>This schematism of our understanding in regard to phænomena and their mere form, is an art, hidden in the depths of the human soul, whose true modes of action we shall only with difficulty discover and unveil.
>I don't get it
>>24945182hwat?
>>24945033How is transcendental logic related to (formal) logic? Kant says that in logic, reason considers only its form and abstracts away the matter and denies that there could be a special logic for a certain matter. But later in the antinimoies he wants to show that the most basic form of proof (reductio ad absurdum) doesn't apply in the context of the questions there, for the negation of tha absurd is equally absurd there.so I am baffled.BTW, we have currently a thread on "informal logic" (textbooks). We should go over there and harass them there.
>>24945340>a science of pure understanding and rational[2] cognition, by means of which we may cogitate objects entirely à priori. A science of this kind, which should determine the origin, the extent, and the objective validity of such cognitions, must be called Transcendental Logic
>>24945497Yes this is one of the passages to which I was referring I wonder how he squares it with RAA not being valid in all contexts etc
Never been debunked btw
>>24945366>I'm young and new to 4chan so words mean whatever I say they mean at any given timeGood goy.>>24945368There are ethnic differences, not racial differences, my longnose-buzzword enjoyer.>>24945390Hooble gobble my octangular sikrantic logneeos fusala!
>>24943935>>24943094IQ is a plausible measure within a society, but it cannot be used across societies where the problems are not going to be understood because they lack the same cultural and linguistic basis for them. The problem with Murry and Herrnstein is that they don't seem to recognize this and they just grab any ol "IQ test" given in random countries in the world and pretend that these are comparable within "IQ tests" in other countries. They are not.You simply cannot give the same IQ test in two different countries. Even if the cultural issue was not a barrier, there is the linguistic barrier, and the fact that you cannot trust the translator or the translation. Herrnstein and Murray, not being multilingual experts, have no basis for determining the validity of any IQ test that is not given in English. This appiles even to math problems because they instructions have to be rendered in the local language.
>>24945420so what explains the race gap in English speaking countries?
>>24945476in england, blacks are scoring better than whites on standardized tests. is that the gap you are talking about?
>>24945613LOL
Better than Stephen King and no one on this board even talks about him.
He looks like he's been a homosexual pedophile ever since he left the womb.
>>24944392So... based?
>>24944392his beast house books actually just detail how much he wants to fuck teenage girls
>>24944240For a few years in the 90s, my Mum exchanged letters with him. He also sent her some rejected artwork for one of his books.
>>24944392I just read The Cellar and there are outright graphic pedo scenes.
Do Tolkiendrones realize that fantasy existed before Lord of the Rings and that it suffered greatly from Big Fat Fantasy and other sloppy derivatives that grew like viruses from Tolkien's wen? https://voca.ro/1Rwc7lMX0hfT
>>24941455>fantasy existed prior to tolkien and he was a poor example of it and i hate him>tolkien invented fantasy, and i hate him because the genre isn't what i want it to beeither way you're a homosexual
modern fantasy sucks because it's written by communists. it wasn't the inventiveness of the "worldbuilding", it was tolkien's ideals. his ideas of beauty, of justice, of right and wrong. those are what made his works enduring classics. the genre is shit because the secular dykes and faggots writing it now only idealize ugliness and evil.go read your GRRM diarrhea and rape stories and let tolkien be. it wasn't for you. it was never for you.
>>24945601Your sanitized manchild escapism slop will always be there for you to (not) read.The rest of the world is moving on from boomer infantilism.
>>24939820What an absolute cunt of a person. He'd absolutely be seething over Shakespeare or Milton or Dante or any other stand out titan regardless of their actual impact and greatness.Fuck, I imagine this fuckwit has issues with The Epic of Gilgamesh being about the emotions between friends and losing them.
Propose creating a separate board for fantasy. There is always seething about it which seems not lit related.
What's the big deal here?
>>24945547They didn't even fuck. They had an "emotional affair."
>>24945574I don't really buy it. RFK Jr kept a journal of all the women he cheated on his first wife with. He doesn't seem like someone who would settle for pictures of holes.
