L'éléphant

I don't care how you guys calculate it. I am doing how it's suppose to count the votes. It's for my own purpose. Sorry, I don't follow the rules in my...

Score is 24 to date. The author can write, however, it needs editing and tightening. It is also anti-climactic. You get bored reading towards the end,...

I just now read this story. This is one of those that uses another dimension of reality in a nondescript life of two people. Horror drama. Very good s...

Correct. That's how you get all scores to count.

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STD: 44 It ties with The Moon is Broken.

Score to date: 47 Ties with The Story of Thing.

Score to date: 47

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This I agree :100:

Hi Baker, appearance is what we see when we meet people or see them in pictures. Who they are is their core personality. However, what Tom said about ...

This is your opinion. If you believe there are deficiencies in the conception of what existed prior to the big bang, or even in the blackhole, this is...

Physics is invested in philosophy. :cool:

And I'm saying that you can't. Gravitational singularity does not have spacetime.

Please don't say this. Physics is very much invested in causality -- which is the prize of metaphysics.

No, the universe is not eternal. The singularity, however, is infinite. I am lost here. We could only describe quantum fluctuations outside of the sin...

I know it's hard to wrap our heads around the idea that there was always "something" and that something was a single point. There was never a time whe...

No. Singularity as described is the infinite density - this is what was. (matter cannot be created nor destroyed). So, that said: This is totally not ...

This is an incorrect expectation. There was just a single point that was very very hot before the Big Bang. This singularity (prior to the Big Bang) w...

Consciousness is not causality. Perception is causality.

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Yes, I agree. The lounge should be the proper place for that if it's really unavoidable that that thread must be made. This is a philosophy forum. (In...

It's more than a preference, but yes, I voted that the printed books are very relevant. There are legal properties attached to the physical copies of ...

I did not vote. When you say with the "advent of AI and the use of ChatGPT" --are you saying we are also doing away with the editors, publishers, scho...

Yes, those dictionaries. But also, from the writings of the philosophers themselves, which are not dictionaries themselves. Their books are filled wit...

These explanations are why we have something called a lexicon. In any given body of knowledge, population, community, and language in general, there i...

Good point. We are what our mind is -- which includes conscience and ego. So, we really can't say we are imprisoned by our own mind. That is our essen...

This will work if we stop listening to the publicity and marketing.

I am not a sweets eater in general. I would get sick and vomit if I eat a lot of chocolates or cakes or other sweet stuff. My limit is the size of a b...

Merry Christmas to all!

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Dude, to say something is "better" is a subjective opinion. So, I don't understand what the confusion is about.

Yes, I'd say one is better than another, to me (being a multilingual). One is good for daily spoken language, but not for writing a powerful declamati...

Clearly you do not understand what you're talking about.

In Nicomachean, the "means to an end" is part of moral reasoning. But Aristotle was focusing on the means, because the end has already been decided, s...

Our mind does not read bits. We use perception to view the world. In pictures -- which means a complete picture. Information processing is perception ...

Okay, good exegesis! @"Bob Ross", Nicomachean does not condone moral perfection at the expense of the happiness of others.

Okay.

No, I'm the one confused with the above comment. I pointed that the computer does not read the way our mind reads. Yet you said this: Check your premi...

Here is Book II: He is not arguing for a universal, objective right reason.

Incorrect. All your premises are rushed, and without definitions. For example, if computers use bits, our mind reads the world as pictures. #6 is fall...

Yes. Nicomachean ethics. Virtue ethics. Because we don't waste our time debating about its being objective or its being relative.

No we cannot. And the reason for this is, all of us do not have the moral entitlement to live. None! I find it amusing that with the hundreds and thou...

No, it isn't. It is a false analogy. In a false analogy, the two ideas share one common aspect, nothing else.

You are forgetting the shoutbox, which has, to date, 1,716 pages already.

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A State has its own legal existence that the individuals that make up its population do not enjoy. I w...

And she was pregnant.