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Well, that made me smile. The supposed words we can't trust. Seems we's stuck.

Yep. Unlike the lectern, he carries the heat example into his book. He adds the example of lightening, supposing that there might have been some other...

While conscious, yes, but curiously, not while you are unconscious. Doubtless there are those hereabouts who will claim that this inability renders yo...

It seems an increasingly common rhetorical strategy hereabouts. See

I wouldn't read it that way. Rather, Kripke has already made his case and is applying his account to heat. I think we can drop the heat argument witho...

Qualia are fine, until folk say absurd things about them. Red and smooth and sour and so on - all good. But then folk will claim that they are private...

Just this first paragraph is hopelessly confused. It seems to say that describing things is not to describe them... Might try leaving it there, again.

Here's the article: https://personal.lse.ac.uk/ROBERT49/teaching/ph103/pdf/chalmers1995.pdf Should we examine it in detail?

Thanks. A topic fraught with ambiguity. Folk say there is something it is like to be conscious, but usually can't tell us what. After all, it's not ha...

Have you a point?

Yeah, it is. This sentence contains five words. Counting can be describing.

Thanks for the heads up I gather from that the issue is about the self? I haven't been following this discussion. With the self in the place of the fi...

That made me laugh. You've a very odd view on things, Meta. A mathematical model that makes accurate predictions is not for you a description. Fine.

Good analogy. They look good, sometimes even healthy, but they mostly end up on your shoes.

No, he didn't. "There but for the grace of god...' Doubtless. We're better at it.

Davidson on Metaphor. Metaphors work by re-framing. They are verbal duck-rabbits.

No it isn't. The heat moves from one body to the other, in a process that can be described with mathematical predictability. Nothing metaphorical abou...

It was a compliment.

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:rofl: He was bloody dreadful. Incapable of taking on any fresh arguments; putting up a pretence of using logic while failing to have even a basic und...

There are plenty who think themselves great - Bart's first criteria - yet their greatness goes unnoticed amongst the hoi polloi, other critics, and in...

How to kill a thread.

Yeah, I chose "psychology", not "psychiatry". The proper stuff... :wink:

Guess so.

Would a genuine search exclude atheism from the very beginning? Or better, why is the fork here constructed as between atheism and a personal god with...

This is a very slow conversation. No, I'm saying that they do not say the same thing. Ah, only the True Scots prophets?

I agree. Hence is problematic.

Then you will have no trouble setting out what it is they say, that is shared. Go one, then.

Yes, Philosophy can be done badly. Some folk do treat the texts as "sacred" writings. Some of philosophy is tribal. Is that the only way to do philoso...

Check mate, I think. The idea that prophets agreed on some underlying truth works right up until you look at what they actually said. The idea comes, ...

Wishful thinking. Joseph Smith and The Buddha had little in common.

If the will to power were more than a fairy story, it would have a prominent place in psychology. As things stand, it's a footnote.

Fair enough. I have something similar in mind, in that there was a logician who revolutionised the formal approach to modal logic, and who applied tha...

Gorgeous!

Yeah, I was puzzled.

Yep.

I wonder where they got that idea from...

Not so much. Might be a regional variation.

Well, no. Heat is measured in Joules. It is the flow of energy from place to place. I don't think we can finesse that away.

Well, Kripke isn't going to disagree with that. He says as much. so I don't see how it is a misunderstanding. And absolute necessary truth? What's tha...

Nice! Of course, since everything is a goat, counting them is superfluous.

It's rude to refer to the police as pigs.

Indeed, Goats are not subservient in the way pigs are.

How many do you have? I recall it was two?

If it were not for the hydatids. https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/sites/gateway/files/styles/original/public/hydatid-lifecycle-diagram.jpg?itok=Zkhrdw03

Indeed. Goats eat everything. Therefore goats eat pigs. Proof: sInce goats eat a pigs, a pig can be a goat. Hence your are correct: a pig can be more ...

Yeah, it does. A whole video. But that's another thing. The pigs have taken over from the goats. Young people these days. https://images.fineartameric...

Well, he gives a variety of examples of what he says are necessary a posteriori facts... That Hesperus is Phosphorus, Tully is Cicero, The lectern is ...

Well, I suppose that's the unanswered question. Presumably it's intuitive: