Jamal

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Good morning Caldwell. I've just had my last glass of wine of the evening, and I should probably go to sleep.

Don't worry. It looks like you're ahead of the Vatican City.

That's nothing. A good portion of the people I meet cannot grasp the very concept of Scotland and insist on saying that I come from "England".

Not far behind Slovakia with 11.4 litres.

Western Europe is also well represented in that list.

Sorry Luke, but trying for years to persuade MU looks a bit like insanity to me. I'd prefer if you conducted that effort privately.

Interesting to compare that with the WHO figures for alcohol consumption (2016): Moldova: 15.2 Lithuania: 15.0 Czech Republic: 14.4 Seychelles: 13.8 G...

I too feel His presence, goading me.

Fixed. Yeah, that was too horrible for me.

@"Banno" is right. @"Metaphysician Undercover" @"Luke" Can you please use PM or email for these discussions instead of hijacking threads. It's basical...

:rofl: :party:

Well, I guess there's also the repulsive melody, and the horrible everything else.

Yeah, it's the reason I hate that song. (it's the moon though isn't it?) No pastry in a Spanish tortilla.

Vodka comes out on special occasions, sometimes at the weekend if friends come round. If you drink it alone or without accompanying snacks you are reg...

I have seen a cabbage or two in my time here, it's true, but cabbage is by no means predominant in my experience.

Is that a reference to my Russian residency? If so, I'm offended!

I enjoyed those. It's long time since I listened to Derek and Clive.

I'd certainly try it. Anchovies are not all equal.

Among American intellectuals, baseball seems to be popular. Stephen Jay Gould, who was pretty philosophical, wrote a book called Full House (Life's Gr...

I've had several bad jobs but although they were horrible at the time, I look back on them with some fondness, probably just because they enrich my li...

Thanks, I'm glad I'm off the hook.

Anchovy pie. /uploads/files/gg/eosvj9e93begi057.jpg https://www.lady-first.me/article/anchovy-pie,3568.html

That looks like a pizza. Do you really have to call it a pie? :grimace: They look like good fresh anchovies.

That's fair, but Descartes doesn't argue that he exists; he says he cannot doubt it. This is at least part of what Sam was saying and which I pointed ...

It's Heraclitus. You never step in the same pie twice.

So half of one slice is one slice. As TheMadFool might say: paradox!

Good choice.

You have to pick a side ND.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-answer-to-6%C3%B72-2+1/answer/Stuart-Hargreaves

6/2(2+1) I'd wager that you'd never see this in a properly formatted text of a mathematical nature.

Yes! :strong:

I am unwilling to take my guess up to the level of an argument in the absence of the requisite knowledge.

I'm guessing here but maybe 6÷2(2+1) would unambiguously equal 9, whereas 6/2(2+1) can be interpreted both ways. EDIT: I'm probably wrong here, or hal...

So which one's right? Obviously I was reading it like this: \frac{6}{2(2+1)} = ? Maybe it's actually ambiguous, because it's not using proper mathemat...

Well, my criticism was maybe pedantic, and I was going too far in saying that the cogito can't be regarded as an attempted proof. My main point was ab...

You were responding to a representation of the cogito, and you didn't acknowledge, probably because you didn't know, that the cogito makes the same po...

OK, but I wasn't addressing your general opinion of Descartes. Carry on.

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His point was that you cannot doubt your existence. It's not the kind of thing that can be doubted. I took that to be your own point.

Yes, this was Descartes' point, which GMBA has either misunderstood or just described incorrectly.

Thanks! So... 1. The People's Republic of China wants to get the Republic of China back, and will use bullying and coercion to do it. 2. It wants some...

Yes, I thought about mentioning Zizek. He uses jokes to elucidate his concepts, especially the concept of ideology.

Yes, it's quite surprising. I think we, the staff, have a loose convention whereby it's the banner who is responsible for closing the thread. Baden mi...

:rofl: I missed some entertaining stuff while I was asleep. Now, would one of you tiny-booted muttonheads pass the mustard?

yep, I was talking about 'philosophy discussion'. Keep up!

Ah yes. Well, signed out I get us right at the bottom of the first page, almost the same as the previous time, which was at the top of the second.

But we're not even on the first page for philosophy discussion.

Ah yes. I remember the days when we were desperate to get to the top.

My God, Google Search is becoming quite rubbish.