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Does Odysseus cross paths with Moses as they both try to fnd their way home? Wait, don't tell me and spoil it. This got me thinking about Jung and his...

Guys, stick to the OP, avoiding distractions and insults, but don't misunderstand this to mean you must be dispassionate and restrained.

The phenomenonal is absolutely real. My claims have always been grammatical, not ontological. Phenomenonal states are causally related to utterances. ...

That it has a use doesn't mean it can be had. Wittgenstein is diagnostic. Philosophy is declared incompetent for addressing the metaphysical. But if y...

I think an important point to mention when we say "meaning is use" is that it completely disentangles metaphysics from grammar. Grammar answers the qu...

I feel like this example changes the grammar rules. Initially, we relied upon X to determine the word's usage, and then we changed to Y. When it was X...

Why not?

I think your thought experiment shows that the response to (b) is irrelevant. If X presents to me as rabbits and to you as cats, but we both call them...

And their language would be public and therfore not disproving the PLA. The PLA is not dependent upon unmediated access to the environment. In fact, W...

Usage remains constant regardless of what's going on out there, which is the point of the Wittgenstinian enterprise. It avoids the messiness of relian...

This equates instinct with witchcraft, as in, if we don't think, but we react instinctively, then we will enter the dark world of witchcraft, whatever...

Something is in my head, where "thing" is not meant to suggest physical, or not. It's like asking what's in the box. Is it a beetle, smoke, empty? The...

You inspired me, so I ordered a copy too. I see there's a 2017 translation by Emily Wilson they say is all the rage.

I don't agree with this approach because it delves into metaphysics. I'm fine with the idea that it makes no sense to speak of ships and actual ships ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymological_fallacy

But I think that's the ultimate point of analytic philosophy, which is to make every statement ultimately analytic and not synthetic. It intentionally...

Yep. Why some recognize one and not the other, looking at it from either direction, create interesting conversations.

The problem is that everything that happens down there happened tomorrow. By the time we get there, the thing we came for happened in the future. Thei...

Because Somaliland has had its own parliment, currency, military, passports, and election systems since the 1990s. The other reason is that it's direc...

Am I to take this in a purely analytic way? That is, are we speaking in tautologies and not of metaphysics at all, meaning you are saying nothing abou...

It happens to me all the time.

I guess that's fair, but can we limit the rights of Australians at least?

So you'd be Banno-o

You have to think either rabies or the hiker accidently crossed upon some kittens. Either that or the hiker tried to get an up close photo. As in "hol...

How about changing it to Bitter Clank and we can just call you @"BC"?

Religion as a conscious choice to limit one's choices in order to avoid the chaos of unlimited wandering. That's an interesting pragmatic justificatio...

I think you should be able to toggle back and forth from Clark to Clank upon request.

Callum, Donnchadh, Eòghan, Fionn, Jamal. Yeah, doesn't fit

Sure Clanky. I'll ask @"Jamal" to do it because only Admins are given full authority to change people's names. But, if you're joking, say "just joking...

This is a cover up. It's becoming very clear of the deep Scottish connection that permeates this board.

I asked it to assess his pedigree, which it turns out Clarky is of solid middle class. It pointed to the consistent church attendance records, births ...

Deeper dive into your family scribblings reveals we're step sisters through your great grandchild's godaunt.

Yes, yes it is.

Did my phone just decipher cryptic Gaelic scribbled in the back of a Bible within seconds, or did I dream that? Remember how cool it was when remote c...

Sir Clank, I cut and pasted your entry into ChatGPT with the following instructions: " Please make sense of the above. It was translated from cursive....

Are you arguing Heraclitus/ Nietzschian flux?

We don't want Australia. It's tomorrow all the time there. We've been over this.

The Danes probably will go back to Daneland anyway. They're too big to fit here. Even their dogs are ginormous.

We can't take Canada. They vote Democrat. Greenland has only 57,000 people, but they'll get 2 Senators. Or not. I'm sure that can be changed.

And I say your comments herein about metaphysics satisfies the criteria of word tripping.

When Greenland becomes a state, where will the star fit on the flag? Maybe put it in the middle of a stripe.

Surely you know other movies. I've lobbed this one up for you.

"Most metaphysics talk is broken grammar" I think is better, else you've spoken of metaphysics, and such is broken.

Send us an audio file.

I don't know that's right. There's an underlying structure, but we must commit to a different way of knowing it. I think. It's too much a leap to say ...

Now that you've clarified it, the problem has been cured though

Will NATO protect Greenland?

Eviction of a socialist nation with alignment with China, Russia, and Iran from the Americas. And oil. Always oil.

I reject the Platonic as essentialist and hopelessly nebulous. You reference a seemingly spontaneous context that ascribed particular meaning on your ...

Wait til I get going.