What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

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Post by macdoc » Thu Apr 06, 2023 8:48 am

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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by rasetsu » Mon Apr 10, 2023 2:03 pm

My book is broken. :cry:

Unfortunately, the copy I have is broken. This and another title by Priest are $45, so I've requested library loans so I can evaluate the books before spending the change.

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The Law of Non-Contradiction has been high orthodoxy in Western philosophy since Aristotle. The so-called Law has been the subject of radical challenge in recent years by dialetheism, the view that some contradictions are indeed true. Many philosophers have taken the Law to be central to many of our most important philosophical concepts. In Doubt Truth to be a Liar, Graham Priest mounts the case against this. Starting with an analysis of Aristotle on the Law, he discusses the nature of truth, or rationality, or negation, and of logic itself, and argues that the Law is inessential to all of these things.

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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by rasetsu » Fri Apr 14, 2023 12:41 pm

Toggling between print and audio.

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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by macdoc » Fri Apr 14, 2023 1:43 pm

All three or just one ?? Interesting approach.

I'm slightly hung up on reading Burnam Wood
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/ ... llionaires

And finishing the rather monumental FDR bio ...it's been too hot to ride slowing that up.

Fed up with the mid- to late heat - - midnight and it's 29C.... :fp:
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by rasetsu » Fri Apr 14, 2023 2:20 pm

Well, one at a time. If I don't find them entertaining, naturally I'll stop reading / listening.

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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by macdoc » Fri Apr 14, 2023 5:45 pm

So you have the trilogy in both formats. My Tolkien lover partner salutes you.
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by rasetsu » Fri Apr 14, 2023 11:59 pm

No, just the one. I'm a bit cash poor at the moment. Need to pay down my cards some.

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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by macdoc » Sat Apr 15, 2023 1:50 am

Twas ever thus.
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by JimC » Sat Apr 15, 2023 6:25 am

I first read the Tolkien trilogy about 55 years ago. Still got the original hardcover books that my parents had bought, with the wonderful fold-out maps!
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Post by pErvinalia » Sat Apr 15, 2023 7:39 am

I read them with Jimmy Hendricks as the sound track. Still get the feeling of the books when I hear Hendricks.
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by macdoc » Sun Apr 16, 2023 6:13 pm

Birnam Wood...hmmm - quite commercial for a Book Prize winner ....not particularly engaging. Plucking a lot of tightly streched topical strings somewhat incoherently.
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by rasetsu » Fri Apr 21, 2023 1:37 pm

I found a copy of Doubt Truth To Be A Liar that wasn't broken, but it was apparently scanned using OCR and so most of the logical formulas are unreadable. I ended up borrowing a printed copy via inter-library loan from the local university. The text makes a lot more sense when you can actually read the formulas. I'm not sure how long the loan is, so I'm going to concentrate on it until I need to return it. I have to wonder if the ebooks that Amazon sells have the same problem as the ebook copy that I downloaded. I suppose Amazon would refund the purchase if they do.

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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

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Well written derring do that happens to be true.
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

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and makes one realize Bond was a light weight
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by JimC » Tue May 23, 2023 3:37 am

I have, as usual, been reading lots of B-grade fantasy and SF books on my Kindle (I insist that they are high level B-grade, but I digress...)

However, I've also read two excellent non-fiction books, one on Kindle, one as a real book.

The Kindle book is "Cancelled" by Umut Ozkirimli. He is a progressive, old-left academic, and the book is a well-reasoned polemic against some sections of the academic left whose rather fanatical devotion to identity politics has meant that they spend more time attacking fellow progressives for imagined deviations from the "party line" rather than the true targets, conservative, far-right and religious figures who are a much bigger threat to the LGBT community than any minor internal quibbling.

The "real" book is "Pathogenesis" by Jonathon Kennedy, who has interpreted many aspects of human history via the lens of our interactions with disease pathogens. An excellent read...
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