any man who takes pains to distinguish between resentment and ressentiment in public should idk just fucking stop it no one is impressed
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we took a phenomenon, talked about it in French because we were fucking continental philosophers fucking well weren't we, and NOW THE FRENCH WORD FOR THE PHENOMENON IS SOMEHOW LADEN WITH ALL OF OUR NONSENSE WHEN THE SAME WORD IN ENGLISH ISN'T *fuck* associative neural networks
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ok look, inflection and tone are semantically relevant and really do modify speech and indicate subtle intentions of the speaker. resentment and ressentiment mean different things in exactly the same way copulation and fuck mean different things.
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using tone and inflection to shade meaning vs using obscurantism to signal
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obscurantism is an inflection too, whether or not it's good communication is a separate issue

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this here thread is why the heart of my political platform is the mass crucifixion of philosophy majors and the perpetual display of their bodies as a lesson to future sophists
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do philosphy majors experience qualia though
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Nagel: yes, of course Dennet: ignore that you meat puppet Searle: let's talk about it Damasio: no, just indigestion James: lol you nerds
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me, an economist: I dont care whether they experience qualia as long as they're dead and their mutilated corpses serve as an object lesson to deter future philosophers
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