INTRODUCTION
THE USE AND ABUSE OF WORDS AND OTHER SYMBOLS
- The symbol and what the symbol means
- Confusing the symbol with what the symbol means
- What depression means
PHENOMENALISM
- Phenomenalist logic and linguistics
- Sensation as such vs. sensation of
- The mental vs. the physical
- The subjective vs. the objective
- The self vs. the other
- From linguistics to logic
- The decline and fall of the Scottish Enlightenment
- The physics and psychology of sensation
- Reductio ad absurdum
- Isomorphism
- The phenomenalism of categorization
- Phenomenalism
LOGIC
- Science as purely descriptive
- The purpose of logic
- The relationship between logic, psychology, and linguistics
- Why I study languages, linguistics, and logic
- Why I study languages, linguistics, and logic, continued
- The ideal social calculator
- Reductionistic and holistic simplification
- From concrete to abstract
- The praxeology of categorization
- Direct and indirect ends
- Same object vs. same kind of object
- Same object vs. same kind of object, continued
- Unilateral vs. bilateral inference
- Physicalist categories of phenomenalist categories
LINGUISTICS
- A logical approach to linguistics
- Language as a tool of communication vs. as a tool of thought
- Words as sets
- Form and substance
- Formalism and substantivism
- Semantics and syntax
- How words influence thought
- Word-thought overwriting
- An analogy to word-thought overwriting
- How to think independently
- Intension and extension
- Intension and extension, continued
- Connotation, denotation, and social negotiation
- The two ways of using a category
- Joint attention
- Joint attention, continued
LINGUISTICS, CONTINUED
- Notation in logic
- Natural vs. artificial isomorphism
- The conjugational system of the artificial language
- Deixis
- The deictic system of the artificial language
- Right shifting
- Right shifting, continued
- The vocabulary and grammar of arithmetic and algebra
- Positive and negative, plus and minus
- Digits etc
A SOCIAL SCIENCE OF THE DENIAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Social-science denialism
- Is the mental subject to scientific law?
- The Enlightenment and Romanticism
- Unfreeness and identity
- Unfreeness and identity, continued
- Intention and interpretation in identity
- Individuals and groups
- Individuals and groups, continued
- A role in the fight of good vs. evil
- Epistemological and social justification
- Attraction and sex
- Attraction and sex, continued
- Expectation, the logical and the social
- The analytic vs. the synthetic
- Breadwinners and homemakers
- Historicism
- Generalization in social science
- No true Scotsman
- Conjuration
- Non-logically-quantified generalization
- Ignoring the obvious exceptions
SEX
HEALTH
NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL ORDER
- The phenomenalism of evolution
- Natural and artificial order, natural and artificial language
- God and the State
- The tacit pattern to action
THE JEWS
- The Jews
- The Jews, continued
- Jewish ethnic identity in transition
- Jewish identity
- Jewish identity, continued
- The Jews in capitalism and socialism
- Anticapitalism and antisemitism
- Rising antisemitism in late-19th-century Europe
- Matrilineality and bilineality
CATEGORIZATION, SEGREGATION, INTEGRATION, AND SPECIALIZATION
- Chunks, big and small
- Segregation and integration, literal
- Segregation and integration, metaphorical
- Segregation and integration
INTELLECTUALISM
SEX, RACE, AND OTHER UNCHOOSABLE IDENTITIES