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Well, you still seem to have your physicalist cap on. I am not a physicalist like you, so I don't share the same set of beliefs which you do. You migh...

For their existence? So for there to be rules, there must be communication? They must be able to be shared? Which obviously necessitates subjects to d...

Again, this amounts to nothing other than a) expressed rules are expressed rules, and b) I assume that rules must be expressed, therefore they are. Th...

Sure, but it makes sense to call the behavioural patterns in question rule following, as Janus plausibly argued. If you don't want to call them that, ...

No, certainly not. It just means that it could amount to a foolish endeavour. Yes, there is no such judge. We can only judge for ourselves as best we ...

The problem is that we can never truly be objective, in the sense you seem to mean here. And that it could still be unwise, or so it seems to me, to g...

I prefer Cole's Law. But not too much mayonnaise. Baden, stop making bad jokes.

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Alrighty then. See ya around Play-Doh Bollocks Cunt. (That one was for Baden :kiss: ).

My thinking cap is also my badass cap. And I put it on my head, as opposed to my giant balls. I'm wearing it right now, as it happens. I save my giant...

We all were, or so the story goes. So we're all talking vaginas, even you and your talking vagina family who spend all day rolling around in a marsh.

Vaginas can't speak. Except for the Holy Vagina up above. He can do anything, apparently, if you believe the fairytales.

Well then at least she didn't spend all day rolling around in a marsh! At least until she met your father.

So your mother was a man with balls?

What's that? Sorry, I wasn't paying attention because I was watching your entire family roll around in a marsh like filthy animals.

"Stroete" suggests your ancestors lived in a filthy marsh.

Your mum's a throat.

What? But it's brimming with philosophical value!

So that you have something to suck on?

You don't pray?

Ooh. Fighting talk from a whiny little bitch. :lol:

You seem to be muddling up representation and expression. That a symbol represents a thing is obviously a representation. Whereas if I say, "This symb...

How are some people going so spectacularly wrong here in terms of logical relevancy? No one here should be talking about language being necessary for ...

What you call your inductive conclusion is an irrelevant conclusion. It is both true and beside the point that rules require language to express them....

No, not really, because I don't know enough about that. But I could make a roughly informed guess of the kind of explanation that would be given.

This is false. I myself am a monozygotic twin. I am almost genetically identical to my brother. That we are not perfectly identical is evidenced by ou...

It would be a loaded question, like I mentioned earlier. It would contain a controversial assumption, namely that one hand clapping can make a sound. ...

You do realise that the evidence is on display in public, and that if you try to misrepresent, you risk being easily exposed? Look: You really should ...

Well, that was my own take on it. What it has in common with rhetorical questions is that you're not supposed to answer it in the usual way. I would a...

Like a rhetorical question. Rhetorical questions get people to think. Getting people to think can lead to wisdom. You're not supposed to answer it in ...

Empathy tasks. You know, like, imagine how you would feel if that were you?

Ah, the sound of a rhetorical question. It's a good example of a loaded question or a riddle which stumps some people and gets them to think. The wise...

Yes, Master. Sorry, Master. In future, if I find myself in a situation like this again, I will refrain from demonstrating how such a wording leads to ...

Is it wise to give a definition if the wording is terrible and easily leads to the very thing you call nonsense? Is it unwise to get you to try to thi...

Hi everybody!

That's what all of my patients say. We don't want your medicine, doctor! We don't need it! It's like the opposite of hypochondriasis.

And that's all there is to it? Discernment or recognition? Nothing additional about acting accordingly? So long as I discern or recognise right action...

My argument set out what it was beforehand and rejected that it would magically change. The only possible reason for it to change without magic is if ...

You know my argument, though. Or you should do. So we shouldn't just start from scratch.

Because it's also a statement, a definition, and it means something. The difference is that you think that this requires a subject there at the time t...

It requires meaning assignments for what, though? This was the reoccurring problem before, in the other discussion, if I recall correctly.

Tautologies like that aren't helpful, and I don't even understand your last question about what I'm asking. I'm asking what kind of thing a set of rul...

Is this what they call "sarcasm"? You'll have to teach me all about that some time. But first, of course, I must answer your question in exactly the w...

I'm not taking any sides here, but I thought that this was a funny exchange, and it remained relevant enough. These kind of exchanges are almost inevi...

You shouldn't begin questions like that with me. Are you trying to get me in trouble? And what is that ontology? How does that quote even begin to add...

Guys, stop joking around or I'll close the discussion.

You'll intend to go for one of the four. You've never been on a night out with me. It's all or nothing. We might end up seriously injured, off of our ...

Sorry, but I'm not going to give you the easy answer. Do you think that that's a good way to find wisdom? By having it handed to you on a silver platt...

No, no, no. You've got it all wrong. I know this because I'm the doctor. I can leave here any time I want, I just choose not to. The padding is very c...

Yes, I run a number of successful businesses. How can I help you?