T_Clark

Yes, we did discuss it before. It's just that I'm watching it gain and loving it again and wanted to tell someone again.

Watching Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Fourth time. Original BBC from 1979. Alec Guiness. Best thing ever filmed. Videod, Best thing ever. Best movie,...

I was an emergency medical technician on my town's ambulance for 25 years. I probably did CPR 15 times and no one ever lived, but normally, we got the...

I don't know if he learned anything, but I never saw him do it again.

Before CPR came around, back when Boy Scouts learned the arm lift/back push method, I did that on a cocker spaniel who had bitten through an electrica...

I wasn't trying to put down Descartes or his ideas, I was only responding to your question about why I don't my consider my ideas

Wasn't complaining about your action re/ the blog. Just expressing frustration about not being able to have a reasoned discussion about Rand. Not a mo...

But they never last. People just jump on them so fast the posters just quit. Some of us are not very philosophical. I'd like to get in a civil discuss...

Descartes started out doubting everything. Back when I was in college for the first time in the 1970s that kind of thinking always bothered me. I reme...

I agree about industrial odor. Your post brought lots of ideas to mind - diesel fumes, creosote, asphalt. All have childhood associations for me.

Torturing a hedgehog - I'm going to have to report you.

I was going to include the Chrysler Bldg. too, but it doesn't really have as much personal meaning to me as the ESB does. I love New York. I love citi...

The company I worked for had an office right at the end of the Skyway in St. Paul. That's one of the reasons I liked those pictures of towns - they al...

I read what you write and I recognize ideas, but you use different language to describe them than other people do, than I do. "Conclusion," "process,"...

I've always wanted to go up in the arch. So much modern stuff seems lifeless to me, then I see something like the church in Minneapolis you showed and...

As the final arbiter, I say "malaprop" wins. Of course, my decision is affected by Charleton's quibble about "defenestration."

The Empire State Building was always a magical building for me. My mother grew up in NYC and we went there a couple times a year to visit my grandfath...

Words of the Day - March 25, 2018 Some good compound word insults. Bonehead - A stupid person Knucklehead - The definition in the dictionary is the sa...

Rather than make a lexicological argument, it's my discussion and I say it counts!!!

My favorite defenstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALOiRV6QvJs A secondary definition is "remove or dismiss (someone) from a position of power...

So...use it in a sentence.

I was surprised to find that Norm Crosby is still alive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oMDNc54eHw

Exactly, exactly, exactly! But I'll say this again - I acknowledge that in many, maybe most, situations acting as if an objective reality exists is th...

Made that up. Really - how often do people throw other people out of windows?

Just watched "Miller's Crossing." Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, Marsha Gay Harden, John Tuturro, lots more. Cohen brothers. What a wonderful movie. Lo...

I love that word. I wonder why. Probably because I never would have thought we needed a word for chucking people out the window. And then, of course, ...

We don't talk about it in those terms and no one ever described it that way back in physics. Don't try to explain it. I need to do more homework.

Word of the Day - March 23, 2018 Ratiocination - What we're supposed to be doing here - The act of forming judgments by a process of logic; reason. I'...

Thanks as always. Keep in mind where I am in my understanding. When I read Crowther's descriptions, or yours, I'm picking out pieces that I understand...

@"StreetlightX" & @"Pierre-Normand" Well, since you guys left me holding bag, I had to go ahead and finish the Crowther paper. I got very lost in the ...

On a day to day basis, I certainly act and feel as if those things exist without thinking about it. I've already acknowledged the value of an objectiv...

To me, whether or not there is a fixed reality is not a matter of fact. Use what works best in a particular situation.

You can't argue against such a well reasoned argument.

Yes, I understand that. Crowther doesn't use the word either. She actually says "EFT" in order to avoid that. I've been thinking about that. Let me la...

Keep in mind that my understanding of the the distinction between matters of fact vs. matters of underpinning is itself a matter of underpinning. One ...

When it matters, when decisions are going to be made that ajffect people and the world, you and I are responsible not just for knowing what we need to...

You complain about being censored, but your comments are not responsive and don't contribute to the discussion.

Apisodactyl.

Phludo-pseudosophy

I think this is a pretty simplistic view of history. And to characterize maleness as "acting without thinking" is.... well, let's just say it reveals ...

Columnar basalt https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Giant%27s_Causeway_2006_08.jpg

Let me think about that.

I read this when you wrote it and thought I understood what you meant. I thought your point was that a situation like QM, which applies at all scales ...

Some examples: Does objective reality exist? Do we have free will? Is there an absolute morality?

Agreed.

I don't find the female/male distinction very useful except when talking about males and females, men and women, boys and girls, but it's not the use ...

There have been a lot of discussions about how the site is moderated. Personally, I'm generally satisfied. I think things have improved significantly ...

Sorry. What I meant to say was "welcome to the forum."

So, an infinitely deep hole that will take us in and destroy us is a male symbol? I don't think Freud would think so. Also, who, other than you, says ...

I used to feel bad if no one was interested in things I wanted to talk about. Now I just through things out there and find out without worrying if any...