It's been done before. In the beginning God created the heavens and the empty set. Now the empty set was formless and void, and darkness was over the ...
It's an ancient tradition, that kings, even philosopher kings, allow one motley fool to entertain and deflate, lest they cease to question their own w...
Form and substance - the first dualism. I sometimes call them 'stuff and arrangements'. I would say that mathematicians explore the possible arrangeme...
Philosophy is football with the universe as the ball, and everyman the referee. The Goal. Philosophers are the thought police; roping off the dead end...
When I say thought, I mean linguistic thought. Love begins in caring and nurture, you know nests, sitting on eggs, wagging your tail when the human lo...
Yup. there seem to be multiple threads approaching the same thing from different angles. The Lifeworld is telling us we done gone wrong somewhere, and...
Is it not a re-run of looking into the void, and the void looking into you. Is she not saying, "Don't imagine all the obseverish specialness is on the...
It would be great if governments incentivised the changes through taxation and subsidy. And even maybe directly building some generating infrastructur...
Have you looked at the link in this thread? I'm currently struggling with it, but it may have something like a decent answer, if |I can get my head ar...
:rofl: "I am the very model of a modern Major-General I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral I know the kings of England, and I quote the fig...
Yeah, I'm more trying to encapsulate the difficulties of physicalism than present the creed for adoption. It's dead, but it continues as a zombie to c...
External bodies become known to us only in the manner in which they penetrate our bodies, through the eye, the ear, the mouth, the nose, or the skin. ...
Me too. And we use the word in that way "Footprints mean feet have passed by'; 'clouds sometimes mean rain'; 'Rainbows mean god promises to spare us f...
I have not only heard of Zoom meetings, I've participated. They do not seem to work very well in establishing a practical consensus and strategy betwe...
Signposts are just like forum posts except their author is not pseudonamed. We don't need to talk about the behaviour of forum posts or sign posts, ju...
:cool: Ah, I remember the good old days of Silent Spring and acid rain and the ozone hole, back in the days when the world seemed worth worrying about...
Thanks, Sam. I just want to say that your answers make sense to me, not personally having had any NDE or other spiritual experiences as such. It remin...
I don't want to totally disagree with this, but there is some devilry in the details. How is this crucial access to be achieved in the face of micro-a...
70's for me. I was a member of the whole food cooperative that became wholesalers as Suma in 1977. Amazingly, they have managed to survive without me ...
I think your umbrellas are too small; you need more vagueness, not less. "Term" for instance is wide and fuzzy enough to cover some ground. Or "common...
The way to change demand and behaviour is with incentives and disincentives. A tax on meat, a subsidy on public transport. The way to change productio...
Yes. Deflation is the best account of truth; every statement asserts itself, and assert's its own truth, or as I put it above, "language presumes trut...
Its only a simplified summary of Wittgenstein. Meaning is use. Philosophy is 'engine idling' - Philosophers are not saying anything, as the engine is ...
Excellent summary there. I'm not entirely serious, but having read it more than once, I don't feel much further forward. It tells how the word is used...
So meaning is emergent in language rather than resident in word atoms. To take the exemplary example, the meaning of the word 'meaning' was analysed a...
No, not every challenge, it's entirely personal: your engagement with me. you see you make a big thing about my admitted anger, but here is yours for ...
Who said anything about unfailing accuracy, not I? I trust the stranger I ask directions of because I trust that most people most of the time are hone...
Language presumes truth, because if it is not presumably true it has no presumable meaning, I like to communicate, and therefore I like truth. When I ...
"Just not clear to me what the word "true" is doing in this story. " The sticker was misapplied, so it is removed. what would you rather say? Indeed. ...
I'm not sure why you are telling me this. Certainly it is a problem that we get things wrong and believe things to be true that are not true. But it i...
Cliche inflation makes poor homeless fools of us all. https://www.foxtons.co.uk/discover/2018/10/what-does-A1m-buy-you-in-london I remember when a $64...
Anti-natalism fulfils the first two better than any other policy. But I think perhaps one might better distinguish first violent from non-violent, and...
Bullshit on, dude. See what you want to see, no worries. Any two, possibly, but truth is not democratic either. Things do not become more true the mor...
I find that an odd way of talking, to be honest. 'Within language' one can say anything. but i would not say that there are any facts 'within language...
No, there is passive resistance and underground resistance, and argument and demonstrative protest, and a thousand variations thereof, from labour str...
You may have mis-read that comment. So minimum wage $15,000 approx, 5% = $750/year invested over let's say 30 years is a total investment of $22,500. ...
Sure. Listen up kids. 1.Get some money. * 2. Get an accountant and a lawyer. * Money is accumulated by 'entrepreneurs' taking a cut from the trade of ...
But the police themselves confront. overwhelm and arrest muggers, and do risk their lives. Otherwise they would have no authority to give any advice. ...
That may be seen certainly. However, though 'I am sane and you are mad' may be rearranged to 'I am mad and you are sane', these are arrangements of wo...
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