Jamal

Good point, but it’s a bit like referring to communism or militant atheism as religions. Naming a ship and declaring a meeting adjourned can be distin...

I looked it up online and had a look and found what looks to me like the way Yorkshire Pudding looks. Yorkshire Puddings can be made as multiple small...

Made sense at the time. I hereby disavow it.

It follows that when I said I was eating a mackerel sandwich in Turkey you thought I was actually having a meal while in the interior of a bird. Gobbl...

Citation please.

If I said I was going to Memphis you’d probably think of some of the most seminal recording studios in modern music history or Elvis or something, but...

I could say that meaning is pointing if that would help?

I'm afraid I'm going to have to entirely agree. Sorry.

Took me a few minutes to work that out. :clap:

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Then you should have stated that in the original story. I’m done here.

Chortle as much as you like, it does nothing to support your argument. I don’t see any point in continuing with this. I failed to refuse the tequilas ...

You’re right, you are indeed done here, totally done, in fact overdone, so far from succulent that you may as well be a dehydrated lizard and probably...

:up: Yes … well.

Preemptively declaring you quit before I do doesn’t work if I already did it. I’m done here.

A typically evasive response.

I’m not even going to address those vile and sickening statements. I’m done here.

*If *it* involves.

I’m going to Fisk your post in a parody of Fisking. Can I imply from this that you are rat-sympathetic? Me too. How can it be the same love if involve...

Woah, steady on! No need to go that far. But aye, I did think my post would be in sympathy with your pragmatic conception of knowledge.

Two friends of mine, separately and without consulting each other, have kept rats as pets. They vociferously denounce all anti-rat talk when it comes ...

I know rat-lovers.

I think I can almost accept that I wasn’t clear enough. My criticism of the use of “I know that x” in cases of indubitable certainty is just a repeat ...

No worries, feel free to follow it wherever it goes. It’s actually quite relevant to my previous discussion called “Magical powers”, so it’s not that ...

They are all mild insults and despite what you found in the dictionary, they don’t really imply a lack of intelligence. Despite what @"Janus" said, I ...

I’m not opposed to your sagacious and fascinating thoughts, but I wasn’t really endorsing Teddy’s definition so much as interpreting it to demonstrate...

Let’s not take anything away from the original inspiration, without whom he wouldn’t be here.

It appears that some professor made it a requirement for his course that his students join TPF, so now we have lots of new members from the same unive...

This doesn’t make sense. The “having swum” should refer to an act of swimming that happened before you were “born and raised”. For example, you can sa...

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In the sense that the same practice carried on without that lie.

Adorno means it almost literally though, whereas the ideas of commodity fetishism and social practice as magic are metaphorical. Good points though. T...

Thank you :smile:

Thanks for reading and understanding my post by the way.

I don’t even know if I can do that. Pillock.

I called @"T Clark" a pillock in one of the philosophical discussions. I regret it now. I should have used “prat” or “twat” or “plonker”.

I do not recognize this number, if it is in fact a number.

I think something like the latter, yes.

My point was that the consciousness of others is impossible to doubt, and yet you seemed to take me to be arguing that other people except for me migh...

Gee, thanks BC.

And I want to read yours Frank. You’ve got it in you, I can tell.

Try reading my post again you pillock. Since I started posting philosophy on TPF again recently it’s become disturbingly apparent to me that almost no...

Maybe you didn't read all of my post. My point was that what cannot be doubted cannot be known. I'm happy enough to drop the stipulation that using "k...

I suggest that we don’t know that other people are conscious, insofar as it is simply part of what it means to be a person. Maybe you could describe i...

Up to 29C in NYC today! That’s warm for April for sure. Its 24C where I am. Shorts and t-shirt weather has returned to me at last. That’s when I’m hap...

My last reply to you covers it.

Well yeah, there’s an irreducible subject-object dualism for sure. I am not the apple.

Well, of course I’m showing that “extend beyond” is ambiguous here. You take it to be merely about physical substance, but if when we discuss consciou...

Isn’t intentionality a fundamental part of consciousness? Isn’t that pretty much what consciousness is for?

No, I was switching between provisionally explaining the argument that perception is linguistic as if it were true, and expressing doubts about it. Th...