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My impression was that he used sentences, not utterances. An utterance is the actual sounds or marks used in communication. A sentence is a formal thi...

Good question. Think about people with OCD who have to recheck the same fact over and over. Something has gone wrong with the process of obtaining kno...

One of the things I've recently realized is the way this kind of information could confuse the global public. I could see a backlash developing agains...

Pretty much. You may be warranted to believe P, but that doesn't say anything about the probability of P being true.

From here: the ocean heat conveyor is presently slowing down. Scientists aren't prepared yet to say it's about to stop, but they're watching it closel...

I think the truth conditions idea is meant to be a work around for the failure of correspondence. You know the meaning of P if you know when it's true...

As you recall, the CLIMBER-2 model uses insolation minima as the primary driver of ice sheet nucleation. As one of its creators asked: 'What else woul...

The thermohaline circulation does. It was in the link.

If you want to say meaning is found in truth conditions, yes.

"I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and...

I touched on this earlier: climate models are not crystal balls. They're based on a few assumptions, some best guesses, and a lot of data. Computers j...

Could be. Or it could be next year. We don't have a crystal ball.

If you glance at my thread, I posted a paper that says we may have already passed a trigger point for reglaciation. It's the one that says the Anthrop...

No need to be testy. Just to be clear, there are no climatologists who speak with the kind of confidence you display.

Source?

That's just one way to refer to that particular set of currents. It's also called the thermohaline circulation. The circulation requires a heat differ...

It's possible. I don't know the probability. I don't think anyone does.

Long range climate modeling has been going on for a couple of decades. It's now made easier by increased computing capabilities and knowledge about th...

Or potentially like this: https://singularityhub.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/glacier-geoengineering-environment-alto-crew-Rv3ecImL4ak-unsplash.jpg

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They're a little more graceful.

I see.

I see. The subject, as Schopenhauer uses the term, is not a ghost in the skull. I've been assuming Witt's meaning is similar to Schopenhauer's.

Oh, sorry. I misunderstood.

I don't think Descartes advocated solipsism, did he?

There's a theory that once we came out of primarily Milankovitch forcing, the 40,000 year cycle, to an orbital forcing cycle of 100,000 years, shutdow...

Yes! It looks like this: https://www.windows2universe.org/earth/images/currents1.jpg

The problem I see is that no one in particular is asserting this, so I have no context for interpretation. How can there be such a thing as intention ...

Google scholar, yes. Regular Google is useless. Nature is also good.

It's kind of hard to judge from that picture. Some of the cold spots appear to be off the coast, which would make me think the ocean is colder in thos...

It's colder there now than it was in 1970 (in the Antarctic winter).

Wikipedia as propaganda. It's a testament to its success that people are trying to use it that way. And no, you can't fight inflation by injecting mor...

True. I want to review some articles on long-range forecasting. It's fascinating stuff. I was hinting earlier about why the latest models are better, ...

Do you have a point of view? Or is it just the bewitchment of language that makes it seem so? English is unusual in that it requires specifying pronou...

And through all that, the subject remains the subject: the limit of your world.

Sounds like you've got some identity issues.

Yep. Well put.

The subject and the ego (the "I") aren't the same. I take his use of "subject" to be Schopenhauerian. It's not a doctrine that it's the limit of the w...

I think it's probably a mistake to take Wittgenstein as advocating any particular metaphysics. I've been taking him as just exploring the mechanics of...

I've been reading about climate models. There are hundreds of short term models. This is the basis of IPCC statements. Long range models are problemat...

5.632 The subject does not belong to the world but it is a limit of the world. --Tractacus

Ha! I came to add a quote from the Tractacus. 5.632 The subject does not belong to the world: rather, it is a limit of the world. Does this mean anyth...

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Solipsism isn't a self without a world. It's that the world is the Self.

Which is your point, that solipsists are inappropriately searching for certainty? Or that solipsism is incoherent due to a lack of "real" social inter...

That's a substantial step back from 'solipsism is wrong because the self needs the Other for the sake of rationality and language.' Plus it's an all-p...

What do you want to call it? The community is made of fragments of one entity, like a stage where all the characters are products of one playwright.

Imagine a snake that turns around and meets its own tail. It thinks it's met the Other, and it has for all practical purposes, but all it's met is Rum...

For some reason you're evading my point. The solipsist says, "The word 'public' has a use in my language. It's related to my exchanges with my fiction...

This is from the first paper: "These results demonstrate the possibility that rapid and unstoppable sea-level rise from Antarctica will be triggered i...