Banno

Other folk say the same thing about angels and fairies. Numbers and other mathematical entities are not a thing we talk about but a way of talking, a ...

You are now playing "Posts last wins", another pointless game at which Meta is adept.

What maths?

That tells us a lot about your judgement.

...that is so going to fuck up so much bad philosophy... Beautiful.

But it's a real wall, not part of a dream, through which you cannot walk. That is, the phenomena of a dream wall are not the same as the phenomena of ...

People like to make up stories. We pass them from one person to another, keeping the bits we like and adding new stuff as we go. The talk "grows in th...

If this works reliably, why are there not whole industries based on it?

Bravo.

Have you looked at 's book? What do you make of it?

It's more that I don't see how "contents of consciousness" might be "real or not real". See

Definitely, but one that is made repeatedly hereabouts. Folk want this sort of nonsense to be the case. What's that about, then?

The GRU certainly are.

My apologies for indulging @"Janus"' off-topic confusion.

Its ineffable? Being interpreted as a chestnut does not mean that unseen, it's no longer a chestnut. What reason is there to suppose that unseen, it i...

...and we're off on @"Janus"' preferred goose chase again. Around and around.

Obviously. I'm using a bi-conditional logic. What logic, if any, are you using, and why? So how exactly would they be different? They would not stand ...

So what. The tree would still be a chestnut, the rose still a rose. An obvious slide.

Yeah, they would. "The tree is a chestnut" and The flower is a rose" are true even when no one perceives it.

Thumper's mum would have voted for Socrates' execution?

@"jgill", looks to me like the answer is just under twelve hundred post until Wittgenstein's silence wins. But we still have hardly addressed the othe...

Crowley and Aziraphale. Stop being so bloody nice to everyone. They really don't deserve it. Self-deception. The flowers and the root are real - not h...

Have you noted how while I disagree with with everyone, you pretty much agree them? Between us we might ahve the mix about right.

Seems I've broken . Sorry.

Joke free zone? It's fiction, one of the better, if not the best, so far. It subverts the forum by imitation - that's satire. There's the low-key disp...

I thought this competition was for fiction, not confession.

It's always concerning when we appear to be in agreement.

Is it a good idea to respond reasonable to a rant such as this post by ? Probably not. What an odd reply. Here, again, is the logical structure of tra...

That's just wrong. Quantum Electrodynamics is not about everyday stuff, but measures the fine-structure constant to ten decimal places. As if accuracy...

We distinguish colours only because it makes a difference to what we can do. That's rather my point.

Again, it's not arbitrary, because of what we do with the apples. The cart and the horse are the same thing - it's an automobile. ...and we know this ...

Yes, it's not arbitrary. So long as you get the red apple and not the green one, if that's what you ask for, that's what counts. The agreement, so far...

Amen, brother! Presumably. Interesting. Just responding to your strategy. ...there is a quality of redness that things that qualify as red things disp...

You introduce the word "quality" like it was clear what it means. What's a quality, then? I submit that it's just a way of using a word. "Using" is th...

Yep. There's plenty of attempts at definitions of "game" to be found. The further point to be made is that if one stipulates such a definition, someon...

Biblical. Or at least on a biblical scale. Life , the Universe and Everything.

Psychologising the argument. No. The topic was introduced by way of elucidating the lack of a one-to-one relation between intentional explanations and...

Yeah, me and my brother-in-law. He's a bloody insurance salesman. Parasite.

Sure. So we've flicked from saying what reds have in common to saying how they differ from other colours, trying to achieve an essence by negation - s...

Me too. So we need to find a Socrates...

My criticism is methodological, that what is problematic is taking phenomena as a starting point. Sure, some phenomenologists might reach the right co...

You OK there, Un?

, SO wanna coauthor a book?

No. The relevant issue is that again you have shown that you do not grasp the maths. 1% of ten is not a smaller fraction than 1% of a million. But you...

I'm sorry you are having so much difficulty following this. Transcendental arguments are those with roughly the following form: 1) A is true 2) The on...

Contrast this from Sartre: Does Sartre make perfect sense, too? Both are interpretations, albeit in opposing directions. What is to be avoided is the ...

It was with reference to The sports car is a different tone in the shade, under a street light and in the full sun, yet red in all three cases. We use...

The margin of error is a percentage. If it is correct, it will still be 0.01% after a million years.

Love that. Explains a lot, having an argument for which the truth or falsity is irrelevant. I ask myself that, often. Time to go do other things. Have...

Don't like nothing buts, for the same sort of reason that I don't like transcendental arguments. That it's the smell of coffee is down to the place of...