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I don't know. Everyone I've ever met who was living "on disability" (receiving SSI payments) was doing pretty well. Now does this mean they'll never h...

You have disability insurance through Social Security. It's pretty generous. He's talking about the Australian version of this. The American version h...

If the device stops working he can smack the cannister against a wall and see if that fixes it. Or he can vault over something and smack it that way.

Ok. I'll post chunks of the SEP articles and comment. The goal will be to sort out the different perspectives on possible worlds and the ontological s...

I understand that. I was just playing around with all the different fictions people want to read into my posts rather than just read what I said.

It's a matter of dignity, isn't it?

True, but I think he'd be able to eat, though he might end up with mashed potatoes on his hands.

I don't know. The day staff may have forgotten to explain how he wants his food tray arranged because they were busy doing CPR down the hall. The libr...

My story was about how accommodations for the disabled come into existence. If you want to change the world, pay attention to how the world works. Phi...

Are you serious?

Recently an elderly blind gentleman became frustrated because, while in the hospital, the fact that he's disabled was not communicated from day shift ...

The philosophy behind actual versus possible is lengthy and complex. If you want to walk through two SEP articles on it we can examine the views of al...

I wonder if the assumption that everybody needs a standing army in peacetime is a result of our recent heritage. It took the US a two year ramp up to ...

I'm sure that's true. Advances in medicine mean more people will survive the acute phase of trauma, when blood loss, infection, and temporary neurolog...

What the heck is a bollocks?

:smile:

Some of the disabled people you might see are there in your world because of advances in medicine that have taken place over the last 100 years (ironi...

On the one hand, we can observe that humans are socializing mammals and that there's a genetic component to that. For instance, all socializing mammal...

There could be an evil demon that makes me believe in numbers, but they aren't real?

I was thinking about the idea of an innate universal language that Chalmers and Chomsky talked about. The idea was that all languages have been analyz...

Sure, why not?

I think this is based on the assumption that meaning is rule based. Kripke demonstrates that the private language argument itself gives us reason to d...

Real? They're both abstract objects. :lol: :up:

It makes sense to realists. Apparently you aren't one.

The actual world is an abstract object like any other possible world. A realist says the actual world contains true statements that are beyond our kno...

It's just the motor cortex running. Some of it gets picked up by the comprehension center. Wittgenstein never wrote anything that requires us to think...

I don't think it does. Take a moment to read through the first two paragraphs of the SEP article on possible worlds:

However solid your reasoning may be, you just have to accept the usage of whatever possible world semanticist you're reviewing. They generally say tha...

Out of context, those sentences have no particular meaning.

You seem really out of touch to me.

That's as it should be.

Sweet potato fritters with ricotta cheese. The key is to finish the fritters in the air fryer so they're warm and crunchy, then they go really well wi...

That's an interesting question, and history answers that it definitely does not produce stability. When the general population is fat and happy, the l...

I'd like to define a healthy society empirically. Is it flexible enough to survive crises? Or does it shatter against the rocks, leaving the populatio...

Good to know. :up:

I think you misunderstood my post.

I think we're on the same page. A reason to reject the empiricist view that I learn about space and time from experience is that I can't imagine such ...

I disagree with this. Maybe we could read through the Transcendental Aesthetic together and come to agreement. Who's up for that?

I live in an insignificant little state and it's population is twice that of Finland. Could I see half my state become socialist? Sure, especially if ...

No, it's that we're eastern European. We're German. We're Russian. We're the whole enchilada.

That's not appropriation.

Because it leaves a chunk of the population with no safety net. Conservatives are usually willing to let nature take care of social problems. They thi...

Conservatives of any generation tend to be suspicious of change. If they embrace it, they probably do so because they see the change as a return to a ...

No, but the driving force of conservatism isn't compassion. It's practicality.

As it was in the days of old, so it is today

Welcome it into being whatever it may be. Let your heart rest Don't fight the wind Walk along with it Even if sadness flows out behind you

uh... ok.

It's time we turned the tide on the onslaught of error and propaganda we're being fed by the Man.

He could put a hole in the costume to let the web out. He could have one of those erectile dysfunction pumps, except it shoots out webbing.

A spider web comes out of the spider's butt, so Spiderman is factually incorrect.