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Vera Mont

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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...
August 02, 2023 at 19:14
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...
August 02, 2023 at 13:42
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...
August 01, 2023 at 21:51
Or, rather, Plato, quoting Socrates, according to Plato.
July 31, 2023 at 04:22
Okay. If you're sure, you're sure.
July 31, 2023 at 00:57
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...
July 31, 2023 at 00:43
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...
July 31, 2023 at 00:14
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...
July 30, 2023 at 22:51
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...
July 30, 2023 at 18:05
Not for some hypothetical future generations. But they are strongly motivated by the welfare of their existing and hoped-for offspring. Fathers and mo...
July 30, 2023 at 17:40
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...
July 30, 2023 at 14:44
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...
July 30, 2023 at 13:29
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...
July 30, 2023 at 02:24
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...
July 29, 2023 at 22:58
It goes back much further. Since the beginning of urban, stratified civilizations, the young have played a sacrificial role. The first four biblical c...
July 29, 2023 at 20:57
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...
July 29, 2023 at 18:08
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...
July 29, 2023 at 00:16
And here. OK
July 26, 2023 at 14:01
Sounds a bit unwieldy for street prostitution. I mean, where would she keep all those carrots?
July 26, 2023 at 00:34
Does speculation about my possible feelings make you feel more confident?
July 25, 2023 at 22:50
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...
July 25, 2023 at 21:31
99.99% certain
July 25, 2023 at 16:38
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 ...
July 25, 2023 at 12:41
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 ...
July 25, 2023 at 05:03
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 ...
July 24, 2023 at 23:48
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...
July 24, 2023 at 22:19
It looks extensive... if all of that is factually taught - including statistics and proportions. It would really be nice if students understood the hi...
July 24, 2023 at 20:54
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...
July 24, 2023 at 13:36
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...
July 24, 2023 at 13:02
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 ...
July 24, 2023 at 01:50
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 ...
July 24, 2023 at 01:29
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...
July 23, 2023 at 23:13
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...
July 23, 2023 at 22:21
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...
July 23, 2023 at 21:35
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...
July 23, 2023 at 21:22
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...
July 23, 2023 at 17:27
None. In despite of what many humans hold to be grand truths, our knowledge is always subject to doubt, misconception, expansion, misinterpretation, r...
July 23, 2023 at 16:43
The waste. Eventually, the wrecked cities and burned bodies are made to disappear, leaving a discreet monument https://hpmmuseum.jp/ https://www.ebrd....
July 23, 2023 at 15:22
I see. Is anything in the universe independent of humans?
July 23, 2023 at 03:56
I mean that all technology has benefits and dangers and costs and consequences, which are very difficult, if not impossible to calculate and certainly...
July 22, 2023 at 19:26
I have not seen it demonstrated that ever-increasing computing and automation capability is "mostly benefits". I see at least one drawback or potentia...
July 22, 2023 at 17:14
Of course, the way explosives did - and every advance in technology. Whatever weapon comes in a portable, inexpensive form changes the odds in warfare...
July 22, 2023 at 12:43
unknowable
July 22, 2023 at 12:36
Happy to be of service. What I didn't get was how it relates to the concepts of 'relative' and 'absolute'.
July 22, 2023 at 05:56
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 ...
July 22, 2023 at 05:01
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...
July 22, 2023 at 01:49
Certainly. I can use words in many ways, because I know them.
July 22, 2023 at 00:14
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...
July 21, 2023 at 23:45
The definition is in words, and words are not absolute. Words have relatively fixed meanings: less firmly fixed in colloquial speech, more firmly fixe...
July 21, 2023 at 17:13
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...
July 20, 2023 at 21:18