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The talks with Putin regarding Ukraine don't matter?
August 16, 2025 at 21:35
The Reserve Bank has published a study confirming that growing concentration in the Australian economy has contributed to poorer productivity growth a...
August 16, 2025 at 04:27
Pissant. Makes a big fuss, gets the attention because of the smell, ruins the barbecue for everyone else and does nothing useful.
August 16, 2025 at 03:33
TACO? I prefer pissant.
August 16, 2025 at 03:23
Oh, it's old news. Fine. Says here: See the bit I bolded?
August 16, 2025 at 03:13
Well, if you can't see the circularity in setting out the essence of cats in terms of catness, and catness in terms of what it is to be a cat, and wha...
August 16, 2025 at 02:44
Ok. Somewhat parochial, but perhaps an astute move given the defunding of science in your nation. I'm sure Europe's and China's various anthropologica...
August 16, 2025 at 02:32
I doubt it - but particular anthropologists might. I don't much mind what they call themselves so long as their methods are open, critical and at leas...
August 16, 2025 at 02:10
Think on this a bit, if you will. It carried the very point Wittgenstein and others have made against essences. You choose to ignore the fact that we ...
August 16, 2025 at 01:13
Actually it's don't look to the meaning, look instead to the use.
August 16, 2025 at 00:56
Played. Before the talks, Trump told Fox 'I won't be happy if I walk away without some form of a ceasefire' After the talks, 'No deal until there's a ...
August 16, 2025 at 00:43
Tofu, or science?
August 16, 2025 at 00:10
Spicy Peanut Tofu Bowls See the bit about How To Make Tofu Crispy. Trouble is, there's not really such a thing as The scientific method, if by that is...
August 16, 2025 at 00:07
Folk who don't like tofu are usually doing it wrong. It takes on the flavour of the other ingredients, so is mostly there for texture and protein; it ...
August 16, 2025 at 00:00
Oh no! Go by some halloumi right now and fry it up - hot pan, olive oil, just enough to brown it on both sides. Serve on toast with salad - roast caps...
August 15, 2025 at 23:50
Good ideas. ...there are a few recipes on line that look fine. But if you want a vegetarian kebab, why not use paneer or even halloumi? Built in fat. ...
August 15, 2025 at 23:38
You'd think. But we have a couple of folk who insist on using syllogistic logic together with essentialism, in order to defend a particular theologica...
August 15, 2025 at 23:25
Oh, I am a tofu regular, but use it in stir fry's and soups, with lots of fresh veggies, especially capsicum. I even have a tofu press. But the point ...
August 15, 2025 at 23:22
There's your problem...
August 15, 2025 at 23:14
Ain't nobody wants a tofu kebab. But Vietnamese tofu soup...slurp, shlurp...
August 15, 2025 at 23:13
It also very much depends on the dish. But generally I'd put it down to fat content - lamb is fatter, fat is flavour.
August 15, 2025 at 23:07
To be sure, anomalous Monism remains an area of great interest and ongoing development. Just look at the list of supplements to the SEP article on tha...
August 15, 2025 at 23:05
Ooooo... hard. No, while goats eat everything, I prefer to eat lamb. I find it more succulent.
August 15, 2025 at 22:56
UN warns 88 percent of Turkey at high risk of desertification amid growing water crisis Not conducive to fattening the lamb. Assuming that 's kebab wa...
August 15, 2025 at 22:50
This doesn't seem to have a direct translation in English - roughly "Mottled grey and white"?
August 15, 2025 at 22:48
I'll surmise that the lamb in Scotland might be of a better quality than in Turkey - nice blackface, perhaps. More fat?
August 15, 2025 at 22:46
SO all ready to watch Putin play Trump, yet again?
August 15, 2025 at 22:42
Or that the best kebab makers left Turkey.
August 15, 2025 at 22:39
No, it isn't. An individual is not a kind. All this shows is ~(Israel = Palestine). They are not identical, and so substitution fails. That there is s...
August 15, 2025 at 22:32
But it seems you can never quite say what "catness" is. Catness is that which is had by a cat, such that it is a cat and not some other thing. As if t...
August 15, 2025 at 22:17
Fucksake. The 20th century just didn't happen for some folk.
August 15, 2025 at 21:54
I can't wait for Disney to release the animation...
August 15, 2025 at 21:53
Who's the positivist?
August 15, 2025 at 21:52
Yep. The schema says that if we have a true formula containing an individual variable a, and if we have a=b, then we can replace a in with b, and the ...
August 15, 2025 at 21:50
Oh, Tim. Referential opacity is to do with individuals, not natural kinds. In first-order logic a,b,c... are variables picking out individuals. Identi...
August 15, 2025 at 21:35
Very droll.
August 15, 2025 at 20:55
yeah, I quite agree. Excellent and original in both thought and prose. Quite an asset, is old . Shame he’s wrong.
August 15, 2025 at 06:12
Yes, as did I. The structure of your occipital lobe is very different to mine. Leave it.
August 15, 2025 at 05:49
Very true.
August 15, 2025 at 05:43
Ok, so had to check that wasn't catching me up. post rates. The number of comments divided by the number of days since first post. I score 7.99 posts ...
August 15, 2025 at 05:35
Damn. You poor bugger. Get a life. :grin:
August 15, 2025 at 05:18
We both have occipital lobes, I assume, however the neuronal connections in your occipital lobe are vastly different to mine. So we both report that s...
August 15, 2025 at 04:01
Sure, but they are wrong. So what's "unhelpful and lazy" might be allowing them to go ahead unopposed, or allowing their wrong ideas to decide what we...
August 15, 2025 at 03:17
, Thought as much. So let's not entertain opinions otherwise. Whether "most" people are against it or not, it's wrong. So what's all this about?
August 15, 2025 at 03:02
This response to this thread stands: We'll continue to use "colour" as we long have, regardless of peculiar and idiosyncratic stipulations of those on...
August 15, 2025 at 02:45
What contradiction? Leon seems to think that no relation can be between a thing and itself. But seven is less than or equal to seven, and your phone i...
August 14, 2025 at 23:42
Not really. You have three distinct issues, phenomenology, referential opacity and Anomalous Monism. Bringing them together is no short order. Cheers.
August 14, 2025 at 08:47
I'm still not following you. He certainly thinks there are physical causes - laws, if you like. You'd have to explain how what he calls a mental even ...
August 14, 2025 at 07:44
And when not navel gazing, it's Spinoza for retired engineers. Ok. I supose it keeps them off the streets.
August 14, 2025 at 06:39
Is that what it is? Ok.
August 14, 2025 at 06:31