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In that case I have no idea what you are arguing about.

:up: You're right of course; the suffering artist is just an extreme example.

It has nothing to do with being God; it ironically is just the opposite; it has to do with being fallible. If you don't acknowledge that some of what ...

If that life affords some pleasure for others. Think of the great artist whose life is constant suffering for example.

Physics? :roll:

I'm not talking about knowingly creating a life for any end. I'm talking about the idea that a life might be worth living even if it were, however imp...

I would agree with that because we all have different sets of associations that have come to be attached to words and phrases. If I extend the meaning...

Nice summation!

For me expertise means mastery, not merely proficiency, and "leading expert" would be equivalent to 'grand master', or the one who leads the lesser ma...

:rofl: Brilliant!

Why would you ask a low level expert? "Low level expert" is either a non sequitur or an irony; does that answer your question?

There have been actual events in the past. They are not actual now, obviously. So what? Usages are what tell you what a fact is (conceived to be). You...

So, not "selective attention" then but traumatically induced inability to attend? Makes sense!

Fairy nuff!

I have no idea why you would say my answer is a "non sequitur". An actual state of affairs is a situation or event which exists or has existed, as opp...

Then yours accords only with the definition of facts as propositions, and not with facts as actualities.

It seems that what you are talking about is extending the common meanings of the public language by working imaginatively with possible associations. ...

You cannot both be an expert on stupidity and stupid. :wink:

It is stipulated that, in the story, he is innocent, but that his innocence is never established. Are you denying that there might be prison inmates w...

No, it's not. In the story his innocence is never established. Most of us realize that it is likely that some of those in prison are actually innocent...

OK, we still don't agree. For me there are many facts which could be established as such, but never will, That they are not established doesn't change...

Give up all aspiration for self-improvement? That seems like the zenith, or should I say nadir, of stupidity. If you had said 'surrender trying to app...

My understanding of the PLA is that it would seem to be impossible to construct an idiosyncratic language of my own without translating it into the (p...

:up: That's true and yet seems paradoxical in that sleep is the very essence and condition of stupidity. Thus the common injunction "wake up to yourse...

Good advice; thanks Frank.

Intuitively I agree with you Tom; but I'll be interested to see a counter-argument. I'll read Banno's linked article when I have time.

I believe @"baker" is a woman. I had Astra Zeneca yesterday and I feel my skin is sensitive and muscles aching. These are listed as common side effect...

Good example. The whole of history, both natural and human, seems to fall into this category too.

It is only inaccessible as a practical matter, but if determination of the truth is not possible then that still rules out the definition that Olivier...

I don't see a problem with us not being able to establish the truth of the matter. Maybe absolute precision, as you say, is not possible in some cases...

:up:

It's most likely nothing serious, but if those symptoms are not listed as usual side-effects, you probably should seek medical advice. Take care.

Yeah, I agree, Right, this can be easily shown by word substitution. For any sentence "it is true that" we can substitute " it is a fact that" without...

Fartrick's will, I predict, acknowledge all that, but object that that says nothing about the ethics of forcing people to be vaccinated. I'm with you,...

Yes :up:

It's like what Augustine purportedly said about time (roughly, from memory): " When I think about time I'm sure I understand what it is, but when aske...

I agree that a distinction can be made which means there must be difference. The question is as to the ethical significance of this difference. It's j...

Yes.

The benefits of the various techniques of cultivating various animal and plant species have been enormous too. The benefits of creating this elephant/...

You don't have a problem with it when it comes to vaccines do you?

Sure, it won't be a case of interbreeding. Is a mule or a ligon a new species? I believe those examples of hybrids are infertile, which is what the te...

I can't think of any "completely novel lifeforms" created by science. You would be referring to new species, not hybrids or modified species, I take i...

Actually this is not true if what I have heard from a national parks guy responsible for culling wild dogs is correct. He told me that even seemingly ...

I guess we don't understand what facts consist in in the same way then. For me, for example, that there is another planet in our galaxy with humanoid ...

No problem Banno, it's easy to do. I think we all know what it consists in, and it is not so much a theory as it is an account or description of an un...

I'm not sure what you mean, Olivier. If I accurately observed that it was raining where I happened to be at some specific time, the fact that it was r...

From the fact (if it is a fact) that a good life (however we might conceive of that) is necessarily worth living, it does not follow that a bad life i...

I voted 'other', meaning indifferent. I haven't found the movement to be significant enough to warrant an attitude towards it. If it gains more tracti...

The point of no further interest.

? I'm trying to prompt Laguercina to get to his or her point or argument. But anyway in view of the seeming unlikelihood of satisfaction, I'm losing i...