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Whether or not it was misconceived or mismanaged, I do think it was fascinating. Right now I’m living close to a building where they had the central m...

Thanks! I’m excited to watch it. Well, maybe. I do know that there is a really good tradition of healthcare that started in the USSR and has carried o...

I don’t know the proportion of Russian people who can afford to go private, so I can’t answer you as to the majority of Russians. Obviously the very p...

Either you are from a generation that associates Russia with the Soviet Union, so you make comments jokingly assuming that Russia is in some way socia...

I believe everyone should be provided with access to big screen teeth and that this could be achieved without capitalism, so you’re not quite right. B...

A deeply misguided post, but I cherish it nonetheless.

:chin:

Admirable. Do want an official title for your role?

White bread tastes like springtime in the Swiss Alps, rye bread is like a sunny autumn evening in Galway.

In a blind taste test I think I’d do okay.

Aside from the obvious?

I’m sensing a lack of serious Shoutbox commitment here TC.

I don’t, cos I already knew it.

I’ll see how it goes.

I’ve enjoyed those hotly pungent moreish snacklets a few times.

The Shoutbox is a perpetual knowledge machine: the more you work here, the more you gain the knowledge and skills required to work here. My knowledge ...

That’s a new bread for me to seek out and munch appreciatively.

Probably depends which country you’re in. I did not know that. I eat plenty of dark brown rye bread, because that’s the go-to Russian bread. I guess i...

Nordic Whole-Grain Rye Bread

I imagine rye can be whole or refined, as wheat can be.

Bought in Russia, grown in Uzbekistan :yum:

A pathetic laptop screen would no longer be adequate for my requirements. I’m now used to my stomatologist with her giant wall-mounted screen that she...

That’s not so pitiful. I got excited by a small piece of pork on Saturday. Enjoy.

:party: Yeah I love those Google tricks. There are other ones here: 20 Google Search Tips to Use Google More Efficiently

I am already getting some deep insights into your personality.

I see. I do not remember my baby meals.

That’s bread for babies and English princesses. Edit: do babies even eat bread? When does that begin? Are toddlers babies? I may have seen a toddler w...

Yes, this seems similar to existents vs beings. Otherwise, I have to admit that I didn't enter this discussion in a spirit of metaphysical enquiry; I ...

I forgot to mention: I have not committed myself to that.

I wonder if Platonists would say that the Forms exist. Plato said they were beings, but maybe to say they exist would be to say something more, in a P...

But you can say there is a difference between being and existence and also say that anything that can be said to be is a being. Probably many of the p...

No I did write it as I meant to. Maybe this sums it up: It's consistent with a fundamental difference, but it does not convey any such difference. It'...

Absolutely!

Yes, that was precisely my point. I thought I'd made that clear. To use "beings" to refer to anything which can be said to be, whether animate or not,...

Yes, that was my conjecture too. I'm also guessing it's been strengthened by popular culture, e.g., "the being from another world." I also noticed, wh...

Yes, there are many of those too. When the context is Western metaphysics, the use I've been arguing for seems to be the main one, and it's the minima...

Yep, good point. See my quotations from the SEP. It's the philosophical standard.* In philosophy there are human beings, divine beings, non-living bei...

I just want to note, in case there is any doubt about it, that this has nothing to do with why I have been telling you that "beings" in philosophy ref...

No, that’s not true, unless you mean “a human being.”

I don’t appreciate this dental badgering. One difference I found is that Russian dentists are not called dentists, but stomatologists. Also different ...

Whether or not you write letters to your chickens is your own business.

Except, apparently, when the use is by authors on the SEP or on that Wikipedia page that @"Baden" cited (and later quoted). Could there perhaps be two...

Thank you.

Citation please.

I’m not surprised, because you have unpeckable taste. Except for cucumbers and prawns.

I have no complaints, and the same number of teeth I went in with.

Breakfast: cabbage pie and coffee Lunch: nothing, because I was at the dentist Dinner: rigatoni with lamb and eggplant, some Austrian Riesling, and ha...

That is patently untrue. I suggest you read them again. Those that don't name inanimate beings explicitly--and there are two or three which do--direct...

I've enjoyed it too, but your position simply can't be maintained. You asked for citations and I provided them. Are you saying that the quotations do ...

I agree. I have not been arguing for that position. I have been demonstrating that "beings" is commonly used in philosophy to mean that which can be s...