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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...

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....

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2021/apr/13/sea-level-rise-climate-emergency-harold-wanless This article is an old one, but pred...

Of course, theft is a corollary of property, as is government.Hence the anti-government slogan, "Property is theft." Property is necessarily appropria...

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...

Then they had a fight and all died.

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...

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...

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...

So you don't value truth, but you resent falsehood? That seems a bit negative...

Why? Do you value truth or something?

Three pages of lies. And nobody cares.

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...

The odds favour the siren of fertility, and my own beauty confirms it.

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.

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...

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...

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...

Certainly! And matrilineal, more importantly. The need for patrilineal patriarchy to control female sexuality is fairly obvious, but it certainly pred...

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...

Of course I don't, you have already convicted me of joining the conspiracy against Trump. :rofl:

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...

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.

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Toilet from the French, toilette – washing Lavatory from the Latin lavatorium - washing room. Conveniences from the Latin convenir – to come together....

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...

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 ...

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...

Evolution is prior to revolution.

To the modern, self-centred mind, the logic of rationality measures everything in relation to self interest, as expressed mathematically in game theor...

That so reminds me of having sex on acid; orgasm becomes an entirely voluntary response.

Whereas in old S.Africa, they always made the blecks walk around them.

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...

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...

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...

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...

Is capitalism itself though, or is it something else?

Do the wretched Ruskies not have access to a stopcock somewhere, if they want to cut off the flow?

I'm starting to wonder if capitalism is entirely fair?

Are well informed rational people better than ill-informed irrational people?

When science has replaced philosophy, such questions will no longer be asked.

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...

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...

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. ...

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...