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Oh, indeed, you and I would never make use of AI...

It's a rule that is unenforceable in practice.

:snicker:

Only if the AI tells us to.

His actions make sense, given Hanover's preference for folly.

Frightening.

Pea and ham soup. Lentils and pig. Excellent stuff. I haven't made any this year, might have to buy some hocks. Perhaps you should wear a mask when on...

You must have caught my cold. Sorry.

Remember when Ukraine agreed to give up its nuclear weapons for Security guarantees? It don't go so well.

So the Orange Emperor had to pause a meeting with European leaders to check in with his boss in Moscow.

My only comment would be that he was banned for the wrong reason. The OP was rubbish, and the discussion did not improve on it.

Cheers. No more than a conjecture, and even a literature review would be a months of work. Good counterpoints. I suspect that Aristotle's distinction ...

Anyway, well off topic. Time to move on.

Me, too. While there are various ad hoc workarounds, and no doubt Tim can give you the details, syllogistic logic deals in A,E,I and O, and these are ...

This? “I=W" can only be true if we restrict the referent of 'water’ to its solid form. But doing so would be an error. The referent of "water" is not ...

I doubt Charmers would agree. Like most of the generic critique of analytic philosophy - itself now an anachronistic term - that's more a caricature t...

Whatever. I still do not understand what you are saying.

I guess so. I've pointed to Davidson once or twice. That's were I'm pointing now. If I havn't made a point, it;\'s becasue I can't follow what youa re...

I'd be happy to help rehabilitate essence. So if the "Thomistic distinction between essence and accident" is understood as the modal difference betwee...

Better in the shout box than in the thread Puts me in mind of an anecdote. two undergrads were waiting to talk to Russel Ward in Ward's office, which ...

Is your claim that if the dog we call Bee had a different DNA, it would be a different dog? That seems to be agreeing with the modal definition of ess...

Becasue language inherently involves interpreting utterances. I'm sorry, I wasn't able to see what you were saying.

Yeah, maybe not. It's a bit of a muddle, really. I'm not at all sure what you are claiming here. So what looks like a violation of Leibniz’s Law is re...

If a theory of how names work does not account for modal contexts, it's broken. That's what went wrong with the description theory of reference. If es...

Yep. The ice bridge argument is just invalid. It's another undistributed middle. Equivocation can take place in the same context, but it is not necess...

digressions don’t trouble me. But I think that actually pretty relevant.

Thanks. All good stuff. African Elephants were long thought to be one. While there is some morphological difference between savanna and forest elephan...

Time's a bitch. I've plenty of chook stories. Best not start. Odd, that you Yanks don't use the word "chook".

English. The word "deer" comes from the PIE dheusom, "creature that breathes". In Old English it referred to any non-domestic animal. Old English conf...

Referential opacity is a different issue to referential equivocation. You mash them.

I'd say it's becasue of your penchant for rhetoric over logic. Ism, ism, ism - the need to find the right box, rather than take the argument on its me...

Given that the ISA is the commonest commercial egg hen, yep. In the USA there is another hybrid, the Hy-line brown, that is claimed to produce more th...

OK. ISA Browns Lay large to extra-large eggs almost from the start. Average: 63–65 g per egg. Australorps Start with medium eggs as pullets, then move...

Dude, H?O? liquid water. Palestine ? Israel. Stop equivocating.

Both Austolorps and Isa browns outlay Plymouths over a lifetime. Isa's will lay more eggs than either of the others per kg of food. ISA Brown / simila...

In virtue of the supposition of a world that includes cats but not people. That's how modality works. We can stipulate a possible world in which there...

I really do not know... I'll leave it to Tim.

Natural kinds - ice, water, and so on - are not individuals. Referential opacity is a problem for individuals. Both natural kinds and individuals can ...

Yep. Perhaps picture a large statistical model connected to appropriate sensors, comparing what is said to what is sensed, and making a statistical co...

Obvious as this is, I am pleased that at least you have understood this. Yes, and will stay that way until the challenge is met. Notice the rhetorical...

You left out the interpreter. In doing so you ignored the fact of communality that is inherent in language. Hence your account is inherently incomplet...

@"Count Timothy von Icarus" Babies use words despite not understanding Aristotle

Ism, ism, ism... Of course there would be cats. Just no one to call them "cats" - except your God, of course, and perhaps this is what your argument i...

Wittgenstein carefully dismantles presumptions of metaphysics. To say he is not doing metaphysics would be an error.

Me? This arguing in terms of "isms" is a hedge. You never quite say what "reductionism" is. So let me be quite specific, and lay this misrepresentatio...

Neither of us is denying that cats and trees exist. You seem to have the idea that unless there is an essence, there cannot be cats and trees. That's ...

We will have to wait and see.

Well, no, and it's odd that you would supose this. Of course a circular argument may be formal valid - but the point is that as an explanation circula...

Yesterday. I read the Kyiv Post maybe once or twice a week. There's also a show in Australia called "Planet America", which is enjoyable. It's a mix o...

I have an Austrolorp and an Isa Brown. Both will produce three hundred eggs a year, far higher than the paltry (!) 200 from the "Plymoth Rock".