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No, I meant they attacked oil and gas refineries today.

Israel did that today.

@"Count Timothy von Icarus" Is Israel going for regime change?

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Pineapple is the best.

She needs to take it easy.

Yes. The US isn't in charge of the region. It's their thing.

Iran did ballistic missile testing the year after the JCPOA agreement. This is an article from NPR (read it while there's still an NPR) :smile: The mi...

How do you know that?

. here This wasn't caused by Trump. The fact that Iran has been spending billions of dollars to be the Mid East's biggest pain in the ass is not Trump...

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Thinking of the US as foolishly causing the world's problems is a coping mechanism. Without it, you'd have to face the fact that it's all just meaning...

Yes. Although smashing someone's nuclear capability and military leadership is the kind of thing you would do before you completely level the capital,...

I think this incident might be the watershed where we all get used to shit going down and the US is not involved at all, except to protect its interes...

I don't think this problem is coming from Washington. It's Netanyahu.

You're really open to that? :lol:

Ha! I looked over and saw the Asian markets plummeting, crude oil shooting up. Somebody said "war."

That's fairly persuasive as a theory of the origin of speech, but I don't think it necessarily indicates that we can't speak meaningfully while alone....

My grandmother had a goiter. They never nuked it. I don't think they had nuclear weapons back then. She died of something else.

:grin: Sorry if I misunderstood. I thought that's how you felt.

I thought that's basically what you said. You hate the USA.

I don't think anyone has made the claim that reference is ever done using a private language. The claim you made is that someone has to comprehend the...

Something in my shoe The corpse of a black goldfish All of nature in the shape of a cat

Very true. This shows up dramatically in Korean and Japanese TV shows because expressing social rank and respect for elders is built into the language...

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That was kind of my point to Srap. As @"Pierre-Normand" was saying, the speaker's intentions are authoritative, but fallible.

I thought you objected to making inferences about intent?

I agree that speech is pervasively conditioned by the wider context of human life, but I don't see how we could maintain, as Srap and Banno have been ...

I don't know how a behaviorist handles deceit. I'm guessing it would have to be written off as illusion?

One avenue for answering this is the behaviorist approach. Here, we'll put on our eliminative materialist hats, and look at the whole scene objectivel...

I thought you wanted social breakdown in the US. Didn't you?

So you did get it? Fair enough. But wait... did you get it privately? Do you allow such a thing? Eh, I guess it doesn't matter.

Some people like wrestling with the Gavagai. :razz: Srap referred me to a sentence I had uttered and I told him I wasn't sure if he meant the whole th...

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You'll probably need an MRI at some point. :grin: :up:

I wonder if people assess the situation according to their own experience of thinking and speaking. I think Srap Tasmaner is basically saying he doesn...

True. But I still referred to the tree. I don't need your buy-in for that.

Have you guys discussed the unique way Hegel used the word concept? I think Adorno is referring to Hegel's use.

I think the ability to pick out a part of the world is there in potential in an infant. That potential is realized through interaction with others. As...

I think I know what you're saying, but I can't be certain. It would be better to just stop trying to communicate.

Ok. I don't see any of that, but I don't pay close attention.

I can't tell if you mean the whole thing, or the individual parts. How can I know?

What I mean by what?

He likes the idea of killing rioters. I don't think he cares about Musk.

I disagree. The act of referencing does not succeed or fail. It's just done by fiat. Communication can succeed or fail. You do have access to intent b...

If you're using "private" the way Wittgenstein did, the answer depends on the extent to which meaning arises from rule following. If it's mostly rule ...

So if no one understands what's being referenced, the reference failed? That doesn't make much sense to me. Referring is something done by fiat. We do...

Reference is set by the speaker.

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