But are we clear? Specifically, are we clear about what it means to be clear? This is a game we can play forever, to pick on a word, and make it the c...
No you bloody well can't! As it happens, there are plenty of people who well understand that position of being against the disestablishment of the chu...
I agree. @"Banno" seemed elsewhere to demur a little, I'm not sure. The only caveat I would make is that it is always a social use; I can decide to ca...
Wittgenstein was an engineer. One of his analogies for philosophy was that it was using language to do nothing, rather as the mechanic runs an engine ...
One merit of this hypothesis is that it provides a neat explanation of why we do not see aliens and alien technology in the universe; as soon as they ...
Did you know you were a Hegelian? https://www.coursehero.com/file/17475102/Chapter16/ No wonder we are not on the same page, it is a very different co...
Have some context. In days of yore, before the invention of the round table, there were long narrow tables, because that's the way trees grow, and alo...
There's an argument in the op? My argument is the very simple one that arguments cannot constrain the universe they can only constrain talk. The world...
Yes, but you think wrong. and because you think wrong and derive the way things must be from that wrong thinking, you get the world wrong. So as @"tim...
So much the worse for physics. You are doing the same magical thinking again. Deriving the way things must be from the thoughts folks have. Actually, ...
I've no time for stuff like this - philosophical incantations that purport to tell the world how it has to be. It's magical thinking and it doesn't wo...
Nothing that natural selection can't sort out - eventually. :death: There's a well known but seldom practiced method for dealing with muddy waters - q...
I don't reject it. I merely consider an alternative hypothesis, that has been presented, and that accounts for things in a slightly different way. No....
Following up on the links, a large part of the relevant argument is that speciation by hybridisation simply does not occur. But it does occur, so I re...
Even those who deny that that there is such a thing as race (sensible educated people) have a fairly clear idea of what it is that doesn't exist, and ...
My attitude is rather similar; if you don't want to engage with the hypothesis presented, fair enough. I have engaged a bit and shared a bit, but my p...
Yes. It's far fetched, it's based on a controversial theory of speciation, and there's plenty of legitimate criticism that can be mounted. It's a sham...
Even the most materialist science allows that there is a genetic component to personality. So nature and nurture at least, and then by hypothesis of r...
I was wondering about that as I was reading, but the hypothesis is that it was a male pig and a female chimp, because that is how the offspring would ...
You may be right. The author concedes that you may be right. but a diagram from a text book merely declares you are right, it does not provide evidenc...
Reading the article, it doesn't seem particularly dogmatic, or cherry picking. Speciation by hybridisation is definitely a thing. Like this. Over the ...
My thinking exactly. As usual, the ancients have an understanding of psychology, whereas the moderns attempt an overview that excludes themselves and ...
Yeah, I'm not in the business of convincing you, so I'm happy to leave everything here, and let the jury of readers reach their own judgement. ' The d...
Which is what I am doing, and you are not. You could have provided examples of questionable whites and males, but you did not. And that is is evidence...
https://ourworldindata.org/yields-and-land-use-in-agriculture There's a load of interesting stuff here. This chart in particular might give pause to t...
Analogies are not evidence. This is the claim I am questioning; and it does not support your claim, that you might make another claim that I might que...
Thing is, the complaints you guys are complaining about, the testimonies that you are allegedly legitimately criticising are those of folks such as wo...
In a court of law, first hand accounts are evidence. Now I doubt that many would say that such evidence is proof, because folks can lie or be mistaken...
Sure. Orchards on the steeper slopes, and pigs and chickens under them to tidy up the windfalls and fertilise. Terracing is a thing too. If I was fit ...
I don't have chapter and verse to hand, but I'm considering productivity per acre and not per man-hour, obviously. A lot of land - anywhere that isn't...
What is Gobbledygook? I would think it is any language one does not understand. In which case the paradigm speaker of Gobbledygook is the parrot. And ...
Yes. I notice that the UK is nowhere near self-sufficient in food production, and that therefore your figures are so misleading as to be pretty much w...
Well if you don't understand, you're not sharing, and you're not playing the game properly. But sharing a pizza does not require sharing a stomach, we...
Well the rules are a formal description of the game. I described the rule of the referee's whistle, that give the meaning as varying according to cont...
What are you doing here? You pick me up on my inexactitude, and then retreat to the only difference being some unknown possibility. We read the same t...
Well I'd better use the terminology if you want to go into it. I think we say that there is a 'form of life' which is Jones & Son, Builders in their f...
Well yes, if the pile was arranged right, one could manage with a single word that I would prefer to translate as "next". But that is another story. I...
It's not built alone though. Even in English. We share the building, then we can share the result, even if the building is not a thing. But you're not...
Well thanks for sharing that opinion, but why can we only share things? People talk about shared responsibility; is communion not shared? I think the ...
It is just the sort of error a non-native speaker might make, because the distinction between the present simple and present continuous is not marked ...
They might be, or they might only be as different as two slices of a shared pizza. Some philosophers claim that a meal is only shared if the mouths co...
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