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Of course I have. I've written a book about it, as well as several different articles about it. Define "positive statement". What do you mean by that?

OK. Sure, you do you. And I will do me. Fair enough. Yeah but I just found one that has nothing to do with that. @"Banno" check this out: https://book...

Why would I need one?

But then why are you on Lawson's side instead of Paterson's? I don't get it. Can you explain it to me?

What do you mean by that? 100% sure? Or less than 100%?

I added "bush", check it out: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=billabong%2Coutback%2Cbush&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothi...

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Bella ciao.

Don't misquote me either, that's not the way to argue about anything.

Thanks for accepting my apology, then. You need to apologize yourself for calling me a "dumbass", but I can't force you to do that, nor would I want t...

That's not the point, but OK. That's fair, I take that back then. I apologize. Will you accept my apology, yes or no?

There are none. No such words, I mean. I have an email by Braisser himself telling me that people always get that part wrong (among other parts that t...

More food for thought: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWnkBUuLxVg

But that's my point, Josh. Language can't be a sort of free-for-all game. It needs rules. And I think that those rules are something akin to what lawy...

Then once again, I'm out of your Thread. Best of luck to you, @"Mapping the Medium". Peace.

No, they don't. They've never used those literal words of yours, "correlationism is a bad thing". There is no article, book or any other text in which...

Are you sure?

OK, let me ask you a different question, then. Culturally, does the Billabong have the same "status" as the bush and the outback?

I'll debate with you, on your own terms, @"Mapping the Medium", but I've never even understood what those terms even were in your case.

But if you had to guess, or if you had to argue for any philosophical position in that sort of debate, what would be the best thing to say? I'm not as...

So, if we read that statement literally, what you're saying there is an anti-formalist comment. In that sense, your comment is a materialist one (it's...

Except for the fact that they don't say that. And even if they did, shouldn't you include Iain Hamilton Grant and Ray Brassier in that group? They are...

You see what I mean, @"Bob Ross", when I told the following a few days ago?

To answer the question of the OP: Yes, one can be a Christian if Jesus didn't rise. Why? Because it's a scientific fact that Jesus didn't rise, and ye...

"It's helpful to know". Glad that I could give you some knowledge then, mate. You're welcome. Perhaps, but I'm evidently less of a dumbass than you ar...

Will you allow me to point another mistake that you made, here? "Mate" is a term used in British English in general. In England, for example, people c...

I agree, 100%. In other words, if one cares about human suffering, but not animal suffering, then one isn't thinking in a rational way. Such a person ...

I wouldn't say that any of this is false. What I would say, however, is that there is a lot more to it than that. Speaking for myself, and only for my...

Not quite. I have good reasons to believe that the Absolute exists, and I acknowledge that. What I don't have, which I also acknowledge is that I lack...

I don't listen to Sui Generis myself. I have nothing against them or their fans, but it's just not my thing. I like heavy metal and punk rock, among a...

I think there's free will. My philosophical hero, Mario Bunge, argues for it, and he shows why the concept of free will is not incompatible with moder...

No problem. Sometimes I forget where I left the keys to my own house, that's the sort of forgetfulness that actually worries me. Induction is not irra...

Sure, perhaps there is no answer at all to the world's problems. The vegan response to that claim, however, is that the ethical thing to do is to redu...

False. I was born in Argentina, not Australia. I've never even been to Australia. I did live in Seattle, Washington State, for a few years, so I can t...

In your opinion, what would be the answer then, if not veganism?

The way I see it, Mathematics and Logic are formal sciences, while physics and chemistry are natural sciences. There are also social sciences, such as...

Sure. Psychology in general, not just psychoanalysis, has some rather dark episodes in its history. I think that the good ol' behaviorists were the wo...

I've heard that story, a few of my professors used to say that when I was a student at the Uni, but if I'm not mistaken it was Freud himself who said ...

Es un tema muy complejo (la guerra civil entre unitarios y federales) que, a pesar de todos los estudios historiográficos, no se ha estudiado lo sufic...

I have a similar problem with the Pampas and the Patagonia. I can distinguish them if I see them separately, either in person or in visual recordings ...

This is very interesting and illuminating, it's probably in the top 10 smartest things I've ever heard (yes, really). Can you please elaborate on this...

No entiendo, mi amigo (bienvenido al Thread o "Hilo", por cierto). ¿Usted está diciendo que hoy en día, 2025, en pleno México, es más "políticamente c...

So, is the bush like this super dangerous place that needs the presence of several military vehicles known as "Bushmasters"? If so, would the Outback ...

Of course it did. All I'm saying is that Tolkien was aware of that, and he made the decision to use the word "men" in Lord of the Rings anyways. Becau...

The song that started Straight Edge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBFNkdZ4XMg EDIT: And, of course, the obligatory parody of that song, by NOFX. ht...

I think I that agree with all of these points. They seem reasonable. But then the critics of veganism typically advance the following counter-points: ...

I want to make a bit of a tangential, Off-Topic comment about that. We usually have no problems in visually imagining something. For example, I can cl...

There is such a thing as emergent realism, which is precisely one of the philosophical positions championed by Mario Bunge, Graham Harman, and Manuel ...

Yes, because that is how people spoke during the Middle Ages, they used the word "men" as a synonym of "human", as you have pointed out. But Tolkien d...

"Bushmaster" is an ironic name for an Australian tank, isn't it? Their next line of tanks will be called "Outbackmasters". The Bushmasters will patrol...