The primary targets were probably older retired-in-place types. Young workers cost less and they work harder. A company that does that has a poor rela...
Permafrost. Scientists believe that's happened before. A warmer climate jump starts evolution. It's going to be the opposite of an extinction event, w...
We weren't talking about whether or not it's right. We were talking about whether it costs the taxpayers money. But since you brought it up, why would...
In the case of depression and anxiety disorders the cause is likely to be genetic. You can't have a genetic predisposition to having your head ripped ...
It's not so much about us and what we will do. It's what future generations will do. The earth doesnt care if we put all the available carbon in the a...
The climate is going to change whether we reduce greenhouse gases or not, so those who argue that if the climate changes we're doomed are simply sayin...
I know it was callous. It also happens to be true. That said, I'd rather be in a society that reaches out with compassion to people who are in pain th...
And that argument is pretty easy to understand if we're talking about chemical exposure or the absence of safety equipment on machinery. It's a little...
On reflection, my point was a weird one to be making. The French should punish whoever they want to. Iago didn't make Othello into a murderer. Othello...
I was thinking more about the survival of a French company that attacks its employees instead of facilitating enthusiasm. How has it survived this lon...
I once heard that when workers unionize, they just get two asshole bosses instead of one since unionizers tend to be belligerent buttheads. But at lea...
No, I'm not. The rightist argues that survival of the fittest generates healthy entities in human industry in very much the same way it does in the ev...
The rightist wonders about that, though. It sounds like the French job market was such that miserable people at Orange didn't think they could quit an...
He was impeached in the public's imagination. That's all that matters. Since the public will think it was a witch hunt post acquittal, democrats won't...
The problem a reductionist faces is that instances of reduction will appear to be about individuals at specific times, which clashes with a scientific...
"Translate the thought, not the words." That rule holds for languages as closely related as English and Spanish. I imagine its even more true for dist...
One of the objections to multiple realizability is that identity of psychological states across species is speculative. Since we can question whether ...
They aren't similar because the Senate had a lady claiming to have been raped by Kavanaugh. Nobody but Trump cronies are claiming Biden was guilty of ...
Remember how regarding Kavanaugh you were all like: 'It's dastardly to destroy a man's reputation." I understood what you were saying and it influence...
Tarski's truth predicate is part of an artificial scheme involving two languages: one that has a truth predicate and one that doesn't. How would you r...
I think commands, exclamations, etc. are social actions. Propositional language is a fusion of vocalization and just plain navigation through the worl...
Translation, meaning, and Tarski's truth predicate are in a fixed relationship for Davidson. We can venture off contemplating what counts as translati...
That would just be a question of what counts as translation. Note that we haven't been talking about Davidson's article. We're talking about the impor...
Yep. In light of this, think about how we might translate this sentence into Sumerian: "The town incorportated in 1925." The concept of a corporation ...
I read the article and thought I understood it. I had misunderstood it. Judging from your responses, we have that in common. Where? I explained Davids...
I referred you to the source of that argument. Take the time to understand what he was actually saying and why. You'll say the same thing. It's bad ph...
John Oliver did a show about how Brexit was really too technical to put to a simple majority vote. He showed actual British people complaining that th...
The argument I posted is as close as I could get to ordinary language. The problem is that Davidson's argument against untranslatability contains conc...
Right. This is the conclusion of the Pylyshin argument I discussed above. So the stance that best meshes with scientific methodology is non-reductive....
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