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...ok...?

...you would have nothing left.

Sure; so throw out the flawed concepts.

Eye surgery. An unfinished saga, I'm afraid. PF isn't bad company in a waiting room.

Saw that one coming.

Paradoxes are examples of language gone astray. Zeno's Achilles is a case in point; where Zeno articulated the problem into a paradox, the maths of li...

Scientists look for ways to apply maths to observation. This should be read as the scientists claiming a way to present the problem that leads to some...

Me, too. If they can make more distinctions, then they would presumably be able to invent more words for those distinctions. As Un said, There's the c...

Seems to me you misunderstand what was said. Meh.

Thanks for the heads up. Yeah, I would have simply rejected the distinction until i started considering @"Forgottenticket"'s question, when I was stru...

oh, good.

You speak for Carlos?

Red becomes orange at around 480Thz. Wether we use the word “red” or “orange” for a 480Thz light might be a matter for contention. That we are talking...

well, I’m just taking my wife in for surgery, so you will have to forgive me if my attention is elsewhere.

I was thinking more long term. For Trump the narcissist, , power is unimportant; what counts is being the centre of attention. Power was a means to th...

My pessimism has me thinking a move to the right is the more likely outcome. Along with it, a further rejection of scientific advice and rational disc...

Much as I love how you make these threads about me, the repetition is tedious. What did you make of

Both?

Is my mass the same as yours? I'm going to think on that. Good question.

In the interview with George Friedman I cited earlier, he makes the claim that the myth of the individual is comparatively recent, coming into it's ow...

Cool. Notice that we can only see if people experience the same distinctions if there are other people. "Red" is part of a language game played by a c...

I wonder if you might fill this out for me. In what way does history have a direction? Or what determines that direction? My inclination is towards a ...

I'm thinking, given @"Judaka"'s replies, that talk of privilege is not about convincing the privileged of their responsibility so much as building sol...

...and yet you agreed with what I said.

odd, that folk seem to think explaining the physiology answers the question...

So do you care to be less obtuse?

Just that there is more to red than sense perception. I didn't say there was no such thing as red.

Yep. Cool, hey.

Did you notice the SEP article on logic and ontology? I think it explains things quite neatly. Sans god.

I'm not applying for a job.

If you like. It's just that you seem to be differentiating between metaphysics and ontology, but usually the distinction is between cosmology and onto...

Yeah - but who cares about that now? Otherwise, sure.

The story about Santa is a domain of discourse. To be is to be the subject of a predicate. Predicates are predicated inside stories. Predicates are pr...

That's better. I can go along with that.

I learned a new word today: Pettifogger. Suppose one of the elves, taking a metaphysical turn, asked Santa if Rudolf exists...

Not quite. If you asked Santa if Rudolf exists, what would be his answer?

What relevance is that?

But I gave you the helicopter example. Like that.

You are having a lend.

That's just too far off centre for me to consider. Modality looks a much more productive approach.

Nasty. You might be able to get an ointment for it. I used Popper's critique of historicism recently, which is perhaps why I noticed you comment in th...

That looks a bit off to my eye. Can I have some Santa seedlings?

It's more about domains of discourse. Look to the contexts.

There's a potential Santa?

Yep. Helicopters that also do not exist.

Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe Had No Beginning

Well, Santa started using a helicopter...

Couldn't you write a kid's story in which the reindeer have to socially isolate, and hence can't be put in harness, forcing Sant to us a helicopter? T...

Well, there's part of the problem - translating logos as knowledge. Metaphysics can be divided in a reasonably direct fashion into two question: what ...

But you might not like the consequence. It's the proper name, as a rigid designator, that picks out the very same thing in each mooted possible world....