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That's a rather narrow perspective on learning though. It's not primarily how you learned your language or how to ride a bike or about the foibles and...

Well, 'my reality' vs 'your reality' would be more of a psychological difference than a metaphysical one. There's an issue of mixing discourses. Conte...

I think the point is that if your only purpose is emphasis and there's no clear distinction to be made in context then the addition of the adjective t...

Numerous historical reports of adjective-hybrid usage by folks with PhDs and other such absolute amaziball credentials makes their legitimacy unquesti...

I already spend too much time here, so I think I'll give Hanover's Moonshine Mountain a miss. But I'll send you some fresh banjo strings or something ...

@"Isaac" Let's not criticize art for not being what it's not supposed to be. Fiction is called fiction to distinguish it from fact. Novels ought to be...

The two are intertwined. The individual is social and society is composed of individuals. So, individualization is a process whereby the socialized in...

If you want a community where people are judged on their credentials rather than their arguments, you're in the wrong place anyway. Whatever credentia...

@"ZhouBoTong" You wrote a bit too much to reply to it all, but on these central points. 1) Am I claiming that everyone who doesn't appreciate art is a...

I come here mainly to read the thoughts of PhD hybridization-geneticists such as @"Hanover". ...I've always liked the crowd at the old forum as well a...

Invested some money in crytpocurrency. Then there's an immediate market drop. :grimace:

Well, if you had valid reasons for your opinion and could point to evidence for it, you should have been given credit for that. So, maybe it was bad p...

I don't think we are forced to agree. There are reasons why certain artists are considered more important than others, and the reasons have to do prim...

@"ZhouBoTong" Here's someone justifying why Transformers (and Michael Bay) is crap. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0d6G1X278s And here's someone jus...

OK, what is the justification then? Why is Hamlet, for example, a garbage story compared to, say, the story of Transformers or whatever?

We'll give you 24 hours and then if you still want to, we'll delete your membership. Have a think about it.

As it happens, I have a degree (Zoology) in the field in question. And with regard to your earlier complaints about me correcting your language, I hav...

In future, your pseudoscience will be instantly deleted. And no apologies will be made for keeping this site clear of it. With respect, this is just o...

You can start a topic on the general issue and take a position for debate, but you can't post your paper for feedback.

He specifically uses the reports (which obviously he didn't write—he wasn't alive) as evidence for the notion that chickens and humans interbred, and ...

As to why McCarthy decided to troll, BS, self-promote his way to Daily Mail stardom, the answer is most likely the usual one: "Donate Support Macroevo...

http://www.macroevolution.net/human-chicken-hybrids-fischer.html "This page quotes three separate reports about living creatures that may have been hu...

You don't need a PhD in genetics to know how silly this idea is. But as it happens, I do have a background in this field, i.e. a degree in Zoology. (N...

And McCarthy's counterweight to claiming something that is scientifically impossible is cherry-picked morphological similarities and historical "evide...

The idea is so ridiculous and so wrong in so many ways, and insultingly wrong to anyone with any background or understanding of the field, it's almost...

http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2018/02/1958-eugene-m-mccarthy.html?m=1 "Eugene M. McCarthy (no known relation) is a pseudo-evolutionary crackpot bi...

Bugs and Tom getting it on. http://www.macroevolution.net/cat-rabbit-hybrids.html

Charitably assuming this is a joke and moving to the lounge.

You might be being a bit hard on yourself. A genuine interest in philosophy and a reasonable level of competence in postings is all that's required to...

It's not suitable for here but I've PMed it to you, so you have a copy.

I'll get back to the rest of your earlier post later (after you answer whether you are going to persist in the mistake of insisting that language use ...

When you use inapt / imprecise language you can infect your claim with meanings unintended, which was the point I intended to make and which you've pr...

Here's another one. 'Heavy' and 'massive' are synonyms, but saying 'the rain is 'massive' today' rather than 'the rain is 'heavy' today' would be inap...

It doesn't matter if there's one sense that overlaps. Your language use is inapt. Do you know what I mean by 'inapt'? Check out the whole area of coll...

Is pain popular?

*"Popularly believe" means "widely accepted". I've covered that. But you saying that pain is "popular" because it is "frequently encountered" will rig...

Nice attempt to shift the goalposts from the original point in question, i.e. the inaptness of the term 'popular' as opposed to 'prevalent' in context...

Read lots of good clear writing. You'll likely end up absorbing a lot of the positives of the style.

Hegel. But he did it like a pro. Derrida has been accused of same.

To refer to commonalities in morality as 'popular' rather than 'prevalent' suggests a relatively irrelevant meta-level of judgement of judgements. Mor...

The way you constantly misunderstand English is irritating. Look up a dictionary on this too and if you still can't figure it out, I'll tell you. But ...

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/fr/example/anglais/degree-of-autonomy

Not important, I'm more interested in the general point, which is that we're all apt to overestimate our moral autonomy and when it comes to the crunc...

It goes for almost all of us to a large degree except for true deviants like sociopaths where through some combination of environment (often abuse) an...

You're a fragment of the sociocultural awkwardly expressed through the mostly compliant body of an ape. Your perceived individualism and autonomy is l...

:up: :up: And where does the individual stem from? Hint: It begins with "S". You didn't choose your moral system so much as it chose you.

Piss pot Toby jug!

(Apologies to @"andrewk" for stealing his point and repeating it).

Given that, I suppose the most sensible way to conduct the debate is to avoid "PC is good" vs "PC is bad" type positions and focus in on actual real-l...