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But I like epistemology.

That's great! My concern is the sheer concentration of it all.

To be contradictory, I don't like Epistemology. Though not as much as I hate Philosophy of Language and Linguistics.

Look on the bright side, being the only student in the class means: 1) You can impact the work you study by suggesting different readings or changes to concentrate more on what you find interesting; 2) The two of you can easily arrange meeting times that fit your personal schedule; 3) Either one of you can easily cancel class to go play frisbee in the park; 4) You rarely have to be fully clothed.

This weekend I learned about Hans Lipps for the first time after a straying tangent from a conversation that started about Zeno's paradoxes. It reminded me of the lulz one can find in B-string philosophers.

Cheers to our mutual hatred for Phil. of Language.

Suggestion taken: I'll stive to wear my kilt to philosophy one day when we don't need the blackboard and will just meet at a coffee shop. Not much I can do about the frisbee though - the prof's a little old for that.

Gotta plead ignorance on Hans Lipps.

Basically me and any "Philosophy of"s never got along. But language specifically was a huge snoozer.

Lipps was a German philosopher who was a contemporary of Hegal. He was into Logic and also held a medical doctorate. His epistemological system proposed that there is a causal relationship between things that happen in fact both inside and outside the body and thus there must be a link between the body and mind. This thinking went something along the lines of "I'm sick, so something must have caused that sickness in the same way that when a machine breaks, something caused the breakage." He also offered the stunningly obvious observation that logical sets contain no real world information yet have baring on reality. So there must be some kind of mechanism either in the mind or in real fact that allows the passage between fact and logical relationship. He didn't seem to suggest what that might be, just that it probably exists somehow.

I might be misrepresenting some things, but that's what I gleaned from a single conversation. His biggest issues seemed to be that his system wasn't nearly as fleshed out as Kant's and some political mistakes set him in opposition to Hegal (though as far as I can see, he didn't actually contradict any Hegalian ideas).

Unrelated to philosophy

Facebook tells me strange things sometimes. Like it shows me pictures of you and Mosca at the same event. ...cool? Also you still look like an elf, even when wearing a shirt with flames on it.

Re: Unrelated to philosophy

Which one's Mosca? Sorry, there's only a 30% chance I know someone's proper capoeira name.

But yeah, nice shirts from last year. This year we've got better-fitting but plainer and less colorful shirts.

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Mosca's our instructor. I found the pictures of the Nago batizado when he got tagged in one of 'em, which is how I ended up tagging you in a couple pictures from an album by a guy I don't know.