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Brain function? No. I don't have to examine my cat's brain function to tell that it is sleeping.

Because there is no mention of change. No improvement, no becoming... things that are central to humanity.

The core of a question would involve the completed proposition's being true. That is, there may well be examples where this is not the case, but they ...

Much better than salvation achieved.

Well, Searle's rules, mentioned earlier, develop on Austin's ideas in that direction. I'm just loath to type it all out here. Roughly, a question has ...

...the OP was not about mathematics. But I had previously pointed out that one way to understand maths is that it is the setting to of patterns - maki...

Baked chicken with haloumi (kotopolulo sto fourno me haloum) I've modified it for two, using thigh fillets because they are to hand, but the absence o...

Any utterance can be categorised like that. I wrote this, more or less, for the WIki article on J L Austin It's not peculiar to questions, but they ar...

That's what all the inmates think.

Well, it helped me answer your post, and the OP. The mooted analysis of analysis - requested by the OP - is that it is patterns of patterns. I'm liter...

Exactly.

Meh. I'd buy you a beer, just to see what you are like in person; to see how much the sociopathic exterior is an online affectation.

That's very rare. That's what random is. It tells you what mathematics is...

Quite so. Indeed, much of what you have to say tells us about you rather than about how things are. It ain't nice.

The Tractaus solved all the problems of philosophy. The Investigations showed where it went wrong. But it's On Certainty that starts to deal with doub...

Nuh. Go to a tertiary text. Kenny's is my choice for a first.

A pattern is a repetition.

Patterns. Then patterns in the patterns. Then patterns in those patterns.

Napping requires considerable dexterity; there is more to it than banging rocks together. The conchoidal fractures on the example pictured are the res...

Hence they shared. With all that implies.

Oldowan tools are found from France to China.

This is the lady who's folk made that tool: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/A.afarensis.jpg/256px-A.afarensis.jpg Perhaps sh...

The Greeks did not have a government until Alexander's dad, who was no democrat. That's how the polis ticked.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Canto_tallado_2-Guelmim-Es_Semara.jpg/800px-Canto_tallado_2-Guelmim-Es_Semara.jpg Some early...

That's just wrong.

I just wasn't aware they predated the Greeks. But seems they didn't.

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Yeah. It's pretty arbitrary. I don't find it at all compelling.

Do we have two populations, left and right, that would show up as significant in a T-test? I doubt it. More like the two sides of a normal distributio...

Oh, I thought I was pointing out a flaw...

Looks inherently conservative. It divides politics from economics, as if politics did not involve values. Where's science? And why include religion at...

Of course The Plague would be far more apt for present consideration.

To be clear, what I said was that ...and the examples I gave showed how we could distinguish a conscious human, animal, computer or plant from an unco...

Your world is so neat.

The Left-Right dichotomy had its origin in the French National Assembly, of course. But it has persisted and hence perhaps reflects something more ess...

The Myth Of Sisyphus And Other Essays

Here you go, then: The Myth of Sisyphus.

Someone might take on Christianity as their rock, choosing to be happy pushing it every day? It's more a direction of fit. Let's oppose two views. In ...

Film or television? It strikes me as quite right. One cannot choose not to choose, and hence not to act. Even choosing to do nothing is choosing an ac...

Additional ad hoc hypothesis used to prevent falsification of the core assumption.

Then the sceptic is also assuming the theory of probability.

No, I said that you used "objective" to take on the sense of "true". You're trading on that ambiguity.

Good. I'm interested to see any evidence you have that a rock has feelings.

What?

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Hang on, I'm not following. For someone outside the hole the astronaut falls forever, For the astronaut, the fall occurs over a finite time. If someon...

Indeed; that is exactly my point. These are not the same.

Looks to be on track.

Yep. Take the fun out of fundamental,

I don't see why an absolute coordinate system would be obligated to propagate that the speed of light. Hence, those events that are beyond our event h...