Banno

:worry: "can I please have some coffee? I prefer Turkish. The coffee needs to be pulverised. That one has a nutty aroma. $5 for a flat white is outrag...

Well, he'd probably say that you are again prioritising the physical definition of "woman", and that this goes against the discussion we had concernin...

A model is not an “imaginary world” we’re claiming to be real; it’s a mathematical structure used to interpret a language. The whole point of model-th...

Odd. Can you explain how you think it isn't? You do understand that the model theoretical account is extensional...? I guess not.

It is a bit. Do you think you might reflect for a bit on how Banno might answer your post? What's the most central issue in your post, how do you thin...

Why not? And that's not a rhetorical question, but a request for context and behaviour. If being a waiter involves the social behaviours around waitin...

Nice work. I can usually get enough fat out of a few sausages by cooking them slow, on low. (...said the actress to the Bishop.)

Cool answer. But I'm not seeing how a discreet internal event isn't as problematic as a "thing"; it remains that no one else can check that you are co...

I'd eat that.

Here you go: Boxes and Diamonds: An Open Introduction To Modal Logic. Sections 1.5 and 1.6 cover truth at a world and truth as a model. There's a coup...

Well, not to them. That's kinda where Witt comes in, in pointing out the place of identity in these proceedings. Her point is that identity is not a p...

Maybe not. Ok. See edit.

You are here confusing "true in a model" with "true in reality". Again, a bit sad.

There's that old adage about not wrestling with a pig. The definition provided is not mine; it is the standard definition in modal logic. It has nothi...

Well, we went over how words usually do not have a single default meaning. In the case of "woman" there's the biological use, of course. There's a soc...

Working backwards, we got to arguing about modality after I introduced Fitch's paradox. That was introduced because it deals with the logic of unknown...

Interesting cultural appropriation approbation. Dow Nunder, the music that accompanied beer drinking, at least when I frequented pubs, was this sort o...

Medication is as always a balancing act. Migraine are dreadful, but so is intestinal bleeding. So long as you understand the risk. I hope it works for...

Combining caffeine and aspirin is not a good idea.

Sounds about right.

I'll start saving the pennies... How do you pronounce "cezves"? "jez-veh"?

true, but being copper they don't work so well on the induction plate. The small one is also unstable on the trivet on the gas. I suppose I should loo...

Nice. I have a cezve, but I usually use an old saucepan on the induction - so I can make a decent quantity. Not so authentic, but I can make it while ...

Hmm. From what I've seen of them, the Marvel and other movies consist of folk hitting each other, against a backdrop that is needlessly complicated an...

Looks essentialist to me. I might come back to it, though, again rather than rattle off another brief rejection. No, indeed I mentioned Witt as someon...

True; that might change the rating of the movies, though.

Try some psyllium. A teaspoon a day does wonders.

Yeah, I did, you missed it. It's the standard Kripkeian definition: All the stuff I've said here is straight forward possible world semantics and stan...

Possibly he just has his spinnerets on his hands. Having to take off your underpants in order to jump or throw a net would be inconvenient.

but the froth...

"Turkish" - bring the pulverised coffee and more sugar than is healthy to the boil, immediately pour it. Best wake-up there is. The stuff for the pres...

At breakfast I found myself out of pulverised coffee. I've had to use plunger coffee. True story.

You have been singularly helpful in my achieving this goal, Meta. Thank you.

And the answer, overwhelmingly, is "yes". If we know something then by that very fact it is possible for us to know that thing. No — that conflates tr...

Good questions. And thereby hangs many a PhD. So: And so it goes. Charlotte Witt is also interesting here, taking an Aristotelian Essentialist view, b...

Yep. Usage isn't fixed, it's chosen. And we perhaps ought seek consistency. So if "woman" is used to pick out someone who adopts the relevant social c...

It's not just being context-dependent that makes an indexical. The truth value of an indexical changes with who is doing the uttering. "I am Australia...

It honestly seems to me that you missed the point. So for example your "Most language is pragmatic, and if a Doctor asks me if I'm in pain, nobody sug...

A long response. thanks for giving my posts such enthusiastic consideration - it pleases me. But I might not respond point by point, if you don't mind...

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Well that explains the smell.

:wink: BUT WE CAN"T DO THAT...!!! :lol:

I don't. It's relevant. And it's now a part of the discussion. And it humanises the too-cerebral discourse here to have a transgender person visible. ...

Yep. More than a few blokes are pissed at the absence of sanitary disposal containers in male toilets. Segregating toilets on the basis of gender is a...

They say they "feel 100% like a transgender woman". Can you argue that they are wrong here? Can you show that they are mistaken? IF you can't present ...

Notice that you could equally well say that a hermaphrodite would be both male and female. We might say they are male and female, or neither male nor ...

I'd not be so quick to affirm this. As we agreed, I think, applying "adult human female" is to an end, and not immutable. Taking it as immutable seems...

Thanks, you too - but that American holiday is one of the few not to make it big Dow Nunder. We don't celebrate it. I'm pleased we have so much to agr...

Dreadful. I hope you can make better life choices in the future. The bacteria Xanthomonas campestris, which produces xanthan gum, lives on cabbage. He...

Yep. That we know p implies that it is possible to know p. See https://www.umsu.de/trees/#A~5~9A||reflexivity. The definition of ?p in Kripke's semant...