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A state of affairs isn't perspectival. The expression of a proposition will generally have the hallmarks of a certain POV, but a state of affairs is n...

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Merry Christmas you big scrooge-bag!

That's a swimming pool.

I can't advise something just because it has my name on it!

You can have fish stew with potatoes, bok choy, and some Texas Pete.

I was thinking that same thing, but I managed to not ask it.

My own view is kin to this, except I think we each treat the world around us as an interlocutor. The set of all things I might have had for breakfast ...

How do you address the ontology of the hypothetical apple? Is it a mental state?

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Several ideas are introduced here, one being to obtain. Obtaining is something a state of affairs does. In other words, I can conjure a state of affai...

I'm not sure how to get it across to you that Americans in general do not care what the US looks like to the rest of the world. At all. Nada.

Correspondence theory says truthbearers correspond to truthmakers. Truthmakers are central to correspondence theory. As that article you just linked s...

I've never heard of such a thing. What is the theory?

Can you give an example?

Truthmaker theories aren't theories of truth. They're theories about truthmakers.

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Correspondence theory is not a deflationary account. The t-schema is trivially true. It's not a definition of truth in the way correspondence is.

Susy Wiles says it's about regime change.

Alrighty

Not me. I think I'm just tuned into abiding elements of American culture.

Wait, what's the good kind?

Is the difference between declaring what's true versus learning what's true? Maybe both sides of that are wrapped up in an if/then statement. If Nixon...

Okay. Germany then.

That won't happen. There's no reason for it. The US will take Canada and Greenland, continue to undermine Central and S. America, and head into increa...

Yes. The old alliances are going away. Most Europeans hate Americans don't they? I'd imagine they'd prefer to look toward Germany and maybe BRICS coun...

He was going to be doing sexism and anti-Semitism next. He thought he was being tricky.

They did a secret study in 1949 to estimate the cost of the US taking the place of the British Empire. The result was that the figure was uncountable....

The US government thought that, and to that end, the US gave western Europe about $13 billion, hoping that would be enough to get them back in busines...

What is truth?

I'll have to ponder this

Hmm. That's terrible.

So now we're talking about violence between Protestants and Catholics, which isn't really related at all to how Christianity became a global religion.

Our respective narratives aren't really lining up, but as you say, it doesn't really matter. We're going our separate ways now.

Kublai Khan's father had a hobby where every afternoon he would sit down with a Muslim, a Buddhist, and a Christian and listen to them argue. A Latin ...

They never quashed the Nestorians in Central Asia, the Coptics in Egypt, the Byzantines in Constantinople or the Russian Orthodox Church. And I think ...

I've read two histories of the era, one by an American historian and the other by a British historian who did research in Russia for two years.

When Europeans started trading with China in the 16th Century, they were a little shocked to discover that Christianity was already there. It was the ...

Me neither. I'm just ignoring him at this point. :up:

Your question wasn't in good faith to begin with, was it? You weren't asking what this religious framework has been providing such that it's been arou...

I asked my nurse practitioner a question and she typed it into an AI doctor. Wow.

So, it's kind of clear that you aren't reading along. Can you remedy that?

That was a pivot point. The US originally became involved in Vietnam to help the French. French parties came to Washington between 1950 and 1954 askin...

Looks daunting. I'll see if I can get through it.

To tell you which w you're in? That's handy.

That's an interesting narrative. The American narrative is that after WW2, the US waited for the UK and France to get back on their feet and take over...

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Just a note, I've bowed out of the above discussion, but when Banno is ready to move on, I'm all in.