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Say there's a case where some Jews in Jerusalem beat the hell out of a Muslim youth and it goes viral in the world's newspapers. Who exactly is respon...

We're all baffled. :grin:

Various aspects of Shia Islam are deeply offensive to Sunnis. There's widespread mistrust of Iran among Sunnis, because they fear that Iran is trying ...

Yes. What I've been wondering for decades is whether civilization will survive the next 10,000 years. I feel broken hearted imagining that we're livin...

The blurb you found from a Sunni imam was nice, but Indian Sunni imams are just respected elders. Their opinions are valuable, but they don't render b...

Trump wanted to start a war with Iran to avoid leaving office

If it was published in Nature, it's science.

The fatwa was from a Shia. 15% of Muslims are Shia, the rest are Sunni. I don't know if Sunnis would feel the need to address a Shia issue. Sunni lead...

The Chinese are building lots of nuclear power plants, which everyone should be doing. If Europe actually does wean itself off Russian oil and gas, th...

The only people who don't worry about being taken for a fool, are fools.

True.

The believer should probably recognize that P could be false, else she'll have no chance of avoiding being a victim of a big fat lie.

Yes. I'll have to look into further.

But where I live, it's common to see birds feigning injury. If you walk near their nests, they'll try to lead you away by flapping on the ground. They...

This is another interesting factor: brine rejection

If you look at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research website, it looks like the articles discussing adaptation to climate change are quite...

Here are some tidbits from the article in Nature that we were talking about: "The possibility of a reduced Atlantic thermohaline circulation in respon...

I don't know about highly speculative, since there's a consensus that it's slowing, but you're still making an important point: everything talked abou...

Circulation brings warm water up from the tropics. When the circulation stalls, it ceases to be a heat conveyor. Is that what you mean? I'll look at i...

When water absorbs CO2, it makes carbonic acid. A bottle of soda water has a high carbonic acid content until it's either warmed or shaken, both of wh...

The NY Times has a copy of the search warrant used to search Trump's home in Florida, if you have a subscription.

That's the intellect's motto. It thinks it can understand everything.

We've built a ladder to nowhere.

I think in the Tractacus he's presenting that as the way we normally imagine things: propositions corresponding to the world the same way a photograph...

And look at this one. Thanks for engaging. I appreciate it.

Sure. My point is: you can do whatever you want. *flees over the field*

As I've said, you can do whatever you want.

Yea, I was just trying to figure out what the hell you're asking.

What?

OK, hold up. Tell me what you think correspondence theory says.

A slow down or shutdown will be associated with a reduction in atmospheric CO2, resulting in cooling. But what's becoming apparent is that there isn't...

It's slowing down now. here I'm not sure what you're saying. Did you want to explore the articles that say the slowing of the thermohaline might be th...

Lol. I'm not sure why this seems mysterious to you. I don't think anyone is well advised to use the t-sentence rule as correspondence theory, but it h...

This is Aristotle's formulation of the correspondence theory of truth: "To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, whil...

It would be some state of the world.

The shutdown of the thermohaline is caused by a loss of ice. It leads to an increase in ice. Scientists believe this has happened multiple times in th...

You have to specify the context in which you're using the T-sentence rule. Is it Tarski? Redundancy? Are you try to make into correspondence theory? T...

But once reglaciation starts, it's self reinforcing, whether the thermohaline starts again or not. Ice sheets are considered by some scientists to be ...

Deflationists don't deny that truth is a property, btw.

I wasn't trying to use it. I took Banno to be asking if we should interpret the quotes as signaling a specific act of assertion. My answer was that yo...

I couldn't agree more.

I think he eventually admitted that it's not a definition. Since Frege, the standard view is that truth can't be defined. It's too primitive.

It's not irrational to question the prevailing view. It's how we grow our body of knowledge.

Yes. :razz: My point was that you need to look for how an author is using the t-sentence rule. Use varies. Again, look to use. Propositions are usuall...

If you're interpreting the t-sentence rule as a rendering of correspondence theory, then yes, the quoted part is a truth bearer, probably a propositio...

For Tarski, both the quoted and disquoted portions are sentences. The issue of utterances and propositions doesn't come up. The T-schema is used in ot...

Radical interpretation, per the SEP: "So, for example, when the speaker with whom we are engaged uses a certain sequence of sounds repeatedly in the p...

I don't think so. Sentences. Tarski used sentences.

You're using your own definition, then.

Not to mention munchies and long drawn out philosophical discussions.