tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8042142443470259188.post7319811468425353419..comments2023-05-13T07:41:26.217-05:00Comments on SOH-Dan: "Unclear statements don't get a bit clearer by being repeated!"Daniel Lindquisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05443116324301716578noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8042142443470259188.post-8690253078364772572012-03-30T20:06:08.164-05:002012-03-30T20:06:08.164-05:00It was a low-level aggravation for me. Just enough...It was a low-level aggravation for me. Just enough of an irritant to give a pleasing frisson.Daniel Lindquisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05443116324301716578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8042142443470259188.post-40730281640508138262012-03-30T20:00:13.762-05:002012-03-30T20:00:13.762-05:00I still haven't read the Setiya interview; the...I still haven't read the Setiya interview; the link to it on Leiter mentioned that in it he talks about Anscombe, and I find reading him on her just incredibly aggravating for various reasons. But it was good, huh.Ben Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06887096661154495898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8042142443470259188.post-21246139660691049892012-03-26T10:17:54.912-05:002012-03-26T10:17:54.912-05:00When I was in grad school I went to a lecture by F...When I was in grad school I went to a lecture by Fine. He spoke without notes, just lectured about what he was thinking about at the time. Earlier that week I had expressed to a visiting professor my frustration with traditional and/or analytic approaches to philosophy, and after Fine's talk he said to me:<br /><br />Him: I bet that just about made your head explode [or something like that]<br />Me: You have no idea.<br /><br />The talk was actually helpful in that way: I was sitting there thinking "either a) this guy is doing philosophy very, very poorly, or b) this is not philosophy at all, or c) this is simply a very different kind of thing than what I do, but may still (1) count as philosophy and (2) be done well." I'm still not sure about the answer, but that was the first time that that sort of thing had struck me as so utterly <b>alien</b> as to render a judgment on (a) (or (c2) for that matter) impossible. He remains my poster child for that syndrome to this day.Duckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11349267352262603510noreply@blogger.com