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That demonstrates China's commitment to "whole process' democracy to “close national security loopholes”.

Yes - there's almost an honesty in its duplicity.

Good. My cover story is holding out. They haven't worked out my secret.

Click on the arrow at the bottom of someone's post to reply to it. Or use the "@" button to add someone's name as a link, and to let them know you hav...

SO there isn't a problem here, is there? No one is proposing that we need to make plans to defend against the Dark Lord, after all. The issue is more ...

One alternative might be to suppose that existential generalisation works perfectly well in fictional situations, but does not imply that Frodo is not...

https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/32573dc1445bad8314f285d23bdee5632a1ab39a Frodo is a Hobbit; hence there are Hobbits. You seem ...

And is it any coincidence that your user-name contains the word “odd”?

So you don't believe Frodo walked into Mordor? There are no fictive folk?

Funny, that.

:grin: Or not.

OK, then: who does this? As opposed to, say, the claim that "Pegasus" refers to a fictive flying horse?

I notice the slip from individuals - Santa and Pegasus - to kinds - horses and unicorns. Can you re-parse your point in terms of individuals?

Seriously? Love the double negative.

Best part is this link, on the page in which the stated goal is "Building public confidence through clear and consistent messaging." Find the latest d...

Operation COVID Shield It's all good; we've given it a new spin.

Half an explanation. Set it out. Edit: actually it's not so much an explanation as saying "look over there!"

Then provide your explanation. You are pretending that words have meanings.

You want "exists" to have one true meaning, when all it has is its use in conversation.

Yep. That's the point of this thread.

What two words. "fact" and "true"? But I didn't say otherwise.

What ever. All of that can be assumed for the purposes of the example. "This sentence contains five words" is true IFF that sentence contains five wor...

Yes, I know that I am not.

gung-ho.

Yeah, we understand that. It's just no a substantive point.

I don't think you are making a point any different to the one I made. There are a pair of ways of speaking of facts. "The cat is black" is a fact. Her...

"Pegasus is a myth" implies that there is a Pegasus. It doesn't imply that Pegasus is a physical animal.

That's not right. from a given point in spacetime in the block, some things will be to the left, some to the right, some tot he past, and some to the ...

Sure. Appo is perhaps being obtuse in his insistence.

THink we can stop there. You have agreed with @"Fooloso4".

What? Well, yes; if you have historical information then by that very fact you have a distinction between past and present... not at all sure what "on...

Time isn't an illusion. It may not be what it seems, but that does not render it an illusion. In the block universe there remains a distinction betwee...

Santa and Pegasus are things, not facts; the simplest way to work with "facts" is to treat them as true statements. Does Pegasus exist? Depends on wha...

Hmmm I'm asking where they sit in whatever argument you think Soc is presented in order to conclude that here are such things... Are they assumed, an ...

SO if they are not a hypothesis, what are they?

Foghorn was banned a few days ago.

So... yes or no? Or maybe?

SO help me here - are you agreeing with your version of idealism, or not?

:grin: Think that's an end to this discussion.

You think of God as a gaoler? Fair call. SO you need god in order that the cup still exist when you put it back in the cupboard. That's a bit of overk...

That's not right. There are things that have not been perceived.

Yep. That's why there's a "T" in JTB.

Sydney should have had a hard lockdown a week ago. It's be over now.

The spin is that UNESCO is being manipulated by the Chinese. https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/great-barrier-reef-dragged-into-row-with-china-20210...

There are problems with JTB... But go ahead and see if you can articulate exactly what the issue is. Here's the JTB account: A statement counts as kno...

He hasn't read them, it seems, since that's exactly wrong. But he's written a book on it, and so nailed his colours to the mast. .

That must be a worry for you. You've previously shown some confusion about JTB accounts, which don't admit of degrees. One cannot know things that are...

Don't give any examples, 'cause that won't help.

I had the mop and bucket for Wikipedia for a year or so. I've no desire to repeat that performance.

How deeply insulting.