In this context, 'picture' makes me think Escher. He has several pictures that point out in various ways how a picture can try, but always eventually ...
Well Wallows, if I point out that your threads tend to be self-indulgent, (that means ego-indulgent,) and you are always wanting to be the centre of a...
No it is caring. I care too much about the gas central heating installation regulations to want them decided by a referendum of the ignorant, and the ...
I am trying to learn to fulminate like a Guardian writer. Gotta get the link count up a bit, so you can't really argue 'til you've read 20 other Guard...
That's what matters, surely. No one minds being told what they're like and what they think as long as it's right. I'm a good listener too, so it is qu...
It's not really apathy, except apathy at an endless argument conducted by ignoramuses and special interests with no concern for society as a whole. In...
The way I read it, is that one compares, maybe, red and green and becomes (overly) impressed with the significance of 'colour', as if does some work a...
If you shout 'banana', when there is a wolf, it is no use, no one will come to your aid to fight a banana; you have to shout 'wolf'. On the other hand...
I think you have one too many negatives there - if I do think your depression isn't real, then I'm not mistaken? Anyway, stop wallowing and start shov...
My dear sir, we are all drowning in shit, and most of it is other people's shit. Shuddup and grab a shovel. No one is impressed by your innocence. But...
Alas, a supposedly humorous reference to British politics - "Brexit means brexit." We are not at all disagreeing. Nothing is fixed forever, and nothin...
Yes. In my 2 word monkey-language example, I described such an evolution through the use of a word to deceive. And by that I mean ... When things evol...
You can cut down a tree with a bronze or flint axe, and shape a plank with a adze. Planks on the scale of a big ship are unthinkable without a saw, th...
That cannot be true.There must be some consistency of use, to be able to use words at all. Even my lying monkey is using 'ook' ground-wise. 'Slab' mea...
Rules of use, (grammar) determine sense. Without these rules a word has no meaning, meaning is use. A path is made by walking on it; a language is mad...
There's a bit in Zen and the Art, where he talks about the mechanic attaining peace of mind when the bike is in good running order. One might say that...
This is a simple misunderstanding. One wants what one does not have; when i have run out of toilet paper, I want some, and put it on the shopping list...
A just-so story that may have some basis in fact, or may be a misremembered nonsense. Edit: might have been this. A troupe of monkeys has two alarm ca...
This is the rule: '<' = 'this way to' & '|' = 'This is". And it is nothing like what the signpost means. The rule is the thing you need to understand ...
<Wales| |England> There might be a rule for signposts that a pointed end is used for direction indicators, and a flat end for boundary markers (along ...
Oh no. You have the greatest need of it. I will lay it out for you as simply as I can. The problem with your position is that there is literally nothi...
Once upon a time there was this guy called Adolph. He was very kind to animals and didn't even eat meat, the sensitive soul. But he became convinced t...
Yes, I gathered that. But can you imagine how tedious it would be even with modern technology, going through a few billion faces and swiping left for ...
I've already answered the op with reference to established philosophy, to the effect that there is no moral difference to my mind, between killing one...
The difference is 2 lives, or 3 lives. See? I can do arithmetic. First responders face this sort of situation sometimes:- Several casualties, some in ...
Dude you are reading some very weird shit into what I have said. But normally, when I happen to be passing someone on fire, I find I can wrap them in ...
No it doesn't. It depends on whether you think the value of life is calculable, such that more is always better, or that there is some virtue formula ...
I don't think it is. It is set up to investigate moral intuitions in relation to consequentialism. For an utilitarian, there is a simple calculation o...
It's very hard not to get riled up at times, and I try to remember that the worst of politicians want to exploit my anger. So as my friends here are a...
Unlike poor BC here, I saw the writing on the wall many years ago, and did the decent thing. Because we are generally quiet, our numbers are always un...
If I take solipsism seriously, then all the posts in this thread are mine. There are no others, and therefore I am not asking them. Rather, an aspect ...
They're much better at gestation. Also tall people are better at basketball. But why are such variations of interest to you? If you imagine that moral...
Yes Absolute refers to certainty... So it is not a valid qualifier of truth. Our certainty can be more or less, and maybe absolute or maybe not , but ...
No. There is nothing between empty and not empty, and there is nothing between true and false. What is not 100% is certainty, but a pocket that is 99%...
No it doesn't. Arguments are deductive or inductive, Their conclusions are either true or false. Our knowledge can be certain or uncertain, but propos...
To be honest, I don't understand my own argument, because 'absolute' is a kind of truth the way 'orange' is a kind of intransigence. See my complainin...
It seems to me that the way the terms are generally used, patriotism is conceived as a 'good thing', whereas nationalism is morally dubious. So rather...
Alas, the answer you might choose to give, or someone else might choose to give, or the dictionary definition or the legal definition, none of these a...
Before you can discern the will of the people, you have to decide the extent of the people. Therefore, questions of nationhood cannot be decided democ...
I've decided to become a hard brexiteer in order to further the causes of Irish unification, Scottish independence and the break up of the United King...
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