>The campaign staff awoke to see their former intern, Olivia Nuzzi, on the front cover of the Daily News. >Inside the paper was an article bylined by Nuzzi in which she told a rather unflattering tale of her experience working on Anthony Weiner’s mayoral bid.>Now, Team Weiner is firing back. >TPM called Weiner’s communications director Barbara Morgan to discuss an unrelated story Tuesday and she went off on a curse-filled rant about Nuzzi, describing her as a fame hungry “bitch” who “sucked” at her job. >Morgan also called Nuzzi a “slutbag,” “twat,” and “cunt” while threatening to sue her.
>>24943578So, given she’s a whore, what you’re telling me is there’s a chance?
>>24945615If you are older than her and can give her material things you are right in her wheel house
I'm an NPC retard who's trying to break free from social programming. Recommend me 1 (ONE) book that will help me become smarter.It could be anything, but preferably non-fiction, with no flowery bullshit prose I won't understand on the first read, and something that deals with modern problems.
>>24944759To understand which opinions have been installed into your OS you need to know who benefits.To know who benefits, you need to have deep understanding of a field.This cannot be done with a single book or even a single lifetime.Inevitably, the majority of your ideas and opinions will come from without. We do live in a society.
>>24944759https://www.readthesequences.comi also third this suggestion: >>24944883
>>24944759
>>24944759here you go OP
I said NON-FICTION. I thought you retards on this board could read. I'm trying to become smarter, not waist my time on some author's dollhouses-in-print
>>24945345Right, sorry - I meant 4, of course.
>>24945365>Right, sorry - I meant 4, of course.That’s more like it. "The Arrival Of The Bee Box".
>>2493031946: The Wasp Factory by Banks?
>>24930314Could 32 be Borges?
>>249302972. The Great Gatsby?4. must be the Bukowski one but I don't know him well enough to answer5. The Old Man and the Sea6. Room with a View7. La Belle Damme Sans Merci10. The Third Policeman
>Christian writer creates Christianity-destroying argumentI'm speechless>but he also refut-"Dude just have faith or you'll become a murderer/go crazy lmao" is a weak counterargument.
>>24945466The first Christian writer created a Christianity-destroying argument>What is truth?John 18:38
>/lit/ tricked me into reading Freemason propagandaI feel violated
>>24945056It's a cyclical thing with these secret society conspiracy things. You believe in them, then you dismiss them as silly, then you start to be skeptical again, then you think they can't have much power, then you read some more and realize it can't all be coincidental, and so on. I'll never forget Nixon's leaked rant about the Bohemian Grove and shit like that where he complained about their literal faggotry lol. Must be tiresome after a while.The French are big into that stuff as well, or used to be.
>>24945034Filtered. Freemasonry is only one of the many, many perspectives/guises the book takes. Catholic, Muslim, kabbalistic, esoteric, mercantile, platonic, empiricism, scholarly, historic, romantic. And yes, masonic. They're all examined and ultimately rejected for their inability to contain the whole Truth in them, further compounded by the story being twice, thrice and more removed from the original point of view (a manuscript found decades after the events). And through a happy little accident this uncertainty is even further compounded by there being no definitive version of the book. There's 1804, 1810 and the Polish translator fanfiction, and all of them have a different structure.It's a book of doubt, of philosophical and scientific scepticism, and one that laments the ability for humans to achieve Truth no matter how many systems of knowledge one adopts.t. Read the 1810 version, where IIRC the Velasquez System is introduced, so I might be biased in terms of my interpretation.
>>24945056>being both a fascist and a FreemasonClassic Pound
>>24945056CS Lewis?!
>>24945244great post, you sum up what I love about the book
Post image get book rec pls
>>24944370Melmoth the wanderer Or maybe that story by Cortazar (i think) where a guy was turned into a plant
>>24945360What does this chart mean?
