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I understand what you are arguing. You're just wrong. A better approach would be to explore the implications of belief being limited by language.

There's probably a Palestinian restaurant near you. They're a good source for understanding the situation on the ground there.

What do they think about ethics?

I don't think you'll find it helpful.

Bill can go to the wilderness of northern Alaska and enjoy his freedom. His freedom is indeed meaningful relative to the constraints of a community, b...

That's correct. Gonna nuke Ukraine because why not?

I think population growth is slowing down and headed toward plateau. All by itself.

The basic idea is that the concept of freedom is only meaningful relative to its negation. This is not contradictory. It's a pretty well worn path in ...

So maybe remember that Aristotle held slavery to be a necessary evil. Giant respect to him for declaring it to be evil. It's a weight on the heart tha...

Umm. That's a tall order. Happy trails.

Finding an all-purpose definition of freedom would not be a valuable use of brain cells. You can explore its meaning in various contexts. For an Ameri...

I haven't read most of this thread. I thought you meant you had just given that explanation to creative.

That's not what you said.

It's that "broken clock" is an extensional definition, while believes is an intensional operator. The typical example of intension is Jack believes St...

But what about this? https://oumnh.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/oumnh/images/media/trilobite-anatomy_0.jpg The only good trilobite is a dead trilobite...

I don't know. What do you think?

What question?

:lol: It would make an interesting novel, but you'd need to drop the American involvement. America was nobody in the 1910s. It was the British and the...

What's your source for this?

This is exactly wrong. Nicholas II was in favor of the economic "modernization" that was allowing the British and French to exploit Russia.

:grin: It started as a general strike in honor of International Women's Day. The women goaded the men into joining them. St Petersburg workers went on...

I've read a couple of histories of the Russian revolution. One British, one Trotsky's. The initial revolution was just social breakdown in St Petersbu...

But you said the Russian revolution was supported by American and British capitalists. Why do you think that?

As I said, I'm neutral on the issue. I'd discuss it with Harry if he's interested. I'm presently working in a team situation. My partner, who uses the...

The US doesn't need Russia's resources. No. The British and French established banks and industry in Russia prior to revolution. The same British and ...

So post WW2, the British had a global military presence, just like they had for the preceding century, but they were in decline. A global presence doe...

So you're reading that as a sign of American aggression in the present, instead if the result of global conditions throughout the 20th Century, which ...

Yea?

That's not going to accomplish a whole lot. If that's where we are, there's not a damn thing Europe can do about it. If you weren't so hell bent on se...

No, you're supposed to guess the song!

Yea, like what? :rofl:

"Then one night in the lobby of the Commodore Hotel, I chanced to meet a bartender who said he knew her well. And as he handed me a drink, he began to...

If someone says "the limits of my language mean the limits of my world" is this assertion self contradictory? What is the pov of the assertion? I'm as...

First of all, I'm neutral on the question. I'm just exploring the implications. I'm starting with the assumption that my beliefs are limited by the li...

If the limits of my language mean the limits of my world, it means I do not have freedom of thought. It means there are things I'm bound to believe si...

Yep.

Sometimes a train going into a tunnel is just a symbol of fucking.

I agree. There really are human rights concerns, but the real engine behind it is the need to crack Russia open for neoliberal exploitation. The notio...

Yea. I think that captures the flavor of the situation, and what's really going on with the OP. Language is more than scribbles and sounds, ya know.

No you don't. Just jump right in there and answer.

Did you see that movie Arrival? If you haven't, I won't spoil it, but it's related to this question. “the limits of my language mean the limits of my ...

I would say the the utterance of a sentence expresses a proposition. I don't know what the second question means exactly. We might use sentences to id...

This weed isn't helping your philosophy skills. Change to a different strain.

Right. It doesn't refer anymore than the world refers to something else. Russell wanted to picture it as: a proposition is a state of affairs. The sna...

Ok. ds

It is content. ds

Two is a prime number. The above is an utterance of a sentence. It expresses a proposition, specifically that two is a prime number. Jim, pointing to ...

We know it isn't a sentence because multiple sentences can be used to express the same proposition. It's not an utterance (sounds or marks) for the sa...

A proposition is the content of an uttered sentence.

There's another pending death: that of the Ukrainian language. I wonder if Putin will try to finish that job.