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Well, good luck with economics. It is a fact that a lot of economics is, shall we say, conceptual, and doesn't actually involve pesky details like sta...

Wouldn't dream of it. Brain and body are, as you say, necessary but not sufficient conditions for mind. Is something else necessary? Will I have a min...

Not a mechanism, no, not in the sense that what someone else thinks has a causal bearing on whether what you think is true. (There's actually stuff ab...

Oh, I don't know that anyone's proving anything here... It does seem to me though that my voice is a property of me; is it conceivable that I could st...

My understanding was that herd immunity, if it was ever a genuine possibility, is in the rear-view mirror now, and that SARS-CoV-2 will become endemic...

I'm confused by the first part. You took algebra in college? Algebra I? "Two trains leave Paris" algebra? You didn't take algebra in high school? Or a...

Many have voted for a deep problem being one that touches on something fundamental. (, , indirectly -- if metaphysics is fundamental, indirectly, mayb...

What happens, when I die, to my voice, my gait, my verbal tics, my habits? My interests and passions? My duties? My laziness?

STFU Prishon.

That's identifying falsehood. I'd lean toward taking bullshit as speaking without warrant, and I don't need truth to judge that.

Evidently your answer isn't as much help as you think it is.

Sorry, what I was trying to ask was whether Collingwood is any help with this: some people use "fact" to mean a state of affairs that does or did obta...

What do we make of Collingwood here saying "ascertain" rather than, say, "establish"?

I think this is a valid point, so far as it goes. The vaccine does not immunize you against infection, just reduces your chances substantially, but th...

Roughly, everyone except you.

I think everyone already knew that the current academic publishing treadmill means a whole lot of crap is getting published. That is nothing to do wit...

That is appreciably more work! I don't know. It's an odd thing, the physical limitation. The number of possible chess games, for instance, is clearly ...

Need two criteria first, for "in the yard" and "blade". If it's bounded by sidewalks, maybe, that's your first one. Maybe length for the second, whate...

How come?

That's his problem. I think we can talk coherently about things we have no hope of knowing. (How tall was Socrates?)

And one way of treating it as a factual question, not necessarily the only one, or the way a philosopher might.

But is it inaccessible in principle, or only as a practical matter?

It makes the question of a god's existence intelligible. Religious people will tell you that when they pray they can feel God's presence. So there's a...

Look at creationism. At some point they figured out they weren't making much progress just disagreeing with the top line claims of biologists and pale...

@"Olivier5" gave a solid example.

I don't have a theory to offer, but I'd think we're looking for a battery of concepts with how those concepts are related and practices for applying t...

There's an old joke about an AI that can converse with anyone on the proper level, just punch in the age and IQ, and it might talk high-energy physics...

Absolutely. And though the conflict is actually between frameworks, it might be waged as a contest between facts. (Like the priest who says to the vic...

Ansley Mall had a surprisingly good little bookstore too. I was there once buying a stack of Wittgenstein books and the guy behind the counter says, "...

Yeah the Peachtree Battle location, with Oxford Too just across the parking lot and up the hill. Good memories

You're on the right track, just open the throttle all the way up

Exactly what I was saying, yes. I was relativizing facts, I guess, but I think fact-within-framework is the only kind we have.

B&N is headquartered in the city whose name is not often spoken in my state without spitting afterwards, so there's that.

Now we're the last best hope for humanity... As it happens, this is the best bookstore Athens has ever had, and we're not responsible for the death of...

Here's another stab at what I've been trying to get at: within a given framework, there will be questions that count as questions of fact and ones tha...

You wound me, sir.

As a favor? Or are you offering something in trade?

What if you can't even imagine being able to discover the truth of the matter? We can imagine an extraordinary spaceship that would allow us to visit ...

This I don't understand. All models are wrong, and by design not definitive. They're all caricatures. This morning it seems obvious that my little mod...

It seemed to me that the most important word in this: is the word "living". You can only talk to whoever you're talking to while they're living. Of co...

I don't keep up with this stuff, but I do have a little more than a passing awareness of it. (Read some articles, watched some videos.) I've actually ...

And if we he were not living? What sort of interaction could you have with his YOU? typo!

Okay, in my simplistic way, this is what I'm thinking. Suppose I'm sitting at the kitchen table with my son, and I say, "Draw us." He draws a couple s...

Why is it impossible? I mean, there are obvious ways in which we do model ourselves, as I'm sure @"apokrisis" would be happy to explain. Is it just th...

This. Something else I always used to do is make my own "index" inside the back cover of a book. Like if there's a good example -- something that help...

Don't think about it much but I guess I lean deflationary (maybe why I don't think about it), and I've always been intrigued by the prosentential theo...

Sorry, I can't resist: is this the transcendental unity of apperception? (@"Mww"?)

Is there a revised T-sentence to go along with -- what? Are you pointing at it?

If you find a discussion interesting but don't understand how a word is being used, I say first stop is just Wikipedia. Asking is actually even safer,...

That's interesting. It wasn't obvious to me that the Nature paper they cite says what they say it does, but I can't read the whole thing right now. An...