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It allowed you to land a job here as a moderator, so there's that.

Yeah, well, when I said "no one," I think it's clear I didn't mean it literally, as there's always that guy who'll say most anything. I also don't tak...

No one is suggesting his right to free speech should be curtailed.

You give far too much credit to marketing departments in knowing what they're doing. Whether this plan will ultimately be successful, I don't know. I ...

And part of the Darwinian approach is to deal with the fall out and hope their survival is increased by this move. Just like if another business decid...

The Nike marketing execs aren't omniscient, and so it's reasonable to question whether their decision to embrace one sector of the shoe buying public ...

Words and symbols have meaning, and the dictionaries often categorize the meanings in terms of priority of use. The first meanings of standing for the...

Whether this applies or not, I don't know, but Anglo law nations adhere to interpretation by precedent, using prior cases as analogies to current case...

How can anything occur without movement?

If she was so smart she wouldn't have died.

Wouldn't physical evidence of the supernatural prove it's physical and therefore natural?

That would be true if there were only two options: amateur philosophers and academics. Maybe there are other choices, like doctors.

I believe you're handling this disassociative episode in the appropriate way by presenting it for general consideration by a bunch of amateur philosop...

We were taking about Birmingham, Alabama weren't we?

I actually am a fan of Searle's philosophy, but obviously not of what he's accused of doing, none of which I can determine is true. Speaking in the hy...

I've been to Birmingham many times. Not much to do there. It's a big step down from Atlanta.

Sure, but the non-EU immigrates are the immigrants Britain has chosen to allow in but the EU immigrants are the ones foisted upon them. They want to c...

They must think Corbyn is the boogey man. Let me take a poll of you: Would you rather: (A) A Trump led Britain with no Brexit, (B) a Corbyn led govern...

I don't know enough about it, but I'm assuming there are limitations to how much Britain can limit emigration from EU countries into Britain and that ...

They don't want Britain to be worse off. That's not their motivation. They want autonomy. It's sort of like how I'd vote that you not have the right t...

No they're not. They're making Britain great again. MBGA.

Sure, it's hard to enforce and everyone makes arguments that you're just kicking people out because they're Mexican, Polish or whatever the migrant wo...

I already have a wall around my house. It's to keep people in though.

I'm not defending Trump. I'll concede his personal bigotry. Whether his immigration policies arise from a dark place or whether they're just to secure...

Does anything short of open borders equate to xenophobia? It just seems like no one can advocate for immigration regulation without being accused of b...

That's sort of the scenario in the US, but it goes both ways. That is, I think most conservatives in the US would have rather seen almost anything tha...

I can consider that a law is immoral (I am an attorney), and I was taught what natural law is. It's not a secret. It's just a vague notion of what rig...

That's a good summary of what I said. As to your prior comment that the US cannot justify immigration standards, my comment remains that such are not ...

This is an easy question. All we have to do if find a single thing that it's wrong to joke about and then we've proven that there are some things it's...

My two cents worth is that if the world were a Utopia and composed only of Hanovers, no soccer player would get paid because there'd be no demand. The...

This isn't philosophy, but just incorrect empirical generalization. I can in fact see a picture of N and be completely at a loss that it's N, but mayb...

My reading of that passage is that "phenomenologically painful" means "experientially painful" and both adverbs are superfluous because all pain is ex...

And there's nothing controversial about any of this, but I'm still left with so what? I understand that we logically arrive at conclusions and that lo...

I suspect that we could differentiate the various ways one acquires knowledge, but as a general matter it all arises from some sort of sensory input. ...

I agree, but why did you question the JTB definition if you now adopt it?

Sometimes it's conscious processing, so it's not a guess.

The reductio is to ask not how I know Mr. N is Mr. N, but it's how you recognize anything, including the words on this page. How do you know what I me...

There is no distinction here. We argue by referencing our empirically gained knowledge. I know the butler did it because I either saw him do it or I s...

Then you're not addressing the hypothetical:

No, it's not circular. A computer can identify a picture of you as Banno. It must be matching various criteria against something in its database. That...

That it looked like him would be my justification.

Mr. McFeely never really revealed his religious affiliation that I'm aware of.

I'd argue that there are no essences to anything, including everything from cups to religion. For example, we can construct a religion of pure spiritu...

I know how to successfully steal a candy bar as well.

The fundamental rights of US citizens are set forth in the Constitution, however it may be interpreted. Those rights are possessed by those within US ...

I'm confused as to why a non-resident has standing to object to the entry requirements of a foreign sovereign. Can I demand entry into the movie theat...

A guy goes into the police station to resolve what sounds to be a misdemeanor warrant and a few days later he comes out in pieces in a body bag. I'm n...

That doesn't sound right because it references the objective, which is to suggest an external reality that the anti-realist can't commit to. What you ...

I think everyone has gotten a response to their question, so I am going to close this now.

The general question of the closed OP, which asked why certain words had arbitrary connotations (and the examples employed were only those with offens...