/lit/ - Literature

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>Churchland completely explains Hume at an undergraduate level. It is baby level
>Harris and Krauss still don't fucking get it

What in the living fuck. Yes what Hume said is trite now, but in the same breath you demonstrate you don't even understand his true and trite conclusions. Fuck man

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You need to calm down. Your want to categorize isnt doing anything for anyone.

The answer to the question on tumblr, no matter how casual, is telling. Rather than deal with something in any manner that is thoughtful he just throws a bunch of references at it. Im not demanding he figure out the problem with sincerity, but saying "hamlet already tackled that" is laughable. Hes just being esoteric and attempting to escape the question. He may be right that sincerity doesnt exist (Ill just give him the benefit of the doubt with this), but anything other than "did you read this work and that one part that im vaguely pointing at and somehow that is also my argument".

I mean you can just point out that the word 'self' is weak and hard to nail down, and because of that, the word 'sincerity' falls into problems.

Its the same thing with the free will debate. At least try, dont point to some book and say its already done. It clearly isnt.