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...after the Great Sage spoke, everyone nodded approvingly and mumbled their agreement. But all felt a secret dissatisfaction, for nothing had actuall...

If your happy and you know it, clap your hands Clap, clap If your happy and you know it clap your hands Clap clap If your happy and you know it, then ...

A cell can have an anus?

:lol:

Looks good to me.

Seriously? Rather than say the ball is stationary, you need me to include mention of frames of reference?

I don't see how the question asks anything.

You're indulging in that weird name calling again, Apo. No, what I said is not limited or restricted in the way you claim.

Suppose that the future is determined, either by god or by physics. Does that tell you what it is that you will do next? Does that help you decide wet...

As if a stationary ball were nothing? I think the question pointless. Language disengaged from our regular language games, disengaged gears spinning t...

Curious that , , and seem to be vehemently agreeing with each other...

Seems to me that the national boarders were intentionally designed by the League of Nations to keep Iraq unstable. I don't see any way to reverse the ...

Yes... see the very next post to the one you cited: SO we have solipsism and panpsychism, neither of which has much appeal; and the rather more mundan...

...and hence this thread.

Why is this troll still here? Why do the mods permit such shite to continue?

AH, but that's Christian logic... It's the logic that says god is omniscient and yet benevolent; that he loves you and yet will send you to hell; that...

What does this say apart from that christians believe stuff that is not true?

What? Talk about human reference? As in, "Peter", "Jane"? Do you suppose that beliefs sit in your mind like you sit in your comfy chair? 'cause talk l...

Then I'lll not pay much further attention to your recommendations. "Mental talk" - what sort of thing could that be?

Well, it being spoken does seem to be a pretty important part of it being a speech act. How many other uspoken speech acts are you aware of? Or is it ...

No, what as is "what the fuck?" What could "asserts p mentally" possibly mean? Why twist "assert" into use in a private language? What rubbish is this...

Dude, an assertion is spoken. Beliefs, not always. That'll do to distinguish them. What?

:lol:

Hamburgers are red meat rather than processed meat. It's ham and bacon that you should avoid. Red meat is in group 2a: probable carcinogen.

Sure. But a decent play ought at the least be self-consistent. Christianity isn't.

A greater problem with reincarnation is the nature of the self. That is, what is it that is being reincarnated? Suppose, @"TheMadFool", that you found...

So your claim is that if we permit illogical theories then reincarnation is permissible? A contradiction implies anything: p & ~p implies q. Hence, if...

The befuddlement of those who do not differentiate belief from truth can be quite amusing. Here's an analysis that might remove any apparent contradic...

Your view and facts have a quite flexible relationship. Again, here's the article: The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits fo...

... So instead of addressing the actual article you choose to pretend it is other than it is?

Yes, yes, indeed, all that. The Friedman article argues that the sole aim of a corporation is to make a profit; that they ought have no other goal. Th...

Oh, look! 'mercans who still think they live in a democracy! How cute!

You want to move from the"is" of the limited liability of an incorporated body to the "ought" of profit making. But the argument just will not hold. P...

So what? Why ought a group of individuals not incorporate (moving back from your slide to business enterprise...) in order to spend their money collec...

Pffffffth.

Sure; all that's pretty obvious from your other writing: Difference that makes a difference, crisp and vague, and so on. Nor was I interested in Monk'...

That's not what I had in mind. I was thinking more of a specific set of instructions for carrying out a procedure or solving a problem. That is, there...

:up:

Coincidentaly, I was just reading Wittgenstein’s forgotten lesson. I wonder what you make of it.

The OP goes as follows: And there was this: And yet you insist on our providing a definition. One might be tempted to conclude that you have not follo...

You haven't actually explained why a corporation must make a profit. Again, why shouldn't a corporation be free to take on whatever values the owners ...

Not applied directly. Too strong. Blended with plenty of straw, cardboard, something else with lots of carbon in it. Maybe use it for leafy stuff rath...

What's the difference between the mixer off and the mixer on? There's a difference, right? It can't be the mixer since the mixer is, when off, as it w...

:cool: But I learned my craft at @"csalisbury"'s feet!

Indeed.

Lies to children.

Seems to me you are pressing too hard on a relatively insignificant point in order to carry your OP.

Cool. I'm off to Leftist wrap myself in sympathies, compassion, indignation and knowledge.

Which argument? IS this conversation going somewhere, or will I go and vacuum the floor?

It's what folk call an ethical argument. Ethical arguments are about what we should do.