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And that explains entirely its unpopularity both here/now, and at the time. From the isolated SUM comes not so much science, which is irrevocably poly...

A discussion of various things, that might be of interest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD-szQI_MhQ

Well this is the fundamental difficulty of such arguments: "How come you know so much about how deluded we all are?" If the world we see is not the wo...

Toccata and fugue, on a friggin'harp? Oh yeah, and for the first time, it makes sense! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAi1pn3kBqE

This because they have mostly forgotten what it was they did and didn't learn in school. But if you go into it, they may admit to having learned to re...

Try an analogy. What is radio broadcast? "Radio broadcast is what radio receivers do." Common sense - you never hear the radio except when there is a ...

https://vimeo.com/907258286

Indeed. It is harder I think for the young - my daughters do not seem to want children. When I was procreating, there was still hope. But there is roo...

You would do well to distinguish between the art that portrays violence, and the art that contrives violence. For example, Nero contrived a violent sp...

Not at all. My feeling is that ..."It's only just begun." Which has been my tag line in this thread several times. And fine it is not going to be — st...

Don't take it personal, but I do get a bit fed up with being told my language and/or attitude is the problem. The solution we are going for at the mom...

Oh if only I could find the right way to talk. 'Crisis' good, 'catastrophe' bad; 'tipping point' good, 'point of no return' bad; 'Houston we have a pr...

Who cares if you're not?

A poor craftsman always blames his tools. But a philosopher worth reading is creative and brings new ideas into being, using old language and a few ne...

Silence has power. Others can only rule because we take their nonsense seriously out of habit. We have a huge advantage if we can communicate and they...

No. I am not going to waste my time trying to communicate with those who do not wish to communicate. When there is no honesty, language is meaningless...

Was not aware of that; I thought it was based on behaviourism.

Post Restante, somewhere obscure. And put enough stamps on that it won't be returned to sender. If only...! One who has been traumatised is brought fa...

There was a system of enslavement of junior boys by senior boys as part of the traditional system of boys schools in Britain of the Empire, institutio...

This is not me; it is merely a frog that resembles me somewhat. Farewell, @"Vaskane", alas all too neuro-typical in some rather reactive ways.

You are way too educated and too smart to let yourself get away with this sort of thing. I'm going to leave it there.

This is you imposing your morality on the world. It may be your ideal, and how you would like it to be, but it is a long, long way from the actual. Th...

My position is that there is not a thing "sex" that is or isn't binary, nor do I want there to be. We talk about men and women and it is uncontroversi...

It's always refreshing to be asked what one thinks instead of being told. I resist clear definitions because they over-simplify life. Firstly, as has ...

You do love your definitions don't you. I clearly wrote that if gene therapy developed to allow more radical changes in genes, then one's genetic make...

How on Earth did you derive that from anything I have said? I haven't remotely implied anything like that. I described how attitudes to sex and gender...

You are repeating your definition and declaring it to be the truth. Genes are immutable, snd you want to define sex in terms of genes. What will you d...

I guess that is some kind of joke that went over my head. Why do you want to redefine sex in terms of genetics?

hilosophim;887696"] And what are your clear and unambiguous thoughts on the matter? Yes I am very familiar with Orwell. And that is why I am asking yo...

In the good old days when men were men and I were a lad, men were men and women were grateful, or if they weren't so much the worse for them. And anyt...

Ever so 'umble we as gorn, like proper Victorians — This is how we used to shout in the good old days.

But some of us are gurning at the stars. {Stupid spellcheck doesn't know what gurning is.}

Nonsense. You saw something, but not a ghost. "It's a ghost." is the explanation, to which one finds an alternative - just a hologram, trick of the li...

Science would have to entertain the hypothesis. Well that does not compute. For example, science used to declare that there were only 4 tongue tastes:...

But they only appear to people who have eyes. Perhaps we sceptics lack some sense?

It's their non-existence and unreality that makes them troubling. If they actually existed one could deal with them, or call the police. Antigonish.

No comment therefore.

Well it's doing something, which is saying nothing with words just as tuning an engine is going nowhere in a vehicle, or sharpening a knife is not cut...

Is there not a traditional distinction between doing things with words and philosophy - a la Wittgenstein - engine idle and being tuned? Hence a book ...

The talk is idle, but the philosopher is productive. It's the linguistic view of philosophy, that we are not in the business of making pronouncements ...

Yes. Philosophy is idle talk, (according to Wittgenstein,) in the same way that a mechanic tunes the engine in 'idle'. Mechanic is to racing driver as...

So from there to the sovereign individuals and from there quite naturally to the automatic right of the sovereign male to usurp the female body for hi...

{J. Willard Gibbs is definitely pre-post-modern.}

Language is shared, and cannot be privatised. The thread is all about claiming the right to join the community of communicators while repudiating any ...

I've just been reading the Ligotti thread (I have a feeling that ligotti ought to be a type of pasta in the shape of a hangman's noose). Anyway, I dec...

Why would anyone bother to do nothing with words? Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live. Their heads are green, and their ha...

And a boat. The bad news is that if some bits of the world are going to get colder but overall its going to get warmer, the bits that get warmer are g...

I believe in Money, and his prophet, Trump. These are the end times, when the disciples of Money will end poverty forever by slaughtering the the mass...

On the one hand:— https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk1189 And on the other hand:— https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06863-2 A case...