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I suppose one might take it as a mere pedagogic device, leaving the conclusion open so as to induce further conversation after a reading of the dialog...

Just what a necromancer would say. It may be a cultural thing (Australians tend not to be overtly religious) but when I scratch folk on this issue the...

SO you're studying necromancy; raising threads from the dead. It's become a commonplace that folk don't think about the deeper stuff any more; they ju...

Cheers. Superficially pragmatism and the later Wittgenstein take the same view of meaning. Pragmatism says the meaning of a sentence is to be defined ...

Well that's no way to carry on a conversation.

Aaaaah noice. Thank you, TIff. Sure, as @"Foghorn" points out, it's But it doesn't follow that setting out to be unpopular makes one a philosopher.

@"Janus"@"khaled", @"javra" It's direction of fit. Having an attitude towards stuff comes pretty quickly from being able to move stuff around. Working...

I see you haven't had a lot to do with chickens. Except perhaps in the pot.

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No, but the cat wouldn't let me sleep in, so there's that. And it's cold and windy and I really don't want to go out and muck out the chicken coup. So...

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it's "...stub..."

You issued the challenge, so @"180 Proof" gets the choice of weapon. Should 180 honour me by choosing me as his second, I'd recommend Socratic Irony a...

Supposing that you were worthy of a reply.

I do hope so.

No, Frank. The term has a specific meaning that you would drown by your inattention.

Yeah, pay that. He was given enough rope to hang himself. Edit: Yep.

I think the term used locally is "fuckwit". Nothing, were possible.

Seems to be an expression of the confusion that lead to the invention of the term antirealism.

Nuh. Crucify 3017. It's what he really wants. Fun though it is to blame Hanover.

Hanover is being diplomatic to the point of absurdity. 3017 demands to go first, fails to present a case, 180 points this out, and Hanover calls it a ...

The link just hangs.

SO much the worse for Popper. I wish I had a fire poker at hand... Would you care to summarise that horrifying quote? I'm not reading it, for fear of ...

For whatever reason, that link will not work. Nor have you elicited much enthusiasm for it's contents. I've a half-dozen other things to read first.

And your point? What conclusion do you want to reach? What's the relevance of all this to the topic?

A bad title for a discussion that continued into Wittgenstein and thence to Kripke. Is the mooted standard Metre Rule, the one in Paris from which all...

Poor fool doesn't understand that he has been thrashed.

I've no clear idea of what you are proposing. Apples don't seem to fall, they do fall. And Newton was forced to accept action at a distance because it...

I don't agree. But you've presented only half an argument here. What exactly is it in Newtonian physics that you think disagrees with how things appea...

Yep; but more than that, it includes making maps of the territory. The world it is a recursive process, not just a concatenation of true statements. T...

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/551863

Well, here's a problem - the assumption that there is an internal and an external world, rather than just a world. The world is just what is the case;...

And ducks are a form of non-ducks.

No, they don't. See my explanation on page 3. Idealism is the converse of realism, not materialism.

Seems to me you are using the terms idealism and realism in odd ways. I don't see that as helpful. The question is, is there more than just mind. If t...

I will get back to the Straight Thinkers at some stage; the muddle there remains in a state of flux such that I'm in a quandary as to which aspect to ...

Neat. I don't understand how someone cannot see these obvious inconsistencies. Lack of critical ability, lack of insight or simple self-deception?

Pffff. Read it for yourself. Keep in mind that it's in 'merica, which is far more religious than other wealthy countries. The results suport the conte...

Except that the results are seen within countries as well as between countries: https://www.pewforum.org/2018/08/29/the-demographic-characteristics-of...

You might think so. The Pew research in the OP is evidence to the contrary.

I'm unconvinced. Looks more like a simplification in order to support a dubious contention. I'm not keen on historicism.

No. Poor people tend to be ill-educated and hence susceptible to nonsense.folk

I did, in the OP.

You are asking if poverty is bad?

Philosophy is a process, not a concatenation of true statements.

He hadn't read much of Greek history, then.

That's wrong. You have a home, that is also electrons disappearing and appearing in space.

As you like. I don't see that 180 is obliged to do 3017's thinking for him.

Such deep self-realisation.

Idealism Roughly, idealism is the view that the physical world is somehow derived from, or dependent on, mind; that the actual world is somehow a thin...