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I'm not going to play at physics. I'll leave that to physicist. But that's not right. The ball will fall with a particular acceleration. That is a sys...

But it isn't.

What?

Pretty much.

They don't get to decide what is or is not food. It's food or it isn't, it's a mate or it isn't. So no. We get to say that this counts as Tuesday, tha...

We know that what is true for one observer need not be true for another. What the Principle of Relativity requires is that physics be formulated in su...

A dog might be able to ask for food, but it can't ask to be fed next Tuesday. Animals don't do the "...counts as..." thing that we do as a matter of c...

So what. Your left column sets out christian conservatism. Your right side sets out liberal humanism. The word "science" is superfluous, even misleadi...

As always, with your repeated despair, Hanrahan. But what are you going to do about it?

, Why call the christian side of your table "pre-science"?

And the most complete text I've come across: THE OPEN LOGIC TEXT Home page. Wish I'd seen this earlier.

Of course.

...or snide comments about my snide comments...

That'll do. The task at hand is choosing between different grammars. If a grammar leads to a confusion, such as ...then best reject it. Quit doing tha...

Yep. The sad thing is that your clear explanation will not correct the confusion here. That confusion is wilful. Sometimes, as a discussion unfolds, t...

Or autonomy? The absence of exploring (realising) one's capacities: Nassbaum...

Perhaps. I'm not incline to produce a hierarchy of misery. Some folk are too ready to make claims for others, especially where such things do not admi...

He did once get creative with an onion. Perhaps he missed breakfast that day.

The challenges of how one might keep warm and dry living rough present splendid opportunities for creativity, for fresh projects and directions.

That Yohan just rephrased the same thing is the point.

Don't blame me. I'm just pointing to the logic of suffering.

Well, there's your problem, then. Allow tedium soak in, to permeate your being; meditate on the fact that you might do anything, but instead do nothin...

You never have such a clear and distinct apprehension of the fact of being alive as when you are bored shitless. Which entirely undermines your point....

So what matters is that it stop raining. Ankles are so badly designed. Proof that there is no god, or that he's a right arsehole.Or that things starte...

Of course; Don't look to meaning, look to use. Yet there's a vicious circularity here, in that suffering is what we seek to avoid, and yet what we see...

This thread's going swimmingly.

It's bloody raining again. Can't get out in the garden.

, So the purpose of suffering is to induce us to avoid suffering.

Why should suffering have any purpose? Teleological confusion. Sure, it's nice when suffering leads to a better outlook - wisdom, if you like. Sufferi...

Ok, so long as you are happy... :roll:

I'm sure it's not you who shits on the seat or bleeds in the sink, but it is apparent that instructions for using public toilets in a way that does no...

I agree, except for you spelling of arse. An undesirable Americanism.

Never used a pubic toilet? Feeling alive is pleasant, but does it matter? Naturalistic fallacy, yet again. General gripe: , , , and you all posit sugg...

Shitting matters more than prestige footwear.

Reads like an ad for Nike.

It's not going to be easy.

When you cross a swamp, where you decide to put your feet depends on how firm the ground looks. Be prepared to change your footing if the ground gives...

A succinct summation: Classical Logic An archived SEP article.

Hmm. While the philosophical point stands, I'm not too keen on the use of collective pronouns here. You are on your own as far as arse wiping goes.

The rock might be an illusion, it might not. You are playing on various senses of 'exists". That's the generic issue I pointed to in my response to yo...

Interesting. Given a general principle, after PI §48, that what counts as a simple depends on what one is doing, One must be open to such a reorientat...

What are you asking? How to parse "the rock exists" for an illusionary rock? How to pars "the illusion exists" for an illusion? Once you decide, you c...

I read that twice, but don't see what it is you want. Ellipsis is a bugger. Of course, they are not "iff"s. Iffs are truth-functional, not accuracy-fu...

Hmm. I see truth as that around which the other terms orbit, since it fits the T-sentence while they are not so apt. "The kettle is boiling" is accura...

:wink: Ah, a way of keeping one's aspidistra flying in the face of reality. Why not?

Looks to me like you are agreeing with the argument rather than disagreeing. Truth (accuracy, representation, rectitude, understanding) is were langua...

Well, that's a puzzling question. I suppose some folk do. Putin, for one?

Sure you can. And then ask if each and every one is true... But also there are non-boolean notions of truth.

Tell Lord Russell. And Kant.

Is that true? See? You cannot escape truth.