T_Clark

Welcome to the forum. Justified true belief is a perennial subject of discussion here. It never gets resolved. Nobody is ever convinced. Here’s my tak...

I appreciate the sentiment, but Massachusetts has yet to recognize my honor. The state bird of Massachusetts is a blue hen chicken… no, wait, that’s D...

Do you pronounce it “konk” or “konch?”

My 30s are in their 40s.

I’m glad I could be of help.

Verisimilitude restored!

I was convinced this was a true story until I realized that opioids cause constipation. That means there would be no feces accumulating in the toilet ...

Coincidentally, I’m eating a sesame seed bagel right now. As for your spiritual issue, Chuang Tzu would say to follow your intrinsic virtuosities, you...

I certainly am not a positivist, but I also don't have much use final causes. That's not because they're wrong. It's just that they are not particular...

A good and thorough OP. Interesting and well written. You clearly put a lot of work into this. The irony is that this explanation for the rejection of...

I’ve used this before, and I have no doubt I’ll use it again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11bEGWU8r74&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD

I was a junior in high school in a town in southern Virginia in 1967 when the most appropriately named case in legal history was decided - Loving vs t...

This is not how they feel to me at all. When I write or read a punctuation mark, I feel the pause. I feel the rhythm, the change in meaning, propagati...

This describes an interesting experience. Perhaps I'll break my arm so I can feel what you felt... perhaps not. The closest thing I've experienced I c...

You’re mostly right, but I do know that smothered, covered, capped, and topped all mean the same thing - somebody pours brown gelatinous “gravy” over ...

That’s also true for me, and I think many people. That’s disgusting, unless, of course, it’s Velveeta.

After I posted I edited the post to say I meant to refer to the US in particular.

Very, very funny :grin: and impressive.

I always edit my posts after I write them. And sometimes after I post them. Sometimes I change things around, fix the spellings, or change the grammar...

That is not only a social fact, during slavery it was a legal fact too.

A question - is it still snide if it’s true?

You’re missing the point of my post to Amadeus D. Whether or not he, or you, think a trans woman is a woman, it doesn’t change the fact his argument h...

Sorry, but I still don’t see how this is relevant to what I said. I was just pointing out to @"AmadeusD" the possible consequences of his way of seein...

Rarely. Badly.

What I posted was a specific response to what I see as the flaws in @"AmadeusD"'s comment on gender identity issues. I don't see the relevance of what...

@"Leontiskos" talked about context and I think that is a better way of putting it than how I did. Everything in the mind is cross-connected. Memories ...

This one I understand.

I hate exclamation points, emojis, and Nietzsche! :down: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/04/10/0b/04100baec90c105729b47f33c371476b.jpg ...

That's fine. I have some sympathy with your position when we're dealing with transgender issues. But the same arguments have been used for dealing wit...

@"Hanover" As I've expressed elsewhere, I hate emojis. :sad:

I think Jamal is like me - it isn't awe, it's affection. As I noted in my post to @"Jamal", exclamation points do not belong in philosophy except, per...

Yes. I am doing the same. That's true of almost everything I post here on the forum. For me, philosophy is about self-awareness - awareness of how my ...

The answer is simple - we don't... necessarily. A couple of examples. It's not unusual for me to realize I can't tell if I remember something that hap...

I interpret the Adorno quote as saying punctuation represents something that is present in the text even if it isn't explicitly expressed in the form ...

Based on your posts, I’d guess that you’re either 13 or 84. Happy birthday.

Thinking about it more, doesn’t your comment contradict what he’s saying?

Even if he hadn’t used it, it would still serve, hieroglyphically, an interplay that takes place in the interior of language, along its own pathways. ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcVSC1vaYyM

This is kind of a Reddit thing. That’s not a compliment.

Don’t forget graham crackers, parking meters, and fig newtons.

People who eat chili dogs don’t share with anybody. I will buy you one though.

Chili dogs are a traditional American dish. You shouldn’t talk bad about it till you’ve tried it.

I do miss @"streetlight". Every so often I find myself going back and rereading some of the things he did.

This brings it back to the subject of craft. I think it would be more accurate to call the sword makers craftsmen rather than artists.

Geez, now I’ll have to read it again and find out if I can see what you’re seeing.

As I said, it’s not that I know it’s not good, it’s just that I don’t get it. I wish I could talk with your wife about it.

There are lots of good and great books that I really don’t get. “The Great Gatsby” is certainly one of those. It’s a book full of unpleasant people do...

It’s been more than 40 years since I’ve read the book. I tried to go back and read it again a few years ago and had a hard time getting into it. If I ...

Do you use “whine” in the UK?

I didn’t include the definition because I think it is accurate, but because I think it’s amusing. It’s also characteristic of the kind of things that ...