User talk:Andrew Lancaster

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Please explain to me why you think r1a is a domainant haplogroup in Southcentral Asia.
You said that I was trying to dismiss r1a in Southcentral Asia by calling it a pocket. If you look at the map that is clearly what it is. There is a corridor from Russia to Southcentral Asia that ends in a "pocket" or "bubble" or round shaped geographical area, of which the center, where r1a actually reaches more than 50% is an extremely small area compared to the European R1a.

R1a is not a Dominant Haplogroup in Southcentral Asia. There are Tribal groups that have high percentages of R1a because they do not mix with other groups in the area. There are no countries in Southcentral Asia in which R1a reaches a much higher level than 20% except Kyrgyzstan. This article is written in such a way that would imply that R1a is a dominant Haplogroup in Southcentral Asia, when in reality, R1a only accounts for a small fraction of Southcentral Asian men.Jamesdean3295

Maternal origins of European Hunter Gatherers
This may be of some value in these articles....Genetic Discontinuity Between Local Hunter-Gatherers and Central Europe’s First Farmers (Found in Science Express)

''Nonetheless, it is intriguing to note that 82% of our 22 hunter-gatherer individuals carried clade U [U5-14/22, U4-2/22 and U?-2/22]. ...... Europeans today have moderate frequencies of U5 types, ranging from about 1-5% along the Mediterranean coastline to 5-7% in most core European areas, and rising to 10-20% in northeastern European Uralic-speakers. . . 

Kant, nous, intellect
Hi Andrew, I'm not a Kant expert, in spite of my limited knowledge of his thoughts on reason. And I don't really have time to get into an in-depth discussion of intellect vs. mind vs. nous vs. reason. However, as I understand it, for the Greeks, nous was the highest possible metaphysical ideal or form, because it was pure form, and true knowledge for the Greeks was the knowledge that revealed the form that was represented in things. John Dewey wrote a great dictionary entry about nous in 1901:

Nous [Gr. νοῦς, reason, thought]: Ger. Nus (K.G.); Fr. intelligence; Ital. nous. Reason, thought, considered not as subjective, nor as a mere psychic entity, but as having an objective, especially a teleological, significance. We owe the term, as a technical one, to Anaxagoras. He felt the need of a special principle to account for the order of the universe and so, besides the infinity of simple qualities, assumed a distinct principle, which, however, was still regarded as material, being only lighter and finer than the others. To it, however, greater activity was ascribed, and it acted according to ends, not merely according to mechanical impact, thus giving movement, unity, and system to what had previously been a disordered jumble of inert elements. […] Plato generalized the nous of Anaxagoras, proclaiming the necessity of a rational (teleological) explanation of all natural processes, and making nous also a thoroughly immaterial principle. As the principle which lays down ends, nous is also the Supreme Good, the source of all other ends and aims; as such it is the supreme principle of all the ideas. It thus gets an ethical and logical connotation as well as a cosmological. On the other hand, nous gets a psychological significance as the highest form of mental insight, the immediate and absolutely assured knowledge of rational things. (Knowledge and the object of knowledge are thus essentially one.) … In man, however, the νοῦς assumes a dual form: the active (νοῦς ποιητικός), which is free and the source of all man's insight and virtue that links him to the divine (θεωρειν), and the passive (νοῦς παθητικός), which includes thoughts that are dependent upon perception, memory -- experience as mediated through any bodily organ. […] The distinction (of Kant, but particularly as used by Coleridge) of REASON from UNDERSTANDING (q.v.) may, however, be compared with it, but the modern distinction of the subjective from the objective inevitably gives reason a much more psychological sense than nous possessed with the ancients.

The distinction between knowledge, or understanding, and reason in Kant therefore mirrors the distinctions between is and ought, or nature and freedom. Nikolas Kompridis similarly connects the knowledge/reason distinction to the discovery in Kant of practical reason's connection to possibility vs. experience:

The great innovation of Kant’s critical philosophy was to reconceive reason as spontaneously self-determining, or self-legislating, such that reason "frames for itself with perfect spontaneity an order of its own according to ideas to which it adapts the empirical conditions and according to which it declares actions to be necessary even though they have not taken place and, maybe, never will take place."

