T_Clark

No, but properties are and properties, measurements, are required for mathematics.

I responded to this in my previous post, on which I neglected to include a link.

This is my understanding also, probably because we got them from the same source. I think this is a good answer to @"Leontiskos" question about whethe...

The issues we are discussing are metaphysical. In "An Essay on Metaphysics" R.G. Colling wrote What I take from that is we use different points of vie...

I'll go out on a limb here based on my limited reading of the history of science in the 1600s. Looking at reality as made of of things with physical p...

Another great OP. I think you are probably the most erudite poster on the forum. I was an engineer and I've always had a strong interest in science. I...

Of course. Also - insults.

I have no problem with you discussing it in the Shoutbox within reason. It is not uncommon to start substantive discussions here, including for modera...

I knew Diogenes. Diogenes was a friend of mine. You're no Diogenes.

I — I —I — I — I — I Do you know what this is Javi? The T Clark eyeroll emoji

Here’s the telling phrase in your post - “As far as I know…” if you’re going to speculate like this, it’s your job to have done the research, to have ...

I watched it, but I don’t know if you noticed, it’s in Spanish. My favorite part was the pergola. I just looked that word up the other day and the one...

More a poem than an essay. Which is ok. Poems can be good philosophy. I assume "she" is your soul, although that's not clear. I recognize your approac...

Avoiding reading prefaces represents a character flaw, one of my many. I acknowledge that.

For some reason, your last two posts make me think of your law partner Bob.

I am nostalgic for artistic punctuation and the time before emojis!!!!

Yes, this is what I’m talking about. The main purpose of telling the same stories over and over again is to give your children a chance to roll their ...

Thanks.

Perhaps you’ve missed the point. condescending sneer

I’d like to say that my reasons for skipping prefaces are as thoughtful and reasonable as Javi’s. Fact is, I’m just too effing lazy.

OK, you’ve talked me into it.

It’s not that I don’t want to read them. I’ve already read a few. It’s just that it makes it hard to keep track of what’s on the front page.

@"Moliere" Do you have a response for me on this? It’s not that I don’t think the essay submittals have value, it’s just that they really overwhelm ev...

For me, it’s not a question of whether or not nostalgia has any value, is whether or not it’s destructive, and I think it is. Replaying the past is li...

I do like waffles.

Yes please.

This is clearly another example of a doctored photo. It’s true Miss Shields was there, but when I was 13, she was an infant. I was holding her and fee...

I wasn’t aware that anyone had ever actually read the preface to any book.

If I remember correctly, there is a way for us to turn off these essays so that we don’t see them on our front page. Can you remind me how that works ...

It is well known that soccer, or as they call it in Europe “geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung”, was not invented till 1967 when I was 16 years old. This phot...

They weren’t called Belgian waffles, were they? They were called waffles. I never said nobody in Belgium ever ate waffles. I also never said nobody at...

In past posts I have discussed "The Power Broker," about Robert Moses, who built many of the highways around New York City. Moses was also the big bos...

So what conclusions can we draw from this? Nothing obvious jumps out at me.

We are seeing a lot of threads on unrealistic utopian political systems recently. I guess saying unrealistic utopian political system is redundant.

I agree with the first sentence. With the rest of it, you lost me a bit.

Our lovely, sweet, passive-aggressive Banno.

Sorry. I wrote my response before I saw this. Maroon is fine. Still - no hearts.

Regular old blue. And no little hearts over the “i”s.

I actually was an eyewitness to that historic world’s fair. One of my fondest memories was of Albert Johnson throwing up on the wing of a carnival roc...

I do think there’s a difference in kind, but to tell the truth, I don’t really care about what it means to know how to do something. At least not in t...

Belgian waffles are like French fried potatoes, they have nothing to do with their eponymous countries.

You’re right, it’s a fascinating story. Here it is - I’ve been to Belgium twice, once in 1989 and once in 2014. Both times I was there, I ate rabbit.

I've eaten rabbit twice in my life - oddly enough both times in Belgium. Once in 1989 and once in 2014.

The truth? You can't handle the adequately justified belief!!! I object Your Honor. The counselor is badgering the witness. I object. That's incompete...

I normally use the term "adequately justified belief" to describe knowledge as it is used in daily life. "Justified true belief" doesn't mean anything...

When I get involved in a discussion such as this one, I usually make it explicitly clear the kind of knowledge I'm talking about - specifically exclud...

Sure. When I'm talking about "knowledge," it's usually in terms of how it's generally used in normal discussion. Knowledge is actionable belief - adeq...

No, this is wrong. Rotten eggs smell like volcanoes because of the sulfur.

For every one of the wastrels that produce a “Paradise Lost,” there are dozens of us who don’t contribute anything substantive.

I assume this means killing them.