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We were talking about the lag between when the CO2 hits the atmosphere and when the effects kick in. At one time models showed that most of the effect...

I don't know. It's not a good idea to lie to people. Once they find out you lied, they won't believe anything you say.

That's new. They used to say the lag was a century or more. :up:

I didn't know what you meant. You're right that I would have understood you if I'd been more familiar with standard definitions of supervenience. But ...

:smile: To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour

You should stay away from details. That's where the devil is.

Great. Problem solved.

We have two lists that are physically identical, so their molecules are arranged exactly the same? But the lists were created under different circumst...

I'll have to think about that.

That's it. :up:

If the Arctic permafrost abruptly melted it would put up a ginormous amount of methane and we'd all die. That could happen at any point. Like tomorrow...

No, it fails to make sense because you left out an important part of the sentence, namely the leading IFF. Entailment and supervenience aren't identic...

Well, not to quibble, but because you left the IFF off of the beginning of the sentence, your quote from the SEP didn't make any sense. But I think th...

It makes more sense in context. The properties of a production of Beethoven's 7th supervene on the properties of the orchestra involved. The second pa...

I don't know what you're saying here. Are you suggesting that supervenience is "exact similarity with respect to B-properties guarantee exact similari...

Could you be more specific?

There is a fair amount of overlap though. The nature of a supervenience relation is formally stipulated. That's what's helpful about it. But there's n...

I think I have it straight now. To some extent supervenience is intuitive. The music created by an orchestra supervenes on the actions of the players....

Yea, I'm pretty sure I screwed that up. I'll need to ponder it a little more.

True. You wouldn't think the two just accidentally track. :up:

The interesting thing about a supervenience relation is that it's not a causal relationship. It's just telling us that there's some kind of ontologica...

I think one reason to use jargon is that it allows a bunch of unwieldy ideas to be carted out efficiently. So as I was reading about meaning normativi...

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True, but the skeptical argument goes beyond that. When you communicated in the past, you weren't following any particular rule. Meaning does not aris...

To begin, we must doubt everything including the concept of climate. Could be an evil demon tricking us!

True.

Nobody has time for education. :razz:

Mikey, that was all stuff you should have learned in a high school biology class. I wonder about you sometimes. :confused:

Could we throw some humans into a giant planet sized petri dish?

https://i.imgur.com/vH2Db83.jpg We've already lost. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijx6qgW_-ZM

Ok. Have a wonderful day.

Right. So let's start with some common ground, ok? There is a carbon cycle. When you eat, you take in carbon in the form of fats, carbohydrates, and p...

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Could you give an example of that?

There are two subjects I'm going to branch off into, one is the reductive theory of meaning, and the other is normativity of meaning. So this thread i...

As always. :razz:

Ha ha! Yea. Except it wasn't addition that was in danger. :wink:

On page 11, Kripke talks about the criteria the wanted "meaning fact" would have to meet: "In the discussion below the challenge posed by the sceptic ...

It goes like this: :up:

That there is no fact about which rule you were following.

My projections have always been commonplace I'll have you know.

You guys aren't talking about the same thing, Eric. His source claims that there's an opportunity to scrub CO2 from the atmosphere if we reduce the me...

I'm gonna need you to sit down, take a breath, listen to this video, and realize that everything is going to be ok... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

It does occur to me to say that I'm relying a lot on the SEP article as I read along. It gives a broader context than I would have on my own. A deeper...

Good ole Murphy. But necessity is the mother of invention. I wouldn't rely on good intentions. Most good intentions are a veil behind which lies the s...

That's correct.

In the challenge, you've never dealt with numbers above 57. Addition and quaddition give the same answers up to that point. The question is: what fact...

Wow! I think that's actually true about me. I accept death. It would take a while to explain why, but I'm ok with oblivion. It's from the door to obli...

I'm finding it to be pretty mind blowing, but I can see how it would seem silly to some. In the challenge, addition and quaddition produce the same re...

And that's just wrong. If you're very efficient, then you're a model for everyone else to follow. Not only are you helping the climate by being so eff...