Jamal

Yes, I see. I'm flexible on this point, probably because I'm confused about it.

Yes, I think that's getting into the substantive debate, beyond the misunderstandings that I noted. I'll let @"plaque flag" respond if he wants to, be...

I don't, and I'm not sure what that would mean. Closest I can come is to imagine how perception works when we're wrapped up in a physical activity, li...

I guess I should have clarified. It's about human perception. The idea is that in perceiving, a human cannot help but be linguistic. Both we and dogs ...

I've noticed that people on TPF sometimes say things like "perception can't be linguistic because I can see things without saying anything," or "langu...

Ah, I see. It would be like trying to escape a black hole.

Lidl in Spain have pork and prawn gyoza (gyozas?).

I once built a website and booking system for a small chain of Chinese restaurants. My first design proposal used a lot of black and they said that wa...

Best Chinatown I’ve been to was in Vancouver. I ate in a real Chinese cafe and it was the first time I’d had authentic Chinese food. Then we went for ...

Moscow has an area in the centre called Kitay-gorod, which literally means Chinatown, but there’s nothing Chinese about it.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Nightjar_range.png A lazy one. Starbucks, unless they’re in Russia, because Starbucks pulled out.

MU seems to think that’s cheating :grin:

That bird is a nightjar. Presumably the idea is that to keep awake all night to do its nightjar business, it needs coffee. Have I interpreted that cor...

Here’s a definition: I’ll do my best to interpret this gnomic utterance. Magic, the ancient practice involving the supernatural, attends to the partic...

:up: :blush:

He works for PlushForums, so he already has access to all the email addresses, because members of this forum signed up to a PlushForums forum. He nice...

RussellA perceives direct realists only indirectly: the direct realist in his head does not resemble the direct realist as it is in the external world...

They do work. The issue is dealt with. Who said anything about giving out email addresses? I’ll answer that question, because I have no intention of d...

Private re-education sessions with Hanover.

At TPF this is entirely optional.

100% real. Thank the centuries-old practice of selectively breeding for big butts.

(Mottotutum)

Last year I found out that the people behind PlushForums had built a new platform. It was in private beta at the time and I didn't bother asking to tr...

An odd post Alkis, but I'll assume you've written it in good faith. As my post made clear, the problem is dissolved, which means that we have discover...

@"Alkis Piskas" @"javi2541997" The response from PlushForums: He later clarified that notifications about PMs are sent only... When a conversation is ...

Yes, but I think many in this discussion would say that it doesn't follow from this, from the circularity of definition and the primacy of use, that o...

Great! I'll pick it up next time I'm there.

I just learned that both were recklessly introduced to Australia around the same time in the mid-19th century. Your evidence suggests that mynas have ...

:smirk:

@"Alkis Piskas" @"javi2541997" I just sent an email to PlushForums support:

I believe this is the point, or part of it. There is a kind of clarity that doesn’t depend on definitions. Poetry much more than prose aims for precis...

Nah I’ll try and get the stuff @"fdrake" recommended, although I can’t get it here so in the meantime I’ll be using sheep’s tail fat from a fat-tailed...

Yep, and it’s not just the problem of other heads.

Of course, I understand that. Obviously. I was calling back to your schizophrenia post.

Lemons are sour and yellow, i.e., taste sour and look yellow. That you think this is (equivalent to) an hallucination plus an external trigger is just...

You misrepresented me there by taking me out of context, but never mind. Yes, I understand that this is what indirect realists argue.

I’m in two minds about whether to get drawn into this debate again. Even to address your points directly seems to be conceding too much, because your ...

I don’t think anyone would disagree.

There can be no talk of resemblance between how something looks and how something is, if the latter means beyond perception. It’s not comparing like w...

I would, but right now I’ve got Barry Manilow’s “Copacabana” in my head and I can’t shift it.

Fair enough comrade.

Someone had to do it. Did you notice that Hanover and I were too sophisticated to stoop to that level, despite the temptation?

I was wondering about that distinction when I was writing the OP, whether I should distinguish between necessary and sufficient conditions as criteria...

Fisking bastard

But this just strikes me as unhinged rhetoric. I mean, who are you talking to here? Who are you trying to impress? What do any of these proud declarat...

There’s a story there, I can smell it.

If x is representative of y then x by definition informs us about what y is like, no?

That’s fair. I did wonder if I was being too soft there.

That’s fine with me Arne. Maybe read the rest of it.

Speaking from experience I see.