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I guess he's trying to outdo Trump's attempt to buy Greenland for absurdity. In which case, mission accomplished.

Great article. Thanks for posting. :up:

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There are some explanatory gaps in your theory. The main one being the explanation.

The economy has done well under Trump. But that doesn't necessarily credit him for two reasons: 1) He was given an economy that was trending positive....

Or any other mod. It doesn't have to be philosophical in the lounge though. No.

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Maybe, although I see a door as something built to allow progress through a barrier (such as a wall) making the function of a knob very peripheral. Ei...

There are doors without knobs, such as lift doors etc. Maybe expand on your point a bit.

No worries. :up:

This online excerpt is also instructive both on Smith and American Libertarianism (and its internal factions / contradictions): https://chomsky.info/w...

Well, as @"Terrapin Station" has demonstrated the terrain is complicated enough for different types of libertarian to be as much, or more, in conflict...

tl;dr The idea that Adam Smith would be against government regulation of the pharmaceutical industry in the context you mentioned is laugh-out-loud ri...

He mentioned it in the Wealth of Nations once briefly and it had nothing to do with markets and competition. This is a good summary with more detail: ...

I know you're playing devils advocate, so there's no need to be defensive. I'm responding to what you said, your words, in order to tease out how you ...

@"frank" Inflated prices for medicines lead to higher medical insurance costs which are essentially an additional tax you pay to the pharmaceutical co...

Avoid the discussion of furniture.

Alright: Say the chair tables a motion that the motion of chairs and tables should be considered the tabling of chairs in motion, then rather than cha...

On conformity and all that jazz. It's precisely the fact that there is a (non-absolute) standard of correctness by which you can be judged to be wrong...

May I suggest we drop chair-gate now and stay on-topic?

:up: I'm a grazer, jumping in and out of books, articles, this site, fiction, non-fiction as the mood takes me. Not very systematic but I don't feel t...

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Unless my overactive imagination is projecting stuff that isn't there, I think there was more to it than that.

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You'll be eating your words when he gets Denmark to sell Greenland to the US and turns it into the most successful golfing haven on the planet (he's w...

Shallow's an apt term. Thankfully, the thread is taking a more interesting direction now. It is a bit rough to put things as I did. A hammer for a nai...

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That's actually probably all the refutation needed on Terrapin. Unless he can pull something else out, we should probably move on.

You know what a chair is and can describe it thus because its meaning is grounded in a community of users without which your description would carry n...

Just a quick note with respect to this. I've clarified I'm not posing things that way and specifically mentioned felicity and appropriacy. @"Noah Te S...

He does at times show a degree of street smarts and guile though. Like supporting a conspiracy theory involving the Clintons re Epstein's death. Smart...

You haven't as yet offered much of substance to back up your claims. If you would like to go into some depth we might be able to identify more nuanced...

Cheers I'll take a look at a sample anyhow or I may be able to get the pdf somewhere.

No! :lol:

Can you give us a bit more to chew on? A link even. It's got to be more interesting than what's come before.

It's hard to even know what your claim is now. A standard of correctness does not have to be an absolute. It's a yard-stick. Felicity and appropriacy ...

Yes, but in order to be coherent/consistent etc there are certain presumptions to be made including that there is a standard of correctness that we ca...

I wish you'd answer my questions...

By that I'm not incorrect in assuming you mean I am obviously right and you are obviously wrong?

I interpret that to mean "there are correct/incorrect interpretations". Good to be in agreement.

I wouldn't be incorrect in interpreting this to mean that you think it makes communication impossible?

(And I'm all for problematising stuff, but in order to do so you need theory, and theory whose sophistication and strength is in proportion to the pro...

Here's another amusing pickle Terrapin is in. He says: But again, by his own logic, you are not incorrect in using 'use' to mean 'don't use' (and it w...

Funny that by your own logic I wouldn't be incorrect in interpreting you as saying that I'm always right. (And it would be an argumentum ad populum to...

@"thewonder" @"Bitter Crank" Generic 'he' was and is grammatically correct. The issue is one of style and appropriacy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki...

That's worrying as I tend to follow Tom's political advice to the letter. So maybe Kim's apology for continuing missile tests is genuine rather than a...

Cross posted.

I get the feeling you're fetishizing non-conformism to the extent its impairing your ability to accept facts so basic coherent comprehension is depend...

But I agreed with everything you said. I just used words in a non-consensus way so that they meant their opposites. (See, I did it again).

True, I admit Tom Cruise was the one who taught me that you should not let personal flattery by vicious dictators affect your foreign policy positions...