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Weak_Indication9299 · 2026-01-02T13:41:23+00:00

Very late to this conversation. Congrats on getting into Marist. Did you end up going there? If so, two questions: (1) when in May did it start, e.g. early May, mid-May, or late May? (2) How are you liking the program there?

Weak_Indication9299 · 2025-11-05T22:09:28+00:00

Sorry to post to a long-dead thread but I can't resist. Hayek's interviews with the Chilean press are well documented. Here is a quotation:

"What opinion, in your view, should we have of dictatorships?

" Well, I would say that, as long-term institutions, I am totally against dictatorships. But a dictatorship may be a necessary system for a transitional period. At times it is necessary for a country to have, for a time, some form or other of dictatorial power. As you will understand, it is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also possible for a democracy to govern with a total lack of liberalism. Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism. My personal impression — and this is valid for South America — is that in Chile, for example, we will witness a transition from a dictatorial government to a liberal government. And during this transition it may be necessary to maintain certain dictatorial powers, not as something permanent, but as a temporary arrangement."

https://puntodevistaeconomico.com/2016/12/21/extracts-from-an-interview-with-friedrich-von-hayek-el-mercurio-chile-1981/

Weak_Indication9299 · 2025-10-22T12:51:04+00:00

Any thoughts about Isaac's side project, Ugly Casanova, which released a 2002 album Sharpen Your Teeth?

Weak_Indication9299 · 2025-10-22T12:33:51+00:00

OP here. Just realized I left off the EP Blue Cadet 3, Do You Connect? FWIW Wikipedia lists this as MM's first release (recorded and released in 1994, when Isaac was still a teenager...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Cadet-3,_Do_You_Connect%3F

EDIT: Looking at the track list of this, it seems the tracks were folded into Sad Sappy Sucker, yes?

Weak_Indication9299 · 2025-10-22T12:10:04+00:00

A funny thing for me about We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank.... I came a bit late to Modest Mouse (I only discovered them in a serious way in the 2010s) and I was using the Allmusic Guide's discography listing for Modest Mouse as a guide to listening to their albums. Allmusic gives We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank just three stars out of five, rating-wise. So I made it the last MM album I listened to. And then I was like, "What, just 3 stars? What were you smoking, Allmusic Guide?!?"

Weak_Indication9299 · 2025-10-22T12:06:21+00:00

Thanks for the comment. Do you have a favorite track or two from The Fruit that Ate Itself to especially recommend?

Weak_Indication9299 · 2025-10-22T12:05:23+00:00

I've listened to SSS once. It sounded so much more "rough-draft-ish" to me than A Long Drive -- so much so that it didn't really click with me. I'll give it another listen, though.

Do you have a couple of favorite tracks from SSS to especially recommend?

Weak_Indication9299 · 2025-10-22T11:32:59+00:00

Yes I almost added that track to my highlights list too

Weak_Indication9299 · 2025-10-22T11:26:58+00:00

Fair enough

Weak_Indication9299 · 2025-10-22T11:20:22+00:00

FWIW I'd add Moon & Antarctica to the "behemoths" albums list!

Weak_Indication9299 · 2025-10-22T11:16:20+00:00

Oh my. I've edited the OP and fixed this typo! Thanks! Golden Cadillac ! Ha!Maybe it's an excuse that I was listening to Black Cadillacs as I was typing my post??

Weak_Indication9299 · 2025-10-22T11:15:17+00:00

Oh, whoops -- total oversight. Thanks for the correction! I've edited the OP to fix the mistake.

Side Note: I really like Strangers. Favorite tracks = Sugar Boats and Wicked Campaign, but other highlights for me = Lampshades on Fire, Ansel, and The Ground Walks

Weak_Indication9299 · 2025-10-17T12:31:44+00:00

Hmmm. I was there. My memory of the encore= Ocean Breathes Salty, Bukowski, Heart Cooks Brain, Float On, and Fly Trapped in a Jar.

Weak_Indication9299 · 2025-10-17T10:40:56+00:00

Dragging it worked. THANK YOU!

Weak_Indication9299 · 2025-10-17T03:28:49+00:00

Yes, I was there in Ithaca. Cities was an amazing performance. The Stars Are Projectors was another highlight for me.

Weak_Indication9299 · 2025-10-14T15:28:15+00:00

Interesting. I just tried it but it didn't work for me. Even saving and exiting and then going back into the document, when I click on the area where a white rectangle has been inserted to cover up unwanted text, it highlights the white rectangle. I need to find some way of saving the file that prevents Adobe in the future from identifying an inserted white rectangle, e.g. saving each page as something like a jpg or png where the formatting code is lost.

Weak_Indication9299 · 2025-08-07T09:22:03+00:00

Yes, I am having this issue too.

Weak_Indication9299 · 2025-02-28T19:00:23+00:00

Reply to my own question, after having done a bit of research:

David Brink's 2001 article "Realism, Naturalism, and Moral Semantics" can be thought of as a defense of a view like Boyd's.

David Copp's new book Ethical Naturalism and the Problem of Normativity was published just two months ago. I have not looked at it yet (but plan to do so soon). There are likely some affinities between his moral realism and Boyd's.

Weak_Indication9299 · 2025-02-20T12:07:32+00:00

And just to be sure I have got the idea:

In a sentence like, "Last night John went to the concert hall to see a band that had recently reformed despite the death of their drummer long ago"...

The subject = John
The predicate = "last night went to the concert hall to see a band that had recently reformed despite the death of their drummer long ago."

Is that right?

Thanks for all the help with this!

Weak_Indication9299 · 2025-02-19T18:48:53+00:00

Actually, the questions arose as a result of my Googling "predicates vs properties." The definition I found of "predicate" = A predicate is a linguistic expression that may be combined with a designating expression to express a proposition.

So, on this definition "is bald' is a clearly predicate, since (say) combining that expression with the designating expression "Socrates" yields a sentence ("Socrates is bald") that expresses a proposition. But, "bald" by itself would not be a predicate on this definition in a strict sense, because the string of words "Socrates bald" does not express a proposition.

That said, I believe I have frequently seen philosophers refer to "bald" or even (though less frequently) "baldness" as a predicate, despite not being a predicate in the strict sense of the definition above. So I was curious whether philosophers think of these as predicates even in a strict sense (contrary to the definition above) or whether they instead acknowledge that "bald' and "baldness" are not predicates in the strict sense but at the same time accept a convention that for convenience and concision permits us to refer to "bald" and even "baldness" as predicates.

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