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Most of the time, yes.

What do you conclude from this?

Oh sorry, I thought you were asking something else. :grimace:

The significance of hinges (whether actions or propositions) is that the whole narrative of senses telling us about the world revolves around them. Th...

There's an idea of hinge propositions, which seems to solve problems about evidence, but then it makes other problems, like what would count as eviden...

I'll let you believe those cultures still exist. There's no harm in that.

That's cool. Native Americans aren't like that. Their cultures are gone. There's a really sad Bob Dylan song about it. "Well I found him in South Caro...

A millennium isn't that long. :cool: Read that again and recognize that Native American tribes have their own private governments and police. That was...

Uh huh.

Yeah, there's no gotcha here. It's pragmatism. Think about all that literature you absorbed and you'll see why.

Great. So talk to us about how the brain processes vision.

There are all sorts of resources for learning about the science of consciousness. For free, the SEP has some good articles. Nature magazine occasional...

Yes. Although I'm aware that my time sense has been warped a little by my adventures into geological history and the history of the Bronze Age. I got ...

No, that is nationalism, you just didn't realize that nationalism is mostly made of love. It's love for a culture, love for a language and history. Is...

Yeah but your descendants aren't going to care what your nationality was, or what language you spoke, or what you looked like, or what your religion w...

What do they do with it? There's a purple cabbage that turns an interesting blueish violet when you boil it. And it's pretty good.

How about vodka? The folklore is that they drink huge amounts of it.

No it's just that Americans who are part Russian eat cabbage during Christmas. I thought that meant Russians eat a lot of cabbage. They don't?

Do you mostly eat boiled cabbage?

That's some nationalistic values you have there: the grandeur of the state's legacy over the well being of the people?

I don't see a problem with that. It appears to be consistent with indirect realism, so inside the bounds of science. :up:

During the 100 year war the Burgundians favored surrender to England because France was suffering so much from the conflict. 1/3 of the arable land wa...

Cool. Ciceroninus got to the interesting stuff without you. :blush:

Thanks.

I said "a form of rationalism" and even specified what I meant by that. The discussion between us can be dropped. Thanks :up:

This is something I've thought a lot about since discovering thar neuroscience is seriously engaging representational theories. The short answer is th...

Honestly, it seems like you're the one who's being hostile. You're misunderstanding me if you think I am.

Because of the broadness of the metaphysics you'd be engaging. If you want to back off of that and just do philosophy of language, you have to take a ...

Oh dear.

Cognitive scientists have not yet set out how the brain works. They have theories. I suspect you're trying to step beyond science with philosophy. If ...

You're both on a leaky raft at sea.

What are you referring to by "the rest of the world"?

He may be wrong, yet state of the art science supports his view. You're out on a limb.

I think you should help your buddy Ciceroninus avoid digging in with a metaphysical take on the issue. That's a very weak position.

Tbh, I was mainly interested in what Hanover said. I like his turn of phrase.

Of course we do. Science says we model the world. We talk about our models.

Hanover's view is in line with science. You have to go out on a limb to disagree with him, and like Ciceroninus, you're in danger of turning rationali...

The difference is which category has the property of zero. Zero comes from Babylon. It's the blank spots on an abacus, or rather the written record of...

If they'd left him alone a tragedy might have been averted.

So your view is a metaphysical one. Do you see why it's a form of rationalism? IOW, you're more like Descartes than Wittgenstein.

Yet I think you probably understand the difference between subjective and objective data. You're quibbling over wording

Which isn't a problem for Descartes' purposes.

Rittenhouse just barely missed getting a Darwin Award. :grimace:

Would Ukrainians be better off if they ended the war and surrendered to Russia?

For you it is. For the rest of the world, China is a regional power.

Three fourths of the time.

It's good to hear that somebody didn't die. That's very encouraging.

I meant they were the same in that they both contributed to the potential for disaster in the same way: rushing toward a volatile situation with a fir...

The paramedic?

So the paramedic was just like Rittenhouse. He wasn't supposed to be armed and he shouldn't have gone in to give aid until the scene was secured. That...