tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17577430.post116404413149048407..comments2024-03-17T02:17:34.680-05:00Comments on Philosophy Factory: Borat and PhilosophyInside the Philosophy Factoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12255753259090709877noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17577430.post-1164101403088500152006-11-21T03:30:00.000-06:002006-11-21T03:30:00.000-06:00I know some people don't use any capital letters b...I know some people don't use any capital letters because of an argument by bell hooks about dominiation and feminism or something....<BR/><BR/>The Borat stuff I was thinking about in terms of language and meaning was something akin to Quine and his translation problems... although I don't recall what in Borat made me thing of Quine.Inside the Philosophy Factoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12255753259090709877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17577430.post-1164082254308593492006-11-20T22:10:00.000-06:002006-11-20T22:10:00.000-06:00Maybe the capitalization thing started with people...Maybe the capitalization thing started with people exploring philosophical reasons for not capitalizing things. I can remember people not capitalizing "i" as some sort of statement about themselves. It's probably just laziness and lack of grammatical training. I don't know how to use commas.Breena Ronanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02566521893585459242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17577430.post-1164079684743802882006-11-20T21:28:00.000-06:002006-11-20T21:28:00.000-06:00the language part is interesting because we'll und...the language part is interesting because we'll understand the parts that are supposed to be in a "foreign language" but are actually in Hebrew. one of the reasons we'll see it before almond joy and not with her.<BR/><BR/>and I do random capitals, I guess.timnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01985699859449138316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17577430.post-1164074357927438702006-11-20T19:59:00.000-06:002006-11-20T19:59:00.000-06:00Here in Maryland there was some local 'borat' medi...Here in Maryland there was some local 'borat' media interest as there's a car salesguy from here in there somewhere. <BR/> <BR/>Whatever. May rent it down the road. <BR/> <BR/>For the Seeker of Wisdom Thru Borat, I'd tell him, even without benefit of having watched it, that of course the movie is thematically connected in a significant way to Fraud Ontology and that it is noteworthy that he'd gravitate to that kind of study.bunglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09038037719693258886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17577430.post-1164065875003045292006-11-20T17:37:00.000-06:002006-11-20T17:37:00.000-06:00Send a reply with all of that in. Except for the ...Send a reply with all of that in. Except for the potentially helpful bit about the philosophy of language. You don't want the kid to learn that this sort of random academic spam approach works.StyleyGeekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10287051608503966129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17577430.post-1164062498745537682006-11-20T16:41:00.000-06:002006-11-20T16:41:00.000-06:00I concur with all of your responses. I also wonder...I concur with all of your responses. I also wonder where the all-or-nothing attitude towards capital letters came from.Abbeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01338660653004655997noreply@blogger.com