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Here's a thought: maybe the normative language is (just??) how we mark something as purpose-relative. Thus You can't put your X on my O. I mean, you c...

Yeah I've done that one. If we end up saying normative instruction is (just??) for giving instructions, that looks, well, obvious, but why is it neces...

Imagine I taught one my kids to play tic-tac-toe without rules, and then they try to teach another kid. You don't command the same kind of deference w...

That "supposed to" in there looks interesting. We could get around it I guess, and in early days we do. I could just say, "Okay, it's your turn now, t...

Why did you remove the reference to rules? I mean, do as you like. I silently edit posts to fix grammar and punctuation. Whatever. I'm just wondering ...

It is how Capablanca learned how to play chess, and it is said, in tones of deepest wonder, that when Capablanca played chess it was like he was speak...

Everytime @"Banno" and I play tic-tac-toe, I wipe the floor with him, but when we play noughts and crosses it's just the opposite.

I wasn't setting you up for a "gotcha". Kids play games that only kinda have rules, rules that can change all the time, which is to us an unusual kind...

But I didn't say anything about rules.

Okay suppose I taught you tic-tac-toe in the following way. When it's your turn, you ask me where you're supposed to put your "X" or your "O", whichev...

No that it is not the tree I'm barking up at all. If, say, a bank lends money to qualified Black applicants at a lower rate than it lends to qualified...

(Pointless aside: this thread begins with a video about the Socratic Method, whose namesake seems to have held that learning, even of things like 2 + ...

Oh but you don't have to make them admit it. You can even play along. There's a certain kind of inartful info-dump that occurs in science fiction whic...

Oh -- that's not what I meant to type at all! I just mean whatever terms, however used, so long as we understand each other, and I'll keep making what...

No no, the differential minimum sentences for crack vs powdered cocaine, famous example of a law that is in effect racist. There is a legal issue -- s...

Good! I hadn't even been thinking about incentive. Any other thoughts?

Babies and pigeons both lack language, so you're definitely in the neighborhood I was thinking about.

If you're willing to elaborate I'm genuinely interested.

The rarity of this is part of the point.

We'll just have to agree on your terms. I make some distinctions I like and find useful but not everyone does. Some of what you're describing I would ...

I agree with your claim that this is how white privilege is often described and how many have described it in this thread, but it's not quite how I se...

Street and I don't often get along (maybe he's forgotten since I haven't been around for a while), but this is the key post in the thread: You don't s...

Hoping this doesn't derail what is finally the discussion of white privilege we should have, but -- That's not systemic racism -- at least not as I us...

Oh, you know, that does actually help a lot. It's not just about categorizing. Okay, this gives me something to think about some more. Rest of the pos...

I think the consequences are really different, largely invisible, but no fewer. But as I'm arguing with @"StreetlightX", I find I'm not really sure, a...

Okay, again, this is what I don't get, and don't get in particular in a discussion of white privilege. Everyone is racially marked. An attempt at an e...

Here's a hard question: to learn how to play tic-tac-toe, do you have to know that you don't know how to play tic-tac-toe? Don't feel like you have to...

This is the part I don't get. I agree completely that a white guy like me grows up thinking his experience is universal in way that is certainly illus...

I was trying to discourage you from doing that. You have to know what game you're playing to make a move or take a turn. Is everyone in this thread pl...

But you're not going to deny that a whole lot of people count you as white and that this has consequences, are you?

What if the clocks are all labeled "Here"? What if they're labeled as you say but their times are only a few minutes apart? What if speaking a natural...

That's kinda brilliant.

Are you and I just focusing on different ends of a spectrum? I'm supposing that everyone moves through the world to some degree unaware of the way the...

Please don't take offense, but this is too beautiful not to rip ungraciously from its context.

Did I? I didn't mean to. I had watched exactly none of the video last time I posted in this thread. I did eventually watch the first several minutes, ...

The question that interests me is, what part of the way others see me that differs from the way I see myself -- a difference I'm not even aware of -- ...

That's the book with "reading as poaching" isn't it! I could never remember where I read that, which, there you go.

You know that I've noticed. I flat out refused. What do you make of that refusal and the reasons I've given for it?

There is a world of difference between "explain it to me like I'm five", which is good, healthy for all involved, an excellent check on obscurantism, ...

And I'm not going to. And anyone who does would be wasting their time. There is nothing I could say about Wittgenstein or any other philosopher or any...

"I" there isn't me.

Responses from the Community headed your way: 1. You don't understand Wittgenstein, like, at all. 2. "In my view, words are just ..." and then some co...

I'm not seeing what you're seeing, so maybe you can fill me in. I don't know why sortals would be especially problematic. It's still just public langu...

I'm good with that. We agree on so much, I think the remaining differences are mostly semantic. If I have new thoughts I'll come back to this. It was ...

So tactically I agree with you, and I have my own reservations about how "privilege" plays into America's self improvement thing. On the other hand, I...

It also occurs to me that what I'm calling "sortals" here might be how we specify the domain for our variables on the fly. If I say, 'Some dogs over t...

You understand that in the last paragraph of mine you quoted I was speaking for the position I intended to refute in the paragraphs right after that, ...

Since I've already made such a hash of things, I'll continue! (Apologies to @"Pfhorrest".) What makes me uncomfortable about the predicate calculus is...

No, it's vacuously true. The suggestion you make toward the end of your post: That's already what we do. You can do the proof yourself: 1. (x)(~Vx) 2....