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Plan for geothermal energy

How do you block a user?

I think there's reason to believe we've undergone change in the past. We might be more malleable than you think.

Turns out not many people care all that much. If you want an abortion, hop on a bus. It's not that hard.

I respect your point of view. I think there are ways the Russians could have won Ukraine's friendship if that's what they wanted. I think there were w...

That's just theoretic, so don't put too much weight on your weightings.

Vive la résistance

It probably doesn't have lead in it. That's our special ingredient. With a sprinkle of asbestos.

That's easy for you to say. :razz:

Great. What are their assessments of the ontology of propositions?

There are some unique features to the kind of preaching Jesus did. He and others like him were probably connected to desert dwelling, apocalyptic Esse...

True.

We could borrow from philosophy of math because it's the same issue. Here is an SEP article about math ontology. Platonic realism isn't obviously absu...

No doubt.

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I don't think so. He'll always be our manic clown.

I guess you could take it that way. You don't have to. Things that only exist when thought are called mental objects. The taste of your breakfast was ...

They exist as abstract objects. The set of all non-penguins exists whether anybody ever refers to it or not. I guess it's part of a logical landscape....

It's usually thought of as an abstract object, which just means a proposition is "beyond" any particular person. I can be wrong about the status of a ...

A proposition.

Truth bearer.

C.G. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (Collected Works)

"The term ‘proposition’ has a broad use in contemporary philosophy. It is used to refer to some or all of the following: the primary bearers of truth-...

The argument is ignoring this: If it is not raining, then the proposition "it is raining" exists.

I knew it!

The last inference is wrong.

Of course it does.

How could he lunge for the steering wheel? Isn't he in the back of the limo?

If it's not raining, the proposition "it is raining" exists. It's just false.

"A group experience takes place on a lower level of consciousness than the experience of an individual. This is due to the fact that, when many people...

I see. That makes sense. If I say that truth only has a social function, then there are no unknowable truths, and I would be comfortable saying all tr...

It's not about professional behavior, it's about separation of church and state versus freedom of speech. Damn straight.

You, Tom Storm, and Streetlight all run together. It's a blur.

Honestly I don't think it was coercive. An atheist can stand by respectfully while the Christians do their rituals. That's emotional maturity. Or the ...

The main issue is that it's a public school. Religious indoctrination isn't allowed when state funds are in use. I don't know. Same shit different day...

We should probably protect the wildlife.

Thanks!

But Kant does allow truths that are unknowable: how things in themselves really are. Why is he on the list?

That's the vantage point, yes.

I don't know what kind of anti-realism the SEP is talking about. Do you?

Yes.

I wasn't objecting to Fitch there. Just giving an example of bewitchment of language leading to metaphysical conclusions. We can escape Fitch by just ...

Why? How could Jesus learn something from Marcus Aurelius?

If truth is a property of statements, talk of "unknown truths" might give us unstated statements. Not good.

Of course. I think you're misunderstanding. A deflationist does not have a problem with using the word "true" in the normal way. She just resists pili...

Right. They just don't believe that "is true" adds anything except emphasis.

A typical deflationist will say that truth only serves a social function. Is someone disagreeing with that?

I see. If I'm a verificationist, then I can be accused of saying that the human race knows all (not that any individual does.) But since I haven't rul...

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Why not just accept unknowable truths?