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Thanks for your very clear exposition of the logic. Applying this to ordinary language, which does not separate T1 and T2 and is therefore liable to g...
May 20, 2023 at 09:12
Indeed, and everyone is rowing back even on the pointless gestures. Had to laugh at the UK leading the way on carbon reduction by tanking the economy....
May 19, 2023 at 11:39
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2021/apr/13/sea-level-rise-climate-emergency-harold-wanless This article is an old one, but pred...
May 19, 2023 at 08:33
Of course, theft is a corollary of property, as is government.Hence the anti-government slogan, "Property is theft." Property is necessarily appropria...
May 18, 2023 at 18:42
Property is the first superstition. Property rights are what government is built on. As the man said "Render unto the federal government that which ha...
May 18, 2023 at 14:03
Then they had a fight and all died.
May 18, 2023 at 12:56
There is no impossibility that there should be an uninhabited land; it is only a contradiction that a land uninhabited by humans is inhabited by human...
May 18, 2023 at 11:48
I too value truth highly, and for the same reason. But it seems to me that the Plymouth Brethren also value truth highly. They think they have found t...
May 16, 2023 at 15:58
It's been a long time since i read it, and it wasn't much fun as I remember it. But as I think - please correct if I am misremembering - Sartre was re...
May 16, 2023 at 07:13
So you don't value truth, but you resent falsehood? That seems a bit negative...
May 13, 2023 at 20:31
Why? Do you value truth or something?
May 13, 2023 at 14:37
Three pages of lies. And nobody cares.
May 13, 2023 at 12:25
Not if I was right. The odds that I uniquely am the sailors lovely frog daughter are surely very small indeed if it is a unique occurrence. It is as u...
May 13, 2023 at 07:06
The odds favour the siren of fertility, and my own beauty confirms it.
May 12, 2023 at 19:43
Or... Philosophy is like a swamp. Swamps are for staying out of, in the first place, and for getting out of if you can in the second.
May 12, 2023 at 10:45
This version looks a lot clearer to me, and the question at the end looks like a deception. 2 possible worlds, contain 3 possible identities. So other...
May 12, 2023 at 07:52
That looks rather nice! Basically a piccalilli recipe with added green toms. If I remember in 6 months I'll give it a go. Odd thing though. I meant to...
May 12, 2023 at 06:37
Down with Worcestershire sauce! It's neither good to eat or to speak. Insist instead on Henderson's Yorkshire Relish. It's easier to say, comes from G...
May 11, 2023 at 10:42
Certainly! And matrilineal, more importantly. The need for patrilineal patriarchy to control female sexuality is fairly obvious, but it certainly pred...
May 10, 2023 at 20:42
An analogy: supposing understanding to be finite and measurable, and to be held by a being as a box holds its contents; as no box can be big enough to...
May 10, 2023 at 12:08
Of course I don't, you have already convicted me of joining the conspiracy against Trump. :rofl:
May 10, 2023 at 10:35
No. you give me one reason to believe that the jury and the justice system and now the whole city is so corrupt as to be completely unbelievable and t...
May 10, 2023 at 10:19
May 10, 2023 at 10:04
Ever the Marxist, eh? The point is to change the world. That's fine by me; I'm just pointing out that using philosophy is not making philosophy.
May 10, 2023 at 10:00
Everyone loves the tool-maker, and everyone uses the tools he makes for the purposes they have. The carpenter says that the purpose of tool making is ...
May 10, 2023 at 09:51
Any time one has a use for philosophy, one is not doing philosophy, but rhetoric. The tool-maker makes the tools he uses to make tools, but he is neve...
May 10, 2023 at 09:15
A jury has convicted. Now miscarriages of justice can happen, but at this stage, your claim that there is no evidence itself requires evidence in the ...
May 10, 2023 at 07:07
Women, blacks, the seas, the forests, the soil, fossil fuel, fossil fertiliser. Looks like we have run out of things to exploit. There is one thing le...
May 10, 2023 at 06:43
So, Einstein — mystic or not? Read this: https://www.thymindoman.com/einsteins-misquote-on-the-illusion-of-feeling-separate-from-the-whole/ And then m...
May 09, 2023 at 20:23
Toilet from the French, toilette – washing Lavatory from the Latin lavatorium - washing room. Conveniences from the Latin convenir – to come together....
May 09, 2023 at 14:19
You're just another cynical old man going through the motions. What you think is therefore of no consequence. But when fairyland is invoked, and the s...
May 09, 2023 at 08:10
There has been a bit of resistance in the UK to the extravagant cosplay of old white males attended by frantic flag-waving, demonstrating the role of ...
May 09, 2023 at 06:24
You mean 'behind the bike sheds'? I stopped smoking years ago, thanks. Anyway, I'm isolating because of the covid.Perhaps offer our honourable pugilis...
May 09, 2023 at 05:31
Evolution is prior to revolution.
May 08, 2023 at 16:45
To the modern, self-centred mind, the logic of rationality measures everything in relation to self interest, as expressed mathematically in game theor...
May 08, 2023 at 15:25
That so reminds me of having sex on acid; orgasm becomes an entirely voluntary response.
May 08, 2023 at 14:43
Whereas in old S.Africa, they always made the blecks walk around them.
May 08, 2023 at 12:49
The above edit refers to a witticism that I accidentally deleted in the process of adding the explanatory edit. The comment itself is three pages late...
May 07, 2023 at 20:14
That's somewhat slanted question you have there; a more equitable spelling would have been "aren't" or "ant" The Ulster version is two syllables thoug...
May 07, 2023 at 20:06
It looks to me, my lords, as if the motte is the ideal place from which to attack the bailey. If that is your target, join your enemy up there, and to...
May 07, 2023 at 09:49
Language is a social construct. As such it attains to significance at all only in virtue of the restrictions that are placed upon it. Thus while it is...
May 07, 2023 at 08:28
Is capitalism itself though, or is it something else?
May 06, 2023 at 17:20
Do the wretched Ruskies not have access to a stopcock somewhere, if they want to cut off the flow?
May 06, 2023 at 09:54
I'm starting to wonder if capitalism is entirely fair?
May 06, 2023 at 07:07
Are well informed rational people better than ill-informed irrational people?
May 03, 2023 at 17:34
When science has replaced philosophy, such questions will no longer be asked.
May 03, 2023 at 10:32
You should be able to find herself reading an extract or two on youtube. There is also a rejected review on the facebook page of James Perrin, (rock-c...
May 02, 2023 at 10:36
We usually say that the beasts are innocent; that their kindness and cruelty are innocent because they do not know right from wrong. Man knows already...
May 02, 2023 at 05:59
Excuse me! But when a chap's wife's writing is seriously compared with The Bible and Homer, a chap just has to brag about it on his philosophy forum. ...
May 02, 2023 at 05:26
I think it is an Indian tradition, but it describes my own theory of child rearing — that the way to treat a child is as a distinguished emissary from...
May 01, 2023 at 17:32