No, it doesn't: neither of those peoples would understand a word of it. It becomes jargon, code, doubletalk, jingo, financial hocus-pocus, hieratic, m...
In truth, I have never heard 'the public shelf' reference before, and I have no idea what the 'metaphysical proposition' is. So, here we have a failur...
I will try to answer that first, uninfluenced by other responses, then read the rest of the thread. The purpose of language is communication. In the e...
How would that work? Chimpanzees do it instinctively, but then humans come along, have forgotten all about the instinct that drives so much animal beh...
Then why do stags and rams bash one another's brains out for the privilege? Why do peacocks and lyre birds encumber themselves with those ridiculous t...
No, it's not like Dream X and it's not culture-dependent. That's why population control initiatives never work from the top down. Look how crazy the C...
They do so! I've witnessed it close up, young couples laying elaborate plans for the babies they intended to produce. Some people, yes. They can becom...
Not for some hypothetical future generations. But they are strongly motivated by the welfare of their existing and hoped-for offspring. Fathers and mo...
The great and famous may be concerned about their legacy, as the rich are concerned about preserving or enshrining their fortune down through time - s...
Of course we don't. The vast majority of us now are drones: wage- and debt-slaves, with no time for either hedonism (the prerogative of the rich and t...
Not about future people in general; it's about more copies of themselves. They still have dynasties: their DNA goes on into the future, controlling th...
And I'm sure you've done everything in your power to clean up the world they grow up in, prevent their less affluent playmates being sent off to war a...
It goes back much further. Since the beginning of urban, stratified civilizations, the young have played a sacrificial role. The first four biblical c...
Some things, yes, I think so. The last couple of generations of super-rich would redouble their efforts to secure an immortality of some kind for them...
I'm inclined to think on the large scale, the latter, with an added incentive to develop robots. But individuals deeply invested in replicating themse...
Very possibly - doesn't everyone? I wouldn't have been aware of it if I behaved that way, or recall how many times it happened. I can only tell you th...
Since the word 'absolutely' appears in the thread title, I thought it appropriate to address. Perhaps I was wrong. Perhaps I should say, rather, that ...
Seems to me like, it's not a philosophy but a doctrine. In the NT - however contrived that document may be - we have the shaky beginnings of an ethic ...
That's nowhere near what I said. I said, we have plenty of knowledge, both individual and pooled, that's accurate enough for practical used, but it's ...
You're not asking much, are you?! There is an awful lot of ground to cover from Ur to the televangelists. But the creation story and all of Genesis up...
It looks extensive... if all of that is factually taught - including statistics and proportions. It would really be nice if students understood the hi...
No; I'm aware of the two-party system (and the peripheral existence of some 50 others). I was talking about Canada and the UK, chiefly, though of cour...
It can't be cured. Humans are simply not responsible enough to be given these potentially world-destroying toys. Scientists keep handing the weapons t...
Only because no single individual knows all of them. We each know some facts we're sure of - mainly regarding such simple physical matters as what we ...
Do they? Clocks tick, calendars turn pages, but the divide between the empowered and disempowered is the same now as it was in Assyria. Can't read it ...
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8274866/ You did mention 'progressive' That makes it the right word. Aside from the fact that it's always been the pro...
What choice did they have? Sure, in many cases, it was true and is true. Given the limitation of their educational opportunities - i.e. it was illegal...
The question should be, what part of the overall truth it makes up. What percent of all the enslaved people in the US were taught skills that they wer...
I don't think a divided left can prevail - either on the communications or in the legislature. I'm not so sure about the spirit. The progressive, libe...
Yea - as long as sympathizers who also have other interests are not excluded. That's the danger of narrowly defined political factions: there is so mu...
None. In despite of what many humans hold to be grand truths, our knowledge is always subject to doubt, misconception, expansion, misinterpretation, r...
The waste. Eventually, the wrecked cities and burned bodies are made to disappear, leaving a discreet monument https://hpmmuseum.jp/ https://www.ebrd....
I mean that all technology has benefits and dangers and costs and consequences, which are very difficult, if not impossible to calculate and certainly...
I have not seen it demonstrated that ever-increasing computing and automation capability is "mostly benefits". I see at least one drawback or potentia...
Of course, the way explosives did - and every advance in technology. Whatever weapon comes in a portable, inexpensive form changes the odds in warfare...
It doesn't. The world doesn't perform for us. It simply exists. Yes: knowledge is comparable to knowledge. Worlds are comparable to worlds.The worlds ...
Our understanding doesn't affect the world; some aspects of the world affect our understanding. What we know is not comparable to the world; the world...
To use words of any kind requires a vocabulary. If you don't know any Latin "in vino veritas" doesn't mean anything more or less than X=x+2. If you do...
The definition is in words, and words are not absolute. Words have relatively fixed meanings: less firmly fixed in colloquial speech, more firmly fixe...
How do you feel about state terrorism? Russia has this military technology. So do both Koreas, Israel, Turkey, the UK, China and the USA - I wonder wh...
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