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Does that make sense to you, though? I mean, we probably wouldn't have discussions about the taste of coffee if there was no such taste. Is the taste ...

Cool.

Sleep is good.

Just go to the nearest library or Kinko's. They have computers you can use. Ask the friendly guy behind the counter to help.

You can get a palm sized computer with windows on it for like $150. Just sell your butt on the street until you make enough. Should take you a few mon...

I think the point of the Tractatus is that philosophical problems are (usually) a misuse of language, in the sense that language is meaningful to the ...

What is wrong with you? You register the same way you register in any website.

I'm off to read Homer's Contest. I'll leave the adolescent philosophy to you. :grin:

It's a challenge to explore whether Witt's wisdom really solves philosophical problems. I think he struggled with that question himself. Instead of ha...

I was kind of looking for someone who would take the challenge in good faith. I could do it myself, but then I'd just be talking to myself.

It's interesting that Witt is held up as a fixer, but no one wants to get specific about it.

Pick a particular problem. Show how it's resolved by looking at language use. To some extent, philosophical problems come from psychological issues th...

The challenge I would pose is this: Show me a philosophical problem that's resolved by Wittgenstein, and I'll show you why it's not resolved after all...

I've long believed these two are the same person. There are too many similarities that are unique and eccentric.

Isn't that an average for the whole region?

Maybe life is a result of consciousness. Living things have been altering the oceans, the land, and the atmosphere since they first appeared. Every mo...

Only if you're really interested in it. If you take the stance that final cause (or causally closed systems) is just folk psychology, I think you'll e...

I can't find the article that came from. It wasn't an average, though. It was a look at extremes. The average increase for inland Israel is 8-9 degree...

Having recently read his philosophy of math, I'd say he would scoff at the notion of a "system of knowledge.". Too abstract.

Life Itself is a pretty heavy slog through "causally closed systems" and what not. The last chapter was pretty fascinating. I haven't read the Jonas b...

Yes. The only part of Israel that will be inhabitable will be along the coast.

I'm ready for a new government now.

Don't you get cold living under that bridge?

I think Aristotle was the first to notice that life is associated with purpose. I don't know what an anatomy and physiology course would be like if we...

The idea is that human endeavors are game-like. You embrace certain rules, certain standards, certain word usage, etc. when you embrace a game. Yes, y...

According to Robert Rosen, you'll end up without a definition for life if you try to reduce it to chemistry. He says you need final cause to understan...

"Dammit! You never leave a man behind!"

You don't have to get the special ID to vote in my state. I don't think you can get a passport without it, though.

See, but act Grow, but stand firm Love, if only to grieve And lose nothing

Right, but as the universe evolved, water waves came into existence, and understanding them means recognizing laws that weren't applicable to the prec...

Cool. A lot of the wording you're using could stand some clarification, like what you mean by intellect and information. There's a sense of informatio...

It's not just cheese makers, it's dairy producers of all kinds. :up:

Why are you nice to some people and a jackass to others when everybody you're talking to is equally stupid?

I agree.

I might have been responding to the wrong thing. I thought you were talking about mentally verifying mind-independence. Michael said we can't do that....

Actions don't demonstrate confidence in mind-independence, as if you couldn't act without sorting that out first. :lol:

It's not posed as unacceptable, though it may well be unacceptable to you. Any solution is going to end up arguing that some knowledge must be innate,...

Meno's paradox is supposed to support past lives. It just as well supports the idea that much of our knowledge arises from an innate framework.

Meno's paradox.

The crazy Republican blonde chick wanted the files published. She quit Congress over it, didn't she?

Are you arguing that without prescriptive rules for word usage, the concept wouldn't exist? What about the smaller concepts that make up a triangle, l...

I guess the argument that life is strong emergence would be about final cause. We could debate whether that's necessary for understanding life. Some, ...

Very much so. Reverting to a more chaotic economy (starting with the Reagan administration) allowed a new elite to emerge. It crippled American and UK...

According to Chomsky's research, they learn too fast for it to be accounted for by learning rules. I'm guessing it's like with birds. They just come o...

This is debatable. It's problematic for a couple of reasons. 1. It doesn't appear that language acquisition in childhood could be explained by rule fo...

There's reason to suspect they change over time. Do you know of anything that rules out strong emergence?

That's true, but the ideology that's gathered around him wants to be post-liberal. Sometimes I think about the world Trump came from. It was a morally...

How do you know? Maybe laws are local, or maybe they change randomly.

How would rules conjure a concept? It's probably that both rules and concepts are elements of post hoc analysis of language.