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Well, so what. Again, wouldn't you expect half of the world's population to produce half of the stuff and get half of the profits?

Deary me. You are certain of all sorts of things. You demonstrate that certainty in your actions.

An explanation of how the tariff rates were calculated can be found at Wondering how Trump's new tariffs were calculated? It will shock you Further, f...

§205 is about grounds. You understand that to mean that it is about hinges. Look at §204: Hinges must be both propositional, and an act. Hence, they a...

Is it? https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/4e03e8ca-8d4d-4cba-e600-695f98fb6700/w=8192 Wouldn't you expect half of...

Nuh. Aversion, like Madonna. Or triple JJJ… Might be too local.

Yep. That aversion to those who spend the most time on these issues, and who teach others about them... it's fucked. Like anyone can do that fe-low-so...

He does, very specifically: The world is all that is the case. Show us where he retracts this, if you like. But it seems to be his starting point. And...

Well, no, T-sentences are not just a reinvention of correspondence. The sentence on the left might not have any correspondence at all, and yet the T-s...

No. Quite distinct. Might be interesting to do a thread on Davidson's approach to meaning. I'll think about it.

The use of "true" with the lowest common denominator is that given by a T-sentence. Being a hinge proposition is a role in a language game. Doubting i...

Be thankful for proportional voting. Here's what the alternative looks like, in a nation not too dissimilar to Down Nunder. https://www.youtube.com/wa...

New Yougov data. Take a look at the projected vote share. Add ALP, greens and half the independents together. 61.3% chance of a hung parliament. For o...

Just below Esperance in WA... sorta floating in the air... I see you found her. Keep in mind that most electorates are outer city... On reflection I c...

I'd like to see the two largest broken into four.

Albo - supermarkets already are taking the piss.

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That's a start. more like, consider a bit of code compared to a description of what happened in physical terms in the chips of your phone. These two d...

No. I'm suggesting that they might be about the same things, under two different descriptions.

Not I. Don't look to the meaning, look to the use. The trouble is that the topic is waffle, and specifically it is waffle because it tries to mix two ...

Is the idea just physical? That's the point at issue. The physical reductionist says yes; the idealist - mental reductionist - says the physical is ju...

What's that, then?

:lol: What's meaning, if not what what is done with the information? Meaning here is just another term for use. And use is physical. It involves actua...

Relating this back to the OP, the same "substance" might have multiple descriptions that are not reducible, one to the other.

Well, no. How the system interacts with the data is physical. What we have is two differing descriptions of the same physicality.

But isn't the physical description also "something more" than the intentional description? The intentional description makes not mention of oxytocin. ...

Sure, but that's a different point to what you suggested first, that there is no physical difference between the two sentences. The difference in entr...

No.

That's just not factually correct. The formatted disk containing data has a lower entropy than a disk containing no information. And this is so regard...

I think I've answered that question.

Just to be clear, the suggestion that a mental even is exactly equivalent to a physical event is not something I would defend, but at the same time no...

See Landauer's principle, a consequence of the second law of thermodynamics. But obviously, there are far more ways to arrange the letters randomly th...

It's simply that if experience is coherent, then it follows that something is coherent. Formerly, f(a) ? ?(x)f(x). If the individual a is one of the t...

Why Canberra loves the Liberals... A large number will be hired back as consultants for more cash and lower security, further undermining impartiality...

Nice post. Yep. Describable, as you hint, in thermodynamic terms or as Shannon entropy, or Kolmogorov Complexity. And yes, there is also a difference ...

That's the price of having good coffee. At the least, put an independent before the ALP and give the buggers a scare...? Take advantage of the prefere...

I don't disagree. From a few years ago: _________________ https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/PicassoGuernica.jpg Two very different ways o...

So you are not convinced by a fiver off your tank of fuel? But I'm guessing you don't drive a RAM... Is there an independent in your electorate?

I was still asleep... Yep. But the results, with the possibility of a hung parliament makes the results potentially interesting. So the antics of the ...

Poll Bludger might be worth the look, aggregating and analysing poll data for our consumption. Looks very much like a hung parliament.

P1 is not about subject and object. It predicates coherence to experience. There's no helping some folk. I'll leave you to it. Cheers.

Sure. My point is not about archeology, but about the sentence you are reading now. To doubt that this sentence is in English is to doubt that you und...

The language makes it clear that Egg is looking for a fight rather that a discussion. I'm not that interested, but I'll outline an approach that might...

May 3rd. So much for my sources. Nice timing, though, to keep attention off Dutton's reply last night. The timing also means that a day of Senate Esti...

They are not good for much at all. If they are internal sensations unavailable to others, then they are private in the sense dismissed by Wittgenstein...

...or rather than face the inherent inconsistency in the myth, folk might burry it, like a cat in the litter tray, in dissertation and interpretation....

I dunno. The point made, way back, was that claiming ethics to be nothing but an emotional response fails to see what is going on in doing ethics. Sur...

There's a way of approaching myths, much in evidence in this thread, in which the myth is taken as true. It follows, of course, that anything that cou...

That's apparent. But seems to me that someone's preference for chocolate over vanilla is different to their thinking it wrong to kick pups. Part of th...

You are proposing that a qual can move between the ghost and the machine? So of what substance is the qual - is it mind, or is it object? Or is it som...