"The store has bananas" might be translated by the CAT tool from another language; perhaps it's translating to French, and it would map "banana" to "b...
But it sounds a bit confusing: By including line (B), it sounds like you're suggesting the footage being genuine is a fact. By your prior statement it...
It sounds like you're saying that, for example, GOFAST is very likely some form of fowl. But it is possibly an alien craft. But whatever it is, it is ...
Once I've drawn 100 marbles it wouldn't matter if I were more likely to draw what I did or less likely. No, my accumulated net winnings would probably...
Well let me phrase it another way. You observe some particular and derive some truth about the particular, where "truth" is simply something to your o...
It's contradictory. So what you're saying is because I might draw a blue marble, it does not matter what the probability is that I draw a red one. But...
You replied, but you did not answer the question. If you're talking about the use of the terms in science, there's a distinction, but it's what I desc...
Be more specific. The bet(1) is an offer; the bet(2) is a contract; betting is the act of negotiating a bet(2). Again in the bridge analogy, the bet(1...
Yes, and scientifically speaking, they are facts. Back to drawing lines? Do the planets exist when you aren't looking at them, or is that just theory?...
Ah, in that case, as I understand it, a scientific theory will explain why a set of facts is the case. To contrast, and also to use in a moment, there...
I'm not sure which concept of theory you're after, but it sounds like you just came up with a distinction on your own. A fact must be true. A theory m...
I don't think it's a matter of where you draw the line in the first place. You establish that something is the case to your own satisfaction, and that...
You're clearly not talking about this: Your distinction sounds completely arbitrary. If you're trying to clarify the difference between the totally di...
Yes, if I open the fuse box, I might see the blown fuse. But it does not seem to matter whether I'm doing so to verify there's a blown fuse or figure ...
"Competing in a contest" and "competing" denote distinct things. But it's wrong (in the sense that it does not follow). We cannot interfere in the Lak...
Presuming you mean that one, I do the investigation myself. Turns out it's a curious one... there is a blown fuse. It is a fact that there was a blown...
That's weak. None of your alternatives is better in this scenario than "fact of the matter". "Reason why car won't start" is definitely not what is be...
Yes, that's the general idea. But again, it's a game that you win or lose. Yes. They are playing a scheduled basketball game. I think what you mean to...
I'm not sure why. My car won't start... I would like to be able to say there's some fact of the matter that explains why it won't start. It doesn't se...
Improper how? The difference between "known to be true" and "actuality" is that the former appeals to my mental states and the latter does not. The la...
No, that's wrong. I don't know your exact position. But I do know you said this: ...and this: So this isn't really what my assumptions of your positio...
But nobody has to resolve this for there to be a fact of the matter regarding it. It's basic theory of mind that each of us knows things the other has...
Okay, let's start here. So you acknowledge bet can have this meaning. Let's call this bet(1). Sure. "Bet" can also have this meaning. Let's call this ...
This is what you quoted. Here's what you left out: You have already sung that song. And the answer was already given to you. In order for me to be obl...
I discussed that too, right here: ...unprompted even. But you're conflating two distinct things: (a) the fact that I can make a bet by saying "I bet I...
Why did you bother with this example? I've already explained this to you. No, I don't (B) owe him ten bucks. But what's in dispute is (A) that my budd...
I'm not sure what's so complicated about this. If I am riding a bike, I would propel the bike by pushing on the peddles. In like fashion, I said this:...
You have failed to make your case. You're over-interpreting here. A claim that x is how y happens (in this context) is a claim about means, not suffic...
Well for one, the power to make a bet by stating that I'm making one. It's a fact that I made that bet; a fact made true by the fact that I stated tha...
You didn't really discuss my bet at all. I didn't name anything; I "made a bet". ETA: Might I suggest there are different "kinds" of facts, and they f...
Nonsense. As soon as there are two of them, they can be considered two individuals. The fact that you count them and count to two ipso facto means the...
Of course they do. If I start selling poison masqueraded as candy to children oversees, surely the government has a duty to stop me. Tobias is not mak...
Your analogy is missing a key ingredient from the scenario... company F bought those trade secrets from T knowing that they were trade secrets for Com...
Okay, but remember, we had to qualify prostitution to make this analogous. We're not just talking prostitution any more; it's prostitution where the p...
But if you're going to use this argument: ...then possession could enable production and that could harm the child being exploited, and: ...that is wo...
I'm not talking about excusing the harm; I'm talking about comparing it to harms that do not involve agreement. It's breaking an agreement to cheat in...
Well I wasn't going for a point; I was just trying to wrap my head around the metric being used. I get that monogamous relationships involve an agreem...
Could you actually put some numbers on this for me, even if it's a guesstimate? ...also, are you going for raw counts here, or severity of the impacts...
Given that the processes behind thought do not appear to be consciously accessible, what does it mean to attribute the source of thinking to conscious...
Let's try it this way. Imagine a machine performing this toy calculation: https://i.ibb.co/XZzQx6c/math-machine.png ...to compute (A+B)×C. Let's consi...
Not really. Corvus is making a similar mistake that Hermeticus made in the first page of this topic; he's conflating analog and digital signals with a...
Mea culpa; I meant to refer to the PDP-8 as having no microprocessor... the PDP-11 did have one. Then again, I note that you mutated this from "microp...
That's fair. But so is my analogy. I told you it didn't have a microprocessor. Not true. I told you a PDP-11 doesn't have a microprocessor, an OS is o...
How is ranting on the importance of establishing clearer concepts, instead of, oh I don't know, actually trying to do that... not lecturing? Which lea...
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