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Maybe at that level, it's a matter of taste. But I draw the line slightly more strictly than you as a defence against what I see as the only effective...

I would say you get into murky territory when you posit a scenario that brackets out all meaning-makers to the extent that the question becomes somewh...

:up: I don't have a huge problem with your straightforward view (less so than the opposition's alternatives). It mostly works. But I'm going for some ...

I suppose a succinct way to put it would be: If there is to be a question of meaning, there must, in principle (if not in practice), be a question pos...

Yes, and I think decipherability is the key point in talking about this in order that a distinction be made between encoded linguistic patterns and ra...

Apples and oranges often come in baskets together. Now sometimes they don't, but let's presume for the sake of argument, they do. So, now there's a co...

I think you've got the most important part covered, which is don't get a job, make a job. As in view the concept of work differently, i.e. from a self...

Diogenes and Socrates now? I thought you were Winston from 1984? Who next? Wonderwoman?

Put it another way, I think there's pressure on people not to reveal themselves because they fear what will happen when they do. And they fear it beca...

Logically, you might say you get no enjoyment out of watching people act out characters, and that sounds reasonable on the surface. But seeing as TV d...

(I don't watch TV or movies either, but not out of a disrespect for what actors do. I just can't spare the endorphins.)

No, that would be lawyers/politicians/marketers/lobbyists/PR pros. Actors are as benign as the rest of us creative artists. And as people in general.

You're welcome.

There are two ways this discussion could go from here and one of them is not good, and will only please those who don't want to have the discussion at...

If you have nothing to offer but an unsupported opinion, you have nothing to offer, period. You are not giving anyone a reason to take what you say se...

Compulsory joke noted. I remain confident my appeal to your better nature will eventually bear fruit. :smile: (Please, no fruit jokes.)

@"S" @"Sir2u" It would be nice if you two could just bury the hatchet. You're both decent sorts and life is too short, ain't it?

Thanks for this contribution, Ilya. Please feel free to add any of your creative works to this discussion: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/8...

Just a reminder of the specific topic here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/5222/the-climate-change-paper-so-depressing-its-sending-people-t...

He might be horribly wrong. I haven't taken a position on everything he says. I'm just trying to keep this on track by asking people to criticize on t...

Unless you can quote otherwise, it seems to me, neither un nor the article writer made the specific claim that humans will go extinct within ten years...

I still don't see that specific claim being made or un claiming the author made it, but he can speak for himself, of course.

I thought un's point was the un didn't make the claim not that the author necessarily did.

General note: Please talk about climate change with reference to the paper and the evidence within or elsewhere for its claims along with counterevide...

On a cursory reading, I see no specific claim that humans will go extinct due to climate change in the next ten years. You'll need to quote that one. ...

It'd be more helpful for us casual readers to quote the paper where you think it's wrong and then quote another scientist to back up your claim.

I suppose we're not allowed close this. :sad:

Aw, I love you too. :kiss: Did you say something else ... ? Must have missed that. ;)

Yes, it leaves out all but one of the final twenty or so comments which were the ones where the philosophical content was largely negligible and on wh...

Tell you what. Apply those principles of tolerance and less judgementalness to your interlocutors in future and karma may take a liking to you.

Not all of it was shit, but it had clearly run its course and was degenerating beyond repair. Unfair to delete and remove the posts of those who made ...

What was being abused was your position as discussion creator. And the abuse involved you using the discussion for the most part, but particularly tow...

Of course, anyone who doesn't see things your way is part of your problem. That's apparent. Anyway, that was the reason. I doubt there'll be many apar...

More specifically, it had degenerated into a series of repetitive entrenchments of positions, insults, and bad jokes.

I suggested and carried out the closure on the basis there was no philosophy left in the discussion.

Banned @"Coeus" for unprovoked hostile PMs suggesting he rejects the idea of being modded and for general low quality.

It's trivially true that language originated in humans, but it was not "invented" as if there was some conscious effort at design involved. Language d...

Just saw that, thanks. Sorry, @"Metaphysician Undercover" :scream:

Odd. Who said that? MU? Anyhow, rules are retroactively inferred from language in use. The extent to which (generalized) linguistic rules are genetica...

Sorry 'bout that, boss. ;)

We may be heading in to Hegelian territory with that :) But yes, I'm probably stretching the meaning of "humiliation" here.

Yes, and voluntarily so. That’s the exchange. So, within an organisation, when you exercise systemic power, you enforce the identity of the organizati...

And it's uncomfortable taking about us. Naturally enough. I know I'd rather you'd just let me get on with banning people without having to think about...

Nicely put. Just to complicate matters on a more micro level (not regarding identity politics per se but just identity), my experience in systems of h...

Oh, and welcome to TPF!

As @"Fooloso4" indicated, you seem to have a lot of ideas about what you should be and should do with little apparent thought as to why. Why do you wa...

You made your own skin? Well, I think you did a great job. Well done. :D I don't personally think it's necessarily racist to be proud of one's race. A...

:up: Mu.

Or to put it another way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLEat_Sqo7I See 1:30. You are pre-enlightened Bart Simpson.

I wasn't going to, but the time argument is so utterly pointless maybe this will direct things back on course and give @"S" somethingone else to chew ...