant: They follow Kant in modeling the idea of science and knowledge on the natural sciences and seeking the distinctive feature of the human sciences in the artist...

Part 2(c): Epistle to The North African Before leaving Helmholtz for a moment, Gadamer offers this assessment: For Helmholtz, the methodological ideal of the natural sciences needed neither to be historically derived nor epistemologically restricted, and that is why he could not understand the way ...

Part 2(b): Epistle to The North African I can’t imagine, dearest Blixa, a style of philosophy more hostile to the being of Daniel Peterson than the likes of Gadamer. What Gadamer offers is a radical critique, but in typical German fashion this critique doesn’t just present itself to the reader. Rat...

I have pages and pages of material I’ve written for MDB and the vast majority of it never sees the light of day. I often get stuck between wanting to constantly revise and edit to the point I lose interest or the post keeps expanding in length and I once again lose interest. This little vignette was...

Part 2(a): Epistle to The North African Dearest Blixa, I’m pleased you finally have access to the internet again. When people ask what you are getting up to these days they are often surprised to hear that you are no longer stateside, but instead found in Tangiers spearheading a joint venture betwe...

What follows is an account that was prepared without consultation of anyone. Any errors are mine alone and those posters mentioned (Kishkumen, Doctor Scratch, Doctor CamNC4Me, Gadianton) are welcome to confirm or deny anything mentioned herein. Part 1: A Stoic Prelude Reverend Kishkumen watched Alfo...