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:razz: I don't know how philosophers are seeing it today either. I think of the orthodox reading as having come from Cambridge in 1927 or something. W...

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Right. Kripke isn't saying there's no such thing as rules. I guess the question is whether rule following is something we sort of stamp onto certain k...

It's not clear from this passage that the authors have ever heard of the private language argument.

Food for thought. Your take is a little unorthodox, but that's fine. Since my purpose was to focus on normativity, I'd say the take away is this: Crit...

We could definitely argue against the speech the Law has given, but it's clear within the context of this dialog that Socrates does accept what the la...

Absolutely. But the speech Law has been giving (through Socrates) puts Law as the source of both Athens and Socrates himself. Since there can be no ju...

I just saw a hawk fly up and land. A crow began sounding an alarm. I've been seeing that since childhood. It's meaningful to me, not because anyone in...

I'm willing to try it for science. I'll leave the butter off though.

Is it possible to eat too much popcorn?

:lol: no doubt

They would probably also start doing genetic engineering to make tiers of capability like alphas would be beautiful geniuses, betas would be nice look...

I don't know what the point would be? Terrorists? I think people who would volunteer to live underground would be mostly boring people. I really like ...

Or a nuclear sub probably. They go out for six months straight sometimes.

Sounds like you have a touch of claustrophobia.

I don't know, I think it would be cozy. And there could be huge parks on the surface to enjoy nature. It's an Isaac Asimov idea.

Would you move to an underground city to reduce energy expenditure?

In 54 the Law refers to the weight of posterity as a reason to put justice above all else:

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The issue is that S has a private language problem. Did the authors discuss that?

:lol: She had a dalliance then. That figures.

Sorry, I just noticed this. I wouldn't make a case for meaning being internal because I don't really know what it means for meaning to have a location...

Like when AI gives you a kick ass essay on the relationship between Kierkegaard and Regine? It was so good I saved it. That was slightly unexpected, I...

I just want to thank you for this comment. What with the beef industry giving out grants to California universities, the global oil and gas interests ...

Why was she chasing a krampus?

But when he bumped into it, couldn't he feel around and notice there's a big hole in the middle?

Spoken like a true conservative (in the best sense of the word). But being sluggish to act carries a cost as well. If you wait until the shit hits the...

Ok. I'm not sure how that relates, but it all sounds good.

I agree. We were talking about meaning as it relates to normativity. We noted that communication requires more than just using words and sentences cor...

To answer the point that sometimes we make things worse when we're trying to make improvements, all you have to say is: "Yes, we should really be cogn...

So just form of life. That's as good an answer as any.

What do humans have that birds don't have, which allows them to "acknowledge the debt of it."? Beware the homunculus problem, which is like sweeping s...

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I get that. That seems to suggest that there's a certain potential associated with humans, the potential to live out a form of life that involves mean...

So a computer or parrot always uses the word correctly without knowing what the word means. I guess that makes me wonder what the special human magic ...

I don't know. The article said last summer's heat revealed the weakness of the grid. I guess you do need air-conditioning to manufacture the computer ...

On what grounds would you say they do know what it means? I mean, there's a possible world where a parrot uses "peanut" correctly every time. Does it ...

I agree. But what do you think of the case Socrates' Law has made in Crito? Are you convinced or not?

Well said. It's becoming the mainstream approach to think in terms of adaptation. It's just common sense at this point.

From 50 on into 52 the Law continues to speak and offers something along the lines of social contract theory.

I don't think she had political power anywhere, did she?

The description is of a revolutionary ideology, so people like Bolsheviks, Chinese and American communists, etc., and of course anyone who sympathizes...

I think each one has a golden period in its youth, then they all turn to crap eventually. I think I'm living during the decline of modern democracy, m...

It's a cycle. Monarchy becomes corrupt and gives way to oligarchy (statesmen or clergymen), which become a burden on the people and gives way to democ...

But he wasn't disobedient. He stayed and drank the hemlock.

Not for me. I often think in terms of opposing viewpoints, or a triangle, or a square. If you think of your own ideas about Being, notice that they ma...

If it accomplishes our goals whereas democracy, or in the case of the global political scene, anarchy, doesn't, then why not?

I think it's classified. Just kidding. It would need to be a pretty recent assessment because of fracking. Pre-fracking numbers would be way too low. ...