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Yes, I'm perfectly aware that you are comfortable with the biggest threat to world peace that has ever existed insofar as you benefit off the blood it...

Yeah, nothing to do with NATO or US goading at all. God your regugitation of propaganda is sickening.

No I absolutely read the sci-fi fantasy that was in presented in Push's post but please, continue to wave the flag of blood-hungry murderers who canno...

Oh wow how coincidental that your views are exactly those of the US imperial agenda wow its like you haven't simply regurgitated US propaganda verbati...

Well for the sake of argument I totally disagree and submit that gender is defined by your chromosomes such that "The bishop is made of wood" is no di...

Surely is it more: sure, you go ahead and draw the US into a regional conflict while we continue making inroads to literally everywhere else on Earth....

Analytic philosophers like Searle make careers off stating the obvious - where "the obvious" are just utterly contingent, totally arbitrary demarcatio...

Realism means that the world is indifferent to us getting the concepts just-so or not. That all facts are institutional facts has no - zero - bearing ...

Funny. The post does not contain the word "real", let alone "realism". That you somehow recognized it nonetheless, speaks to the crappy assumptions bu...

The only person who brought up realism was you, friend. Which tells you something about the governing assumptions at work: if the distinction between ...

Yep. It's pretty clear that Westerners are getting-off on getting to spectate what is to them a real life Star Wars episode. - Darth Putin vs. The Wes...

This is how the grift works: the US can't just hand people's tax money directly to it's weapons manufacturers as a gift (this would look bad), so the ...

One of the great learning experiences of this war is just how fickle people's claim to being 'anti-war' is. I think people like to think of themselves...

I know. Hard to imagine the world's most murderous empire being slightly less murderous.

What exactly has this got to do with anything? I'm saying the US should fuck off. Nothing more, nothing less. This isn't about recrimination any longe...

Funny what you are so passionate about when it comes to money and what it can't solve. No doubt you will continue to offer nice, uselessly picture lad...

The US has never given a shit about people dying, not once, ever, unless it is in their strategic interests. And everywhere they have intervened, they...

Budget to stop the impending irreversible death of the planet thanks to climate change: $44b Budget to help accelerate the death of the planet: $33b S...

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Someone(s) at Lockheed and Raytheon is throwing a grand party right now. Which is great because these guys are keeping the American economy going. Or ...

I was looking for this stat! But I was getting weird sites so I gave up. But yes. That was what I wanted to post when I said that Ukraine is effective...

It would cost about US$20b to end homelessness in the US. And yes, the biggest transfer of wealth into the hands of billionaires by means of legislati...

Lol US$33B to Ukraine. Because keeping American Empire alive is far more important than helping shitty squalor-living, terrorized-by-cops, drowning-in...

Maybe it can be put this way: the distinction between an institutional and non-institutional fact, is itself, an institutional fact.

Neither do I. Which is of course to say that this speaks to nothing about all facts being institutional facts.

But why would you expect the latter to follow from the former? And why would you expect it to?

This is yet another 'given'. Another begging of the question.

This is what I find odd about your replies. If the meaning of words change, then the meaning of words change. You seem to want reply: if the meaning o...

These are alot of words to say that Searle begs the question. "If you agree with me, then it follows that you will agree with me".

Yes. Listen, if you have to begin each line with 'given X', then the whole point is that I will not give you X.

But I can disagree that that is rat poison, or that this constitues a killing. Not that I would, but I can.

Yes. And?

Because it's all counting-as, all facts, everywhere, all the time.

I guess I'm also just sad that a reader of Wittgenstein could read Searle and just... forget everything. A great disappointment. In language, it's all...

That you think this constitutes an objection speaks to some kind of miscommunication here. Nothing about this contradicts the fact that how things cou...

And that this is so, is entirely in our power to decide. Again: we let ourselves - or rather our concepts - be constained by how things are.

But this has no bearing - none - on the fact that what counts as magnetic or not ultimately bears on human institutions. Once we fix our understanding...

Tsk tsk, look at you taking away the agency of the poor poor Germans, who clearly had no choice but to send machines of death to Ukraine to mete out a...

And the uncaringness is mutual. We use words as we want to. Sometimes, we let (and want!) how things are guide our use of words. Sometimes we do not. ...

And presumably what counts as a proton - the criteria by which we decide - can be seen under the same electron microscope that sees the protons? Look,...

Mmhm. Notice the deontic element here! The obligation that is attributed to 'institutional facts'.

Right, but on what grounds do we draw this distinction? I mean, I understand the intuition. Presumably 'this is wood' is 'non-institutional' because t...

The point is that what you - and Searle - would like to restrict to a class of facts holds for all facts, in fact all language use, and that the disti...

I don't understand your position. You agree that word use is a human institution. And then you go on to exclude a class of said uses on the basis of a...

Then how to parse the implication - and correct me if I am wrong - that the following are not 'institutional facts'?: The bishop is made of wood The l...

They really should.

And you think what we call wood is a theological given? Or that the role of a bishop is too? Word use is a human institution. It cannot be otherwise. ...

The point is that it's 'counting as' all the way down. This isn't denying realism because the world is quite indifferent to what we say about it, and ...

Prosaically, in the experience of pedagogy and learning (which includes both infants learning the powers of the body along with reason, as well as lea...

I'm sorry if I missed any discussion on this but I'm not sure that the distinction drawn in the OP works - or at least, works in any way which is not ...