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It's a simple and fairly direct point. If a proposition is to function as an assumption in an argument it must have a truth value. So if hinge proposi...

So what is the point of disagreement? I'm really not sure, apart from my not being keen on "pre-linguistic beliefs" nor on your separation of truth fr...

Trouble is that language games are not discrete. It is true that the bishop never changes from the colour square it starts on; this is a consequence o...

The OP is Parochial Drivel. Folk who cooperate will always be better off than those who do not. The myth of masculine competition is talk amongst the ...

100? counts as the temperature at which water boils at sea level. That's not an observation about how the world is, but a way of setting up a language...

Did you leave something out here? Find a tower on a large salt plain. Drive away from it and you will notice that the bottom of the tower disappears b...

Choose a clear cool day and take a strong pair of binoculars or a small telescope to the headlands to watch a ship sail over the horizon. You will not...

Left | Right | Out An analysis of how Australian voters see their position on the left-right scale. Age, property and god are conservative, while the ...

... lacks the arrogance of the historically most successful ALP leaders. And I can't decide if that is a negative or a positive. He's been unwilling t...

...all in Abbott's record. The issue is, will the Australian population be taken in, in sufficient numbers, for the Liberal Party to gain an absolute ...

They are all present, funny, charming and smart... But in answer to your question, Dutton is I think more like Abbott than Trump.

My general view is that the Liberal Party is opportunistic, run by Old Boys who live by their own Entitlement. When forced to make policy, which they ...

Are you surprised? Think about it.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=billabong%2C+outback&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3

Cheers. Again I'd point out hat this is a misappraisal. The problem is not with propositional logic, but with interpretation. The conceptual puzzles a...

I don't think I can help here. How a sentence is parsed in logic depends on the task in hand. So even "The oak tree is shedding its leaves" might be p...

Once, logic was thought of as setting out rules for rationality. Now it is thought of as setting out the structures we use in our language. When you r...

@"J", in your musings you might consider Davidson's "On Saying That", in which he sets out an argument that would result in "Pat thinks the Oak is she...

I don't think so. Firstly Frege presented two logics, which are somewhat different. Secondly he was not concerned with sentences as such, so much as w...

Nuh, that's good, I wrote a post on much the same thing before my last, and then dropped it becasue it needed more work. Is the tree dropping leaves? ...

Always. Didn’t follow your reply though.

Cheers. So was he right? I think not. Nor, I suspect, are the ideas he expresses a commonplace. http://www.thatmarcusfamily.org/philosophy/Course_Webs...

Wouldn't an example of a thought that cannot be appended to "I think..." be a thought that could not be thought? The play here is on the lack of a cle...

That there are no thoughts that could not be prefixed by 'I think...' doesn't have any profound implications, does it?

:roll: The notion of an "as it is" is a nonsense. @"Darkneos" is confuse enough as it is. You are not helping.

Back to the news. 40 more Bushmasters, to be armed with "long range" missiles.

Perth is probably my favourite. But Canberra is not too bad.

:wink: But you do have the best coffee. Although I hate to admit it, Melbourne city is winning in liveability over Sydney, and has done for a decade o...

You're in Melbourne, then. Especially if you drink too much. And this: The Pints vs Schooners Debate Western Australia: 95% Pints, 3% Schooners South ...

Yes, the voting systems here (and in most other places) are far more proportional. Again, that seems to be a part of the bifurcation. Greens here get ...

The Banjo and the Bard. Certain elements wanted Patterson taught in schools, but not so much Lawson. Can't have kids leaning about revolution:

Actually they do. The Coalition - the conservatives - have 30 Senators, while Labor has 25. Labor is reliant on eleven Greens or 6 independents to mai...

Lawson vs. Patterson was a part of the culture wars in the eighties. Being over fifty I can recite a few Patterson poems by heart, but only pieces fro...

, Neither was that popular in Australia; along with Neighbours, these were more exported jokes: "What's the worst thing we can get the those silly pom...

He seems to think that the second sentence follows from the first. It's not obvious how. A thought can be understood as a force and a content. That is...

When you ask if the Oak is shedding its leaves, are you thinking that the oak is shedding it's leaves? If so, why ask the question?

Both Parliamentary systems with ceremonial presidents - we call our "president" the Governor General. We have one representative for each division, yo...

, yep. So, that the AEC are checking availability for April indicates that they have some expectation to be running the election. The date for Austral...

Also, yes. I agree. I also think if it were left to the market, investment would flow to green energy projects over nuclear. Indeed, perhaps the faste...

I doubt it. They can easily spend twenty or thirty years passing it between states and federation.

On a par with the dick-waving appeal of AUKUS? True, but then is it his idea or one from the back room?

If you must.

There's an OP in the SMH admitting that Dutton's nuclear policy is a non-starter but that is irrelevant to it's purpose. By Christopher Pyne.

I doubt that Labor will be able to gain a majority. So it may well come down to a coalition. Albanese would like to distance himself from the Greens, ...

At the risk of dragging this thread back on topic, I understand from my sources that the AEC is sounding out staff concerning their availability in Ap...

You are obsessing over an irrelevance. Time to move on.

Some times it helps to move things around.

Artefacts are made from the stuff around us. It's not an either-or.

Paterson was a romantic. Australians live in the city. Always have. Lawson tells the real story. The City Bushman now drives an oversized ute with a p...

You'll get better coffee. Funny how our north is like their south. Proximity to the equator?