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So what you are saying is “Every truth is knowable” quantifies over possible worlds and possible knowers; it does not require that any knowers actuall...

Breakfast was a rare treat of smoked kippers, mayo and fresh dill.

SO what is it that you think a antirealist claims, say concerning the truth of facts in the physical world... perhaps concerning Russell's teapot, for...

Everything will be better after the metempsychosis.

Best response so far. Good introductory analysis. But as you will see, these fora are the natural home for fallacies of definition.

But hopefully, what one says about the university is. Nice. Your sentence is indexical without being in the first-person. There is some tension betwee...

It's hard to see the relevance of much of this. Sure, we can't both know and not know the very same thing, and there are other similar permutations. "...

Ah. Makes sense.

Chilli. Ah, so they also make a powder. Excellent.

As is Keen's. Indeed, I see that Colman's is adulterated with wheat flour. A bit of research indicates that Keen's is somewhat stronger. But these are...

Of course not. Drop a few morsels on the floor, so the cat learns that there is more to be had by being were you wish it to be. Headology, as Granny W...

There's an unacknowledged problem here, to do with "proof". A proof is performative - you have one when folk are convinced. Or at the least, we ought ...

An excellent post. I came across an argument from Lewis that rested on this very point; that something more is involved in giving a first person accou...

My apologies, I dropped this thread. I don't see why. We can write "Kp" for "we know p", and "?Kp" for "we might know p", and "~Kp" for "we don't know...

I'm concerned as to the cat's welfare, with you flailing around the knife in your left hand. I begin to understand the 'mercan habit of cutting all on...

"I" is an indexical. What is shown is that there is a barrier to entailment between sentences int he third person and sentences in the first person. G...

A curiosity presented itself. This is the mustard of choice Dow Nunder, a powder of mustard seed, quite poignant on the tongue; https://dtgxwmigmg3gc....

You are vulnerable? What about poor the cat?

A recent discovery that might be of interest. Each god is omniscient about non-indexical facts. They each know the truth values of sentences like: "Th...

I had wondered as much. Enough rope? Thanks for your efforts, Jamal.

Perfect. Thanks - as it comes. More grist for the bot.

It's a waste of flavour. But I suppose it might be an aid to domestic harmony.

So breakfast, from the lamb roast that keeps on giving. Spuds, carrot, egg plant, capsicum, brussels, finely diced, fried with chives and Keen's musta...

What does the US Congress want with Australia’s eSafety commissioner? As a client state, we must of course submit... https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.co...

Gravy is a way of making the juice go further - and in so doing, the flavour is diluted. Better by far to remove the fat and reduce the result, with s...

Dare I ask, is there to be a treatment for private messages? There's some good stuff in my inbox, from various members. It runs to twelve pages.

That's pretty much an end to the article. It remains that the ought/is barrier is not directly addressed. An obvious step would be to make a model the...

And is the lavish bread from Factory Number Four of particularly high quality?

Indeed; it was remiss of me, but in my defence there was only one wrap in the fridge, and in the absence of choice...

I didn't actually look, the contents of the wrap being of the most interest. White corn, I think. The sauce sounds excellent, with the combination of ...

Anyway, back on topic. A wrap, with lamb left over from last night's slow-cooked roast, home grown lettuce and cucumber; avocado, tomato and humus. :s...

I'm not.

Fair. Anyone interested in continuing, PM me. In any case it seems that the result will not get past a few simple lines... Orca Mini can't cut it. Loo...

What is frightening is that I, with ancient coding skills and precious little understanding, was able to built the bot sitting in my lounge chair over...

"My name is Legion, for we are many..." Given a well-constructed prompt, would it be able to present a range of views? It woudl still be very small co...

Yes. I rather think my part in this is Igor. Asked to summarise what it did, ChatGPT said:

It's true. The scientist in me got the better of my moral compass. No, I built a JSON file and converted it to embeddings, then created a FAISS index ...

So I built a bot. Surprisingly easy. And accurate: But lacking consistency: This staring into the beauty of one's own reflection is fun! As it stands ...

Seems unimaginative.

I'll try harder. The question is, how to make best use of the dump? What are other ideas? Should I feed it into an LLM and build a Banno Chat Bot to d...

Using ChatGPT to do in an hour more than I could have done in a week, I managed to turn a dump of my posts from @"Jamal"'s archive into a useable data...

Nice. The Great Transmigration.

Thanks for the heads up - but it's at 1am. Interested as I am, that's more than I am willing to sacrifice.

The definitions used in the formal version thus lend themselves to parsing in a natural language. A set of sentences is particular if, when the senten...

No, that's right - your claim is that I may not exist. This is understood. While it is good to see you move that little bit towards admitting that I m...

No I don't. I'm just your imagination, tormenting you. Jamal and Colo don't exist, either. You imagined their replies, as you did the writings of Hume...

You said: Then The post you read, and this post, are your own private mental state, on your own account. I've got nothing to do with this, being just ...

Yep. A few roos loose in the top paddock. One sandwich short of a picnic.

I've had no trouble on the front verandah in Canberra. Similar to growing cyclamens. I soak and then drain the pots.

I forgive you. it's actually the stem that is most often used, for the paste. It's called a "rhizome" but it's not one, botanical speaking.