One of the reasons it has failed is because socialism was never able to mature into a classless society because the ones that led the revolutions agai...
And I appreciate your intellectual honesty and the time you are devoting to addressing all points. I wish that was a more common virtue on these forum...
More assertions. I'm winning our game. Wait, doesn't this contradict what you just said? How could it possibly be that there are individuals that rebe...
Independents and moderate Dems, like Bill Maher and Elon Musk, use the term, "far left" to show that "liberal progressives" arent liberal or progressi...
The same could be said of the moderates and extremists for both the left and the right. Again, the difference lies in who wields the reins of power ov...
China and Russia are not fully capitalist states. The governments in each hold their thumb on the economies, choosing winners and losers. As such, the...
But how can you talk about something that doesn't exist? As I said before, it can't be a representation if what it "represents" doesn't exist. It is t...
I'd prefer to say that I'm going logical on you. It seems that one can logically arrive at that conclusion without ever having read Wittgenstein. http...
Yes, changing names is a language act. Changing elements is a chemical act and changing presidents is a voting act. Changing one has no effect on chan...
Changing the name doesnt change the pill. Its so simple i dont understand why theres any issue. I think that too many here think that making it comple...
This appears to be all assertions to me. I win everytime you type scribbles on your screen, Banno, because everytime you use scribbles you assert your...
But that's not a black man or white man experience per se. It is a human experience of finding yourself in an environment that is hostile to you based...
It comes down to what you mean by "exist". Imaginings exist in the same way non-imagined things exist. They are both real in the sense that they have ...
Exactly - to be human. For us to understand that black men and white men can have the same experiences is to understand them both as being human, not ...
Then it seems to me that you believe that ultimately no one is talking about anything. We would simply be making sounds with our mouths and making scr...
A car is not it's engine. It is a car. Models are typically a smaller scale than what is being modeled and typically less complex. You can't sit in or...
We have differences and similarities. It all depends on what you or someone else wants to focus on. If someone dehumanizes you because of your differe...
My point was that it was not complicated, not that there are not mixed race and mixed culture people. I thought that would be obvious had you read the...
Hmm. It seems strange to say that you are not a realist when you've been engaged with me in this conversation for some time now. Is it your belief tha...
Seem: to give the impression of being; To appear to be probable or evident. If it isn't how it seems, then maybe you should explain what you see the d...
Yes, we are part of the world, not separate from it. The world affects us and we affect the world. This is simpler than trying to think of us as separ...
Sure I did. You're not paying attention. Is Searle's use of language (his model of language) about language-use? Is language-use a state of affairs? I...
Exactly. As if every white male has the same experiences, and as if every black man has the same experiences and needs that are different than white m...
But that's the point. Are we talking about defining objects in the world, or defining objects in the mind. We need to make that clear or else we end u...
Then the precise definition only refers to imaginary objects in the mind. There is no such thing in the world in which the set of all points are equid...
Thank you. I appreciate that. I can say that same about you. :up: My profile actually says that my location is Indonesian fields, not necessarily that...
All definitions end with what the definitions point to in the world. You may look up a word in a dictionary and get more words, but eventually those s...
:brow: Hmmm. I would have thought that, being a model, it would be wrong in that it does not represent what is being modeled, therefore it becomes use...
If there is more than one universe then are we not already acknowledging that there are a number of universes, and that there might be different unive...
It seems to me that your understanding isn't an understanding at all if you are unable to communicate it without contradicting yourself. It seems as i...
What would it mean for you to be wrong if there are many possible models? Is Searle's model wrong? How would we know? The distinctions Banno, by way o...
Then Searle is not talking about language-use in the world. Hes talking about his own feelings about language-use. So is this thread about language-us...
Directives are saying something about the state of affairs of the wants and needs of the person using sonecscribbles or sounds. Commissives are saying...
Minds, listeners and speakers are not in the world? It seems to me that every speech act is an assertion because every speech act about some state of ...
If babies are shown to respond to novelty, then why would they show more interest in multiple objects that look the same? It seems to me that they wou...
As I said, the sum of two and two is true in this universe. Whether it is not true somewhere else is irrelevant. Something else would be true in the o...
Right, which is to say that conscious experience/awareness of things are quantifiable - but only by first establishing a category for things first. Yo...
:roll: So is a heart part of what makes one a man or a woman, or is it some other part of the body? What makes some heart the heart of a woman or a ma...
Chess, ownership of property and the Ukrainian government are not states of affairs in the world? Then we agree that there are natural facts and facts...
Using an omnipotent god as an example is quite a stretch as the phrase, "omnipotent god" brings a whole host of other problems into the mix. I just do...
Then explain what you meant by babies are aware of quantity if not that their experience is quantifiable. Are they born knowing the symbols used to re...
Forgive me, but I fail to see where you actually made any point, much less repeated one. If you'd like to continue, educate me on your points by answe...
Only fucking words? What about non-fucking words? You are making unnecessary distinctions and at the same time being purposely obtuse to the necessary...
Which is just another way of saying that conscious experience is quantifiable, like I said, and from there we develop symbols for communicating these ...
It would be true in any universe in which there are categories and a quantity of things within that category. Again, what is beneficial and comfortabl...
It seems to me that the invention of mathematics would not have been conceivable if experience itself was not in some way quantifiable. For something ...
No. It's a nod towards favoritism. There are many ideas that have no evidence. So why choose to believe in one idea with no evidence over another if n...
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