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See Searle's collective intentionality in The Construction of Social Reality.
January 25, 2022 at 08:39
Another chance to share my favourite Existentialist Comic: Candyland and the nature of the absurd Satre as moderator. We can't have them denying their...
January 25, 2022 at 02:41
Ah, but they are always free to breach the guidelines! Their will to power is All!
January 25, 2022 at 02:29
Obviously. The question is, what is money? And the answer is not that it stands in for commodities in our exchanges. Money functions in virtue of our ...
January 25, 2022 at 00:18
A mate of mine: Craig Coombes uses Naked Tuesdays to laugh in the face of cancer He's till going, well past his use-by date. He looked into the abyss,...
January 24, 2022 at 23:26
Ok, Ill take your word for it. Money does not stand in the place of commodities.
January 24, 2022 at 23:11
That's just what we need: a phenomenology of money... :grimace: Doubtless it will appear.
January 24, 2022 at 22:20
dy/dx is not dy/dt. It does not involve time.
January 24, 2022 at 22:15
Can Ritalin cure philosophy?
January 24, 2022 at 22:11
Why was my post on Free Will taken down? Presumably because a mode chose to exercise their free will. There need be no further explanation.
January 24, 2022 at 22:08
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January 24, 2022 at 22:07
No, it doesn't. But that does not prevent economists misleading themselves and others by pretending it does.
January 24, 2022 at 22:03
The approach taken on this thread is a categorical error, one that is ubiquitous in these fora. It's an error that drops out of contrasting real and i...
January 24, 2022 at 22:00
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January 24, 2022 at 21:31
@"peoplearesmart" joined two weeks ago, apparently for the sole purpose of making the above comment. Presumably they are out there looking after thems...
January 24, 2022 at 21:14
:grin: That'd be because you restrict yourself to change over time, and the image changes over distance. I showed that your point was erroneous.
January 24, 2022 at 05:07
In other words you are not interested in how "change" is actually used, but instead in arbitrarily restricting that use it to suit certain philosophic...
January 24, 2022 at 03:58
One can see that the colour changes from left to right. Your pretence of not seeing this is duplicitous, your wordplay disingenuous.
January 24, 2022 at 03:54
oh, tIff, tiff, tiff... Let me guess: Black Betty is by Spiderbait... :grimace:
January 24, 2022 at 02:53
These examples show that it is a game that we play: @"InPitzotl" provides further examples. The point is, we understand these locutions perfectly well...
January 24, 2022 at 02:46
I don't see how. If you prefer, the colour of the image changes from left to right. There's nothing odd about such a locution. It would make sense to ...
January 24, 2022 at 01:57
You're playing with substitution in an intensional (with the "s" - non-extensional...) context. One cannot guarantee that substituting coreferential t...
January 24, 2022 at 01:34
You just like fury pelts.
January 23, 2022 at 21:20
I think I'd bet on cyber warfare.
January 23, 2022 at 21:09
Porn would be more acceptable than arms trading.
January 23, 2022 at 20:41
January 23, 2022 at 20:29
The image changes from white on the left to yellow on the right. That's clear. https://i.stack.imgur.com/5chm6.png Pretending not to understand doesn'...
January 23, 2022 at 20:13
Seems His Majesty @"jamalrob" is not as keen on raising funds as previous owners. Do you think he makes his money from drugs or porn?
January 23, 2022 at 20:10
Very droll. I listened to the first two, with intent. The others might become part of the ritual of putting on a podcast at bedtime and hearing only t...
January 23, 2022 at 20:06
Twaddle. The image is white on the left, yellow on the right, and changes from one to the other, left to right. You're squirming.
January 23, 2022 at 20:02
What twaddle.
January 23, 2022 at 19:50
I understood the criticism to be that classical economics treats the market as a closed system when it isn't. That is, the market price for carbon emi...
January 23, 2022 at 04:21
What? I referred to, and showed, the image at https://i.stack.imgur.com/5chm6.png
January 23, 2022 at 04:04
I think it is a subset that does not include all of the elements of the set in question. So {A,B} is a proper subset of {A,B,C}; but not a proper subs...
January 23, 2022 at 03:36
An attitude towards a statement instead of an attitude towards a proposition. Or if you prefer, an attitude towards a possible state of affairs. Point...
January 23, 2022 at 03:30
It's not an assumption. It is there before you. Use your eyes. Rethink you account.
January 23, 2022 at 02:50
I put it to you that the following image changes from one colour to another, from left to right; and that this change does not occur over time. https:...
January 23, 2022 at 02:49
As if there were never one room with two types of floor. The carpet changes from thick pile to thin, from red to blue, from right to left. The wall ch...
January 23, 2022 at 02:41
No, it's the same floor. I've no idea what the remainder of your post says. Can you clarify? I think folk are trying to defend a broken notion - that ...
January 23, 2022 at 02:36
The house has a floor that changes from room to room. You seem to be just looking for a particular phrasing to save a broken theory.
January 23, 2022 at 02:31
Now.
January 23, 2022 at 02:17
The floor changes from wood to bamboo.
January 23, 2022 at 02:15
My floor changes from wood to bamboo, from one room to another, at the one time. This very text you see before you, you can only see in virtue of the ...
January 23, 2022 at 02:09
Time and change have no special relation. Change occurs from place to place as well as from time to time.
January 22, 2022 at 22:42
The most concerning thing here is Keen's criticism of the DICE model, for "a priori assuming that 87% of the economy will be unaffected by climate cha...
January 22, 2022 at 22:13
A podcast about the clever ways folk get things wrong.
January 22, 2022 at 21:44
@"ZzzoneiroCosm", Have a read of the SEP article you yourself cited, immediately after the piece you quote. It ends with: Hence the modal notion of pr...
January 22, 2022 at 21:05
See edit: How does your account of propositions as "existents doing things" deal with "Unicorns do not exist". Your existent - the unicorn - does not ...
January 22, 2022 at 20:54
Only thing is, if I ask you what the "what" is, in "what is apprehended in a statement", what is your answer? A proposition? Then the definition is ci...
January 22, 2022 at 20:52
SO how will you deal with "unicorns do not exist", let alone "Fred believes unicorns do not exist"?
January 22, 2022 at 20:46