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In: Lemonics  — view comment
On point señor, but wouldn't it be great to have a system for forgetting; we're most grateful for the junk files deletion feature on our computers, ou...
August 06, 2022 at 05:44
:up: Good to know there are highly qualified folks around here!
August 06, 2022 at 05:42
This :point: \to and this :point: \leftarrow is/are (an) arrrow(s) \to Conscript \leftarrow. Sic vita est, sic vita est.
August 05, 2022 at 12:21
Neti, neti! Please continue mon ami, please do! Take me/us for a ride in your fancy car. I'm so thrilled.
August 05, 2022 at 12:15
No problemo! Bonam fortunam homo viator!
August 05, 2022 at 10:43
Wonderful! Which year, if I may be so bold as to inquire?
August 05, 2022 at 10:18
In: Al-Haqq  — view comment
This is a profound statement! Excelente! Nevertheless, I believe there's a very good reason why we like meat! The tongue is no fool, oui monsieur exce...
August 05, 2022 at 10:14
:up:
August 05, 2022 at 10:13
I see; so if I drive, play golf ( :grin: ) and eat pizza, I'm 3 people? :sweat:
August 05, 2022 at 10:00
In: Al-Haqq  — view comment
:rofl:
August 05, 2022 at 09:59
In: Al-Haqq  — view comment
Nice, Tim Toady! Am I correct to conclude that your (whosoever's) theory is basically that the cosmic wave is simply a summation of identical but smal...
August 05, 2022 at 09:53
How do you know that these are not just what the mind does like how I eat, work, sleep, etc.? Good question? :snicker:
August 05, 2022 at 09:50
:up: Agent Smith makes a note of that!
August 05, 2022 at 08:49
When the thread loops back to the starting position, Sisyphusean style. Going round in circles \to confusion. The point to philosophy is to realize th...
August 05, 2022 at 08:15
If the mind is divisible, show me the pieces its divided into!
August 05, 2022 at 07:41
The Felicific Calculus (re Jeremy Bentham): The mathematization of ethics.
August 05, 2022 at 07:38
Try something else/new. I don't get it! :groan:
August 05, 2022 at 07:34
Too skeptical (areum mediocritas). Nevertheless, if someone is so enamored of their proof, go the whole nine yards, si señor? In for a penny, in for a...
August 05, 2022 at 07:26
That is a possibility I can't rule out, monsieur. Apologies.
August 05, 2022 at 07:24
That is just too obvious to state, oui monsieur?
August 05, 2022 at 06:58
That seems to be a contradictio in terminis. Nobody's fine with forced enlisment into the armed forces. Conscription, if it happens, implies the count...
August 05, 2022 at 06:42
The words "positive" and "negative" have connotations good (ethical) and bad (unethical). Do these auxiliary meanings have mathematical origins or is ...
August 05, 2022 at 06:22
In: Lemonics  — view comment
I'm only surprised that there are encyclopedia entries on mnemonics but not on "lemonics". Memory research has been going on since Hermann Ebbinghaus ...
August 05, 2022 at 06:15
There are probably many reasons to live; happiness, sensu lato, being the most powerful justification for wanting to (continue to) exist. That out of ...
August 05, 2022 at 05:01
Flipping (reflecting) alias rotating (turning) by \pi radians is a good geometric way to grasp what negative numbers are.
August 05, 2022 at 04:49
Radix omnium malorum est cupiditas May not be that simple though. What's the origin of avarice? What evolutionary purpose did it serve? Is it a relic ...
August 05, 2022 at 04:38
Inflation? Cui bono? That's the person/entity we havta catch!
August 05, 2022 at 04:16
Danke kind person! To reiterate, negative numbers are simply a backward extension of pattern that is seen in positive numbers via the subtraction oper...
August 05, 2022 at 04:09
Sagan standard, quite popular and makes sense from the perspective of proportio divina (evidence should be proportionate to the claim). However, The i...
August 05, 2022 at 03:48
In: Lemonics  — view comment
:lol: Senile dementia, I'd like some of that! Thank you!
August 05, 2022 at 03:30
Nobody here has the right answer to the question that follows from the OP which is this: How can we prove/disprove idealism/materialism? Way forward: ...
August 05, 2022 at 03:23
Please proceed. Bonam fortunam homo viator!
August 05, 2022 at 03:14
Antinatalism is a pseudo-solution to the problem of suffering which to explicate is how to live/exist without hurting? This is, as you already know, t...
August 05, 2022 at 03:11
In: Lemonics  — view comment
You're quite a unique figure in the history of The Philosophy Forum, monsieur! I am not, just the average Joe with down-to-earth ordinary experiences ...
August 05, 2022 at 02:30
Solipsism isn't incoherent unless there's a setting in which it is but Pie hasn't been forthcoming on that score. Eliminative materialism, if I unders...
August 05, 2022 at 02:24
Danke but, for better/worse, above my pay grade! I'll tune out now.
August 04, 2022 at 09:40
Which is mass suicide albeit in a way so subtle as to pass unnoticed by so-called guardians of life. Kill without killing is the right expression I be...
August 04, 2022 at 09:10
Ok! Gracias.
August 04, 2022 at 09:06
How is it incoherent? I'm here, thinking, and I know that I'm thinking and that, ergo, I exist (re Descartes). I also realize that there could be a(n)...
August 04, 2022 at 09:00
Quote out of context, mon ami, quote out of context.
August 04, 2022 at 08:54
So, Starling swarming behavior is chaotic? How exactly is it so? They give me the impression of syncrhonized events/sports, the kind you see in the Ol...
August 04, 2022 at 08:52
Ok! Why would "if all this is an illusion?" make no sense. Can you explain, please? Note here that as per Descartes' cogito, he/I/you (when you copy D...
August 04, 2022 at 08:29
Point made, point taken. It's just that young girls seem fascinated by so-called (Disney) princesses and are forever looking for their prince charming...
August 04, 2022 at 08:22
Refusal to cast one's vote can be, inter alia, because one has lost faith in the process (rigging, poor quality candidates, and so on) or for the reas...
August 04, 2022 at 06:24
Words, symbols essentially, begging for meaning? A sign desperately seeking a referent, a partner? OR A primitive/superadvanced tongue with referents ...
August 04, 2022 at 06:20
A private language can exist; however the private linguist, him/herself, may not understand it. There could be n number of reasons why this is the cas...
August 04, 2022 at 06:11
:chin:
August 04, 2022 at 06:04
As I understand it, from the Wikipedia article, superdeterminism is simply the position that a hidden-variable theory is viable if there's no free wil...
August 04, 2022 at 06:01
On it!
August 04, 2022 at 05:41
Second childhood! To be one with the Tao, all you gotta do is reach a ripe old age, eh? :up: Mother knows best!
August 04, 2022 at 05:38