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That seems to fit what you are saying pretty well. But I do accept that you are not claiming that because a glass of water consists of H2O, the water ...

I agree. He is not easy, however. It is a mistake to think that you can read him once and get your head around. Everything is interconnected. Very lit...

Maybe. Impatience is a big driver of the way that debates go. The media (or their readers) do not have the patience for going slowly and paying attent...

I'm inclined to agree with you. Yes. I'm inclined to think that the problem is that they are too general. People do manage to have better discussions ...

At first, I thought that I would say that your second example is grammatical - a la Wittgenstein - and the second is not. But a second thought gives m...

I/m sorry. What's a sensible approach? What cannot ethical or aesthetic considerations be eliminated from?

I'm sorry. I can't work out exactly what you mean. Can you give an example - or two? Austin gives an example I think is helpful. But I can't remember ...

There's a quick put-down available, I think. Our perception of colours is our seeing of the colours. Your "opponent" is being misled by the common phi...

Actually, Austin is quite modest about ordinary language philosophy, only claiming that it is an important preparation. He does not explicitly rule ou...

That's a very good post. Gellner made a great splash with "Words and Things". I think it was rather a marmite book. You either loved it or hated it. P...

Well, yes, in a sense that's true. But, in that context, I thought that further explanation of what was intended would help to clarify. PS I meant to ...

How is that not reduction? All the information is given the smallest scale description. It is intended to re-describe your large-scale, small scale im...

I've only got 10 minutes, which is a shame. So, initial comments. I like naturalism. But I've regarded it as materialism without the ontological and c...

Well, it is seems reasonable to recognize that she is a physicist but a physicist who is not, when she writes what is quoted, doing physics. That's al...

That's not quite fair. I do agree that free speech is a Good Thing. So I am bothered by Putin and Xi Jinping. But I don't think that criminals should ...

I'll abandon the example of disease and this point until and unless l can work out a better way of putting it. You are right, Aristotle's slavery is n...

There is, indeed. It may not be perfect, but some arrangement like that is all there is. Don't be ridiculous. It was always obvious that dealing with ...

OK. I think understand what is going on, even though I cannot understand the proofs. Thanks. I'm not surprised. I've been changing my view of mathemat...

What if a given fact is unprovable within a given theory, but provable within another one. Would that be consistent with Godel?

Thanks. It would be quite a festival to play all of those at the same time. NORTH KOREAN VERSION!!!

I know the song well - have done for years. It always gets a smile. Don't know if it's Art Garfunkel's rendering. How many are there?

Yes, it is. You seemed a bit depressed when you said this. I was trying to be encouraging. "Be fair" is an expression I use - perhaps it is not as wid...

Yes. I do worry about that argument. But since Stalin was on the left and Hitler on the right, it seems like there's no safety anywhere. Any more than...

Thank you very much for this. I hope you won't mind if someone who is neither mathematician or logician makes some ignorant comments - purely in a spi...

Well, I think it is ambiguous and I didn't recognize that. However, because he says the "the many" are not fit to rule and therefore implies that some...

I'm suggesting that it has been over-hyped and is rather less interesting than one would have thought, given all the fuss. Be fair. Sometimes we are u...

That's like saying that a phone encodes the information passing down it. (Let's assume an old-fashioned phone that is connected by a wire without comp...

I agree with that. But you didn't get the memo about categories. I'm afraid the news is that there are many different kinds of existence. I wouldn't u...

I don't understand why you include components when I thought you were saying (correctly) that utility, beauty and sustainability are the result of oth...

Isn't that old news in a new bottle? Only physicists needed QM to tell them about the specificity of observation and its distortion in the process of ...

I don't know what you mean by "bind". If a local person indulges in abstract thinking, and shares that thinking with other local and non-local thinker...

Some of the public are quite likely not happy. Others are more bothered by the rioting and are perfectly happy. Starmer has read the mood perfectly. Y...

So are you saying that mathematical objects don't really exist? What is your criterion for existence? Is it, by any chance, being physical? I don't th...

It might help your perspective on this to point out that the Greeks thought of themselves as Athenians or Spartans or Thebans. During the Persian Wars...

I'm sure you could. Thank you for letting me off the detail. I agree that the "emergent" physical property of the gate "emerges" from the design. But ...

The Principle exists, but only rarely applies. You have to define your language very carefully to produce one. A fundamental rule of language appears ...

These quotations are not in the order they came in your messages. I hope that doesn't make anything difficult to follow. Point taken. If Government an...

You rephrased the question. Surely, applying math to the smallest scales of existence implies that physics and math exist independently. So I'll take ...

I agree with what you say. Indeed, it seems obvious. At present "emergent properties" seems to be pretty much a label for the undefined. I think the m...

Does physics ground mathematics? H'm what does "in some sense" mean? Brains no doubt navigate their environment - the body. But I don't navigate that ...

Thank you for the link. I think (hope) that we don't need to get into the weeds here. Simpson summarizes his argument at the end of the article and I ...

That's a very good test. It's not perfect. Some people have very poor imaginations and worse memories. I remember, in the small town that I lived in a...

Well, I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this. I've looked at some of the clips, none of which I trust because they are clips and context is alwa...

The question is whether Telegram is facilitating free speech (good) or facilitating criminal activities (bad). I think that if he couldn't help the ba...

OK. True. But fascism does. I don't know about that case. I agree it looks bad. But on the principle, the difference between murder and manslaughter i...

I'm sorry. I really don't understand what you are getting at. We are agreed that we need functioning brains to do plus tasks. I don't understand anyth...

You did indeed say that. Not quite oops! but nearly. Could you give me the reference? It's a complicated question. The issue that provoked it was:- Th...

It's very kind of you to say so. The fact is that most of the time I feel as if I'm wading through mud. A lot of struggle for rather meagre progress.

Forgive my ignorance. I must have missed something. Did Aristotle say that Greeks are suited to rule the world? Reference? Well, that is indeed a bit ...

I'm sure there has, but that it is more a question of degree than have/havenot distinction. In the context of education policy, there are three questi...