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heh, science is what I was thinking.

And many other things! It's a social, rather than procedural, practice.

I think in that looser sense anthropology still counts -- so they don't have to, at theAPAAAA, say "Yes, we're scientists!" when speaking to one anoth...

You have more years than I, and I'm not engineer -- I'm mentioning my intellectual influences, but that's not to say that I have no experience as a sc...

Well, I, for one, have obsessed over that question enough to respond, though I might wait a bit just because I've obsessed over that question ;) Feyer...

That does sound good -- I wouldn't have thought of these because I had to look them up :D True, and that'd be the vegan route now that I think on it: ...

Suppose you put lamb and bacon with the tofu in such a proportion that the tofu was fatty, then separated out the meat from the tofu. Would it be poss...

I usually don't eat a kebab with sauce, now that I think about it -- not a dipping one, anyways. I believe it was inferior to the latter rendition, as...

Well, you know me, as soon as you say it . . . I actually do like firm tofu fried a lot -- that's not grilled, of course, but what if you put some fat...

Yeah, true. It's a flavour everyone loves, at least :D Though I've learned to like various not-fat things, it's not like I hate fatty meals -- they ta...

heh. I like lamb, too. not sure I have a preference for one or the other at this point. Maybe goat only because I know they're assholes after living w...

not goat?

At least, I'd be very surprised if we somehow were able to judge "good kebab" from both countries at a given moment they'd have uniform characteristic...

Could be that @"Jamal" was the unfortunate one who wandered to the booth that lives on due to people's ignorance of where the good stuff is.

That's what I began to wonder too.

Nope, not interested either. I like science. I haven't relied upon preference here, exactly, but definition on the basis of people who are doing the t...

Pseudoscience claims scientific authority when it has none -- astrology is my go-to example for people who look at it as "predictive" or "explanatory"...

Oh, GA is @"DifferentingEgg"'s deal. I'm speaking simply about anthropology as a discipline. So the example would be Boas as someone who doesn't pract...

I imagine it's because the term 'science' isn't important to fight over among anthropologists rather than because they're trying to distance themselve...

It could be... though I'm not really too concerned if it is or isn't. In some sense this would be inescapable in the administered state even by Marxis...

Alright, this is where we left off last. Because of the pause I reread everything up to Portrayal and it was heartening because it read much faster an...

I was interested in that description from the practical angle: here are some dynamics that can go badly in any organization; i.e. I don't see these ra...

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/11/why-are-there-so-many-rationalist-cults I found this an interesting read. Not because I believe there are rationalis...

:chin: Much to consider here... I must run some models.....

:rofl: Well, you did. But, given all that, why not strap an elephant-mass sized amount of cats to the other side of the shaft? This whole CRISPR proje...

Surely that's more humane, though as equally sure it would fail given the complexities between average creature ability, for lack of a better term, an...

Only if they are elephcats

That was my once upon a time job, weights and all (and Death of a Salesman) I like them in theory, but how are they in practice? Suppose one does not ...

But what if we formalize dialectics into the one Final System.... :D Yeah, the language barrier is already there -- though I think there's enough simi...

Maybe. I'm not opposed to these notions on their face, at least. The importance of incoherence, contradiction, and falsity preoccupies much of my thou...

:D

Perhaps not, but I will. ;) Just to see where it goes. There's a sense in which I wonder if Davidson is comforting after all... at least for me. I ten...

I, for one, am glad to be building data centers across the world so that Christ can speak to us through the data networks, even as they increase the d...

As an Oossian -- no. To have to bare the weight of monarchy would be terrible! Fascism might be wurst, tho, as food for thought.

Yes.

"This must be one person" is the first thought I had.

Hrm. Not only fair, but insightful.

Yes, that's how I understand it too. "Delights in the uncharitable" is too far a step, as well as "the failure of translation" with regards to their w...

I agree that we don't need to speak a different language to see things differently. I still think that the distinction mentioned shows how others see ...

I know it's been a minute since I've updated this thread. But I've been mulling all the thoughts together and thinking about them. They are rich, and ...

I think this is a boogeyman -- @"Jamal" has not claimed a strong Whorfian hypothesis, but noted how Russians speak of blue differently from English sp...

@"Hanover" -- on the topic of analytic philosophy I think the notion of "clean tools" is in your favor. In some sense this is philosophy recognizing i...

I was inverting your meaning :) -- We are never alone, but not in the sense of a God sharing thoughts; and God doesn't even have an absence, on the at...

Can't deny I prefer my circumstances -- ice and snow are pretty to look at, but horrible to drive through.

I think I'd rather say that insofar that one expresses that they are alone then already they have inherited something from others in the strict sense ...

That'd be a bit hot in degrees C, but I imagine at this time of year not too far off at 1400

Heh, fair. I don't mind reverential hermeneutics. Especially when it comes to Kant, and the other guy I like.

Okay. Then, yes, we're in agreement. Naw. I was catching up on my replies and that's what I thought of.

I ought not to have mentioned sex as an analogue now, I think. Two contentious topics can't clarify one another when they're both contentious. My thin...

I feel overwhelmed at the amount of responses, and flattered. I've been reading along with everyone else, but would you mind re-expressing the thought...