God bless America, Allahu Akbar, Odin guide our ships, may the force be with you, live long and prosper, Flying Spaghetti Monster honour this land wit...
Not without good reason. I don't consider fairness, justice, love or casualty to be examples of concepts that were dependent on language to arise. If ...
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That might have something to do with much of it being fiction. But it's far from rubbish, as a whole, in my opinion, as well as that of many, many oth...
Found it too boring, repetitive and trivial to get past The Book of Genesis. Genuinely tried. There are good parts, no doubt. But from start to finish...
Hanover, the current idea for animal welfare is that the lives of cats are of greater importance than the retrieval of meaty string, no matter how tas...
I agree with the point that the only relation that a non-linguistic animal could have with a proposition is one that we make, but that doesn't seem to...
Cuckoo. :eyes: That's like saying "no juicer, no fruit". A juicer is a tool that is used to express fruit juice, just as language is a tool that is us...
You didn't get the clue? Our use in language is an expression which represents the referent, which, for sake of argument, we can assume is a concept o...
I suspect you have some idea as to what that might be. That's as absurd as saying that our concepts are all there is to talk. These are two distinct, ...
I'm not convinced, and neither should you be. However believable such an account might appear, to believe it would obviously be self-defeating. That o...
What? That's absurd. In the UK, only a small minority within the left support anything other than the constitutional monarchy we have. Over here, whet...
You could pick the normative ethics of any philosopher as an example. Whether Kant was right, for example. It makes sense to have a difference of opin...
Because this case is like the others. It would mean that the matter could be put to rest. It would mean that it would be like asking whether I have tw...
Because it's not the kind of thing that can be answered conclusively. That would be a category error. It only makes sense in terms of, "What's your op...
That's not surprising coming from a fanboy. :wink: But that is, and can only ever be, opinion, and one with which I disagree. It remains an open quest...
It's not a black-and-white issue. My life would likely be a combination of morality and immortality, because I have a variety of impulses, motivations...
Botched takeover a few years back. Massive losses. One option on the table is to close down the operation and exit the market, meaning I'd be out of a...
Damn. I knew the news about my employer was bad, but the latest news is even worse. It's got me thinking about jumping ship, before it sinks, and mayb...
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