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> avi narayan wrote:
> >
> > Carrol Cox wrote:
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> > > Anyone have a better definition of positivism?
> > >
> >
> > http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/l/logpos.htm
> >
> > is a good start at
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Jim Devine wrote:
> Anwar Shaikh has a good article.
Do you have a cite handy for that article?
Michael
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Evolution... revolution bla bla bla, this game costs
me a fortune every time we go to the store the kids
grab a few packs off the shelf and force me under
duress to pay for them. It is a conspiracy against
working parents...
--- Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> from SLATE:
> >The NY [TIMES]
Rob
Many thanks for your detailed news round-up. In asking several questions I
didn't expect the lowdown on each and every one, though pleased to have got
it.
You mentioned:
East Timor is an ex-story.
This is a little puzzling, and significantly more worrying, given the role
being played by G
Michael Pollak wrote:
I'd also like know more about rain forest ranching. Edward Luttwak wrote
an article recently in the London Review of Books about his ranch in
Bolivia that was both interesting and odd, and I'd love to be able to
place it in a larger context.
=
Luttwak is both interest
Carrol,
In my experience positivism means whatever its critics say it means.
I began a PhD looking at 'post-positivism' in International Relations, where critical theorists, constructivists, feminists and post-structuralists have grouped themselves together through a common hostility to pos
The New York Times, April 26, 2001, Thursday, Late Edition - Final
Ex-Senator Kerrey Says Raid He Led in '69 Killed Civilians
By AMY WALDMAN
Bob Kerrey, a former United States senator who won the Medal of Honor for
his military service in Vietnam, has acknowledged that a combat mission he
l
To add to the comments, there is usually recognized a difference
between the positivism of science and legal positivism. The positivism
of science has been held up as the natural successor to metaphysics,
also known as ontology, just as metaphysics was the natural successor
to religious belief. Th
http://www.linguafranca.com/print/0101/cover_cons.html
Cover story on Luttwak and John Gray.
www.wildrockies.org/buffalo
See pg. 15 of the Global Warming issue of In These Times for a short write
up on this "Buffalo Field Campaign' Org. in Montana.
www.inthesetimes.com
The April 30th issue, also s
Michael Pugliese wrote:
>http://www.linguafranca.com/print/0101/cover_cons.html
>Cover story on Luttwak and John Gray.
I had the author of the piece, Corey Robin, and Luttwak on the radio
when the issue came out, and Luttwak was emphatic that he was never a
"conservative." He sees himself as a
Heh, sometime ago in the Stanford library stacks after spending a day at the
Hoover Institute, I found bound volumes of New America, the Social
Democrats, USA newspaper. From 1972, there was an event addressed by one of
their members, Richard Perle, the aide at the time to Scoop Jackson. Perle
nic
Concerning the all-important Pokemon issue, Ali Kadri wrote:
>Evolution... revolution bla bla bla, this game costs
>me a fortune every time we go to the store the kids
>grab a few packs off the shelf and force me under
>duress to pay for them. It is a conspiracy against
>working parents...
have y
Michael Savage wrote:
>In my experience positivism means whatever its critics say it means.
I think that's right. So when I criticize "positivism," I make it very
clear what I mean by that term (or use someone else's definition). While I
try to use definitions that fit with the conventionally-u
Beating on "positivism" is beating a dead horse, if logical empiricsim is
meant--at least in philosophy. However there are serious inaccuracies in the
following that I will comment on.
> >
>
>Most of the folks attempting to answer Carrol's question about postivism
>have
>been referring to A
Unlike logical positivism, legal positivism is alive and well. The two views
have only very rough structural analogies, LogP is an articulated set of
philosophical doctrines about language and knowledge. LegP is a view about
the nature of law. As fara s I can tell the only point in common his t
At 10:38 AM 4/27/01 -0400, you wrote:
>>William F. Buckley Jr. says, "The trouble with the emphasis in
>>conservatism on the market is that it becomes rather boring. You hear it
>>once, you master the idea. The notion of devoting your life to it is
>>horrifying if only because it's so repetitio
[was: Re: [PEN-L:10895] Re: Re: Re: Great Plains Depopulation]
Micahel Pugliese wrote:
>Heh, sometime ago in the Stanford library stacks after spending a day at the
>Hoover Institute, I found bound volumes of New America, the Social
>Democrats, USA newspaper. From 1972, there was an event address
The Eagle Forum has a campaign against Pokeman too. Yup, that's from
Phyllis Schlafley.
