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I can take a swatch to my local hardware shop and they will mix me a can of paint to match my sample in about 10 minutes. This is because they are min...

This is true. But what is not mentioned is that the more cows there are, the higher the stable amount of methane in the atmosphere is. And the amount ...

Of course. If I have my keys in my pocket, it follows that my wallet is also in my pocket. Either i see everything entire, or I see nothing.

Thanks guys. I'm going to be watching those videos with the nice clear soothing voice. A couple of practical problems I have: 1. The pdf I linked won'...

They don't burn, Sparky, because they ain't got no carbon left in them. Fossilised carbon deposits is coal and oil and tar, and they burns pretty good...

Green things.

There's none so blind as them that will not see. Not so. The colour green is the propensity of an object to preferentially reflect light of wavelength...

With such great encouragement, how could I not start a thread? Here it is: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/14599/reading-the-laws-of-form-by...

I passed it by, because you have just explained perfectly precisely how an observer sees a past event, which any astronomer can confirm as perfectly n...

I'd love to have a go at it, but I too find it daunting. A logician, a mathematician, and an electrical engineer would be useful contributors. @Anyone...

This one is correct. Our eyes detect 'visible' light. And that's why we call it "visible light" Seeing IS the detection of light by the eyes, but the ...

Maybe stop trying to teach me schoolboy optics, and think about the philosophy, and particularly the language with which you are confusing yourself. N...

As a rule, I have coffee in the morning, but if there is no coffee I'll have tea, just as the peasants will eat cake if there is no bread. I used to h...

Yes scientists have explained in some detail how we see colour. And then philosophers persist in suggesting that something else has colour than the th...

Heresy of the day. Climate change is already killing people faster than covid ever did. We should be in carbon lockdown.

I'd like to point out that "spirituality" is also usually and advisedly a social practice, done in monasteries. One can explore inner space alone, but...

I use my eyes, personally. The runner beans I can see through the window here are green with orange-red flowers. The runner beans are in the garden. W...

I spent a few braincells wondering why the global temperature seemed to mimic the N. hemisphere seasons. Then i realised that the extremes of the seas...

Well speak for yourself; I am a good deal more than the set of my sensations. But do you see the difficulty of your diagram, that recreates colours 'i...

I prefer to say that sensations are not the kind of thing that has colour. The sensation of green is no more green than the sensation of big is big, o...

Then what Is anyone supposed to understand by this, and the accompanying diagram?

Exactly. But if I were to ask you what colour the sensation of colour was, you might wonder what I meant. You might want to say that the sensation of ...

It seems to me that the sensation of colour has no colour; it takes place in the dark.

1. Discover your thinking is muddled. 2. Ask others to clarify and explain. 3. Get them in a muddle about it. 4. Start reading up down and all around ...

Yes, of course fictions have functions too and speculation and even deliberate nonsense, in the appropriate setting, and so on.We don't need to go int...

Indeed. A brute fact then of the human world? It's necessary to our discourse. It's necessary probably to our social life. Well in a sense, yes. I am ...

No, I think that is rather an evasion of my point. Think Plato's cave, since you seem to have an allergic reaction to religion. The scientific turn ha...

:100: It reminds me of the old trope "I'm not a racist, but..." where whatever follows the 'but' is bound to be something racist.

I have heroically refrained from posting this in the Ukraine thread, but the world needs to know this stuff. It's the only way to make a corn dolly.

Forgive me, the thread moves fast, and my Hegel rather Vaguel. But when God is introduced, reality is turned on its head. This world of flesh becomes ...

Yes, I think that looks like a foundational truth, sorry about that. And that which only exists dependent on what we think, I shall call a dream, a my...

By being oracular, or poetic. Rationally, one cannot be lost in language or be anywhere else than in the real world. Therefore there is no problem in ...

As the proverbial Irishman says on being asked for directions to - anywhere, really, "If I were you, I wouldn't start from here." Critical discussion ...

I still haven't answered the question, I notice. The attraction of nomadic life is an imagined escape from social responsibility. The reality is that ...

There is a tropical agriculture known as 'slash and burn' where one clears a patch of jungle, grows crops for a few years and then abandons it when th...

Monsanto is a science and technology group.

Here's your answer:– Some of us have this magical ability to change our minds when we find out we were wrong, and others just get angry. If only they ...

Agriculture.

Those with morals are always at a disadvantage with regard to those who are amoral, because they limit their own options. Join the forces of evil now!

Here's an alternative hypothesis. that when two patties are 99% politically identical, matters of style become all important: back to the future v for...

Because God is the ultimate leftie.

That explains a lot.

You walk away if you want to, but I haven't entirely given up on you. And I haven't given up on the topic either. A lot of people are going to die, mo...

Yes. We do not discuss flat Earth theory, because it is nonsense, and would prevent us from having sensible conversations. The climate 'debate' is as ...

You appear to be rationalising that your interventions here will not hurt anyone, but you may be very wrong. If Mikie is right, then you are giving ai...

But it doesn't stop you telling us how to behave. So it looks like your claim above is one of your delusions.

But in an emergency, what is moral changes. When the boat is in danger of overturning, it is moral to restrain the guy rocking the boat. When there is...

It is civility and civilisation that are under threat. Civility has to stop at the point where the conditions for its existence are threatened, just a...

Says who? And with what authority? It has always been the case and will always be the case that one does not have the right to think what one likes. I...

No irony, I mean it literally. I merely point out that set theory presupposes the set theorist commanding the realm of forms into existence, and this ...