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I see what you mean now. I really do. You were asking "What the hell are you talking about? You're starting in mid-conversation." I took your question...
July 10, 2025 at 20:42
Probably this is partially true, but it's also probably true that I treated the Shoutbox like everyone was shouting, which means whatever I said to yo...
July 10, 2025 at 20:30
Maybe put it into a direct question what you're looking that I better respond to. Our exchange has been very limited on this, and my general position ...
July 10, 2025 at 20:01
Would this suggest that there are differing rationalities (as in differing types of rational ways of thinking) that could yield conflicting results, y...
July 10, 2025 at 19:07
Although my reworking of the Pink Floyd song lyrics, that was maybe a 6/10 on the cleverometer.
July 10, 2025 at 18:53
I really wasn't trying to be cryptic. Organizing a system of philosophy around the irrelevance of the metaphysical doesn't seem like philosophy to me....
July 10, 2025 at 18:52
What is not having Jeopardy over there? You have to answer a Jeopardy question with a question.
July 10, 2025 at 17:46
How do you apply a truth value to an event? The proposition "Your mama has green hair" has a truth value, in that it is either true or false. If your ...
July 10, 2025 at 17:42
You are slipping down the slope of idealism, a place where I might just be a figment of your imagination. I know you're not just a figment of my imagi...
July 10, 2025 at 17:37
I totes get being bitched slapped by reality offers a certain understanding otherwise not afforded the coddled, so that's well taken, but the centrali...
July 10, 2025 at 17:23
I see them as very different. The tides are constantly ebbing and flowing so from T-1 to T-100 there are perhaps billiions of variations. However at T...
July 10, 2025 at 15:45
I suppose you're right on the Pluto detail, so let me stipulate the facts better to force the question I'm asking, which you pretty much answered anyw...
July 10, 2025 at 13:02
If knowledge is a justified true belief, then a belief that is untrue would not be knowledge by definition. Rapidly changing information isn't what Cl...
July 10, 2025 at 11:13
So you told me facts were provisional agreements, and I objected on the basis that such definition permitted untrue facts, which resulted in nonsense....
July 10, 2025 at 03:48
I wasn't defining knowledge. I was extrapolating the consequences of your definition of "facts," which you don't ground in truth, and so that allows f...
July 10, 2025 at 00:23
If we know truth is hidden, we know there is truth. As Pascal said, "You would not be seeking Me if you had not already found Me." Does Adorno say the...
July 10, 2025 at 00:05
Do you deny metaphysical underpinnings, or just mean truth is inaccessible? Your previous post didn't deny truth. It just distinguished it from facts,...
July 09, 2025 at 23:45
Is this a modal logic question, as in ?P = "Necessarily P" vs. ?P = "Possibly P" As in, it is necessarily true in all possible worlds that some moral ...
July 09, 2025 at 21:25
I'm working on a theory that argues that if the metaphysical is inaccessible by any philosophical means, whether it suffers the Wittgensteinian fate o...
July 09, 2025 at 19:42
Your opinion is that I should bring forth a pig to a police officer for his observation and that the result will be his rejocing? I question your advi...
July 09, 2025 at 19:21
How does "which refers to the world" modify your sentence? Do you not define "the world" as "anything and everything," or are you taking "the world" t...
July 09, 2025 at 19:19
And so was it a fact that Pluto was a planet and now it's a fact that it's not? Or was it thought to be a fact Pluto was a planet and then it was disc...
July 09, 2025 at 19:14
There aren't many jobs that don't place a premium on the completion of specific tasks, so it's hard to find a job where you can just think things thro...
July 09, 2025 at 17:57
In: Nonbinary  — view comment
The distinction is between discriptive language and prescriptive, where we consider it pedantic to require, for example, that no sentence end in a pre...
July 09, 2025 at 13:57
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The problem with forced linguistic change for political aims is at least two-fold: (1) it violates the typical organic way language evolves through us...
July 08, 2025 at 22:22
No. Like when they say, "Sir, can I please see your driver's license?," I always get confused and think they mean they want me to play with their gun....
July 08, 2025 at 20:09
@"Baden" Isn't this the Frankfurt school response, meaning we should impose ways to disrupt the capitalist takeover of technology for its malevolent p...
July 07, 2025 at 13:02
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Someone who self-identifies as non-binary is strongly left with regard to whatever trait he's describing. That is the connotation of that word. If you...
July 07, 2025 at 02:18
Have you considered working with pigs? I suspect there are opportunities, particularly for someone with such a niche passion. Obviously not a farm, bu...
July 06, 2025 at 21:57
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One who sincerely identifies as politically non-binary doesn't alert me to any uncertainty as to his social views, as if that person bounces between t...
July 06, 2025 at 21:29
I was at my company picnic, and the organizer thought it would be entertaining for the partners of the firm (which includes me) to line up to have wat...
July 06, 2025 at 00:18
I'd agree with that.
July 05, 2025 at 22:25
Positing a final goal isn't less logical than positing a first cause. All events follow the first cause, yet we can't have a first cause without a pre...
July 05, 2025 at 20:28
I feel like if you're mixing the egg salad, the tuna salad, and the potato salad, you're just stretching out the picnic leftovers. You then need to gi...
July 05, 2025 at 18:00
If I assemble architects, framers, plumbers, carpenters, landscapers, etc to build me a house, can we not say the teleos of the enterprise is to erect...
July 05, 2025 at 16:32
Yesterday I had 12 oysters and a half pound of shrimp and 2 hard-boiled eggs. It was my protein power lunch.
July 05, 2025 at 14:26
I read up on this concoction, and it seems yours is a fairly spartan variety.
July 05, 2025 at 12:44
I look upon those poolside with their mango infused intoxicants foresaken by the Almighty from the heroic suffering bestowed upon me, who insists upon...
July 04, 2025 at 15:40
I would add the shoes show an authentic non-conformity that has since eroded, where American individualism is now displayed as obedience to custom. Th...
July 04, 2025 at 14:52
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July 04, 2025 at 10:53
Merry 4th of July./uploads/resized/files/ol/a2abxz0axe2x34zn.png
July 04, 2025 at 10:32
I was born in the 60s and I'm Gen X.
July 04, 2025 at 10:22
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By bothered, that probably means you grumble, but not more than that.
July 03, 2025 at 19:53
I just thought Dublin would have been, I don't know, nicer:/uploads/resized/files/z5/4a70ox5wqxa85pw0.jpg
July 03, 2025 at 16:38
Damn you! My proof:/uploads/resized/files/s8/tzgd31eyqd0730xy.jpg
July 03, 2025 at 16:36
Thoughts on the new red shoes? They remain untied as part of the hip design and the uppers are 100% wool. I came upon them while searching for wool sh...
July 03, 2025 at 13:21
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I think its uncontroversial that political views appear on a spectrum and that most people's views vary over their lifetime and are not even fully con...
July 03, 2025 at 10:15
I've not been around enough pigs to know when they're happy or sad, but it's not hard to figure out if your dog is happy.
July 03, 2025 at 09:55
In: Nonbinary  — view comment
The term "non-binary" is borrowed from gender orientation discussions, which creates a liberal connotation, meaning anyone who claims to be non-binary...
July 02, 2025 at 20:32
In silent Ks, like in knife?
July 02, 2025 at 16:25