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The argument is to do with syntax and semantic of different languages, and I am not going to try to restate what Whorf wrote so elegantly. If you have...

Introducing the concept of 'social justice' is a very popular attack on Sapir/Whorf, but really it has nothing to do with the argument of whether lang...

Thats exactly what the anti-racists demanded that science decide was true, and one could argue about it forever if one wants, because neither theory c...

They say it 'swings' a different way. The problem is, linguistics has become a soft science, which is partly why Chomsky abandoned it. There is no way...

if they are french, un deux tres...cat sank. Lol. Have a nice evening, nice to see you here )

It mnight appear dumb to you, but it has been a big problem for pre-collegiate educators, particularly those with a Masters in Education who are requi...

I don't know if anyone has tried to demonstrate how that could be true, and I was in Oxford in the 1980s, so my own education far predates any discuss...

Of course not its not to *blaime,* but it does provide a philosophical reason why people of different racial cultures might actually be naturally hand...

Western THOUGHT, lol In the 1970s, they observed the different speech patterns for African Americans and deduced, from the Sapir Whorf hypothesis, tha...

Well actually, if you agree with the thesis, the answer is yes. If language predates thought, then there must be differences between different racial ...

Historically the problem of racism has linguistic roots in the USA independent of the black/white color dispute due to the Sapir/Whorf debate. These l...

Thank you for an excellent post. What are your opinions on violence as discussed in earlier Western empiricism, such as by Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau...

Well I have two obersatoins to make for you. First, I shared the following letter to Brad Heath, Hournalist at USA Today: I was immediately banned on ...

No. However, now I remembered it all, which I didnt want to, I started to feel really ill again, and its possible I might have started another heart f...

havent got to the part where I was teaching yet. In fact, though, I dont think you want to know about what I had to do when the 12-year-olds were atta...

Guess what. After thinking about it now, 10 years later, I dont really care what you think. I know what happened. I left out the guy roaring with laug...

I hadn't thought what it was like living on the edge of an all-black neighborhood much since I left there. But this week I started hearing black peopl...

Well Ive given up talking to people about it. I miss my cat too much to be rational about it. I cant afford Air Jordans or AR15s like the teenage kids...

Well I just started this in another thread, but perhaps you are the one who needs to think about this. I used to live in a 'mixed' neighborhood, which...

Well, thats why there are 'peaceful demonstrations' about a policeman killing someone by mistake while gangs loot private businesses in this country. ...

Because thats a slightly less insulting comment like the ones I get from black people on facebook. Of course my own life does matter to me, but as Im ...

are you black too by any chance? because I cant think of another explanation for your comment.

AGAIN: the black gang murdered a guy around the corner, and they were shooting at me, and all the dozens of black people I asked just looked at me whe...

I agree with you. Have you noticed the USA is currently on worse footing with itself than HK is with China, and is having worse riots than any country...

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Apparently quite a few people here do, because some of the girls asking money for it have been 18 for years.

right.

the problem is, Chester, even if it were possible to be sure in absolute terms that a 'fact' is indeed a 'fact,' that the selection of particular 'fac...

Well, I took utilitarianism for prelims at Oxford in 1979, which was way before the trolley problem, and the lecturer to the prelims class posed much ...

Well they don't legally, because people are presumed innocent until proven guilty, and they cant be tried for what they did because they are dead, so ...

Well thats true, and thanks for writing. The problem has been that 2A folks say ALL gun control is bad because it infrinces on 2A rights. So my point ...

There was vegan my mother decided to have sex with for a couple of months, now he had some strange ideas, like cowfields should not have fences around...

I was thinking today, how similar this is to a teacher telling you something that's wrong, then asking you to answer a question about it in an exam.

thats very interesting, which particular islamic tradition states that? Very similar to Egyptian ideas of ka, ba, and ptha

Michael Morrcock rode a very entertaining series of books about that. I think its called the 'End of Time' series.

Because I am fed up with the insane chants of 'shall not be infringed' and I want to see them all lie on the ground and grovel to philosophers.

Oh. Those things happened later, lol, they didnt even think about ownership restrictions or carry laws in 1968. Most extensive, ancient history :D

agreed Well there are quite a number. i could give you a few examples. Exuctive orders, like Trump banning bump stocks. There is the NRA-sponsored, ps...

Well, this is a new concept. I spoke with three State Supreme Court attorneys, and they all agreed it had never been said before, so Im not suprised y...

ok lol, to be earnest with you, I would rather be Frank :D

Actually I would concur. People tend to conflate arguments abut gun ownership, and gun use in self defense, with a much older and longer debate about ...

Some attorneys have expressed the view that the right to lethal self defense is not actually supported by the 2nd amendment, in which case, it says ab...

What? Did I think something out loud again? :D

Msybe your unconscious is working in your favor. You advocate a Jungian model, and Jung called it unconscious, not subconscious. The significant diffe...

Why is there continued fascination with this topic? it gets beaten to death on this forum at least once a month.

You may see the typical attorney objections to that statement, as well as an introduction to my own thoughts on the topic at https://thephilosophyforu...

Regarding your other statements, it's true Austin was the first to coin the term, as far as I know. The Stanford Encyclopedia of philosophy traces it ...

Well thank you for a much better definition than I could write! May I quote you? I do have a response you may actually like, but it is a little OT, gi...

I guess you'd want to know, Obama quoted me from my 5,000 word essay, "people who are shot to death had rights too" in this video. It's quite famous, ...

lol doint they love to too, but they dont have time to. Have you ever seen the size of the United States Code? lol. Interestingly enough, sturucturali...