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It's a sentence of a language that has no truth predicate.

”Snow is purple" is true IFF snow is purple. How does this set out an equivalence of word and world?

The debate between you and creative just comes down to how we want to define belief. We can define it any way we like, obviously. Your sticking point ...

You must mean possible worlds.

We can believe things that aren't true, so why bring up T-sentences at all?

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Nah. Nihilist to the bones.

What do you think my dishonest position is?

I understand why you want to obscure it. You guys are a dying breed. Back in the day there was nothing odd about it. These days you have to choose you...

I sort of agree with that. If we collapse in on ourselves as anti-technology people would like us to, we'll miss a chance to save civilization from cl...

I think the greatest strength of american leftism has been it's ability to teach love. That's why today's leftists are so annoying. It's the heights t...

So you're not trying to convert people. You're just spitting out the same blerbs over and over, unable to wake up from it. Still, it's more fun to tal...

You've got the Ghost of Doom lurking on your horizon. You think the solution is to put down women and minorities. It's old school white supremacism, m...

Oh. Nothing lasts forever, man. We're just zooming through the middle of nowhere, headed toward nothing, for no reason. My advice: see the beauty arou...

What are you worried about?

Wow. You really are locked into your own little psycho-bubble, aren't you?

It's not your government.

That doesn't make much sense.

I think it's true that the size of the US arsenal means the US is potentially the most destructive in history. In reality, it's probably Europe collec...

Someone called the internet "the id with a mouse."

Strictly speaking, that was atomic, not nuclear. Edit, oh, fission bombs are called nuclear. Didn't realize that.

I wonder if Chauvin will plead guilty. He'll have to be protected while in jail. I guess he'll be spending a lot of time alone.

I was thinking about this in relation to the spread of American made religions and sects to other parts of the world. There are 65,000 Seventh Day Adv...

M I Finley argues that they did believe the Homeric account, which is kind of like the psyche turned inside out. Human motivation is cast across the c...

He's being charged with 3rd degree murder.

A lot of people are convinced it was 1st degree murder. I think that would make more sense if the cops had taken him to a secluded location and made s...

What's your point?

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Is it that it assumes racism isn't fictional?

Give it time.

I agree with that.

QAnon is already in Australia. Look around you to understand what kind of people are willing to embrace it.

I thought @"fdrake" was sorting out how the T-sentence rule works? I think the answer is that it does no work. It's not informative. It's trivially tr...

And if they say, "You mean the rose?" If I want to communicate, I have to follow the rules. My desire makes a slave of me.

I'm bound to call them roses by my desire to communicate.

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I didn't decide to call those red flowers "roses". Are you saying we collectively decided that? That can't be true. Most of the collective is dead. I ...

I was just yanking your chain. No need to start patheticizing.

No, it's not the same deal. You're telling some stranger than he can't pass on the virus after he's vaccinated when health officials presently eagerly...

Kripke talked about causal chains.

But it hasn't been established that the vaccine keeps you from being a carrier. Don't blow smoke up the poor guy's butt.

I got the second Pfizer shot last week. I have to admit: I wasn't thinking of protecting other people.

I don't know. I'll ask around. :grin: Yes, but you probably wouldn't die of Covid. Most of the vaccines that are out are based on new technology. Didn...

Yes. Just lack of trust in institutions in general? Blacks are more likely to look for ulterior motives everywhere they go (not that they're all the s...

It's here too. I don't think anybody is being tricked. My impression is that it's part of a broader lack of trust

What left? The Mormons used to top the list of violent domestic terrorists. Religion makes more terrorists than politics ever will.

I was banned from a subreddit for commenting that a particular child molester's throat should be cut and his body thrown in a ditch. The whole site wa...

Or some sort of surrealist manifesto

This is the best post ever.