Janus

To the contrary, they save the game from the fatal grip of bureaucracy, they preserve it from the depredations of would-be minor despots.

Both signals and causes in both the game and the 'real' world, then? In the real world someone may escape death even after the event of the downturned...

In this game, does the turned thumb signal the living or dying, or cause it? (The same question applies in the 'real' world).

B, not all the rules that have been stated have hashtags. ND you included hashtags in front of the numbers of all the rules you critique, which means ...

Or bark. Or barks.

If the search goes on within the game then the criteria must also be within the game. Also, if it can be enunciated within the game, then it must be p...

Rule 14: In any search for supreme leaders and/or philosopher kings strict criteria shall be employed in order to rule out unlikely cadidates from the...

Oh, dear poor attentiveness on my part...is there a rule against that?

Yeah, but he leads us only into the oblivion of bathroom or laundry politics, and does so without even knowing what they are or that he is doing it. T...

Do you mean it's not true that Banno got rule 9 in first? Or do you mean that it's not true what I said about the unwritten rule that you must state t...

And yet...Rule 12: this rule supersedes Rule 11 ( or is it Rule 13 supersedes Rule 12 :s )

That's very liberating!

No one can stop you, but if you do a rule will be broken which may lead to chaos... (perhaps the "curious implications" have already been implicitly r...

Banno got rule 9 in first. A previously unwritten and still unnumbered rule says that if you want to state any rule (other than this one: there can be...

Rule 10: (Had been Rule 9 but Banno beat me to the post) The author of this thread shall reveal the "curious implications" prior to any player stating...

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Again, this is not to the point. While it is true that there are difficulties in precisely working out the complete scope of applicability of the idea...

In cases where you damage something due to negligence I guess the question then becomes whether you were intentionally negligent. I mean you might hav...

The distinction between legal and moral responsibility?

Your suppositions do make sense to and I dare say they would be essential to almost any conceivable consistent metaphysics. I know what you mean about...

So, the ways things are in our world that has emerged constrains how we can think about the the primordial, in-finite, eternal, virtual 'anything is p...

That's the problem; I find it impossible to think that absolutely anything at all would have been possible even 'at', or 'prior to' the 'beginning'. A...

Sure, and the existence of the tree is dependent on the seed, the sunlight, the rain and the nutrients within the ground in which it is anchored and g...

I'll try to address this more later when I have time. For now I'll just say that the idea of an infinite potential that is not actual makes no sense t...

The problem is that an infinite pure potential that is not actual makes absolutely no sense. Remember we are both doing no more than trying to speak s...

In-finite mind is not "spread" anymore than infinite being is. You need to free your thinking from it's customary presuppositions to get this. No, I'm...

Yes, well at least disagreement was reached. :)

We know that language captures the truth of the world as we experience it or all our discourse would simply be nonsense. The notion that language coul...

I disagree, if anything I think it's merely a semantic tautology which has no meaning or provenance outside human discourse. I don't think it's helpfu...

When proven they are no longer "if-then" possibilities; they become actualities. You are just playing with words as usual, as I see it. "Pouring from ...

I don't have time to respond in detail; but I will just point out that by 'in-finite' I don't mean to refer to "an infinite amount"; all amounts are f...

The hands are identifiable objects, though. If you are worried about the fact that they attached to a body, then you can cut them off. Of course, they...

That's cos they were feet long in those days. >:O

They are propositions, not facts. If there is an "if' then it is a proposition; there can be no "if" about a fact.

Particular objects are existents; if we can reliably identify something then it exists. We say it exists in virtue of the fact that we can identify it...

See my response to ?????????????.

I can't see why you think that we must be playing the skeptic's game If we think someone is playing at doubting rather than really doubting. Why can w...

This is not to the point. If the person is using hands then the person has hands, no?

Sure, 'propositional' suggests abstractive capability; I would say a linguistic belief (or proto-belief, or whatever you want to call it) is better th...

I don't disagree with anything here. We apprehend and comprehend the idea of finite, temporal being, and understand that it cannot be its own ground, ...

I was talking to ????????????? but I'd be interested to hear why you think it's more nuanced than that.

None of this addresses my central criticism of your position, which is that "if-then" conditionals are relevant only to the future; and that the notio...

You've lost me on this one; you seem to be conflating knowledge with belief. I know that my hands exist because I can see them.

Are you saying that the hands you perceive every day doing all the kinds of things that hands do; preparing food, washing the dishes, swinging a hamme...

I don't believe that intelligibility can extend to fundamentality. So, whatever names we use to denote it: substance, God, the Real, Firstness, the no...

Yes, even scientists have been known to ignore evidence in order to protect their pet beliefs.

Ahh, resolutions...

True, that seems probably the most likely explanation! But do we have proof, or even evidence for that belief?

Do you mean to ask why he persists? If so, I can only speculate... is it ego, desire for attention, self-delusion, stupidity? Hard to say, and I suspe...

In some special cases evidence may constitute proof; but it certainly does not follow that all evidence is proof.