Yes, and can form a "complete thought" due to the fact that it fulfils at minimum the necessary requirements of a clause, i. e. it contains a verb and...
Not exactly. Though language has specific attributes that help identify it, there is room for debate around some of those attributes, e. g. recursion....
Conveying information is a necessary but not sufficient condition for language. That should be obvious from what I wrote. Passing wind may convey info...
The OP does remind me of a quote I really like by Irish philologist Richard Chenevix Trench. "Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the gra...
Wouldn't surprise me. Prepositions in Irish are integrated with the subject. For example, "to me' is one word. A much more central word class are verb...
Category error and general confusion here. Conjunctions join phrases, clauses, words, and sentences. They are defined in syntactical not physical or t...
She resigned because, facing electoral annihilation, her party would have given her the boot otherwise. It's not all that difficult to get rid of a PM...
It wouldn't wash in Ireland. But things are different over there, apparently. Yeah, I don't recommend increasing your sample size on that experiment. ...
There's far too much in this to make a coherent OP. You've gone from prepositions to morality in a couple of paragraphs. I think the discussion of pre...
My sense of rationality is that we strive to make the best of our lives within the context of our particular personal and environmental constraints. I...
NOS was brought up in a state all his life, enjoyed all the benefits, but somehow managed to avoid getting one of those "state moralities" that he say...
I wish. There's not even that. So far, utterly devoid of developed arguments. Says stuff, doesn't know what he's saying, can't back it up. Two-dimensi...
Again, you are saying nothing. Obviously morality pertains to conduct and behaviour and develops with age. Here's the question: Address the role of so...
I'll repeat the question: What is a "fully developed morality" and where does it come from under your view? Do you see it as present in most human adu...
What is a "fully developed morality" and where does it come from under your view? Do you see it as present in most human adults in roughly equal propo...
Whether she's got to the exact number or not, she has no authority left and the Tories are in full panic mode. I'm sure he'll explain the inevitable t...
Maybe the most tragic part of this is Jacob Real Snob turning full thug and physically bullying backbench MPs into voting with the government. Guy loo...
I was hoping she'd survive until the next election because she's so absolutely awful, she'd bury the Tories. But, yeah, I reckon, we'll get a lunchtim...
Please remember this line the next time you try to pull your "law and order" stuff. Not so much "defund the police" as just get rid of them completely...
It is interesting though to poke at this sentiment: Why must you be governed? I have manners and conscience, which are constant and impregnable, you c...
I don't object to a charitable reworking of the thread. And hey, the plasticity of individual morality and social norms in the face of varying societa...
Incidentally, the fact that people in states have the luxury of presuming that people in general are cooperative and kind etc and can get along withou...
It hinges on a fairly basic understanding of human behaviour, biology, society, culture, and history. There is no "manners" or "conscience" DNA that s...
Keep in mind, anyone tempted to give this thread an ounce of respect, NOS's mannerly folks with consciences who wouldn't dream of messing with your ga...
NOS should write a post-apocalyptic movie script where everyone is polite to each other and everything works out just fine and dandy. He can call it "...
Where do you think conscience and manners arise from? Do you think they're magic universals breathed into our beings by sole virtue of us being human?...
Synchronicitously, I was just before looking here reading a (brilliant) essay by Henry Miller referencing this (from the compendium "Sunday After the ...
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