Right. Another way to explain "noise" is that it's sensation unassociated with any form or idea. Is it possible to see without interpretation? In othe...
I meant noise as in "noise vs signal"... white noise. It occurred to me that I didn't explain that. The visual counterpart would be...muddled like a J...
But no government has a real monopoly on violence. You can be violent in defense of a child. You can kill to save yourself. And why not define soverei...
I suppose I was steering the discussion toward: "What does the capacity for violence have to do with statehood?" or some such. If you don't like that ...
Interesting that you talk about the ability to kill as being linked to sovereignty. Medieval Europe's overactive ability to kill kept it from developi...
Point was that Krishna isn't necessarily friendly. 'I am Time: destroyer of worlds. No matter what you do, Arjuna, the men before you are bound to die...
Open your eyes. Look at what you have to accept about yourself to simply claim your humanity. If the Holocaust doesn't challenge you enough... I've go...
Ideally, yes. Some effort was being made to show analog as being primal or primary. If electrons can be either waves or particles, I'm not sure there ...
Starting to sound a little mystical here. The snake turns and meets its tail? At the point of meeting, the one becomes the two. The boundary is a line...
The whole is in the part. Not a new idea. Not threatening. And not any more bizarre sounding that some of the stuff you have appeared to say... claims...
Is it to accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior? I hope not, because I totally failed to do that. How about helping to create a community pottery s...
Yea. You're showing that the paradox doesn't generalize far enough to encompass all knowledge. Some things we do learn empirically. Was the point of t...
I don't think that's on par with looking for the answer to a question. The correct answer will be specific. The content of the box need not be. I thin...
This is true in electronics. DC voltage is quantified discretely (obviously). We use a little calculus to quantify AC voltage. Interestingly, what we'...
Actually, the capital of France is Paris. This is an example of aposteriori necessity. We're so smart to have figured that out. The fact that we aren'...
Yes. The fact that Soames asks in that essay 'Does the actual operator capture the common meaning of "actual"?' shows that he's not analyzing ordinary...
True. Logically, there can't be a 1:1 correspondence because there are no 1's in a continuum. Maybe infinitesimals, but I think that's a hybrid digita...
So Dr Linsky is right: You actually have to use the actually operator to turn a contingent truth into a necessary one. Why couldn't it just be implied...
This is the perspective of Dr Bernard Linsky, professor at U of Alberta. Uh.. this answer is on the verge of confusing me. I haven't finished Soames' ...
Yea. I used to work in telecommunications hardware engineering.. all up in the A to D and vice versa. It's true you could say that digital exists beca...
But the difference between analog and digital has a digital character. It's an opposition in which the poles are interdependent. Movies seem analog be...
A multitude of similar stories have played out in the history of the US. Sometimes the experience of a group is affected by world events, Japanese Int...
The only person I know who's doing that is a Palestinian Christian I know. He absolutely hates both Muslims and Jews. Most of my interest in studying ...
Proof is in the pudding. Arrogance is the sail on a boat. Unfurl it in the wind and you'll go places you couldn't have otherwise. Unfurl it at the wro...
If you're everyone and everything, you're no one and nothing. The folly of arrogance is best explained by the most arrogant one among us. I am the uni...
Sure. I thanked him. I'm reading some of the essays he pointed me toward as well. Chalmers wrote back that he agreed with you. None of the lesser know...
Could be. I don't know. I watch streaming CBS. They have a reporter named Sanchez who is a Republican strategist. She reported that Clinton "obviously...
As mentioned, I started sending the question that troubled Pierre and I to professionals to get the low down. The answer from Scott Soames is below. T...
CBS is a mouth-piece of the left? I think it's just a content purveyor looking for a market. News is entertainment. If not, then how would you draw a ...
A number of my friends are saying stuff along these lines. They think of Clinton as the face of the establishment... or a servant of it. Trump's sugge...
It gave white supremacists an opening. By that time frustration was deep-seated in the South. There was some pretty serious grinding poverty. During a...
People who appear to be able to hire a lawyer will be treated better by cops no matter what color they are. To some extent, I think we're swinging to ...
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