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Boris is out-Nigelling Nigel in order to neutralise the Brexit party (his biggest electoral threat) before the inevitable snap election. Fun and games...

I'm awaiting the benefits side of the cost-benefits analysis that would counter-balance allowing war crimes to go unpunished and psychopathic dictator...

Congratulations on being the first person to ever use that insult on this forum. :brow: There might as well be one ardent defender of Trump on the boa...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg

He might have been banned before that discussion started. I can only speculate that it may have been low quality. But I really can't remember.

:lol:

It's @"Borg". Anyway, it's about a year since @"Bahman" was banned and I don't remember why. You could try the bannings discussion.

No worries. It could be confusing because we have the phrase, X years of age. As in 'She is 64 years of age.' So, someone might conceivably say, 'I ha...

They were married for 64 years.

The phrase 'Wife of 64 years' doesn't have a determinable meaning out of context. What's the sentence you're confused about or want to make?

(To others?—not Terrapin as I won't indulge his deliberate attempt at distraction from his inability to make a basic case for his own position?—whethe...

I've work to do now actually. Just wanted to demonstrate that with Terrapin, there's very often no 'there' there.

What is the process by which you think decision-making is reached? Give empirical evidence to back up your position.

As you can see folks, Terrapin has nothing to teach. And this is the type of thing you can expect when you deal with him.

You want to try to force me to agree with you even before the lesson begins? :confused:

I'm not going to do word play with you. If you really have something to 'teach', lay out the process of decision making and provide empirical evidence...

Lay out the process of decision making and provide empirical evidence for it.

Ok, Yoda, teach me about what causes decisions to be made. Lay out the process and provide empirical evidence for it.

Yes, you're the only one here who understands philosophy. And who isn't conceited.

Throwing the word "ontologically" in does no work in this context. Your "explanation" a) contradicts the above and b) commits you to saying that decis...

Glad you finally got around to admitting you were wrong. (Cue more sophistry and time wasting).

No fault on your part excepting over-optimism. And I think I'll leave it all as an instructive warning.

Full marks for effort. I would in future assess earlier the probability that you will be met with rational responses and stay or bail accordingly.

There is plenty of room between the type of divisiveness that would lead to a civil war and totalitarian levels of enforced conformity. Those who defe...

You're probably correct.

A huge downward correction is coming anyway. This is just a taste. Six months max and we're back down in the 20,000 zone or worse.

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Umberto Eco: Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language

In the context of moral responsibility, necessary conditions can be part of a causal chain. So, if I, through a speech act (or otherwise), with the in...

That's not what you did though.

You had to press the quote button and the reply button on my posts for your posts to be written as they were.

So the existence of my posts was not necessary for you to quote them?

It's of questionable utility for sure but I suppose I hate spam more than having to restore false positives.

So, terrapin's trivial misunderstanding is that if something is not a sufficient cause, it's not a cause at all.

(And the idea that my posts might not have been necessary for yours is utter nonsense and you know it. You even quoted me in a couple for crying out l...

Welcome to the world of necessary and sufficient causation.

So my posts were a necessary but not sufficient condition for yours, right?

But you accept that but for my posts you would not have written yours?

Yes. But just to clarify first. Your responses to me just now were in no way caused by my posts. My posts played no part in the causal chain of our co...

Is that it?

You said, 'for example'. What else?

Other than decisions (you said 'usually' above) what causes actions?

What's causal to that decision?

What's causal to actions then?

It's alright. You weren't to know.

Regardless of asymmetric NATO power relations, the point stands, I think. I imagine there are some (albeit a minority of) Americans for whom an exampl...

It wasn't deleted. It was a spam filter false positive and has been restored.

Never mind. Carry on.

And in the latest news, Trump claims that to Israelis he's like second coming of God and any Jew who votes against him is some kind of bad thing. Bleu...

So if Denmark proposed buying Florida and demanded that that be discussed in the next meeting with the President, the appropriate response of the US w...