Cuthbert

It's the drizzling I find so odd. Drizzle is what we used to get when it wasn't quite raining. Now it goes on food.

It's any salad with a dressing of disdain from the chips 'n' pies 'n' beans 'n' potato crisp sandwich brigade, of whom I am a member.

In my experience of fathers that means he's forgotten about the loan. Otherwise he would be insisting on repayment.

Another source is our own prescription. "It's called a sandwich but it does not deserve the name." As if the so-called sandwich is descriptively or ev...

He may have got the answer wrong but I give him credit for raising a question that is still intriguing us in almost its original form two millenia lat...

That skates over the philosophical problems of counting with natural numbers. (Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics I-113). We might end up sayin...

It sits on a leaf and waits for autumn.

Spiders get a better return from using the silk to make webs to catch flies than from selling it to industrialists in return for a fly allowance. So t...

Joe Hill? https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/singing-wobbly-joe-hill-sentenced-to-death

I read the question and started thinking about 'the mind'. But perhaps I need also to think about 'thing', 'single thing', 'or' and 'have parts'. A sp...

It's pissed and it's a moustachio. And it's a bad joke. And it's made even worse in the explanation.

Missed it. Too busy soaking my facial hair in vodka to make pistachios.

Do you have a tissue? Sorry, I sneezed. Do you have a handkerchief?

I'll chuck in the pre-Socratics. Thales thought everything was made of water. He also thought that everything was 'full of gods', by which he might ha...

Doesn't that lead to a paradox? If your vote carries no weight and your vote carries the same weight as everyone else's, then nobody's vote carries an...

I think this a problem for any sphere in which individual actions count for little or nothing but group actions determine the result. Reducing your ca...

That's right. If someone describes themselves as an 'enthusiastic supporter' on the strength of voting, they are over-stating the case. If someone des...

Some people don't vote as a protest and some are merely indifferent. When it is not possible to distinguish protest from apathy then 'protest' is no l...

By not voting - and also not standing for election - and also not doing anything to protest against or to change the constitutional system - then I am...

I'm not sure whether studying logic will improve four-in-a-row play. I can say confidently that the person who proved that four-in-a-row is a 'solvabl...

Decision trees are extended syllogisms, like the example I gave above used in four in a row. You might not be using them consciously or at all. When y...

But that brand of anarchism may be either identical with - or easily mistaken for - or too liable to degenerate into - the kind of unaccountable indiv...

The OP is asking: (i) if you're good at four-in-a-row, does it follow that you're good at logic? (ii) If so, what kind of logic? Answers so far sugges...

Then perhaps individualist anarchism is what you want. Stirner, Proudhon. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/max-stirner/ I will hazard a guess why co...

Maybe I've remembered wrong but didn't you post somewhere about the Council of Aragon? You know this stuff? https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/...

But haven't you overlooked the philosophy of Anarchism? States are - in themselves and regardless of form - unjust and oppressive. Voting colludes wit...

You might use a kind of decision tree to work out a strategy. If I play A, his next best moves are B or C. If he plays B I could play D or E. If he pl...

“When a man stops believing in God,” said GK Chesterton, “he doesn't then believe in nothing, he believes anything.” Neat. Not true, I would say. But ...

Yeah - sorry, not good etiquette - I wanted to include the punch-line. Kipling gets a reputation for being a jingoist and imperialist but I think he's...

Kipling wrote about the disdain for the common soldier and the reliance on him in time of need: https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_tommy.htm

Indexical means 'relative to context of utterance' - like 'he' or 'here', as you say. The term 'existence' does not seem relative to context in that w...

Great choice

True, thank you. Even the insensitivity to cultural difference is truly British. And it is mine, so I cannot stand on moral high ground.

It was like the Med. It was the weather that Brits deliberately seek out every year by going abroad. If we were in Portugal people would say what gorg...

Even mentioning 'coronation chicken' operates a time machine that transports you to 1954, so I hope you can get back. Recently I bought a tub of coron...

True. The dark side of the moon exists and it is not an object put forth in front of you. On this view, from the proposition that X exists we may not ...

@"MAYAEL" thank you, very thoughtful post, and when we talk about patience I think you are making a better show than I can often manage! best wishes

True - about some things. But not true about others. Some consequences we can reasonably predict. We can't predict the consequences of all-out nuclear...

That's true. People who already possess knowledge do not need to seek it out. My local library houses an awful lot of untrustworthy rubbish. But that'...

In Ivan Andreyvich Krilov's 1814 epigrammatic story "The Inquisitive Man" a man visits a museum and notices all the creatures except the elephant. He ...

So your cup exists but it does not really exist. It exists in a colloquial sense but not in an ontic sense. The ontic sense is clarified by adding ita...

I can't speak for Mayael but I can say how I understood his questions. By 'tools that actually exist' I understood the question to mean the same as I ...

When did we last hear about societies being toxic and needing to be cleansed of vicious corrupt elements and made pure and healthy again? Oh, I rememb...

Oh, those excuses for buying quail egg mayonnaise! I would say 'I've heard them all' but actually I've never heard one and I did not know it was somet...

No, I don't damn. It would be rather extreme. I'm more inclined to bless. But I don't think either is particularly called for.

I asked what difficulties would be caused by denying everything you wrote - for example, supposing there never is such a thing as a principle of regul...

That's because the last economist who said, truthfully, "I have no more idea what is going to happen than a biologist knows what mammals will evolve" ...

I am trying to suppose that derivation has no foundation and no derivation; or that derivation cannot be abstracted; or, if it can be abstracted, it c...

Correct. We cannot refer to anything without concepts. And also, hamsters can sit. And they have no concepts. That is because sitting is one thing; an...