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:meh: then I'll leave you to your games.

Not at all sure what the lesson was there.

Ellipsis can be an eloquent tool, when use, for instance, to point to what can be shown but not said. When folk try to put words in the place of what ...

Cheers. It remains that much of your post could not be understood, and what could be understood was, as argued, wrong. We can continue to trade insult...

Pumice is a stone.

:grin: Yep!

And yet you come back for more.

I'm old-school. I'm not going to watch a two-hour video. I'll read the book. But thanks anyway. I like logical and linear. It seems to me that a "supe...

I don't understand what this says. While there is no one definition of a proposition, it at the least can be represented by a statement with a truth v...

Just to be sure, you do see that it does not follow from this that there is no "independent reality"?

That was a ways back. I don't recall participating. Which is fine, so long as we don't pretend to have those answers...

Yep. Do you think that a vicious circularity? I wondered how you got on with the second chapter. Beauty as a chemical reaction. I laughed at his use o...

Go back to the beginning. you said I pointed out that this is no more than saying that we can put a negation in front of any proposition. It's grammar...

What do you want? Another bout of pointless disagreement? Let me know what the issue is we are supposedly discussing. Or are you just here for the abu...

Well, you see, there was nothing to rebut... I just don't need to go fishing with you. If you have a case, something we haven't been over in our myria...

Cheers. Love you too. I'll leave it at that.

Sure. But this isn't about you. These are not an academic exercise.

Yep. One way the "the oral traditions (are) broken down" is by pretending they are not there. That a people chooses not to tell you about their oral t...

I think I did. I was going to start a thread on The Voice, but baulked because, you know, what first nations folk really need is more white fellas to ...

You are being far more polite than I would be, were I to respond to .

Yawn.

I suspect that precious few academic philosophers nowadays would count themselves Kantian. If you want a more sophisticated counterargument, you might...

Arguably, Pascoe is using that narrative, of a linear progression, because it is foundational to the world view of his antagonists. See Inside story. ...

Yeah, But I don't see his argument against reality. Certainly in the stuff I've read, he is assuming reality, but saying that the really, really real ...

when and if...

Yeah, but we can move (have moved...) on. That very differentiation of how things appear as against how they are can be seen as a misapprehension of h...

Yeah. I'm reading that. Not so impressed. There's a trend for engineers and physicist to move in to philosophy. What I've noticed is that they at firs...

In those possible worlds where there is no suffering. Obviously. But yes, you are right that the standard picture of God is incoherent. Where we diffe...

...and no reason to think that it might be other than it appears. Kant is just using language badly. I don't mind Zizek.

SO god invented evil in order to keep the plot interesting; like Tolkien torturing hobbits, but with the important difference that Hobbits do not actu...

Nice of you to make the discussion about me, again. We've done this before. Kant invents a thing about which we can say nothing, as if it were an expl...

The significance is no more than recognising that the question remains unanswered, indeed, unanswerable. Introducing things-in-themselves and transcen...

Very cool. I was looking for a link to send to @"Jamal", and came across this graph of reviews of Dark Emu, which sums up the response beautifully. A ...

I'm that old bloke down the road who gives you a half-dozen oversized Zucchinis. I find it enchanting. Dow nunder, there's a book called "Dark Emu" by...

Thanks. Wittgenstein taught philosophers a somewhat different way of using the word "grammar", roughly as a single term for both semantic and grammati...

See for example . Or consider a Koch snowflake, in which an infinite line is confined within a finite area. Is that a limit on infinity? I don't think...

More a way to passing wind. Perhaps we can tie things down a bit more. Any proposition can be negated. All the supposed mysterious, metaphysical antin...

I tend to believe any conspiracy theory right up until the point of analysing it. Including "collective unconscious". They are all-and-some propositio...

I didn't exempt myself. Nor should you. But think how much less damage Putin could do if he were but an arborist.

OK, I apologise. Sometimes I forget that I may be dealing with children. You're doing the maths wrong.

I think this discussion too abstract to be of much use.

Yeah, about that. Are you sure Trump, Boris, Berlusconi and friends are in charge?

I've tried a few times to take you back on topic. Your claim was that "supernatural" was as unclear as "infinite" and "nothing". But both "infinite" a...

It's not me having the little tantrum.

Yep. People are stupid. While you might be looking for something with a bit more nuance, the general thrust of such an answer is indubitable.

Ok. I'll just watch. It might be interesting to see how you deal with 's disorientation.

Underestimating grammar's capacity to mislead is the source of metaphysics, don't you think?

Yes, I do. Some may not be aware that I stole the term from Harry Frankfurt. As a simple warding spell it has its place in everyday encounters, keepin...

Only in repeating Davidson's point, from The Very Idea of a Conceptual Schema. Roughly, if we can recognise that what is before us is a map, then by t...

"infinite" and "nothing" are well understood terms. That's not a mere "claim". You said You are mistaken. Your bitching at me makes no difference to t...