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If Ukraine advances all the way to Moscow, all the Russians will disappear into the wilderness. That's what usually happens.

With regard to sound, most people would need to hear middle C in order to mimic it, but there are people who don't need that. If you ask them for midd...

In other words, I'm the king of the universe. I knew it!!

You boil the spagitti in the microwave? I didn't know that would work. For climate protection, you should get a large steel wok and put it out in the ...

This is why we have climate change.

Right, I agree. I'm not arguing that we do have different experiences. I'm thinking about the uncertainty, and also the general uncertainty associated...

If the experience of red is a private, localized experience, then how would "red" attain meaning by common use? How would that work in your view?

The issue I was looking at is how "redness" gets its meaning. Are the truth conditions for "It's red" internal (by which I mean subjective data)? If s...

I think it's both. The idea that a thing is a bundle of properties is Hume's Bundle theory. Kant, who was inspired by Hume, goes further in underminin...

This is Hume's phenomenalism, and I agree with it. There's nothing in the visual field that says: tree. Tree is an idea.

Is it a problem that we don't know if the world induces the same subjective data in each of us? Is that unverifiable? What we know for sure is that "r...

Okey dokey

Universals are part of the way we speak. Nominalism is a particular explanation for it, not a basis for rejecting the idea altogether. The theory you ...

Yea, I'm not arguing against you. I'm just analyzing the two opposing viewpoints, looking at the assumptions involved. It's about where universals com...

You don't want to talk about the black percept? Why not?

Pain is like color. It comes in a bunch of types: stabbing, dull, electric, etc. We rate it from 0-10 and all that. So if I experience a stabbing pain...

You're saying that when I experience black, I'm experiencing an example of black. Everybody who has ever experienced seeing black has had their turn w...

Walz speaks Mandarin. I guess that will be handy. Still wish it was Shapiro, tho

I love my black job.

I got a robot lawnmower. If you get one, don't get the cheapest one. It gets stuck in the mulch, so I have to watch it. Other than that, it does a goo...

I'll have to think about this for a while.

Look at that article's abstract. It starts by talking about what people see, then it switches to what people reported seeing. It's straddling internal...

Did you get the internalism vs externalism thing I explained? Color internalism is where experience is primary and language use emerges from common ex...

You're saying that color language is based on shared color experience. Our common ground in experience is what allows us to use color words to point t...

I'm saying if we look at the consequences of these two: 1. Everybody has similar experiences of color 2. Everybody has unique experiences of color If ...

The standard I'm talking about only shows up if we posit experiential dissonance. I ask Bill if he's having a stabbing pain. He says yes, but he's exp...

It stands to reason. But there's a lurking problem with saying we have different color experiences. It implies an underlying standard, right? When we ...

The OP had an interesting argument. He or she was saying that when we speak objectively about color, this is based on the assumption that we all have ...

I haven't seen any of that. I mostly get info from the NYT, the WSJ, and Politico. I'd say narrow down input to only sources that at least try to pres...

The media hasn't presented him as shallow and biased. Neither his book nor the movie in which his grandmother is played by Glenn Close give the that i...

Get one that allows you to steam veggies and fish in it, and settings for either white or brown rice.

You can buy a rice maker. I use the crap out of mine.

It turns out Vance is a moron. How did he get into Yale?

:smile: :up: Does the infinite house symbolize something? I never see all of the second house in my dreams. I agree with that. You're saying it seems ...

I think it would help to look at the nature of necessity. If you want to say that X is necessary to Y, you can't argue that it is because nobody has e...

Sorry, I wasn't trying to be comical or ridiculous. I was just saying that my experience doesn't have to reflect interaction with my environment. I ha...

I guess it would help me to go back to what your point was. Were you saying that body and environment are logically necessary to experience? If by tha...

The point was that you don't need a biological body. In the case of the supporting apparatus, it would be right to say it's necessary for the life of ...

They describe a relationship between the property and the thing. That allows us talk about a property like redness as something separate from an objec...

Sorry to butt in, but I think if you're approaching this from ordinary language, you should keep in mind that languages vary in how they express the r...

Plus they looted several Walmarts, sneaking away with large amounts of baby diapers.

Trump killed 14 people in South Dakota.

That's because Democrats are always heavily armed.

Ain't that the truth?

Maybe. NOS is really good at evasion. I'm trying to learn how he does it so I can do it. The first step is to reject something obvious, like the meani...

Ok, I missed it. Tell me again why you think there was cheating.

So you have no evidence of unfair practices, rigging, or cheating. Why did you assert it? Did you dream that there was some cheating? He probably was ...

So let me get this straight. The primary voters chose Biden, then Biden said he wasn't going to run. Now you're verklempt over the disappointment the ...

It would be unfair if the Republican party wasn't capable of doing exactly the same thing if they so chose. Since the parties are following the same r...

To rig: "Manage or conduct (something) fraudulently so as to produce a result or situation that is advantageous to a particular person." To cheat: "ac...