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For others it might be about living in a country with an outsized homicide rate. That's not about misogyny though. It's just a cultural thing.

I think the point of the TLP is to show that when we talk about "understanding reality" in some rarified sense, we're doing something with language th...

Is that line actually in the TLP?

I don't think he would accept or reject it. He would say we have no way of definitively answering the question.

Could you expand on that? What assumptions about the nature of truth and knowledge do you think he started with?

So are you claiming there's some foundation to knowledge? What is it?

Doesnt Chinese philosophy say men are externally yang, but internally yin. Same with women. What you see is yin, but they're internally yang.

The riftia or tubeworm appeared 35 million years ago. The mass extinction known as Snowball Earth was 700 million years ago.

Cool quote.

I've never had the impression that people can choose hinge propositions. I know someone earlier mentioned the rules of chess, where you can't play the...

If you assume p, you can't simultaneously doubt p.

I think you need to focus on something else for a while.

Yes. And?

This is the least populated state in the US, Wyoming: https://i.imgur.com/oQ3ODj5.jpeg You can see why we're so desperate to have Greenland. It's too ...

I don't think there is one.

Yesterday I was at an intersection and I saw a hand written sign that said, "It says of the people, by the people, for the people." I thought to mysel...

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Ahhh! :lol:

Stressful times I guess. Not as bad as the pandemic though, right?

I don't think he changed the subject. Had Kripke discussed it with Witt, I think Witt would have laughed and said, "How about that?"

I don't think so.

I disagree that Kripke does violence to Witt. I don't see why you would say that.

It's all going to hell, man. Beans are spilling all over the place!

During the Permian extinction there was so much crap in the atmosphere that the partial pressure of O2 went from 35% all the way down to 12%. It's 21%...

If you really want to read about any of this, anything by Moses Finley is good stuff.

In the Bronze Age, the most important commodity, food, was not private property. Land wasn't. People worked in the fields and brought their produce in...

@"Tobias" I have a hypothesis for you. Patriarchy offered a survival advantage to societies by providing strong family units. In societies where neoli...

Patriarchy is one of a number of social schemes. The British Celtic and Navajo schemes are examples of alternatives. Suppose patriarchy won out by a k...

The Celts were as civilized as anybody else in the Roman world. Virgil was Celt.

I don't know. In Bronze Age societies, the high priestess was usually the king's daughter. The temple would house women who had sex for a living. The ...

Apparently the British Celts didn't have male dominated societies.. How would you account for cultures like their's?

Couldn't I know that P without ever communicating about it to anyone?

Present a true sentence? Do you mean make an assertion?

Sure. Who wouldn't want a massive ice sheet?

Are you trying to say there is no such thing as knowing that?

I'm guessing someone told him Greenland and Canada will be prime real estate when climate change starts getting more severe. It's a little early to wo...

The reason the Irish didn't supplement their diets with fish during the big famine was because the British had earlier suppressed the Irish fishing in...

I'm not sure why you're asking me that?

She's a good one, yea.

Just trying to give one diagnosis to a bunch of people who have different ailments?

That may be because of inappropriate generalization. Diagnosis is difficult in the case of one person. Diagnosing our society would take a vantage poi...

I think @"AmadeusD" is right though. In a sense, there is no feminine spectrum of power from light to dark. There are veins of our heritage where femi...

I think dark femininity is more like the witches in Macbeth, allied with nature, fucking people up.

Would you say there are light and dark versions of masculinity? For instance, Superman is clearly light. He's all good. He's all about truth and justi...

Is your main concern that countries should respect one another's sovereignty?

Really? I'm surprised you would say that. It did have some cool things in it.

Oh, I see. In honor of Campbell's soup and Andy Warhol, you should take one of the Tim Tam packages, frame it, and put it on the wall. The art isn't t...

:grin: I wish you well though. Tim Tams aren't American, so you can buy them guilt free.

Sorry, you didn't read my post so I'm not going to read yours. :cool:

If I were you I would limit purchases from the US due to carbon emissions involved in shipping.