Michael Pugliese
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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 03:20:17 +1000
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Subject: The Illuminati - Part 15 - TV - The Perfect Mindcontrol Device
(Svali)
GDP Byte, by Dean Baker, 04/27/01
Plunging Imports Keeps GDP Growing
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Measured in net national product, the
"new economy" productivity upsurge
has been completely invisible in the
last three quarters.
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A decline in
Buckley like Pat Buchanan had a Father that supported Franco, if memory
serves. See the John Judis bio of WFB, Jr. Pat as a kid (see his autobio)
revered the three Mac's. Joe McCarthy, Douglas MacArthur and ?
Buckley has said (see also, "The Conservative Intellectual Movement in
America, " by
Svengali wrote:
>Have you ever watched a young child who is watching cartoons like this?
>Their eyes glaze, their jaw goes slack, and they stop EVERYTHING and even
>breathe more slowly. Once again, I am not a fan of TV per se for this very
>reason, and especially for young children.
It's interest
Please forward. For more information contact
Jonathan Fremont in Representative Cynthia
McKinney's office, 202-225-1605.
Congress of the United States
Washington, DC, 20515
April 26, 2001
Mr. Paul H. O'Neill
Secretary
Department of the Treasury
1500 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20220
I sent this out by mistake. What appears below is corrected & completed.
Svengali wrote:> Have you ever watched a young child who is watching
cartoons like this?
Their eyes glaze, their jaw goes slack, and they stop EVERYTHING and even
breathe more slowly. Once again, I am not a fan of TV per se
Howard Selsam! See C. Wright Mills review cited in the collected essays
ed. by fink, I.L. Horowitz. "Socialism and Ethics, "Political Science
Quarterly, March, 1944.
Michael Pugliese
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If some reviewers or commentators have concentrated on the
question of coal and the steam engine in their evaluations of
Pomeranz, others insist there is still much to be learned re
comparisons of caloric intake, life expectancies, distribution of
income, real wages, and so forth. Jeffrey Will
At 04:48 AM 4/27/01 -0400, you wrote:
>On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Jim Devine wrote:
>
> > Anwar Shaikh has a good article.
>
>Do you have a cite handy for that article?
Anwar Shaikh, "The Laws of International Exchange" in Edward J. Nell, ed.
_Growth, Profits, and Property: Essays in the Revival of P
Jim D wrote,
>including (yuk!) Pokemon
You got to get into Rugrats. We don't have cable
so we only see it via rented videos every few
weeks (you also avoid the commercials that way!).
One could argue that Rugrats is a bit
subversive--as much or more so than the Simpsons.
It certainly is very cr
On the other hand, this whiole debate about living standards may
be irrelevant, if we are to believe Greg Clark who, in the EH.R
Forum, 1997, wondered should we "conclude that since Yangzi
Delta living standards equaled those of England, the Yanzi Delta
must have been as technologically advanc
Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of
the Modern World Economy. The Princeton Economic History of the Western
World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. x + 382 pp.
Appendices, Bibliography, and Index. $20 Cloth ISBN 0-691-00543-5.
Reviewed for H-Wo
Justin Schwartz wrote:
>
> Beating on "positivism" is beating a dead horse, if logical empiricsim
> is meant--at least in philosophy.
>
i am not entirely sure you are right, especially since there is no
clean line of separation of philosophy from other fields. the
motivation underlying many o
At the risk of being accused of having too parochial a
view, I think PEN-Lers might find this interesting:
The following facts may lead to the end of rice
production in Butte County:
Rice farmers in southern Butte County are making about
$200/acre on their crop.
