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I don't think it is so much that they were appointed by Trump but that they were appointed because they held to a conservative political ideology. Iro...

Herein lies the problem. Philosophers often use terms in idiosyncratic ways and in ways that are no longer standard. This is not a reason to reject di...

I think that is likely, but would replace "because" with "based on the excuse that they're too busy".

It is often a game of wack-a-mole theorizing. Defending and attacking competing theories. Popping up again with modifications only to be wacked back d...

Yeah, that happened about the same time I posted. When I saw I posted an addendum. At least they were quick to decide not to decide. I agree with the ...

Why are Trump and his lawyers objecting to Jack Smith's request to the Supreme Court to quickly rule on whether presidential immunity shields Trump fr...

If you are already in possession of the meaning of a word then you would not have to look it up to find out what it means. It makes no sense to say th...

Yes, and biology can somethings betray what we really mean.

In a dictionary words are used to define the meaning of other words. You might need a dictionary to define some of the words used to define the word i...

Trumpsters see this in a very favorable light. They prefer autocrats to the rule of law.

They do not and cannot do this without WORDS. There is a difference between your inability to follow an argument and an argument that does not follow ...

Well it way the girl of my dreams knocking on my door it would not disturb me, although I might be hot and bothered.

And thus contradict your claims about words. Words have meaning and the words used in the dictionary inform us of the meaning of the word in question....

You have just explained why it is wrong to regard words as meaningless marks and sounds, separate and distinct from a form of life. Legal language is ...

Why are you using a dictionary definition? A dictionary is not a biological organism. It is, by your lights, a collection of meaningless marks. As to ...

That is simply not true. If you understood the meaning of the term 'biology' you would see why it is not true. If you understood the meaning of the te...

This is more apt than you might have intended. That it was my door did not even occur to me.

One thing I have found, and I am sure others here have as well, is that no matter how clearly and accurately I state something there will be some who ...

Actually, I think that is what the sign said. Is 'this' door the one with the sign or the one the arrow was pointing to? I told them that I stood ther...

The logician Charles Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, would not agree. The March Hare tells Alice: To which she responds: The Hare corrects her...

Meaning is not something biology does. The location of meaning is found in the practices of certain social biological organisms. As asked the question...

So, some unnamed member told you that his cousin believed something. Well that settles it. Funny how you go to such lengths to defend Trump. On the on...

It is the immigrants who are poison, not those who let them in. If the immigrants were not poison letting them in would not poison our blood. On Truth...

Well, you may wish to "endow" his words with that meaning. Although given all that you have said about words, if you are not being hypocritical, it ra...

It is, rather, that you are misreading what I have said. That is correct. Not exactly. It is not as though if Americans were asked to choice between s...

Do you arbitrarily supply just any meaning? The fact is, you follow the same conventions the rest of us do. In using language you do not get to have w...

My experience is limited to the US.

If only X will do Y then Y is will be done by X. As I say in the next sentence, it is wrong to regard anyone who does Y as X. Many liberals recognize ...

I agree with Frum's tautological statement. I also agree that it is wrong to regard anyone who looks to secure the borders is a fascist. But what Trum...

Where are you located?

If you read my words and are capable of understanding you will find the answer. If you are not capable, that is not the fault of the words. Unlike tha...

My advice is to consider what interests you. Whether that is particular philosophers, particular problems, or particular approaches. Check out the fac...

In some cases this is true. When I went to grad school I found out who was teaching at the schools I was considering and what their approach and inter...

What you have conveyed is your real or feigned lack of understanding how words work. Once again, you have confused words and the form they might take ...

This is quite different from your claim that: If sometimes there is misunderstanding then sometimes there is understanding. As Alice was told: Now you...

For Plato the good is what is higher. In the Christian West the death of God is for Nietzsche the rejection of anything higher. That is so in part bec...

You repeatedly witness what you deny you witness. When you profess not to believe that words transport meaning you mean something by that and hope to ...

They don't. Words do. We do not read word-forms. We read words, and not always all the words, and we can still understand what is said. This has been ...

The problem is that Zeno's writings do not exist except for fragments. There are various conflicting claims about what is was doing. I agree with your...

I do not know how much the plaintiffs will get after all the appeals and bankruptcy strategies, but it will still cost Rudy. Will it stop him? I don't...

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I cannot give you a definitive answer on this. The following from the SEP entry on Zeno gives some indication why such an answer is not available: If ...

If I am right in claiming that their methodological approach is dialectical then he was not misled. He was treating the claim that all is one as a hyp...

You seriously underestimate Zeno and others, especially his teacher, Parmenides. Zeno knew full well that when he walked he was able to go from one pl...

I came back to edit this. It should be we monkeys .. That is one way of looking at it, but not the way I look at it. As I see it, unlike Aquinas, Aris...

Yes, the unity of two as one. But there is no unity without there being two and not just one. Indeed. This is what Aristotle calls Plato's "indetermin...

Here is a clear reminder that autocrats do not act alone. They need their minions. From Axios: Stefanik Urges Ethics Investigation into Judge Linked t...

A dependence of one thing on another. I suppose it comes down to what counts as a duality, but as I count it one and one I don't get one. The second p...

The CNN report reads like a dark comedy. The bungling ineptitude with which the documents were handled. The restraints put on Trump's reckless disrega...

Isn't there a duality here of mind and things that matter? Doesn't a deep examination into relationships involve an examiner and what is examined? Doe...