[…]

As distinct from the rule-governed activity of the understanding (whose rule-governed spontaneity is internally consistent with its concept), reason is a possibility-disclosing activity, proposing ends (‘‘ideas’’) that go beyond what is already given empirically or normatively. This much Kant already understood, if not fully appreciated, which is why he distinguished the possibility- disclosing activity of reason from the rule-governed acquisition and exercise of knowledge: ‘‘as pure self-activity [Selbsttätigkeit]’’ reason ‘‘is elevated even above the understanding. . . with respect to ideas, reason shows itself to be such a pure spontaneity and that it far transcends anything which sensibility can provide it.’

(Nikolas Kompridis, "The Idea of a New Beginning: A romantic source of normativity and freedom" in Philosophical Romanticism, p.34, 47)

Teleological argument
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Aspersions, photos of private mails, etc
you made me think about WP:ASPERSIONS, and I realized this is being cited to me for trying to defend myself from some, which no one seems to have questioned. So just for reference...

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Interlanguage links in Gerhard of the Moselle, Count of Metz
Hi Andrew Lancaster,

You reverted my contribution to Gerhard of the Moselle, Count of Metz. Of course it is debatable whether on should see every other language. However, removing my link Matfriede (noble family) I think is plain wrong. I was well aware of the fact that this article does (not yet?) exist. However, linking to Matfriede is wrong, because the article speaks of the Matfriede family, not of a person called Matfrid died 836. Because an article about the Matfriede family only exists in other languages, e.g., at Matfriede, the red link here is necessary. After your latest modification, even the link to the German Wikipedia is not visible any longer. Of course one can remove the link at all, but I think that doesn't help readers.

One could perhaps change the link into Matfriede (noble family) although I prefer some more languages.

The article was listed on Wikipedia:Database reports/Interlanguage link templates need to fix, therefore I've fixed it like this.

Regards Cyfal
 * thanks for contacting me. After looking at it more I can see what a mess it is.
 * One source of problems is that someone has already made (wrongly, I think we would agree) a dab page on English WP which goes from Matfriede, which is obviously a family name, to the article you mention about one individual Matfrid. I did not realize that when I first saw your edits. So for the time being that article is about the family as well ... supposedly, and so technically we should either link to it, or else ask for the dab to be deleted, or else make a real target article. I notice someone has put a few little notes about the family in the article about the individual, but that is a silly situation.
 * Your approach tried to work around the problem without setting up for a better future. Matfriede (noble family) is not a logical name on Wikipedia, because Matfriede on its own is already the name of a family, and has no other meaning. When you make a redlink it should be one you expect other Wikipedians will also use in the future. The real problem is the existence of the dab with no target article. I think we need to turn the dab into at least a stub.
 * I can't imagine any possible reason for linking to every little article such as Bulgarian etc.? I don't think that is the normal approach on WP at all. We should pick one or max. two good ones. I also can't imagine why you deleted the links to the German article??? That clearly seems like the main one we should link to. Most of the others seem to be about the "Girardides" who are possibly related. (One of the problems with all the articles is that they are presenting highly speculative ideas as facts.)
 * I will try to turn the dab into a stub and then that should create a situation which will be easier to work on further.--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 07:22, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for your detailed answer. If you proceed as you proposed it will be clearly a much better solution of the problem. I fixed some other language links similarily recently and had always the problem in case the English article did not exist, I've needed to guess a plausible disambiguator (e.g., like here "noble family").
 * When linking to only one or two foreign languages, then my idea was to include French, because region nowadays is in France, but I leave this now up to you because you put more work into this article, so you have clearly a better idea what is appropriate.
 * Regards, Cyfal