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But I take the perception as all encompassing, not limited to just the apple I perceive, with its color, snell, etc.., but the itch on my foot, the an...
September 12, 2021 at 01:48
Of course you don't provide the irrelevant for the purposes of the conversation. My point us that my experience of the apple can never be conveyed to ...
September 12, 2021 at 00:39
The OP is ambiguous to the extent one wonders if it's asking (1) whether English in particular offers limitations in what it can describe as opposed t...
September 12, 2021 at 00:35
I read the OP as asking whether there are things we can't describe in the English language and you guys are droning on about how we use language. Can ...
September 11, 2021 at 13:57
But this doesn't really answer @"Michael"'s question. You're position is based upon a strict fidelity to the principle that the government lacks the l...
September 10, 2021 at 13:10
I see a distinction between (1) superstition/creationists and (2) anti-vaxxers. Both are anti-scientific, but, as to #1, that deals with the enchantme...
September 10, 2021 at 12:43
https://youtu.be/1XSvsFgvWr0
September 10, 2021 at 02:10
https://youtu.be/boanuwUMNNQ
September 10, 2021 at 02:06
This argument again. Sure, you have the right to bang your head against the wall until you pass out, and in a perfectly constructed libertarian world ...
September 09, 2021 at 14:50
Why do you create this exception when it comes to vaccines? Must the parents put their children in car seats, allow them transfusions when needed, or ...
September 09, 2021 at 14:40
That you don't have to justify your decision is obvious. There are no mandates. Humor me though and provide your justification. Do you obtain the thri...
September 09, 2021 at 12:33
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Saunders
September 09, 2021 at 02:24
You mentioned music, and Pandora just sent me this, from the heavens, or however it found my phone, and I never heard it before, and it blew me away, ...
September 09, 2021 at 00:07
Some you left off: All in the Family, Soap, Happy Days, the Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Alice, One Day at a Time, Reno 911, Modern Family, the old Davi...
September 08, 2021 at 20:25
What I can say about Wisconsin is that people from Wisconsin are really proud to be from Wisconsin. Not sure why. They also drink a lot of beer and dr...
September 08, 2021 at 19:41
Columbo was better.
September 08, 2021 at 19:38
You're so old you're hip again. The kids no longer have TVs either. They just stare at computer screens and phones these days.
September 08, 2021 at 19:37
That was very difficult. Brought my A game.
September 08, 2021 at 19:36
There once was a man from Nagasaki Who had a girlfriend from the banks of Milwaukee they went fishing one day but instead had his way and said this Am...
September 08, 2021 at 19:18
I call this "Parent next door" The bus drove away Very many years ago Maybe he'll visit.
September 08, 2021 at 18:54
Decided to go in a melancholy direction. I call this "Lonely Man Next Door" He looked far away as he removed her red blouse Can't wait for morning.
September 08, 2021 at 18:51
Decided to take this in a darker direction. I call this "Man Next Door" He pets his kitten bolts shut the door behind him chambers his last round.
September 08, 2021 at 18:47
They think haikus rhyme It is really such a crime But not another occasion.
September 08, 2021 at 18:40
He ridicules me for not reading poetry but his haikus suck
September 08, 2021 at 14:34
I guess we all bring our own perspectives to the art we encounter, and I admit that my personal belief is that happiness is related to giving to and t...
September 08, 2021 at 13:30
I know this argument. It's the "I have a right to make bad decisions" argument. People are literally willing to lay down their lives for this right. I...
September 08, 2021 at 12:59
But truth does have an annoying way of eventually coming out, which will either be when the vaccinated start having all sorts of mysterious symptoms o...
September 08, 2021 at 11:20
I can't read poems. I get to like the second sentence and then I start skimming, looking for the gist. It's a very sloppy way of writing. I do like ha...
September 08, 2021 at 01:31
The part you got wrong is that he actually did as he was described to have done or that it is at all relevant whether he actually did as he is said to...
September 07, 2021 at 21:13
/uploads/resized/files/t6/gxfgoauqft1idp51.jpg This reminds me of a trip I just returned from. Ruins of the Carnegie estate on Cumberland Island. From...
September 07, 2021 at 19:43
You're saying he couldn't generalize the comment of "no" to mean to do the opposite of what the affirmative comment is? If that's all you're saying, t...
September 07, 2021 at 16:20
There's a category difference between fact based questions and moral ones, and the inquiry here has been of factual ones (i.e. the effectiveness of va...
September 07, 2021 at 16:10
Do you take this to mean that free will is required for all knowledge other than moral? Do you have a direct reference to Kant for support of this cla...
September 07, 2021 at 13:47
For one, the claim was that a dog doesn't know what "no" means. It is an empirical claim, meaning you are asserting a synthetic fact, claiming to know...
September 07, 2021 at 12:50
It's an empirical claim is it not? Where is the empirical proof? My observations inform me otherwise.
September 06, 2021 at 22:29
Let us assume you are a computer entirely controlled by an algorithm. When you are asked a question, the computer computes, but its algorithm is of un...
September 06, 2021 at 20:30
Not sure how you know what a dog knows. But anyway, if you take my phone and I say "no," how is your understanding of no different from my dog's in te...
September 06, 2021 at 20:11
This is the quandary - if you accept that beliefs that are caused are not arrived at by reason, you have no way of knowing whether they happen to also...
September 06, 2021 at 12:57
If you lived there, the park ranger might make you pack your shit and leave. The po po are such dicks.
September 06, 2021 at 12:39
And this I disagree with. Choice of opinion is dependent upon all sorts of drivers, perhaps some upon their desire to fit in, others other factors, bu...
September 06, 2021 at 12:32
Explain this. Do you want all land to be privately held with each landowner being an independent sovereign, or do you want all land communal? As you'v...
September 06, 2021 at 02:12
This line of discussion wasn't intended to sway your opinion on determinism, but was initiated only to explain my objection to @"Isaac"'s line of argu...
September 06, 2021 at 01:56
What law proscribes the voluntary building of roads in a common enterprise? I'd think the barrier to such a communal sense of purpose would be lack of...
September 06, 2021 at 01:39
My dog thinks "I shouldn't knock over the garbage can, " but then he does, and I can tell from the way he's now under the bed that not only does he kn...
September 06, 2021 at 00:05
Do you have a dog? My dog definitely understands "no." These are just such odd claims that are empirically false. I remember my philosophy professor e...
September 05, 2021 at 23:22
If the algorithm of the universe dictates Srap will believe X, it will be so. If you claim your beliefs are from what you read, that will be the case ...
September 05, 2021 at 23:11
It arose earlier, more along the lines of arguing that the position one assumes in the Covid debate is determined by political alignment/ social ident...
September 05, 2021 at 21:01
Why do you reject my claim to you that I have complex mental ideas and thoughts without them being reduced to language? I'm sharing with you empirical...
September 05, 2021 at 20:18
You miss @"180 Proof"'s point. The moral problems associated with hard determinism pale in comparison with the epistemological ones. If HD is assumed ...
September 05, 2021 at 20:10
This and the psychologists fallacy, which is that you can't allege someone else's failure to be objective is due to inherent psychological limitations...
September 05, 2021 at 18:21