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the question about decision-making as the article you bit presents it comes with a lot of conceptual baggage. that is mostly what i focussed on in my earlier post--pulling apart the assumptions that inform it. within that kind of platonic view, options can be understood as simultaneously "present" in a sense, even though only a limited set of them are implemented. outside that view, the article is an exercise in counterfactuals. trick is that counter-factuals usually end up in one or another form of platonism, so i thought i'd just skip that step.
the partisan accusation was more a throwaway line--it doesnt interest me particularly---but the logic of the piece is peculiar and more interesting for that.
personally, i dont recognize any particular distinction between philo and politics, so it could be either place.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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