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It was his war on drugs and crime bills which put them in jail in the first place. What a nice guy.

The majority opinion is so stupid and unjust, and the dissenting opinions are more originalist (some of which call out the majority’s misreading of th...

Right, you need to be able to understand the language before being to read a dictionary. This is possible because you are already in possession of the...

If words had meaning you wouldn’t need a definition. You’d just hear the word or say the word, and the meaning would float through the air in the soun...

Lawmakers establish what the law is. Other than that I can’t follow your non-sequiturs.

Nice, definitions from the 19th century. Thanks for clearing that up.

You said I didn’t understand the term. The dictionary records usage, so I showed you one sense in which many people (biological organisms) use it, inc...

Nowhere in the constitution does it say they should look in the dictionary for what an insurrection Is, but that’s what they’ve done. Oddly enough the...

Excuse my reductions to the absurd because it’s nonsensical. You’re taking acts committed by humans and saying inanimate objects do them. I just can’t...

I suppose then that guns shoot people? Lock them up!

Sorry, guns are killers now. I wonder how they get away with it.

Guns are murderers now. Commands are commanders. We have a little fantasyland going on here.

Right, I was just making sure.

Right, humans command. Humans order. But you believe commands command and orders order. I’m just trying to wade through the magical thinking here.

Why would she lose her job?

Humans don’t command or order, then, only their words do?

Do orders order, commands command, according to you?

Me: They’ve ordered her to remove Trump from the ballot. You: And their orders are just words. Therefore, if their orders have coerced her then their ...

Are people orders now? I don’t get what I’m supposed to be making my mind up about.

I didn’t say their orders coerced her. Words cannot coerce. Words cannot order. Words cannot do what you keep trying to pretend they do. I said they o...

No one has been charged with insurrection. You can’t pretend two different crimes are the same. I’m sorry you can’t get past that. Good riddance.

They’ve ordered her to remove Trump from the ballot.

I didn’t say words coerce others. People coerce others.

It does not mean that the acts did constitute an insurrection either.

I am blaming the court for coercing the secretary, abusing the law for corrupt ends, and political persecution. But thanks for admitting it’s not the ...

How many have been convicted of insurrection?

It’s the fear of force that influences their decision. Sorry.

Coercion is not just speech, I’m afraid.

Sure, Dem judges are ordering the Secretary to remove Trump from the ballot. Is that better?

I’m not sure where you’re going with this except into a deeper hole.

This is the sense in which I am using the term. Biology - the physiology, behavior, and other qualities of a particular organism or class of organisms...

Yes meaning is a practice of organisms. And each organism is identical to its biology. There’s no use in confusing proper names with meaning, either, ...

Yes, they’re just words, and it’s superstitious to pretend they have power to manipulate the actions of organisms… but law isn’t just words. People ar...

The word as vehicle theory. Whereabouts on the word itself is the meaning?

How is a symbol more than the marks, sounds, gestures, of which it is made?

They are actually going to evoke Our Democracy after Dem judges remove their political opponent from the ballot for something no one has been charged ...

Wow, they’re really doing it. He’s calling Trump a threat to Our Democracy™ right after a majority of Dem judges removed Trump from the ballot for cri...

Like I said, I’m leaning more towards meaning as a biological act. The thing, its location, is the biology. To mean, like thinking, understanding, spe...

Like I said, it’s an act of biology. If you want to find photosynthesis, for instance, you can find it at a leaf. One place you will not find photosyn...

So far I’m gravitating towards a biological account of meaning, or rather, an act of biology.

Tu Quoque

The multiple meanings of words suggests to me that people have suppled various meanings to the words rather than the word supplying various meanings t...

Name-calling and emojis—the tell-tale signs of good satire. What have I misread?

You get a little testy every time I take your propaganda away from you. I show that in fact Trump does not compare immigrants to poison, that illegal ...

I alluded to Saussure’s “signs” in the original post.

I think I’m with you on this one. Meaning, or at least to mean, is an act of biology. My complaint is that philosophers spend an inordinate amount of ...

If they have meanings, where would the meaning be located? Or how how do we explain where the meaning is?

Thanks, but I’m talking about words.

The quoting out of context, the false equivalencies—it’s a deluge of really bad takes. One minute we’re talking about illegal immigration and in the s...

I mean pictorial or verbal units known colloquially as “words”. I’m not sure of the technical term.