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Redacted. No point in talking with Meta.

Sure. The site cited mumbled something about relativistic increases due to velocity, or some such. I was playing along for @"TheMadFool".

I doubt you are as disappointed in my response as I am in yours. That's pretty much the antithesis of the OP. In a knutshell, recognising one's privil...

Someone... not sure who it was now... made the observation that so many of these discussions come down to trying to convince someone that they should ...

Why would one think that there was one common incentive for all of them? They are many and various. No; indeed, that is the point that the counterargu...

Wrong. There would be a corresponding change in the mass between a living brain, which itself includes electrical current, and a dead brain, which doe...

It's common to those who provide a service. Teachers work to make students independent of teachers - if folk stop having kids, teachers are not needed...

:up: What's evident in the replies to this thread, again, is that the privileged do not understand their privilege. Seems to me as folk won't listen t...

You misspelt ruining.

Sure. Often, especially amongst those pretending to philosophy, clarifying which of multiple possible uses one means by a word is the bone of contenti...

Well, yes: The Origin Of 'The World's Dumbest Idea': Milton Friedman The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits The first is a c...

I don't think so. There's a physical difference between a cake mixer being on, and it being off. Same seems to go for a brain. Suppose a transcendenta...

Think on that. Take your time.

"Oi" isn't in the Shorter OED; I'd bet on it being in the full version. The other words here are.. "shhh" is spelled "sh". Claiming they are not words...

I have an etherial cake mixer. My cake mixer has a mass of 1.5 kg when it is turned on. When turned off, it has a mass of 1.5kg. my cake mixer being t...

https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/photo/2019/07/apollo-11-moon-landing-photos-50-ye/a01_40-5903-1/original.jpg https://images2.minutemediac...

Well, no. That was one example. and

ok, some cats.

There was a certain ironic intent behind the word.

It even works on cats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpIkl2QnJeI

So your faith extends to the market.

You don't appear to be addressing the actual critique. Meh.

Neat rhetoric. Well done. That's an interesting assumption. Nothing more.

Indeed, juxtaposing object and subject leads to incoherence. So don't do it.

SO, sometimes the ball falls up? Sure.

And if they had, that relieves them of their privilege?

Harry, that not all of language is pointing does not imply that none of language is pointing.

No. There's far more going on in @"Isaac"'s posts than just pointing.

Bang. If all language is pointing, pointing ceases to be discreet.

I'm sorry, Harry; I can't help you.

Well, surprise me. But I'm sure you wouldn't want to set up Goodman in contest with Quine, Wittgenstein, Davidson, Austin... That's a big ask.

Cheers.

Ah, the aesthetics chap... Not my area. But what I had supposed was that his theory of reference had some merit, it would be ill conceived to consider...

I didn't follow that post. Perhaps a reference for Goodman would help.

Yeah, the detail is important. Is the crow thinking "if I do A, then I can do B, and then C"? Of course not; those conditionals require language... So...

Isaac Newton. For obvious reasons. Followed by Galileo Galilei. For less well known reasons.

Given that Crows can plan three steps ahead, it's an interesting point.

:up: Nice.

Ay, there's the rub. There will be amongst us those who hold that there is such a thing as the meaning of a word; and that any worthwhile theory of la...

See ; "Hello" is used at the beginning, farewell at the end.; and nothing in that points to pointing. Seems pretty straight forward to me. You're a pu...

Pretty sure. Before humans could communicate, they might well have behaved logically; but of course they could not have set out that behaviour in logi...

Did I address this? I lost track of the conversation. I'm not sure we have a point of contention here... Were you suggesting that the virtues somehow ...

Oh, sure. Go for it. What ensues? If it is a discussion of differing uses, then perhaps that would be for the better. If it is a competition between d...

Oh, I'm a dictionary reader from way back; don't read what I'm saying as being in any way disrespectful towards lexicography.

Well, I'm going to continue to side with Quine and @"StreetlightX" here, and say that pointing is pointedly indeterminate. Have you a counteroffer? Yo...

:rofl:

Indeed; and yet, it was never so important.

Have a great day.

The OP presents arguments to the conclusion that there are ways of understanding a word that are not given in a definition. Harry suggests that words ...