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Let's let our goofy baseball rule expert have a say in this. - Hey, @"Noble Dust", I thought the infield fly rule applied in the...well...infield.

Someone should warn Jamal that @"Hanover" has stolen his Philosophy Forum password.

As you should know, the rules of Little Kid Baseball (LKB) require that all rule arguments be settled without reference to facts or actual rules of an...

You know, I never thought of that. I should have been more sensitive.

In my experience, both of myself and others, this is not true at all. I think this misunderstanding is a consequence of people not being aware of thei...

Yes, well. I never did get that southern hemisphere humor.

Really hard to read. Needs more paragraph breaks.

On the field I played on as a kid, the poison ivy was a homerun.

The end of the world:

You're right. This explanation takes a lot of the goofiness out of the new rule. On the other hand, it significantly increases the meta-goofiness of b...

As I noted, I don't understand all of it, but there's something there. I've spent a lot of time thinking about reductionism, holism, emergence, and th...

This is for @"Noble Dust" and other baseball lovers. Here's a link to an article from the AP on changes in infielder placement I would characterize as...

Before I start, I want to be clear. I have only an engineer's interested, amateur understanding of cognitive science or philosophy of mind. I also adm...

"The Muppet Show" is on my list of my 10 favorite TV shows. Of course my top 10 list includes more than 10 shows. That's kind of like when motivationa...

Thank you for the science/cooking lesson for today.

I think there is a valid argument to be made for your position. I do worry some about how our languages are being changed for what I consider trivial ...

This is just another case of what I call "the Paradox Paradox." That's where people call uncertain or ironic circumstances or simple inconsistencies p...

It is my understanding that the men in the picture were not fishing. They were searching for one of Jack the Ripper's victims. When asked why they wer...

Over the weekend I went to a restaurant in Annapolis with my family. I tried rockfish, striped bass, for the first time. It was great. It's the Maryla...

This showed up as the wallpaper on my computer and knocked my socks off. Martin Rico - On the Seine from 1869. https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/api...

Yeah, I don't either, but they do something with fish and scallops.

Sounds good. A simple salad would also be good. I like a bit of acid with fish.

Yes. I never got the point of Manhattan chowder. It's just tomato soup. In Maryland they do the same thing with crab, which has a more delicate flavor...

Boston doesn't have a lot of national chain seafood restaurants, what with the sea and all. I think the closest Red Lobster is in Philadelphia. There ...

I eat them in summer, but I don't know if season matters. Oysters like cooler water, but I don't know about scallops. I love them fried with a light b...

I lived in Cambridge MA in the 1970s and went to the original Legal Seafood in Inman Square. We sat at shared picnic tables and were served by gruff B...

I always thought "cockles" meant scallops, since coquilles St. Jacque is made using them. Turns out I was wrong.

Scallops are my favorite bivalve, my favorite seafood. Eating fried or seared fresh bay scallops feels like eating steak. I like oysters raw; clams ra...

I agree with this, but I think the moderators have done a good job making a place where the rules are not so tight or enforced so strictly that they e...

There is important truth in this.

I just assumed they were local. It's more interesting if they were, so I'm sticking with it. I'm a believer in Hanoverian epistemology - the truth is ...

The effort is the point. It's not where you get, it's how you got there. That's philosophy.

I've visited Europe twice and I loved the Netherlands both times. First off, they named it "The Netherlands," "Pais Bas." It's a nation of engineers a...

I've always been intrigued by Papua New Guinea. It shares half it's landmass with Indonesia. It was one of the last places where they still found peop...

Can it be rude if it's true?

Thought people might be interested in this. It's a good AP story including an interview with the foreman of the Georgia special grand jury looking int...

I'm not going to do it. Although it may seem as if I am to @"Banno" and other less sophisticated members, I am not in fact a philosopher, as much as I...

For me, I think it was primarily curiosity. I just want to know how it all fits together. What happens next. It's fun, play. That's one of the main po...

And that's still not as goofy as solipsism, but people talk about that as if were worth discussing.

In recent weeks, members have claimed that nothing exists but me, quantum mechanics proves that nothing exists, substance does not exist, and so on an...

Can it be a coincidence that Dido was the legendary queen and founder of Carthage, Rome's primary military opponent in the Mediterranean.

I hope you'll pardon me if I remain skeptical.

More penis-related news for @"Hanover"

Given my strong interest in metaphysics I'm thinking about starting a thread about a new ontological approach I call "metawiki," which includes the pr...

To go off in a bit different direction... I just finished "What Is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology" by Addy Pross. In it, he goes to a lot of tro...

I've always assumed @"Jamal" makes up all his quotes just like I do.

In the UK, they call it a boot or a lorry or something like that. Oh, wait. No. It's WC, which stands for wooly candle.

Just like @"Noble Dust".

Definition of effusive - Unrestrained or excessive in emotional expression; gushy. Profuse; overflowing. Pouring out; pouring forth freely. So now you...

If you look at it on a map, the Gambia has a really funny border. It looks like it is defined as about 6 miles from the Gambia River, so the border me...