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That got very defensive very quickly. Too quickly. When someone is that defensive, it is usually the case that they are defending nothing of worth. OK...
December 20, 2019 at 20:08
You'd hav to convince me it was worth a read. Here's my take: truth is primitive. It can't be defined as something else, nor replace by some other not...
December 20, 2019 at 19:46
A side issue, perhaps, but that's a nonsense, isn't it? The thought just is the words, surely? I could go with "Translate the sentiment, not the words...
December 20, 2019 at 19:42
Where?
December 20, 2019 at 19:39
Then why bother bringing it to a forum? Saying things like that is going to get you laughed at, not listened to.
December 20, 2019 at 19:13
Truth is what is there despite what is said, done or believed. One cannot go to war against truth. Nor is an attempt to replace truth with merit helpf...
December 20, 2019 at 18:59
What's the difference between translation and interpretation? Is translation where a word or phrase in one language is globally replaced by a word or ...
December 20, 2019 at 18:41
https://www.sciencealert.com/love-means-different-things-depending-on-your-language?fbclid=IwAR0yYcV8YZGW7axeIH6CKPDx00c_5nqMaiB89qd-nE-W5nTfIJopK6GBA...
December 20, 2019 at 07:24
Guess so.
December 20, 2019 at 01:00
Spot on. A couple of months ago the forum was infested with bad theology. Now it's bad maths.
December 19, 2019 at 22:39
Yeah. it makes you think. We don't want none of that 'round 'ere.
December 19, 2019 at 03:38
But you have previously denied this - for example, you claim that dumb animals have beliefs.
December 19, 2019 at 02:55
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2017/02/climate-change-pacific-islands/
December 18, 2019 at 20:49
:up:
December 18, 2019 at 20:44
Davidson talks of radical interpretation, not radical translation - That was Quine. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/davidson/#RadiInte
December 18, 2019 at 20:35
https://scontent.fcbr2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/79087656_2975397299158235_3469021539968483328_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&_nc_ohc=7Dt40mMxVboAQlH1TtYdo1nTO6pkpy...
December 17, 2019 at 20:16
What do you think?
December 17, 2019 at 19:19
Whatever.
December 17, 2019 at 19:14
A contradiction just means you have misspoken.
December 17, 2019 at 19:11
I've nothing more to say until more is presented.
December 16, 2019 at 20:47
As i recall you referred to a book. One that might be quite interesting - so I put it on my wish list. You have voiced your inability to articulate th...
December 16, 2019 at 20:15
I did. I didn't. I get the joke. But lampooning Davidson will not suffice, even if it is funny.
December 16, 2019 at 19:57
I'm sorry, Frank, that supposed argument is too fluffy to be understood.
December 16, 2019 at 19:18
yep.
December 16, 2019 at 01:20
For instance...?
December 16, 2019 at 01:19
Then there is nothing more to say.
December 15, 2019 at 23:02
Hm. The only difference I see is that I have a dislike for using the word "concept". I don;t see that my view is so different to Davidson's.
December 15, 2019 at 01:08
:grin:
December 15, 2019 at 01:04
Anyone. Are you suggesting one person could state it but not another? Notice it is state not assert.
December 15, 2019 at 00:58
how do you see them as differing?
December 14, 2019 at 23:27
One way to consider it is as asking if language can span conceptual schemes. Davidson's argument is that it can, that what is true in one conceptual s...
December 14, 2019 at 21:05
Again, a belief is statable. So we have a shared discourse that allows each of us to evaluate beliefs. This is to be distinguished from having concept...
December 14, 2019 at 21:01
The difference is that a belief can be stated and understood by someone who does not share that belief. The notion of conceptual scheme being critique...
December 14, 2019 at 20:58
And yet that is what mathematicians do.
December 14, 2019 at 04:14
Why not?
December 14, 2019 at 03:54
Take the other example - 1-½+?-¼... It converges to two. You disagree?
December 14, 2019 at 03:38
That's a much better critique. The sum diverges to infinity. What more is there to say? But "the sum diverges to infinity" is not "it can't be done"!
December 14, 2019 at 03:25
You were expecting what? An integer? What is it you see as missing from the answer?
December 14, 2019 at 03:19
The task is to sum the sequence. The answer is that the sequence diverges to infinity. Hence the task is completed.
December 14, 2019 at 03:06
If they are anyone except you, they will have understood the process and see how to construct any element, and realise that there is no need to do so ...
December 14, 2019 at 02:54
That doesn't follow.
December 14, 2019 at 02:48
No. Here it means "keep going like this..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis#In_mathematical_notation
December 14, 2019 at 02:35
Well... Better yet to be well-informed. What is it that mathematicians, climate scientists, botanists and biologists actually say? It's now astonishin...
December 14, 2019 at 02:29
They are active during the actual fuck?
December 14, 2019 at 02:15
Yeah, it does - that's what the ellipsis is for.
December 14, 2019 at 02:11
No. I want a forum where the disagreement is legitimate.
December 13, 2019 at 22:53
No, it doesn't.
December 13, 2019 at 22:51
I describe the role of the slender male to Wife. She observed "They're like a sex therapist".
December 13, 2019 at 22:51
Yes. But an iron deficiency makes meat a good choice, and the recipe includes plenty of chick peas, beans and dried fruit, so that 400g of goat will p...
December 13, 2019 at 22:49
You've set up a false dilemma.
December 13, 2019 at 22:41