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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=keDpxp892Og "I Wish It Would Rain" (2:49) Wish It Would Rain, 1967 The Temptations * https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mk18...
August 02, 2022 at 18:03
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6rwDjoaxAus "Rain" (3:02) The Beatles Rock Bank Custom DLC, 2020 writers Lennon-McCartney, 1966 The Beatles
August 02, 2022 at 09:39
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August 02, 2022 at 09:25
:fire: & D. Schweickart, R. Dahl, M. Bookchin ... Not just "ignorance" (inexperienced? uneducated? the illusion of knowledge?) ...
August 02, 2022 at 07:31
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August 02, 2022 at 06:18
Perhaps eupraxia rather than episteme (of arete)? Reflective practice, not just "knowledge"? They seem a compatible, even complementary, quartet.
August 01, 2022 at 06:54
"Skeptical" of what? (Atheism?) :up: :fire:
August 01, 2022 at 06:46
My 2 drachmas:
July 31, 2022 at 19:11
Calling on @"Tobias" @"Maw" @"apokrisis" ...
July 31, 2022 at 18:31
I'm surprised there aren't more frequent micrometeor strikes on satellites and space craft given that the (inner) Solar System is a veritable debris f...
July 31, 2022 at 17:10
As I wrote in the post you only half-quoted: So if you still have to ask, baker ... :brow: Maybe so, but I neither claim nor implied it could be, so I...
July 31, 2022 at 16:44
If your quote of my post isn't clear enough, my apologies, Smith, but I can't make my meaning (& parentheticals) any clearer.
July 31, 2022 at 08:23
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July 31, 2022 at 03:31
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July 31, 2022 at 03:06
No doubt, words both of us can profit from in circumstances such as this ...
July 31, 2022 at 03:00
Your "students" have my sincerest sympathies. :lol:
July 31, 2022 at 02:00
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July 31, 2022 at 01:32
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July 31, 2022 at 01:20
(Re: ontological locality) :up:
July 31, 2022 at 01:11
So you can't refute Plato's reasoning for a tripart soul (i.e. divisible mind). Of course you can't; I just wanted to confirm that. Thanks, Bratshitz!...
July 31, 2022 at 00:53
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July 30, 2022 at 22:50
"There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning." ~Warren Buffet (2006) Interview 2015: htt...
July 30, 2022 at 22:37
Discontinuities (i.e. quanta).
July 30, 2022 at 21:47
:up: :clap: :sweat: How do you square "mind is not divisible" with Socrates'/Plato's idea (which is based on reason alone)? source: https://www.encycl...
July 30, 2022 at 21:10
Is it? I thought philosophy's about folly (i.e. being unwise) – how to reduce foolery, how to unlearn foolish habits. :chin:
July 30, 2022 at 20:56
No. Like I wrote, "equivalent to a tautology" (i.e. self-repetitive, lacks information) because a "rule without exception" is inapplicable (i.e. appli...
July 30, 2022 at 20:48
:up: Thanks for this! I'd never made this connection either. Taking both off the shelf now ...
July 29, 2022 at 21:11
A "rule without exception" is, ceteris paribus, equivalent to a tautology (i.e. inapplicable).
July 29, 2022 at 21:03
Wow! I'm sure I have heardn't this song since when it was new on my transistor AM radio at summer camp. :sparkle: :clap: Another oldie from that era ....
July 29, 2022 at 08:41
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July 29, 2022 at 08:24
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July 29, 2022 at 08:14
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July 29, 2022 at 08:11
That's a fair summary. :up:
July 29, 2022 at 05:36
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July 29, 2022 at 05:33
:eyes: :sweat: Wtf, kid. Space "does not occupy space" and it's divisible above 1 planck length.
July 29, 2022 at 03:22
Pro tip: We live on the surface of the Earth which is not navigable body in space whereas astronauts live inside a navigable spaceship; ergo, inapt me...
July 29, 2022 at 02:33
Not at all. Dubious assumptions / distinctions simply undermined his conclusions (e.g. substance dualism, pineal gland, machine animals). Algebriac ge...
July 29, 2022 at 02:07
:ok: Nothing personal, just ... we disagree.
July 29, 2022 at 01:59
:up: Neither. IMO, a mind is an embodied, metacognitive process constituted by a system of hierarchically tangled (D. Hofstadter, T. Metzinger) cognit...
July 29, 2022 at 01:58
:roll: :ok:
July 29, 2022 at 01:26
Neither do I.
July 28, 2022 at 21:50
This deserves a savage beating! :brow:
July 28, 2022 at 21:40
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July 28, 2022 at 21:36
If I understand you right, "the framework" is "validited" by the efficacy of (i.e. feedback from) C, which is external to "the framework", and not C i...
July 28, 2022 at 21:31
I'm not following you ...
July 28, 2022 at 21:24
July 28, 2022 at 20:24
3 does not follow from 1 or 2 because both are nonsense (i.e. circular definitions, not valid premises). I guess you're really really not as "smart" a...
July 28, 2022 at 07:59
I say no one exists without the living body. I may be wrong and you may be right. So refute my contention if you can – make the case: (A) How do "you"...
July 28, 2022 at 07:48
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July 28, 2022 at 07:04
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July 28, 2022 at 07:02