It takes 3 acre-feet/acre to gro
I don't think that this is parochial at all. We had a recent thread regarding water
farms, where people buy farms, just for the water rights.
I am far from alone in suspecting that water shortages will be moving to center stage
soon. Those with acess to water will have enormous power. Yet
li
I wrote:
> > But Hollywood
> > produces dreck (1) because people want
> > it,
Eric writes:
>In other contexts I'm sure Jim could be more
>careful not to make such an extreme claim. How
>kids, and parents, come to want "low culture" is a
>complex process mostly involved, I think, with the
>nature
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11896-2001Apr27.html
Documents Show Nazis' Role in U.S. Intelligence
By George Lardner Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 27, 2001; 3:28 PM
U.S. intelligence agencies used a rogue's gallery of Nazi war criminals after World
War II, som
In a message dated 4/27/01 8:39:56 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> Beating on "positivism" is beating a dead horse, if logical empiricsim is
> meant--at least in philosophy. However there are serious inaccuracies in
the
> following that I will comment on.
>
Just
Jim wrote,
> yeah, tastes are a "dependent
> variable," but that doesn't say that people
> don't have bad taste a lot of the time
> (and I don't exclude myself from this).
The key is not whether you have bad tastes, but
whether you feel _guilty_ for having bad taste:
that is, whether you have "me
Sorry about the intemperate tone of the last post. Scott's comments on
positivism, to which I was replying, were very confused, but I was wrong to
have used rude language, and I apologize. I should explain that I was
trained as a philosopher of science by, among others, Carl Hempel, an
origina
I don't have access to the article right now, only the abstract.
Brian J. L. Berry, Euel Elliott and Edward J. Harpham. 1995.
"Long Swings in American Inequality: The Kuznets Conjecture
Revisited." Papers in Regional Science, 74: 2 (April): pp.
153-74.
In the two hundred year history of American
What is surprising is that this is considered to be "news." The role of Gehlen and his
crew of Nazis was pretty well known.
Ian Murray wrote:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11896-2001Apr27.html
> Documents Show Nazis' Role in U.S. Intelligence
>
> By George Lardner Jr.
> Washi
Hi again Michael,
> So how does this fit in with Dubya's trans-Pacific sabre-rattling?
> Does Howard really want to get involved in that?
Yep, and he is involved. He's playing his self-appointed role as unpaid
deputy to the embarrassing hilt, enjoying a very public slanging match with
Beijing a
> What is surprising is that this is considered to be "news." The role of Gehlen and
his
> crew of Nazis was pretty well known.
It could be an intergenerational thing; young reporter, telling the story for someone
in his age bracket or some such. Plus, you're by no means
Scott,
You are right to reproach me for my caustic and rude tone, and your
responded better than I deserved, for which thanks, and I apologize directly
to you. We disagree on many things, however. I do have tremendous admiration
for the logical positivists. I probably am a lot closer to the po
How can you be so sloppy Justin? As you know there are two distinct types of
cognitively meaningful statements according to logical
positivists/empiricists those you set out here and those which represent
propositions analytically true or false. Examples of the latter would be
anything of the form
This appears to be the start of global budgets for health.
Chris Burford
>The leaders supported U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's call at the
>opening of the conference for a global AIDS "war chest" of between $5-10
>billion.
Clinton has just called on the US to provide 1.5billion $ a y
Best three sources on all this. Christopher Simpson, Russ
Bellant from South End Press, Martin A. Lee, "The Beast Reawakens,
" from Little Brown, 2000. Can't remember the title of the Simpson,
published in early 90's, out of print here, think European edition
is Grove & weidenfield
Michael P
Actually, nothing will stop the AIDS epidemic except total eradication of
the capitalist system and the kind of aggressive public health system that
exists in Cuba today. Even with the breakthough against imperialist drug
company patent rights, AIDS medicine is far out of reach of the average
Afri
At 12:53 PM 4/27/01 -0700, you wrote:
>The key is not whether you have bad tastes, but
>whether you feel _guilty_ for having bad taste:
of course! guilt makes the world go 'round.
