[Marxism-Thaxis] Age of Materialism?

2008-04-05 Thread Ralph Dumain
I thought that decades ago I used to see a book in the stores called The Age of Materialism. I have not been able to locate such a title in any online library catalog I've checked nor in the online used book services. Doing a web search, I found exactly one blog that mentions this title: Age

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Vienna Circle etc.

2008-04-05 Thread rasherrs
Hi Jim Given what I have studied of BT and given his failure to participate more actively in the Vienna Circle I have been of the opinion that he was not a verificationist. The admiration, and apparent benign relationship between Popper and BT, I would have thought, might even indicate that

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Age of Materialism?

2008-04-05 Thread Ralph Dumain
Aha! This must be it. And Harper Torchbook fits the profile of my vague visual memory. It should be pretty easy to find. I wonder how widely this label has been used. I've seen this period and others described as an age of materialism. I believe I've also seen the 19th century

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Symbolic Logic

2008-04-05 Thread Charles Brown
Theory of descriptions Jump to: navigation, search The theory of descriptions is one of the philosopher Bertrand Russell's most significant contributions to the philosophy of language. It is also termed Russell's Theory of Descriptions (often abbreviated as RTD). In short, Russell argued that

[Marxism-Thaxis] Verificationism

2008-04-05 Thread Charles Brown
Verificationism A verificationist is someone who adheres to the verification principle, a principle and criterion for meaningfulness that requires a non-analytic, meaningful sentence to be either verifiable or falsifiable, though it was hotly disputed amongst verificationists whether this

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Symbolic Logic

2008-04-05 Thread rasherrs
Interesting intro Charles. Much appreciated Paddy - Original Message - From: Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 7:39 PM Subject: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Symbolic Logic Theory of

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Struggle Over Commons Governance at Wikipedia

2008-04-05 Thread Charles Brown
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/a-list/2008-April/070762.html The Struggle Over Commons Governance at Wikipedia Bill Totten by David Bollier http://onthecommons.org (March 14 2008) Surely there is no greater living experiment in commons-based governance than Wikipedia, one of the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Take Action to Protect Working Families from Losing Their Homes

2008-04-05 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/support2636 Take Action to Protect Working Families from Losing Their Homes We are approaching a critical moment in the campaign to stop the foreclosure crisis. The U.S. Senate is considering a bill (S. 2636) with a key provision that would fix bankruptcy

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Sorcerer's Apprentice

2008-04-05 Thread Charles Brown
The Sorcerer's Apprentice Johann Wolfgang von Goethe That old sorcerer has vanished And for once has gone away! Spirits called by him, now banished, My commands shall soon obey. Every step and saying That he

[Marxism-Thaxis] Randi Rhodes suspended for foul-mouthed rant

2008-04-05 Thread Charles Brown
April 3rd, 2008 Randi Rhodes suspended for foul-mouthed rant Posted by Jessica Heslam at 3:53 pm Air America Radio has suspended host Randi Rhodes for repeatedly calling both Hillary Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro a “big f***ing whore” at a recent event. Here it is on YouTube. The foul-mouthed

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fwd: Spark

2008-04-05 Thread Charles Brown
Can't Afford the Basics ? The Federal Reserve is pumping money into the US financial system - but not to save people's homes from foreclosure, only to bail out the gigantic financial institutions that were behind the subprime mortgage rip-off and the housing bubble. The collapse with their pants

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fw: [Marxism] marxmail will be offline Sunday, April 6

2008-04-05 Thread Jim Farmelant
Since Thaxis, like Marxmail is based on University of Utah servers, I suspect that this list will likewise be offline tomorrow. Jim Farmelant - Forwarded message -- From: Les Schaffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 11:52:34 -0400 Subject: