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Take a look at table 2 in Renewable electricity policy for Australia. P.7. Australia is a bit larger than Germany, (about 20 times the area), with cor...

My two bits. Saying things that are true is something we habitually do. Doing otherwise is the exception. Calling some particular act "eating" is a "c...

Possible worlds in modal logic are not the same as possible worlds in physics. A modal world is stipulated. It is constructed by setting out how it is...

There's a reason for that, already given. If all you are going to do is repeat errors that have already been highlighted then there's not much point t...

That's not the view of those in the CSIRO: Base load power: The dinosaur in the energy debate

It's not, and I'm sorry you can't see the difference between an utterance and a proposition. Chess is constructed by us using words and wood. When you...

For twenty pages. You want to say that there are no true propositions in a world without language. Hence you want to say that "there is gold in those ...

~~ This is your mote-and-bailey fallback. You want to say that there is no truth to there being gold in that world, but are stuck.

Sure, there is no English in that hypothetical world. But there is gold. That's the way it is set up, in the wording 'and nothing else changes". The a...

Where in any of this are we not doing things with words? The mooted "world without anyone in it" is itself a bunch of words.

If it were left to the market, it's pretty clear that solar would (and indeed will) be the dominant source of power in Australia. But that is contrary...

I've been attempting to show you how this misconstrues the issues it attempts to address. That hasn't worked. There are abstractions. These are constr...

Neither. One of your mistakes here is to think that one can only write in the circles.

Is talkback still influential? I find that hard to credit. Liberal decisions were once made on the basis of neoliberal ideology. As the conservatives ...

I'd be happy for nuclear energy to be on the table. I do not think it anywhere near viable. What is amusing, and prompted this thread, is that the ers...

As I said, what it shows is that China and India are undergoing rapid development.

?% graphs are a bit deceptive. What it shows is that China and India have been undergoing development. Here's an ABC report that came out today.

Well how else we gunna pay for our holiday in Bali? Besides, it's not US who burn the coal... we just sell it to China and India. It't them you should...

Maybe not... Australia-Asia Power Link Typical of large scale investment here.

Curious. Australia's energy policy? That's a laugh. It's been impossible to invest in major energy projects for decades because of the tossing and tur...

And so the issue is forced into a juxtaposition. Better to ask how propositions are dependent on mind, and how they are dependent on the world. Which ...

No worries.

Interesting. We pick out things using constants, and we say things about them using predicates. I don't see a problem with treating truth as a predica...

Sure. But there are only a finite number of unborns. There are infinite additions. So, again, if only those additions that have been uttered are true,...

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A game played by kids - stand in a group in the middle of a public space - a school playground is ideal - and look and point at the sky. Pretty soon e...

On the topic of epistemology, the existence of UFOs is classic Popperian stuff. You can prove that there is a flying saucer in your back yard - f(a) -...

The vanity of small differences powers a thread such as this. I agree. But you are saying it wrong.

You just slide the goal from utterances to propositions to assertion:

And yet Srap showed that it is so. I'll count this as progress. Of course you can. Show, not say. You are headed to absurdity, forced to conclude that...

Yes, he did. This is a conflation of seperate issues. If you would read my posts. There are unuttered propositions. Srap showed this by uttering one. ...

And yet showed you an example that negates your assertion. Perhaps you start with "there are no utterances without something being said" and erroneous...

You didn't address the argument, which is that different utterances are understood as saying the same thing; therefore what they say is not peculiar t...

"1+1=3 is false" because by substitution 1+1? 3. "1+1=3" is true ? 1+1=3.

I'll stop you there and point out that a predication isn't an individual sentence; it is not just an utterance. If I point out again that 1+1=2, I am ...

"Conservative" means, pretty much, The Establishment. So yes, it's 'What can I afford", by way of keeping things as they are. This is historically the...

Yes. That'll work. :rofl:

That's pretty explicitly the quantificational interpretation. The "it" in "...it was true before you said it" is the sentence, which is a first order ...

If I give a twenty to someone on the street, I don't much care if they spend it on booze instead of a salad. Folk do what they do to get by.

As Tom said, who'd take on the job? I've some admiration for David Pocock, whom I have heard speak; if he is faking his sincerity, then he is a master...

I'm thinking the logic doesn't go beyond "We need something different to the ALP's policy... this is different, let's do this!" If...

Perhaps Fraser? It was astonishing how much he improved after he left office. The recent ACT election was a walkover for Labor, followed by the usual ...

Same with their recently announced policy on Nuclear power. They will build seven new reactors using our money. Government owned. It's odd. Not so muc...

Trouble is, The Liberal Party of Australia is not. Wouldn't the liberal strategy be to reduce taxes, keep out of the market and let the consumer choos...

But they sound like daemons escaping from Hell.

Stop stirring the possum.

That could have saved us a lot of time.

Is it true that there are no minds in world B?

Ok, so you tied yourself in a knot by thinking about in and at. You OK now? In particular, since it now appears to have been the source of your consid...

...which was in turn a reply to a comment of mine. Should I not have taken you as responding to my ?? This is quite mad.