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Yes there is, obviously. The canvas is in 3d most of times, and all the colors and nuances cannot be reproduced on screen or paper.

And that -- I suggest -- is precisely what people call beauty.

My point is rather that writing is an attempt to draw language. Literally, our letters are little drawings. But in a modern alphabetic writing system ...

You cannot judge a sculpture based on a photo. Best to touch it. This said, I never really liked Rodin, too artificial, too forceful for my taste.

The work is entitled Méditérannée. She's at the beach. Her body slightly sunken in the sand, she's protecting her eyes from the sun... And yet she loo...

There is a certain freedom in beauty, freedom from logic and obligations and costs. Freedom from anything else really. It comes as a gift, often as a ...

No, it is a style not-too-loosely connected to French 20th century intellectuals. But he's among the best of them I think. He uses his style to convey...

Also certain greetings famously have no reference, like "Helo". Coming back to picturing words... That's how writing was invented originally. Ideogram...

I'll try to see where the examples I provided lead me. In crossword puzzles, we must discover words based on the number of letters and non-canonical d...

Sorry but I did not disagree with anything, was just answering your question about alternative use of words. But I can try again, with more disagreeme...

Define: "the sign-referent sense of meaning".

You are rude and bizarre, not regal. My claim was that people use words in a variety of activities including solving crossword puzzles, writing poetry...

You keep giving orders to folks... Did someone die and name you king of TPF? If not, I suggest you learn to ask politely, when you have a request to m...

I'm French, and yet I find his prose too convoluted. This said, MP is usually quite reliable and enlightening a writer. I'm a big fan.

The magic word was missing. Also I don't understand your request, nor why it was made.

Is that an order?

Crossword puzzles, poetry, magic...

I agree there's no particular reason to assume that the meaning of words would hide in images. Just because one can illustrate a concept via a picture...

Ok then. Yes. I can agree with that. His virtue is in pointing out that certain issues are more complicated than they seem, or ambiguous.

But then, if meaning is indeed literally use, how come "meaning" is not being used as "use" in English? Isn't it self contradictory?

Full disclosure: I'm not a fan of Wittgenstein. I interpret "meaning is use" as methodological, and metaphorical: meaning that a good way to understan...

I love you too, Isaac.

Tell you what: keep it coming. We're doomed by climate change anyway, so what do I care? Covid is actually helping on that front, slowing down emissio...

It's fair to share news, like about the discovery of a vaccine. It's also fair to share cartoons, even political cartoons. What is unfair I think, wou...

I never gagged anyone. Stop the BS. Stop propping up what I say into some atrocious straw man or another. You do it almost systematically now; it betr...

Oh I'm sure his academic articles on oncology are useful, vetted and peer reviewed. Likewise many climate change doubters have published in peer revie...

Which is a ridiculous, totally fake idea about modern science. He doesn't fit the "no conflict of interest" criteria, period. Why yes, politicized mea...

No wonder you can't think straight.

For expressing your ideas (?) accurately.

That is what I am saying too: it was anti-science rhetoric. He is mentioning his books in a lot of his posts... :-) Saying that Covid is the end of pr...

Try and make an effort. Your mistake looks like a freudian lapse.

Above you wrote that "both pro- and anti- science rhetorics are helpful." I suppose you meant "NOT helpful"??? You are not even able to present your o...

I am saying rather that you are spreading the anti-science rhetoric of a heavily politicized pundit about Covid. That he is heavily politicized is som...

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I was responding to @"GraveItty" who was distorting my position, like you are doing all the time yourself. Prasad concludes that "sadly, there are few...

No. I am saying that ANTI-SCIENCE RHETORIC IS NOT HELPFUL. What is it with anti-vaxxers and reading comprehension? You cannot argue without distorting...

Stop lying all the time, it's tiring.

It's mainly about discourse outside of scientific outlets, to be precise, and it's about what to do against covid... And you HAVE spread the unhelpful...

This is not about this or that case here or there. ( And just to be clear, none of the cases above have anything to do with vaccines. Rather they were...

Words have a meaning.

Actually I have read them. And they are not about 'actual scientific debate', most of the times. They are about: Such division is especially evident i...

Indeed, it's rhetoric. But it is a type of rhetoric that undermines public trust in science.

Even a polemist such as yourself should keep a sense of proportion. To say that there are knee-jerk reactions on twitter or in the press about certain...

Sure, progressivism is dead 'cause COVID killed it. Democracy too... Give me a break. All he is saying is: Prasad's capacity for nuance and reasonable...

This kind of talk being a clear red flag for wackos, I looked Mr Prasad up. His blog is poorly written, full of platitudes, and, yeah, paranoid. How D...

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Flee from happiness lest it run away Lest the azure sky turn to mauve To think of, or move on to something else Would be better... Flee from happiness...

Thx, good to see I'm not alone. :-)

I must say, that looks promising. It would fit well with our intuitive sense of thought as fluid and flickering.

Enlighten me. What tone is appropriate to use in conversations here? Respectful? Diplomatic? Analytic?