Isaac

Yes, that's something of what I was trying to get at distinguishing what 'to know' does mean and what it ought to mean. Things like justifications are...

What if there isn't an 'underlying logic'? I mean there's no intrinsic reason why there need be. what if 'know' as in "I know my keys are around here ...

Ah, yes. Meaning they could no less make a separate study of 'human speech acts' than we can. Or than we can make a separate study of 'bee social stat...

Not sure I understand this. It's exposition is coming later though? I'm happy to wait. Well, yes, but hence my example of aliens. Would they not have ...

Just an enquiry - but isn't "the bishop is made of wood" institutional too by virtue of the institutional fact that "that's the kind of thing 'wood' i...

An analysis of knowledge is either an analysis of what the word 'knowledge' means - how we use the word, or an analysis of what the word ought to mean...

Firstly, if your (or anyone else's conclusions are interpretations from OSINT, then you should cite the source rather than trying to pass it off as yo...

It is. I quoted the relevant parts of Putin's speech in support of that. You just saying "it isn't" is meaningless. Where does that get anyone? Yes, i...

Oh, I see. A minority though, no? I mean the sorts of people who write those books are very much the smaller group compared to the sorts of people who...

You guys are priceless. On a thread full of people claiming to be able to divine Putin's motives from their armchairs, predict moves even CIA strategi...

You think? There seem to be an awfully large number of self-help books on the shelves... Aren't the avid readers of such beacons of enlightenment as "...

Then we're faced with the preceding problem of how to get that to change. At least with climate change itself there's only two solutions (change the a...

Interesting stuff, but I'm sorry my question wasn't clear. You said... ... I asked you why you thought there were any now. Fig leaves, that is. Not ma...

What argument? I'm struggling to see how any argument I've just made is rendered incoherent by Russia's use of far-right paramilitaries. I made the ar...

You think there's any now?

No, but they'd be fighting for freedom from criminality, not for their country, which is merely an incidental grouping. Unless you're suggesting Russi...

If one is fighting against criminal aggression then one's country is immaterial. It's perfectly possible for both Ukrainians and Russians to fight aga...

Yep. Are we seriously still surprised that Russian narratives aren't actually true? No. Why the hell would we do that? Haven't we just got through rep...

Of course, 4 would be a performative contradiction.

Wow. Threatening to attack the countries who are arming the one they're at war with! In other news, bear shits in the woods. What the fuck did anyone ...

It's used to describe behaviours and attitudes such as avoiding thousands more innocent people dying. Both of these are impossible tasks. I cannot 'sh...

Funny how mention of US illegal invasions gets immediately accused of whataboutism, yet not one paragraph about Ukrainian Neo-Nazis can go by without ...

...and in English? Well then we have no disagreement. The rest is just your misunderstanding. All I've been arguing is about the moral status of those...

So, US officials are saying they've no idea where the weapons they're sending to Ukraine are ending up. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/04/united-stat...

Damn, I knew it wouldn't be so easy. Let's try... any definition of 'rule' would itself be a rule and so one would have to include an understanding of...

Rubbish. (Like that?)

Also beyond question that Russia is the only party involved with a double consonant in its name.

Then, dare I ask, what should we be?

Why have you decided to keep replacing the question at hand with a different question. Have you forgotten how conversation works? Would you like me to...

Why, do you not know? Have you been using the word 'rule' thus far in your (I'm going to guess, substantial) lifespan thus far by just winging it?

Somehow I don't think they'll be writing it off as their loss. One more cost the Ukrainians apparently ought to pay for our schadenfreude.

No. That would lead to famously daft situations such as not lying to the Nazi asking where the Jewish family are hidden. One ought to lie in that case...

Not talking about something which is the case is not lying about it.

The only times I've mentioned Nazis in this thread have been to undermine the Disneyfication of a complex geopolitical situation and in reference to t...

Agreed. So can you? That's why I provided the example of the ball hitting the line. In it one 'describes' a rule, but it is shown that they don't then...

Peace.

Yes, so I read. Disgraceful. Not sure what that's got to do with denying there's a Neo-Nazi problem in Ukraine.

It could be better. I was asking why you declared a preference that it continue this way.

How does it do that? Consensus is a fact of world. Certainty about consensus is an entirely different process. One might be wrong about F=ma, but unli...

Really? 2,224 civilian deaths, of which 173 are children, 5 million refugees, 3,000 soldiers dead, countless infrastructure destroyed, $600 billion of...

Having admitted that it is the agreement of others which determines the rules, how can you then say that your own personal judgement of whether you ha...

So the Soufan centre are propagandists now? What evidence do you have for that accusation?

What? Have you never experienced a state of comprehension but later found you were mistaken? In what way is your personal conviction that you understa...

No. Reports from international counterterrorism experts like the Soufan Center are what give the impression there is such a thing as "Ukraine's Nazi p...

If it's obvious, then it shouldn't be too hard to write it down. Humour me. What is the obvious state that 'understanding' a rule consists in? How do ...

Nuland admitted to biological research labs with contents such that it would be a concern if Russia obtained them. Putin invented some fantasy about S...

So what does 'understanding' a rule consist in?

Could one? What would 'understanding' the rule consist in? Having a belief about what ought (or can) be done next? That would just be to have an opini...

Uh huh... made the mistake of thinking we were having a grown up conversation. We'll leave it there.

That I'm angry is entirely a fantasy of yours, I can't account for your overactive imagination. And I've not once argued against the reasonableness of...