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I thought the same thing... having watched a few documentaries.

It was more about Witt's remarks in OC.

Yeah, that is very odd to me as well. They certainly ought be the same, unless there are more than one accepted use of the same term, only one of whic...

Yeah, I think you're right. Srap pointed to it as well, but I missed it. Even if it is often the case that what a speaker means is the same as the lit...

Methodological Naturalism. Each success becomes a science. How many sciences are there?

Meaning being the most important one.

I believe that I part ways with analytic philosophy when it comes to truth. The problem with discussing truth and/or defining it is the approach. What...

So, why do it then? You're such a chump.

For example... Robert Reich, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren are a treasure trove of accurate, useful, and true information(relevant knowledge) r...

Convention. If I ask for a socket when I mean to ask for a wrench, there is indeed a difference between what the words mean and what I mean and/or wan...

Set the 'kinds' of philosophy aside... I do not see any reason to say that philosophy or philosophers cannot properly account for the current politica...

I would agree with Banno here. It seems that that is one of the problems within the conventional understanding Davidson is examining. Although, I'm no...

I think that this is a crucial consideration. If only the retired generals would come out together publicly and condemn his use of military as a means...

I can only hope that there are some brilliant apt professional advertising and/or political campaigning experts out there capable of flooding the airw...

Trump will accept loss if A.)it is too great in both popular and electoral votes to be contentious, and B.)he believes it will somehow benefit him(tha...

Example of recent event and the reactions to them that you find unsatisfying?

Yes. The same is true from my vantage point. Thanks for the detailed reply from which I pulled the above. I'm glad you emphasized the need to roughly ...

Double post...

More and more

Well, it's a republican form of government with strong democratic tradition. But... No. That's not an argument at all. It's a true statement.

Well... that needs quite a bit more qualification. The US is not a democracy, nor ought it ever aim to be. Mob rule denies liberty to minority. Social...

Actually, I'm more than good putting the racial justice reform on the front burner and the political corruption of American government on the back. Th...

Read the next line... Sigh.

I would concur. While the issues of racial injustice and the unaccountability of law enforcement officers are problems, and I'm glad that they are bei...

Shows that we've very different taxonomies at work. A love triangle is not a concept, it is three people involved in sexual relations. We named those ...

That's the first thing that popped into my head... But then again, I wouldn't say that I've thrown the javelin farther than anyone.

That's just not true. Focusing upon the need for racial injustice reform sheds light upon all sorts of things, including but not limited to, law enfor...

Never said it was, nor would I. I direct you back to the first reply I offered you. Love triangle is a deviation of the mathematical concept. The latt...

I've nothing further to say about this...

You've lost me here. I see it there as well. Again, on the left, "triangle" is the third term in the definition. What are you looking at? "Triangle" i...

Look on the left side at the second word. There it is! Hence, my reply.

Interesting that you're from a linguistics background. I'm curious to know what you think about the adequacy and/or sufficiency of the three principle...

The same place triangle is in your definition of triangle.

Only if love triangles can be existentially dependent upon the mathematical notion of triangles and the latter not be necessary for the former. The me...

The officials in charge of those investigations are in the positions they hold for the very specific reasons that such institutions were first created...

I smell a Biden pardon, and suspect it will be framed as a means to move forward and past these issues that have divided our nation. Framing it all as...

I could be wrong, but I'm thinking that that comment related to Davidson'a suggestion regarding the need for dropping appeals to convention as a means...

When language use is already being practiced, the above is a fine thing to say... However, with the creation of convention and hence, the very beginni...

No. What we've learned is that Trump is getting away with doing everything in his power to stop any and all investigations into him. What I hope is th...

I've just noticed something about Davidson's notion of first meaning. The first part of the first sentence in the last paragraph above ends with a sem...

I think it(the single novel use) speaks to how convention gets started. The three principles in question seem inadequate for that task as well as mala...

What counts as "convention" could be altered ad hoc, I suppose, and doing so may save the standard description of linguistic competence under consider...

I think that perhaps the more important take away is the single(novel) use aspect.

I would not say that. If the context is police brutality or abuse of power, it would seem appropriate. If the context is the disproportion, it would n...

Oh, many know and thus also realize that pointing to white ones as a means to divert from black ones is rather beside the point.

Police brutality does not apply to just blacks. Don't think anyone who's the least bit knowledgable on the subject thinks that it does. There's overla...

Convention.

Typing "ball pin hammer" into google translates correctly...

Right. I figure in the end you've(or he's) done me a favor.

:razz: That's what I figure happens when mine disappear. Usually when I've let my emotions get the best of me.