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I was getting to that. The second point I would like to raise is related to the current status of Muslim doxa or exegesis on the ghar?niq verses, in t...

I agree, and I love his books. Just trying to understand the mainstream Muslim position here.

With @"baker"'s permission :joke: , I will continue to explore the Muslim grievances re. the Satanic Verses. The bold parts give a summary. There are ...

Russian soldiers refusing to fight undermine Moscow's offensive By Denis Kataev and Eric Biegala, Radio France Published on Tuesday, August 16, 2022 a...

I do, at least for myself. If you disagree, you are welcome to pinpoint what you personally see as the contemptuous parts in Rushdie's book.

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Indeed. Still, I remain puzzled with the intensity of the reaction to what I remember as a respectful, even insightful 'novelisation' of Mohammad's re...

I knew that @"schopenhauer1" had already given the answer to the OP question but I like the abacus metaphor a lot, so I couldn't resist using it once ...

In fact, that may be the weak point in Searle's lecture, at 33 mn or so: he starts to speak about information for 30 seconds, cracks a joke, and then ...

Hello, hello, hello Is anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me Is there anyone at home? Come on, come on down I hear you're feeling down Well I ...

:smile: I always fancied Americanisms. They are so evocative. (one of my favorites is: it's not over untill the fat lady sings)

Excellent lecture, thanks! He means that an abacus does not literally compute 2 + 2, or any other computation you use it for. Simply, if you code your...

:-) "A lyric from The B-52’s hit song “Love Shack,” tin roof, rusted is interpreted by some to mean “pregnant,” usually with an unintended baby."

This happens to me a lot. I think my subconscious is speaking to me via songs, reminding me important stuff I need to mind, through the lyrics of song...

I guess I should read it again. It's (at least superficially) about Satan, known as Shaitan in Islam. And many other things. A quick check on the hist...

I like it; it's contemplative. This thread is growing into a love shack, baby. Shack noun A very simple and small building made from pieces of wood, m...

Lots of great songs have been posted here since I last visited. Thank you all, inc. @"Amity", @"180 Proof" and @"Hanover". This thread is indeed about...

Ok but what criticism? If memory serves, the Satanic Verses does NOT read like a criticism of Islam at all, more like an independent exploration.

Rare are the Muslims who ever read the Satanic Verses. That includes Rushdie's attacker, Hadi Matar. They just believe what some other cretin said abo...

It's a bit like if your French girlfriend would say: I don't speak French, it's called Français.

More than unpopular: a Muslim cleric daring to defend Rushdie would become a potential target.

Sheer hatred.

Farsi means 'Persian' in Persian. To be precise, Afghans speak Dari, a sort of archaic Farsi.

I believe the answer to the OP question lies in a careful reading of the Satanic Verses. It's a masterpiece of a novel, highly enjoyable for a non-Mus...

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I used to think of it more or less along those lines until recently. Now my take follows Collingwood, whom I discovered thanks to @"tim wood". It's no...

As you might know already, to be locked in one's metaphysics forever is a very human thing to do, all the more so when such metaphysics and its motiva...

Yes. Thanks for the aphorism! Although I should ask for elaboration here because I'm not sure I get it. Do you mean that while chatting with the livin...

I agree with you that a concise one liner runs a risk of appearing as a put-down. Story of my life. But then, I personally appreciate conciseness in o...

Why yes. Who could possibly have reported this conversation if indeed the scene happened as told, with Jesus all alone facing Pilate, without any disc...

I try to be clear and concise, in general, but often come across as inarticulate and condescending. To my defense, English is not my mother tongue.

It's been argued -- by a certain Comte-Sponville, specialist of Spinoza -- that one's moral sense is like one's sense of equilibrium: you can apply it...

Sorry, I'm not good at social gestures. That's a real handicap, by the way.

:up: Very important point. Any definition of truth must account or make room for its opposite -- falsehood.

What are you talking about? Sending NATO troops and planes and warships into this war would literally be WW3. What do you think Putin will do when NAT...

You did, right here: ---- This is not a realist option, rather it's a recipe for WW3. Yet another proof that your position has very little to do with ...

Your position is very remote from any realism. You have entertained fantasies about nuking Ukraine. You have argued here that rooting for and supporti...

I don't see a viable alternative to the correspondance theory of truth, and never managed to understand any of its critiques.

If you didn't know how it's done, you couldn't write a meaningful sentence on TPF, and since you clearly can write a meaningful sentence, I will assum...

The meaning of a proposition remains a representation of reality, at least an attempt at it. It's not the reality it tries to depict. It is true to th...

The same applies to many objects, including material ones.

So it was a regal we, fair enough. I personally see truth as a property of certain sentences and other symbolic representations of reality, the proper...

And China, me guess... And Turkey.

RIP Sempé, drawer of so many New Yorker covers, among other things. Here was his version of a "reading group": https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5bb7...

Was there no pollution, corruption and profiteering in the UK in the 40's? Was it not a very imperfect democracy, ruled in fact by a filthy rich arist...

Like a piece of wood can have a certain permanence and durability, a sentence can remain known and meaningful over time. But neither the wood nor the ...

We being?

I meant that if propositions are sentences, then truth is a property of propositions, and hence a property of certain sentences.

I dispute the point that propositions are nonlinguistic and timeless entities. To my mind, they are just a certain type of sentences.

Meh... Why would propositions be timeless? By definition, someone needs to actually propose a proposition and one can't do that outside of time. And i...