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I always felt bad reading when I didn't know a word or get a reference but was too lazy to look them up. Now I judge a book by how much time I spend o...

I'm reading a book book right now. It's hard. I can't push on the page when I want to know a definition or some background. Well, I can, but it doesn'...

When you're walking up the stairs, your feet go up and down, just like they do when you're walking on a flat surface. I guess you're center of mass do...

If I walk a mile on a flat surface, how far did I walk? A mile. I don't count the distance my feet moved when they went up and down as I walked. Why w...

It's not a paradox. The diagonal line represents the distance I travel going from the bottom to the top - ?2. It doesn't matter whether I use stairs o...

Do people know about Libby? It's an app you can get for your computer or phone that let's you see what electronic books are available at your library ...

Except the sum of the chord side lengths on the polygons you've shown do approach the circumference of the circle. If I remember correctly, this is ho...

If those metaphors work for you, that's good. If you hadn't explained them, I probably wouldn't have known what you were trying to say. Those are prob...

Finished it. Really good.

How much change would there have to be? If you changed anything that would make it so your life was delayed or sped up even a second, you might have c...

No. It's not true. It doesn't even mean anything.

Some genetic strains survive and some don't, which leads to changes in the species, i.e. evolution. Changes in the population of organisms over time a...

I'm about half way through and I'm enjoying it.

You seem to have a better grasp on what's going on here than I do.

I've been reading quite a few of his books lately. Now I'm reading "Billy Summers." I'd forgotten how good a writer he is. I've been comparing him wit...

I've put quite a bit of effort into this discussion. It's been useful and interesting. It gave me a chance to dive deeper into the issues we've discus...

Variations in the virus strains develop as the result of random genetic mutations which take place on a continuous basis. Some mutations have no signi...

There's a difference between justice and social control; retribution and coercion.

Yes, I know what the words mean, but not in the context they are being used. I don't know their significance, why we should be paying attention to the...

I fantasize about that kind of thing sometimes, but then I realize that almost any change I made that long ago would make it so my children would neve...

No will involved, just evolution by natural selection. Some strains of the virus are more resistant to the vaccines than others just by chance. Those ...

Not at all. As I told you previously, the links to the definitions on your website don't work for me. I'm using Chrome. Even if they did, I'm not sure...

You are being petulant when you don't get the responses you want.

I think this gets at the heart of my questions. Why would I want to look at the reconstruction of the work of art if it's not telling me something int...

The questions you are asking are the same sorts of ones I have.

I've asked the moderators if I could post a link to @"thaumasnot"'s webpage so others can see what he's done. I don't want to piss anyone off or get a...

Your conceptual reconstruction of Ode on a Grecian Urn is what I expected from what you described. I can see the value and agree it might be helpful, ...

No, no, you're thinking of sophistimicated. That's different.

That's the first time I've seen "sophisticated" in the same sentence as "Ohio." My experience of sophistication in Ohio is the drive through liquor st...

As a sophisticated person, from Massachusetts no less, I can tell you we don't call anything "casserole."

We're reading some Keats in one of the threads. This is my favorite of the poems we've read so far. I bought two urns from Jack and Reese Jack told me...

I forgot to mention - you should give $100 million to the Philosophy Forum. Will that cover things, @"jamalrob"? I'm not sure if Pay Pal can handle th...

I like your part of the world. I came to St. Paul on business once in February. It was about 20 below then too. When I picked up my rental car, along ...

Alternative 1 - Give all but $20 million to the Gates Foundation or some other worthwhile charity. Give $10 million to family and friends, including t...

I can get all the political arguments I want, but I have nobody to talk art with, so I'm enjoying this. I'm not sure. At times it feels like @"thaumas...

I think your and my desires and expectations for reviews and criticism are very similar. I'm trying to figure out how that fits into what @"thaumasnot...

I didn't expect much from your explication, not because of any judgement about you but because, like @"Reformed Nihilist", I am very skeptical of gran...

Depending on the source you look at, epistemology is often included in metaphysics.

I'm not sure about this. I find that taste is one of the primary things I find meaningful and useful in a review. A good reviewer is trying to share h...

It was a request, not a question about your state of mind. A request that you rejected gracelessly. We can leave it at that.

Ok. I've finished the manifesto and scanned the rest of the comments in the thread. First thought - I have my work cut out for me. Some homework to do...

Don't apologize. Making distinctions is what we do here.

I just noticed you started this a month ago. I guess I missed it. Or maybe I said, tl:dr and went back to reading one of the 5,000 threads about free ...

I'll start with this. You write very well. Clear and interesting. The ideas are well presented in a way that's easy to understand, although the ideas ...

Sounds like you know something about the subject. Care to give us all a tutorial. Serious request.

It's good to hear from you again. Happy New Year, or, as we say here in the US, feliz Año Nuevo.

As you note, a lot of what you write makes sense, but is beyond the intended scope of this discussion. Definition of "retaliation" - The return of lik...

Yes. R.G. Collingwood calls them "absolute presuppositions." My stated assumption is that there is no free will. In that case, we would assume that al...

All language is just an invention to give people the impression that they are in charge of their thoughts and actions. If I lend you $100 with the und...

I'm not a theist, but I don't reject free will.