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Yep, and he has successors. But I think it would take an economic crisis to put the Democratic party behind them.

Oh. This particular info on Freud came by way of reading about surrealism. Does that help?

Why? Were you planning to launch into a Freud phase?

No. He meant that they get lost in the realm of the intellect. Rationality doesn't necessarily get you closer to the truth, that's the point. I meant ...

No, it's that theory-building philosophers fall so deeply in love with their projects that they don't notice that they've become disconnected as if in...

Philosophy has roots in an anti-Dionysian stance. A philosopher likes to have rational grounds, and incorporating this attitude into other avenues of ...

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You (the American Benkei) are benefitting from the social safety net. All American hospitals are dependent on Medicare funding. Your local hospital li...

They look at demographics and how this virus compares to its kin.

Predicting the fatality rate is more complicated than looking at raw data from the past and extrapolating it forward.

Just the incels and psychopaths.

I think "Here's a hand" is also usually found in conjunction with some folk ontology (platitudes most people are likely to endorse).

Freud said that psychotics love their delusions as themselves, and that philosophers have that same kind of relationship with their theories. He saw p...

Otherwise known as a Trump-win since Democrats would be divided.

We should make all rich people run for president and spend all their own money on advertising. Wealth redistributed!

That's kind of a startling thing to say. For all practical purposes the divine is real.

It's mutual. :hearts: Wouldn't you deny the existence of the self?

I wasn't trying to be a smartass, I was wondering if the self is a theory, or a component of one. Gods are. Homer's gods are all over the place as exp...

Keep that instant alcohol hand wash with you and wash your hands after co tact with restaurants, doors, anything other people touched.

What does "psychological" mean exactly? A theory of the self? Direct experience of myself is experience with a theory?

I think your beliefs are your business, not mine. If you want to discuss them with me, that's cool. If you're religious, I'd be curious. I think that ...

So if one has no reason to doubt one's religious experiences, then the beliefs grounded in them are basic?

In the article, he explains that he's not talking about groundless beliefs. A basic belief doesn't rely on other beliefs. I can doubt that I had break...

The softies. I guess that's good, though. It means we've had peace and prosperity.

Russians like to steal American technology, so the US embedded a virus in stolen pipeline software and later blew up part of the Trans-Siberian gas pi...

Yes.

There is no formal procedure for violating the principle of moral hazard. The Chairman of the Fed and the Secrerary of the Treasury were attempting to...

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You're clueless.

Do young people seem like incredibly naive spoiled brats to you? Just wondering.

I have a weirdity associated with going to sleep where I end up on a kind of roller coaster. I was astonished to find that a doctor knew what it is. I...

Cool. Do it.

If you're rich and I'm poor, you have a stake in maintaining the status quo. I'll explain your interest there as selfish and hurtful to me. You'll pro...

I totally understand all of that. I would have thought that the higher priority would be to avoid another four annoying years of disgrace, executive c...

I dont have a wing. If Wall St CEOs showed up to Congress asking for money, they wouldn't have received it. It's a bad example, and I would ditch that...

Oh. Yea, that wasn't Wall St. asking for a bail out. It was the freaking chairman if the federal reserve and the secretary of the treasury. Plus Obama...

The banking system was nationalised for a while, so yes, he was right.

Cool. I think that's mostly over my head, but I'd like to read something about the syntax/semantic interface.

The stats put up by Mayor of Simpleton suggest it's the same as coronaviruses we already have. It's potentially lethal for a section of the population...

Cool. You said it's not the way you would go. Could you say why and which way you like better? Thanks for the explanations. It helped.

OK. I get that. And the end result accommodates both realism and its opposite, doesn't it?

So when Bill utters S, I understand his meaning because I know and rely on an axiom held to be true by my people. If Bill points to a 2 and says, "Tha...

I'm trying to relate that to ordinary language use, notice: S is the sentence "There were dinosaurs 66 million years ago." S could mean "We don't have...

No, it's that a sentence can mean anything. Context narrows that down so that it becomes truth-apt.

If you contextualize a sentence, how is that different from using a proposition (except for not mentioning the word?)

How is that substantially different from using propositions? Thanks for the reference. I'll keep an eye out.

Propositions aren't eternal mental content. They're just eternal in that they don't have concrete physicality the way an utterance does. World stuff i...

So we would have sentences that don't have to be contextualized, they gain their meaning in a holistic sort of way? Could you explain that again? Sent...

I thought you were talking about a "P" spoken at time T. Otherwise, why did you put the quotes in? I'm not sure how a proposition is different from a ...