Can you chew another animal's cud? Maybe if you're running GNU-Linux. Anyway, three ruminations:
Michael Pakaluk (Dissoi Blogoi) looks at the Socratic maxim, No one intenionally does wrong. Is that a statement about knowing or willing? In any event, by rejecting the doctrine of akrasia, Socrates surely did not mean to offer an excuse for bad deeds. Rather, he meant that people have a responsibility to know what's right, and further, I think, that a citizen has a responsibility to educate his fellow citizens--as I read Gorgias.
Brandon (Siris) looks at Hume on geometrical equality. What if you divided the Eleatic school in half, and divided it in half again.... Are we talking fuzzy like a penguin, fuzzy like a yak, or fuzzy like a Treatise of Human Nature?
Ellis Seagh (Consciousness and Culture) continues to explore indeterminacy.
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