End #2

Well, you maybe already thought that this blog was over... Now it's official.

18th century realism

18th century realism: Some things have real existence outside the mind.

Against: It doesn't matter if things exist outside the mind, because, if you're thinking about an existing singular thing, there are people that don't know that it exist, people that think it like a singular thing, people that think it like many things.

Introduction #2

The aim of the blog changes a bit. Since now I'll try to confute the main philosophical theories.

I'll move on a purely theoretical level, avoiding any consideration about the historical context in which theories arise.

To start, I'll consider the theories listed in the page about "Philosophy" in Wikipedia (I'll use the revision that is live now).

All the other things that I've written in the first introduction stand:

• In any case, I'm not taking a position.
• My confutations will be very brief.
• I'll try to reply you.
• The basic outline of a post is: thesis, then confutation.
• Every post will be tagged with the name of the confuted position.

End

This project ends here.

Edit: The project does not end here! See the next posts.

Evolution of tactics

Inverting the pyramid, prologue: a perfect tactic doesn't exist, because the efficacy of a tactic depends (on the players and) on the stage of football evolution.

Against: The only reason to assert that the efficacy of a tactic depends on the stage of football evolution is that we see that tactics have never stopped to evolve. But the main reason for this evolution is that implementing a new tactic needs years of practice. It also needs years of probable losses, so managers are pretty conservative in tactics, because they can't lose too many matches without being fired.

Tactics and history

Inverting the pyramid, prologue: a perfect tactic doesn't exist, because the efficacy of a tactic depends (on the players and) on the stage of football evolution.

Against: In every game there is an optimal way to play (maybe more than one, but still a finite number), so the same should be true of football as well.

Beautiful physical play?

Inverting the pyramid, prologue: History of tactics depends on two independent tensions: aesthetic vs. result; skill vs. physical play.

Against: Physical play can only be finalized to result, not to aesthetic. So there is just one tension skill finalized to aesthetic vs. physical play finalized to result.