Quite happy with "Santa Claus exists in Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer", seems a stretch to go from that to "Santa Claus exists", no? Former has a cont...
Which we? Particular speakers or the linguistic activity in which they are embedded? Can you spell out the distinction between these two claims: ( 1 )...
In article: The affective state of surprise isn't what's intended by surprise minimisation. Worth keeping in mind it's a technical term in the underly...
I agree. The second there is a purpose or context which influences the truth conditions of E!, it should not be interpreted outside of it. E!, in what...
Doesn't it depend on the representation relationship? I guess I don't really want to get into it in too much depth. Spelled out my view about perceptu...
The function f(n) = 2*n for any input n generates every even number. It generates infinitely many of them. Putting in n=1 gives you f(1)=2*1=2, puttin...
A mathematical proof for a target statement is a series of statements which logically/deductively show that statement. It can't show something 'like' ...
Is there any more substance to this than "scientists getting all TED talk gooey over the image of nature they have in their heads is a bit cringe?". I...
5 point ranking scales from good to bad have biases toward the extremes and middle. You nevertheless want to give people a middle (odd number) so that...
Setting up this Google form took 5 minutes and has the 1->5 "hated it" to "loved it" rating scale thing. Also automatically derives a spreadsheet. No ...
A bitcoin is brought into existence when a particular computer calculation is completed. There's a "list" of these that all of the computers "mining" ...
Mining a bitcoin is done on a computer. The process that the computer needs to do to mine a bitcoin keeps getting longer. The process can be done quic...
I know it wasn't directed at me, but it's an interesting question. If you want to make someone feel shame, you need to remove them from whatever conte...
Signalling that he was Marco and behaving like Marco. If we weren't currently being bombarded by Marco sockpuppets, I would not have banned them. We'v...
Send him a PM. If they are invested and believe it was a mistake... Might consider it. Otherwise, doing something indistinguishable from impersonating...
Mark Fisher cuts through the crap surrounding the idea: ( 1 ) Omnipresent cultural nostalgia treadmill. ( 2 ) Death of the political imaginary. ( 3 ) ...
Heard along a grapevine that the influence of Murdoch in German politics is noticeable on a county by county basis - does your constituency tend to co...
The circumlocution of the erudite is the onanism of the grandiloquent. :vomit: :chin: Modding wise - it can be frustrating to try to keep a topic inte...
Not surprising. I think that's a much more factual website. Like you wouldn't give an unsourced answer on math/programming stack exchanges. Same with ...
I think "good post proportion" is a useful metric for that. Admittedly we don't keep numbers or try and quantify it (at least I don't) so there will b...
I can give you some tips to stay under the radar if you like. ( 1 ) If you're going to write a pet theory you have on something, make sure you put in ...
Speaking as a person who has spent an inordinate amount of time earnestly studying Time Cube (intro vid), I don't think this is a question of bizarre ...
For anyone that kept being torn between them, what criteria did you decide between definition and theory? Mine was; the sentence should be a definitio...
This was the only one I wasn't torn over when I voted. But I'm torn over it now. The association of numbers with different states of consciousness see...
Thing is about as clear as you can get for a generic end point that a string gets mapped to. You put the objects in the background then map the symbol...
That truth means something very different to logicians than it means to philosophers in general. That's without speaking of the general public. At the...
Let's see if I can make you see (how I see) the problem. How I see the problem isn't that the op is a counter example to modus ponens (I think modus p...
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