>Ah, the good old days. Jim, were you at Berkeley
>when the DKs were starting out (circa 1977, I
>think)?
Yes, but
Thursday April 26, 5:27 PM
Chinese Robbers Get Death Sentence
BEIJING (AP) - Two men who robbed an American diplomat of $50 have been
sentenced to death, officials said Thursday.
Armed with knives, Li Guang and Mu Jiangqiao also stole a camera and a
watch from a U.S. diplomat in the southweste
Right, got me there, Ken. --jks
>
>How can you be so sloppy Justin? As you know there are two distinct types
>of
>cognitively meaningful statements according to logical
>positivists/empiricists those you set out here and those which represent
>propositions analytically true or false. Examples o
Brad, when is this puppy coming out?
max
>A book rep came to my office today telling me how good brad de long's text
>book would be. Will it be polluted with AS/AD?
http://www.pdxnorml.org/CIA-BIB.html
BLOWBACK - America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War
Christopher Simpson
Collier Books, New York
Copyright (c) 1988
Weidenfield & Nicolson for you Europeans.
Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Reagan Administration: The Role of
Domestic
War on Want have mailed me back and pointed out that one of the ATTAC
links is to the following site hosted by the CEPR.
Listers may wish to browse through the names of those who have signed up
to the following statement.
While it may be fair comment to note the general tendency or political
di
I agree with most of what Justin has to say. Selsam and Martel are
astonishingly ignorant about logical positivism, so much so that I was
always so angry when I read them I couldn't appreciate much of anything
they might have to say even though I am strongly influenced by Marx. However
I will mak
One more book cite then I will shut up on this but the book was so good!
"Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist
International." (New York: Autonomedia,
1999).
Give Kevin a holler, he is a great researcher and a damn fine writer too.
Even on theorists like Carl Sc
On Friday, April 27, 2001 at 13:50:02 (-0700) michael pugliese writes:
>
> Best three sources on all this. Christopher Simpson, Russ
>Bellant from South End Press, Martin A. Lee, "The Beast Reawakens,
>" from Little Brown, 2000. Can't remember the title of the Simpson,
>published in early 90's,
On Friday, April 27, 2001 at 14:28:40 (-0700) Michael Pugliese writes:
>...
>P.S. Another Chistopher Simpson (?) has good material on psychological
>warfare and US Cold War policy. Published by Oxford Univ. Press.
You may be thinking of *Science of Coercion: Communication Research
and Psychologic
http://www.prospect.org/print/V12/7/gamson-j.html
Class Clowns
Joshua Gamson
The Oblongs, the WB network's new animated series that premiered on April
Fools' Day, opens with the sound of a flushing toilet. Chipper voices, who
could be singing about the Flintstones or Scooby Doo, sing the show's
In a message dated 4/27/01 1:27:15 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Scott,
>
> You are right to reproach me for my caustic and rude tone, and your
> responded better than I deserved, for which thanks, and I apologize
directly
> to you. We disagree on many things, how
Scott,
We do all sorts of carrying on here, including about philosophy. But I agree
with you and Michael P that it is best done in a civil manner, although as
you see I often fail in that respect.
>
>This is sort of what I was getting at; we are looking at positivism pretty
>much from differe
The Toronto Star April 25, 2001
Quebec City: Paving way for battles on trade
by Richard Gwyn
Famously, the 18th-century British sage Samuel Johnson once
described patriotism as "the last refuge of a scoundrel."
To bring that aphorism up to date, it can now be observed,
following last weeken
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: March for Justice in Cincinnati June 1-3
>Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 08:09:06 EDT
>
>Dear Friends,
>
>At a meeting organized by the Black United Front and Citizens for a
>Humane Economy held at the Mt. Zion United Method Church in
>Cincinnati on April 25 and attend
At 27/04/01 17:01 -0400, you wrote:
>Actually, nothing will stop the AIDS epidemic except total eradication of
>the capitalist system and the kind of aggressive public health system that
>exists in Cuba today.
This sounds like revolutionary catastrophism. It has got to get worse until
there is a
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