How about...
Fiend of Rationality?
The Ockham's Razor Slasher?
or... just flat-out stealing...
The Living Tribunal?
Fiend of Rationality?
The Ockham's Razor Slasher?
or... just flat-out stealing...
The Living Tribunal?
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How about...
The Ockham's Razor Slasher?
I like this one. I have visions of someone slashing up invalid syllogisms and circular arguments using a sharpened Categorical Imperative.
Best regards,
-Mark
DAMN!!!
How did I miss that one.
sooooo.....
what is this thread about again????? lol
Peaceful dogmatists who avoid conflict? Exile, you've been in the rare books section of the library too long. The mold on the pages is screwing up your sense of reality
Thanks, Mark... it makes you look twice at those innocent-looking logicians in their charcoal-grey sweater vests, cordoroy trousers and tweed jackets, eh? You wonder what kinds of things they fantasize about splitting besides hairs... :EG:
So it's pretty clear, given this morphological pattern, that `martial artist' = [martial art]+ist will yield a denotation of `one who practices [martial art(s)] = `one who practices combat arts.' There was a thread a week or two ago in which someboy produced a citation of the first use of the term in English, something a few hundred years back on dueling—a manual, I think it was—Mark, was that you?
It follows that, just by applying a bit of logic, we're led to conclude that the term `martial artist' means nothing more or less than one who performs, practices, or is, to a certain degree, proficient in, combat skills. There is an implication that an art is not a disconnected set of randomly related skills but rather a set of systematically connected skills and techniques, so from that, it would follow that a martial artist is one who has practical knowledge of a systematic (or `codified') set of combat skills and techniques. And that's what pretty much all the dictionary definitions I've consulted have consisted of.
Now if you want to ask, how should martial artists live? How should they behave?—well, that's a different question entirely. Obviously we'd prefer that MAists were sober-minded, peace-loving people who didn't get into unncecessary fights and who respected their fellows. But we'd prefer that to be the case with violinists, soloists, psychiatrists and dogmatists also, eh? :wink1:
Indeed. If we don't nip those things in the bud, we'll be fighting bad philosophy on our Kantian doorsteps. We'll be so broken we'll be reading Heidegger to cheer ourselves up. False logic makes work for idle hands and all that.
Given that jazz musicians used to solve artistic problems with knives and firearms on stage (I've never had to), I don't think soloists tend to be peaceful, either. Don't start a fight with a violinist. They're paranoid about their hands, so they're likely to hit you with a music stand. Or they're packing heat to protect their million dollar violin!
For me, I think an MAist should avoid combat when it's desireable, and not flinch from it when necessary. Don't start a fight, but be prepared to finish it. Above all, be a good person. It doesn't matter if you're an MAist or not, really. Be a good person, a good citizen, and a good ambassdor of the art. What more could anyone ask for?
Best regards,
-Mark
Maybe this has been said maybe not but a bottle of whiskey and a couple cases of beer and who knows what can be consider an Art
...and we just Kant let that happen! (... but really... reading Being and Time to cheer yourself up??? That's too surreal...)
Right. Cellists are bad too. And trombonists... just playing the trombone is an act of violence...
Gestalt
Some of the most loathsome, dishonest, arrogant and rude people I’ve ever met have been high ranking martial artists.Just learning a martial art should make you a better person. Also you will have the ability to defend yourself and others.
Sifu
Puyalup, WA