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Perdidi Corpus

['Member']Joined: January 13, 2017 at 15:41Last active: October 26, 2025 at 12:578 discussions23 comments

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January 06, 2022 at 21:27
I ended up joining the words sui - oneself and vita - life , in the same way suicide is compiled, cide meaning death or to kill. Noster means "we".
August 24, 2019 at 02:46
Yes, markets do provide a way to compare what is otherwise seemingly uncomparible. Another way which is quite hard to implement right now... though in...
August 19, 2019 at 17:01
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May 07, 2019 at 01:50
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May 07, 2019 at 00:30
What would you think of a Universe that is made up of questions? Questions are not as dusty or unreliable as we deem them. We do rely on questions... ...
May 07, 2019 at 00:26
A belief need not be baseless. In fact... it´s never baseless - The base may not, however, be a foundation over which someone well acquainted with log...
September 19, 2018 at 17:09
I have been told the idea as is expressed is not very clear, and by making that remark, you to make me again ponder about how to make it clearer. Do y...
September 15, 2018 at 12:39
It is interesting that you bring about a question that contains in it the knowledge of the answer - "what actually is". Those who know the content of ...
April 10, 2018 at 10:18
Use the Pimsleur approach - spanish for english speakers. You can pirate it away on piratebay. I know portuguese, english and russian.
December 15, 2017 at 18:22
This question assumes that nothing is. How can nothing be? You are using the verb "to be" towards a not-subject which is neither a he, she nor it. Why...
December 05, 2017 at 03:29
Before you define a term you have not yet worded, do you not have a feeling of what that something is?
December 05, 2017 at 03:23
We are bound to end up in some circular set of definitions. As Allan Munn puts it in his amazing physics exposition book "From Nought to Relativity": ...
December 05, 2017 at 03:08
Yes! Yes! Yes! Thank you for expressing words which were basically in my mouth a few years ago. I am trying to get back on the philosophy horse, as my...
December 04, 2017 at 11:26
It is a problem if you are trying to have a discussion with someone and they keep throwing the word or the idea of "subjectivity" as a way to keep the...
December 03, 2017 at 07:05
You don´t have a feeling that guides your argument? The thoughts you experience cannot come out verbalized. Who is feeding you this structured informa...
January 24, 2017 at 22:04
Kind of... But that is one of the key ideas which make this question pointy... That is - questioning what you seem to think you have a grasp of. There...
January 24, 2017 at 21:49
I am talking about the experience one has before one´s own sentence is created. That feeling which allows you to start and finish a sentence.
January 20, 2017 at 12:57
I agree that such is the convention. But what do those who use and defend the convention mean when they say that something exists?
January 20, 2017 at 12:36
A few years back I was in love with philosophy. I was strict in my unwillingness to have any, and I mean ANY, uninteresting conversation. A combinatio...
January 19, 2017 at 23:47
Why do you assume I think that ? All I am attempting to defend is the view point that for anything to exist, then it must exist in the same way as tab...
January 19, 2017 at 22:46
Than in what world "are" they?
January 16, 2017 at 03:50
Within the area occupied by the brain. I could be more specific but you might start arguing that in a way it is the hole brain that ends up having the...
January 16, 2017 at 01:55
Can you nail down precisely where your own thought were, when you made this post? No I can not. I can give you a speculation of the general region of ...
January 16, 2017 at 01:15