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Which point?

So you have an observer.

I actually did lol at this.

How can you have choosing going on with nobody to choose? Tetrapod.

If you don't make ice cream, there's a poor dairy farmer who won't be able to make shoes for his kids. They'll go to school barefoot and one of them w...

It's just ice cream. With the strawberries.

With the cream and what not? That would be so good.

You're kind of like Sisyphus.

You can make a low calorie strawberry ice cream. You blend up the strawberries and put them in the freezer. Or maybe you add yogurt. Or maybe it was b...

This is interesting from stack exchange.

:up: It's a kind of relativity.

I agree. You definitely don't need capitalism for innovation. I just think it helps. But there's an example from France about how authoritarianism can...

Being in a quadruped body is the basis for the distinction. Directionality is something we give to space. It doesn't have that on its own. Some respon...

As a tidbit, the mRNA vaccine was originated by a woman who found it difficult to find funding because all except one of her peers scoffed at the idea...

Ah. We weren't thinking of the same thing. Where there's capitalism, that's actually the foundation of the society's wealth. The kind of socialist eco...

The UK had the funds because they draw off of a capitalist economy that expands and contracts. During expansion, there is an abundance of virtual capi...

So it would go back to the hand you write with, unless you're left handed? :grin:

They don't contact you within the group. They look for people who just signed up to Discord and present themselves as say, thephilosophyforum, complet...

I guess the point is that it's not mind-independent. We need a conscious entity (or two) in order for directionality to exist. All by itself, space do...

Well that's just like... your opinion, man.

Tell them a "yo momma so fat" joke.

Right. "Up" is observer dependent. That one's a little harder for me to grasp than left-right. :grin:

If someone already mentioned this, ignore it, but Discord is known for scams. If someone contacts you claiming to be jamal, asking for money, ignore i...

Yes, the question is whether or not space has mind-independent directions. That question doesn't appear to be answered by noting that we have hands. I...

Right. Austin was saying that people who claim that all vision is indirect are undermining the meaning of the very words they're using. That's true.

If that's Austin's claim, then he's misrepresenting indirect realism. Their view is that one directly apprehends sense data (or a model populated with...

I don't know, millions of Americans faithfully put their garbage into recycling bins, not realizing that there are limited options for doing anything ...

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Ok, not fertilizer. I was thinking of Jethro Tull, so you're right, it was about industrialization: "Jethro Tull's invention of the seed drill contrib...

I think indirect realists would say (or at least imply) that a person sees sense data directly, by which they mean that back when we thought we were s...

I'm not sure what that means, so I'll just go with yes, all of it. :blush:

Jimmy Worms is in the cooler.

@"cherryorchard" I think it's true that meaning is dependent on negation, but I don't see why that would exclude speech that's about unification. For ...

I guess there's a sense of truth where it's a matter of apprehending the existence of something or some situation (state of affairs). Sometimes "true"...

I saved an earthworm today. It was almost dried out from locomoting around on a dry floor.

Understanding Truth by Scott Soames

Ok.

You could hardly be recognized as biased if your expressions were meaningless.

The first paragraph is Plank 1.5 of the Libertarian Party platform. Libertarians oppose abortion legislation. This is not rocket science, praxis.

Yes. That's also part of phil of sci.

It's a plank of the Libertarian party platform that abortion shouldn't be legislated. here

He was saying that our present approach to abortion is more libertarian than it used to be because states can decide what they want to do.

I agree with your take on the issue, but philosophy isn't just about using apriori knowledge. It's partly about stepping back from science to understa...

I thought it was the invention of fertilizer. The global population begins its exponential rise around then.

https://youtu.be/ehww7HiG50g?si=tLF0lcw4BJZJ7UwL

:up:

It's all dastardly.

Why did Putin do it then? Is it because he would have eventually lost power if he worked on making Russia healthy?

Who is supporting the status quo? Don't insurance companies lobby? Medicare pays hospitals by diagnosis. If 10 people are hospitalized for pneumonia, ...

Won't Russia become more and more hollowed out economically?