Which he declared himself. Later, though, he found a way of not talking about Tractatus Club that demonstrates the rule without stating it. A roundabo...
The first rule of Tractatus Club is 'Do not talk about Tractatus Club' What can be sensed one can talk sensibly about. ."What can be sensed one can ta...
Some of us did. Indeed a certain person of colour in my own household was extremely critical before that, on reading his rather weak autobiography. An...
Well that is an interesting question. Do you suppose there might be, or must be, a reason for being irrational? I'm not sure that is a rational positi...
Likewise, thanks are not a currency subject to devaluation by excess issuing. One can happily pass one's expressions of gratitude to all and sundry wi...
What a foolish demonstration, to presuppose something. It is however an example of the way science proceeds, not by asking if everyone agrees, but by ...
Read Ursula LeGuin's The Lathe of Heaven. ASAP. And meanwhile: Row, row, row your boat Gently down the stream Merrily merrily, merrily, merrily Life i...
I watched a programme about Bergen Belsen las night. film of the bodies being buried by the thousand in mass graves when it was liberated, and the pla...
Here's one you can do yourself on your next holiday. get yourself a good walking stick and the day before your holiday set to stand on level ground an...
YES. There's nothing like doing some experiments and making some observations for oneself, for giving confidence in science. I haven't done every expe...
You have a flawed conception of the scientific method. It does not rely on what scientists say but on what they can demonstrate. Thus a scientist may ...
It's much, much more likely to be a matter of how data is collected, what counts as serious or critical, and so on. There is no established methodolog...
Well call me an arrogant twat, but if I can see the whole field and see that there is no horse in it, I will trust my eyes over the talk of 9 people. ...
True story. As it happens, in my mis-spent youth, I spent an hour or so with a friend who was having an animated conversation with what seemed to me t...
I thought I had already mentioned this. 1. Most people in are homes are not being taken to hospital with suspected CV because it is "not in their inte...
Here's a story from the UK, which is not in the US. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-52268841 So 13 people have died out of 72 old folks in ...
That's not what anyone sensible wonders in a desert. What they wonder is whether or not what they see is a mirage, which is a form of illusion, not a ...
It's normally opposed to 'Nature'. Just as 'mind' is normally opposed to 'body' and 'delusion' to 'truth'. Or 'learned' is opposed to 'innate'. What c...
Culture is mind; mind is culture. Remove from the individual the residue of culture - language, customs, education, social organisation, and all that ...
You need to look at the timing, because all you have to do to turn a crisis into a disaster is delay a little. It turns out that you cannot quite get ...
I can help you out there ol'buddy. Governments have whole great big departments devoted to something called 'security'. They spend a lot of time and m...
Yeah, its definitely interesting and apparently he used this stuff to design some switching circuits for railway signals that actually work and use th...
Which came first, the crocodile or the egg? If I'm understanding you, You are looking for a connection between logic, which in most variants is timele...
Yes, if you want, you can talk about a pawn of molecules, a molecule of atoms, an atom of quarks. Take the holism or the atomism as far as you like ac...
They don't like being told what to do, especially if they are being told to be all standoffish and British. Moi, j'ai un gilet jaune. C'est pour toi l...
I'm sorry, that looks like a word salad. For a first step, can you give me maybe an example of a non actual perception of something? My understanding ...
Because a lot of humans are inferior to a virus. by the way one weeds because the crops one is growing are weaker than the weeds. Darwinism takes out ...
So the brain is in a relationship of denial with the world, or a relationship of what-if, or ... the mind is not - and this is the point - in the brai...
When you say "phenomenological state" it sounds like a thing, but it isn't a thing, it's a relationship. Specifically its the relationship of a life-f...
I'll vote for that in any old time, but unfortunately we are particularly well endowed with demagogues just now. It is a time to value truth and hones...
Indeed. A very major factor is testing policy, and related hospitalising policy. If, like the UK, you make it a policy not to test people in care home...
Not tested, and therefore not counted in the infection rates or the death rates. Old people don't count. When did you say that radical change of polic...
It seems to me that the way the virus spreads is through social relations, and the way it can be prevented from spreading is through social isolation....
Just determined by the admins and their moderate minions. did you think it was a free site? There's no such thing as a free site. As to the whimsicali...
I'll vote for that. Votes for women, orgasms for women, equal pay for women, and there you go, now you're just like men. We even monetised childcare a...
Yesterday, they announced 600 emergency hospital beds in the local uni and the local conference centre. Today they announced 30 new ventilators for th...
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