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The insight is that private language is an all black penguin where a penguin is defined as requiring some white. You search forever for the all black ...

That's true, and I don't want to suggest a change in the text of the rules so people might think there are simple ways back, but there are imaginable ...

See, that not's meeting the energy of the banter. This is a riff. You have to either play the straight man and say something like, "I don't see how th...

Let's keep the banning talk to the banning thread.

Maybe @"Michael" was compelled by the same powerful forces that @ProtagoranSocratist was when he asked to be banned and he couldn't stop himself from ...

I'm just a category police here, trying to keep the philosopher captive in his study and the scientist in his lab. When Wittgenstein says language can...

Toying around with an idea that I wanted to run by you guys. I have a bit of a cold, and I thought having an apparatus that would allow me to sneeze a...

This family accepted the original Roe trimester framework, believing it appropriate to refer to the fetus as a child once the state's interest exceede...

So, there was this kid, and he was born, and he seemed perfectly fine, yet he never spoke. His parents tried to encourage him, but nothing. Sent him t...

The idea of deficits is entirely foreign in systems that place infinite value on human life, with such designations only existing in purely pragmatic ...

Not sure why you inserted his race or why you thought the motivation mitigated the outcome. Should it be true that only certain. races are afforded ap...

That's not an explanation. That's a lie.

Naw, that’s no how ye say it, ye daft wee gobshite, it’s bawbag.

I stayed in a hotel near the main train station in Frankfurt once right in the middle of the red light district. In the US, we give our strip clubs cl...

Red Rock Golden Ginger Ale has a bit of a kick as well. It's made in Atlanta, like me.

I think we all wish to do what is best to make everyone's lives easier and not harder, and it's difficult to really to know what to do in contexts one...

My wife got a fitted heating pad for our bed. I'm slow cooking a pot roast between us. I can't wait to have a plate full for breakfast.

There is no fun in playing chess software at grandmaster level. Sometimes it's fun to set it at moron level so you can beat it and feel smart. So, whe...

In my way of thinking, I just think philosophers don't belong in the lab and scientists don't belong where ever it is philosophers lurk. But to the ex...

Ah yes, the bullet-point, the evidence of ChatGPT at work. :smirk: As to #1, I can intuitively understand that meaning would be internal and be attach...

As I've always said, the hand that rocks the root beer is the hand that rules the world.

I call my wife my little spicy root. She giggles and then flips her hair. So cute. Sassafras makes for a tea, but I've never had it. Sarsaparilla is a...

I do see what you're saying, but look at Wittgenstein's comment: "To the extent that I do intend the construction of an English sentence in advance, t...

I concede to speculation, but trending of languages can be observed and general observations noted. As I've noted, much linguistic change occurs as th...

Consider the number of cases in the following languages: Modern English - 2 German - 4 Old English -4 or 5 Middle English - 2 Cherokee - 6 Mandarin - ...

This very issue is discussed at length in Philosophical Investigations, starting at 335 and going to 339. The critical line comes at the end of 337 wh...

This comment suggests it matters how the brain computes things and lends support does it not to the idea that Pinker and Wittgenstein operate within t...

The idea is that all language is compressed, which is to say it's contextual, to degrees greater or lesser.

Perhaps "incoherent" is the proper term, but there's no suggestion that thoughts emerge without all sorts of unknowable brain processes. What is incoh...

No one suggests that though. The quote only says that there are not meanings outside language but the meaning is the language. This too is incorrect b...

To be fair, @"javi2541997" told me to post it.

Well, two things: (1) @"javi2541997" said to make it a thread, so I did. I will always listen to him over you because we have an unspoken agreement, a...

I was playing around with AI and asked it to extrapolate the way English would look in the year 3500 based upon how it has evolved over the past 1,500...

The purpose of the interaction with the bartender apparently was to inform those with an interest of the history of Edinburgh brewing and the lack of ...

Your tale of loss sparked in me a deep study of the Wikipedia Scottish beer history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_in_Scotland https://en.wikiped...

The cabbage came out well. Wilted it in olive oil and butter (that was used to brown the sausage) with onion and garlic, then simmered it in chicken b...

/uploads/resized/files/da/6a7q3s8ha10duqhp.jpg Inspired by the Shoutbox, hot smoked sausage and cabbage.

It makes it far more effective, especially for migraines. I can attest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspirin/paracetamol/caffeine

You put away a good amount of alcohol last night. Special occasion or just needed a reality break?

I never drank much coffee. I do enjoy the 65 mg caffeine dose per pill (x 2) in my Excedrine when needed though.

The liquid pre-spun web is called dope and it has been extracted and artificially spun into web for the creation of silk and sutures. Injecting dope i...

When the new software comes, you will be reset to 0 and we'll all be equal once again. This date comes only once after 7 cycles of 7 years on the 7th ...

Cabbage leaves placed on the breasts relieve the engorgement pain after weaning. I carry a few such leaves in my manbag to assist recent weaning mothe...

Was that a case of pullus derilectus fortuitous or ex proposito?

You might also hang your cabbage over your chickens for a fun treat for them. Or you could just boil them cabbage down. https://youtu.be/Eu77tX7uDvc?s...

Quote from T.S. Eliot for your Friday morn: "I am sure that I should have made a very poor professor of Philosophy, because, after my first enthusiasm...

Maybe make a nostalgic Soviet era sustenance beef and cabbage meal. Perhaps ??????? ??????? ? ????????? with a hearty black bread. Or, the fried cabba...

Everything is better fried with pig. https://12tomatoes.com/southern-fried-cabbage/

Some might feel lucky to be introduced to Romaine at their grocer.

Right, and she just graduated medical school and so she's now Dr. Pepper, Dr. Bell fucking Pepper. She lives in the pantry next to Aunt Jemimah and Un...