Terrapin Station

What does that have to do with my comments though?

It's in the womb because we're talking about the development of a child with respect to the mother. The womb is where that occurs. When you talk about...

There are a lot of relations between mothers and children. If you're talking about the biological parent relation, the location is in the mother's wom...

Why would a concept have to be able to stand alone to be possible as a concept?

Just depends on how loosely we're willing to define "language," doesn't it?

You first lose me here. Why would the concepts of zero and everything be impossible on your view?

In my view it's rather incoherent to posit anything that does not have a location. "Inside the head" is most certainly sufficient for meaning. It look...

Yeah, definitely boxy architecture is not at all beautiful to me. Although a skyline composed of primarily boxy architecture can be--it depends on the...

Ultimately the answer is simply because your brain works in the particular way that it does. "Beautiful" is just a term for something being strongly a...

There's absolutely no reason to believe that the speed of light could have been anything other than what it is. What would possibly be evidence that t...

I see "social meaning" as a category error. I'm the anti-Putnam. Any way you slice it, meaning is just in the head.

It's not at all the case that meaning only occurs in response to natural languages.

Yes, it's prior to language, and per the comments in the initial post in this thread no, meaning isn't social.

What would we be using for data to estimate likelihood? In my view, what's mind-boggling is that anyone seriously believes that there's any way whatso...

Why neo-liberalism?

What counts as due versus undue duress on a system?

If you know how to write a "c" an "a" and a "t" you know that you can write them in that order, even if you never did it before. That part is no diffe...

"the irony of asking how to end stupid debates on a board that doesn't concern itself with promoting proper debates." I was agreeing that that is iron...

The question asked if you can know that you have a sufficient amount of knowledge to accomplish a goal. Not if having the knowledge automatically acco...

I wasn't detailing every single thing it requires, though. That would be ridiculously missing the point. The point is that we can never have written i...

So you didn't understand that I was agreeing with the post immediately prior to me typing "Right. I can agree with that"?

Obviously you have to know how to form or type the letters. The point is that you can know how to do that, know how to spell the word, etc. without ha...

But I'd obviously not be talking about someone in elementary school who doesn't even know how to write (or type) each letter yet.

Right. So I guess you are just trolling. Really bored or something?

Because you thought it was something it wasn't (well, or at least you trolled as if it was)

What's the post above the one where I wrote "Right. I can agree with that"?

So you'd be assuming that we must be talking about a situation where someone only knows how to write some letters of the alphabet? C'mon, man, don't b...

Why would you be assuming that we're talking about a situation where someone doesn't know how to write in general?

How about simply saying what happened to the post that I was actually agreeing to?

Modest, too. How unusual.

Never a more apt moment to repeat: "Most people on this board have trouble with basic reading comprehension and basic critical thinking skills" haha W...

Right. I can agree with that.

I didn't think he was talking just about this board . . . oy, the arrogance if he was. Most people on this board have trouble with basic reading compr...

Your grounds for believing what you do are really that it's the way you feel, and the way you feel people should ideally be. It's what makes sense to ...

If only it hinged on what you believe. I never excluded myself.

I've not only lived in New York--I wasn't born here, I didn't grow up here. And I've traveled extensively, all over the world. I've not done a ton of ...

Yeah, it is true. I've known tons and tons of people who identify as religious, who regularly go to church, etc. I've not known one of them who strict...

On that view, you'd have to argue that almost no one is "really religious,"

Yes. I'd bet against your conclusion. Because religious views in this regard promote a repression that people seem to rebel against.

Right, but one thing you appealed to was anecdotal evidence. That doesn't suggest your conclusion here. So what else do you got?

Isn't that reporting what people say? What people say is often different than what they do.

I'm very promiscuous, definitely. But you know what? Most of the females I've been promiscuous with were religious. Most people in general are still r...

I don't know about that. We have a bunch of homeless people--a bunch of people who have no regular shelter and who have trouble acquiring food, we hav...

That sounds pretty rigorous and reliable, haha.

What survey method are we using for that?

And the reason you'd respond to a statement you don't even understand as if you did understand it is?

Why would you address that sentence as if you have some idea what it's saying if you do not? Why wouldn't you ask for clarification before just plowin...

Again, the question about why you'd quote and respond to a sentence that in the next round you'd claim to not have any clue about wasn't rhetorical. S...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fdcDN4LbYQ

It is frustrating that people want to talk philosophy yet can not even reasonably read. That's more frustrating when they have a ridiculous amount of ...