>>24925515>>24925515>>24935432continued from hereLWC has been running, as of this month, for the entirety of 2025. Next month will be the year anniversary. We run the first Friday of every month. A warning post is released on Thursday, requirements released on the Friday, and submission closes on the Monday. Voting ends on the following Friday.WHEN>tomorrow morning at 10:00 GMT the character and theme requirements will be releasedRULES>1. incorporate the theme and character requirements (creative interpretations allowed)>2. submissions must be made by Monday 8th December at 22:00 GMT>3. you must submit by use renty.co and posting a rentry.co link of your piece under a unique tripcode (Namefield: Name + "#" + Password)>4 you are allowed to edit your work on rentry.co page until the submission deadlineComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24941464Congrats on the win. Hoping the image challenge happens this month.
>>24944214>>24944312I voted for the worst stories as a joke. I dont remember where I ranked Duck and Bartle. How funny would it be if that influenced the winner?
>>24945088Your 1st rank gets 3 points, 2nd gets 2, 3rd gets 1, and everyone else gets 0. There's a margin of 5 points from the overall 3rd to 4th, so whatever you did probably didn't matter. If any of the top three were among your "worst" then at most you'd have maybe shuffled their order.
>>24943847>>24944214Congrats to the winners, any anon could just make their own /lit/ contest where they ban nostalgia stories and nobody is allowed to die but they won't to not be embarrassed by their own failure.
>>24944214That's neat. Should've been Bartlebooth, but thanks>>24945088Thanks for the winning vote
ToT UOHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
>>24944962Imagine a Chinese man casually stomping her to death.
>>24945418wtf why?
proud to say i've never read a frenchoid ever
>>24945423It's funny.
>>24945431Game of the Year. Book of the Year next, buddy.
Good night frens.Tell me your:>favorite poet>favorite playwright>favorite composerSo I have some new comfy suggestions.
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>>24940941i like verlaine now. i haven't read many plays but i liked aeschylus. and my favourite composer is kanye west
>>24941004Yes, he wrote a lot of poetry both inside and outside of the world of Middle Earth, my favourite poem of his is the Lay of Earendil from The Fellowship, which I have recently memorised; which has been a very rewarding and fun experience to test ones memory with. It is the longest poem in the LOTR and is "written by Bilbo" at Rivendell with help from Aragorn:Eärendil was a marinerthat tarried in Arvernien;he built a boat of timber felledin Nimbrethil to journey in;her sails he wove of silver fair,of silver were her lanterns made,her prow he fashioned like a swan,and light upon her banners laid.In panoply of ancient kings,in chained rings he armoured him;his shining shield was scored with runesto ward all wounds and harm from him;Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24944762Through Evernight he back was borneon black and roaring waves that rano'er leagues unlit and foundered shoresthat drowned before the Days began,until he heard on strands of pearlwhere ends the world the music long,where ever-foaming billows rollthe yellow gold and jewels wan.He saw the Mountain silent risewhere twilight lies upon the kneesof Valinor, and Eldamarbeheld afar beyond the seas.A wanderer escaped from nightto haven white he came at last,Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24940941William BlakeWilliam ShakespeareDvorak
Just finished this, why exactly is it supposed to be the greatest thing ever written?
>>24945092My second favourite is unironically Titus Andronicus but my favorite play is actually Volpone by Ben Johnson
>>24945006>>24945099
>>24944973You’re a fag
>>24941591 bumpI read it when I was a teenager (doesn't even count!) and got completly filtered but still loved it. Sofar, I loved every Shakespeare play I read. I studied (analytical) philosophy at uni for almost a decade and in Shakespeare I rediscovered what made me want to study philosophy in the first place. >>24941733Thx>>24943048True
I got to be the gravedigger in my high school production and it was probably my peak.
Just what the fuck was Mr.Hyde's problem?
>>24945503He can't keep getting away with it
jekyll is a way more sinister name. should've been called Mr. Jekyll and Dr. Hyde
>>24945571inb4 b-but that doesn't fit in with the JEKYLL WAS THE MONSTER THE WHOLE TIME, AND MR. "HYDE" WAS THE HIDDEN PART OF HIS PERSONALITIES FREED BY THE POTION theme
>>24945503looks like the typical ukranian/russian front line solider desu
Robert Louis Stevenson published Treasure Island when he was 33 and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde at 36Died at 44
