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Understood. But, I can't be your straw man. I understand physics in a conceptual manner. Transmutation of elements has been demonstrated and found to ...

Nope. After 30 years of discussions in order to convince someone, you need a working demonstrator that produces excess heat independently tested by sc...

I'll fine some papers that you're interested in. Gimme a day or two. Anyway, time for me to sleep.

This might help also.

Mizuno has produced a working device... I'm not following you here since I am aware of the fact that Mizuno has a working device that produces more th...

Yes. I would agree with that sentiment.

It's sickening, really. I can't even follow this shit.

There's the Ongoing Tractatus thread I created. Let me know if you want to post in it.

True. I agree that facts cannot be false. But, in logical space with possible worlds, they can be wrong in another possible world. It gets frustrating...

Oh, OK. Start another thread then. I'd been keenly interested in it.

How so?

Like what? His Tractatus is partially right; but wrong on some parts like the picture theory of meaning. If you lived in a two-dimensional world, then...

Yes. What do you mean by that?

You can try and do that; but, Wittgenstein already did most of the work for you. Just sayin.

See: https://www.quora.com/What-is-Wittgenstein-s-Logical-Space# Logical space has lost its meaning nowadays, so it has inherited a new meaning called...

I think that is pertinent to advancing this discussion about what facts are. Facts are states of affairs in logical space.

So, can we say that facts are representations of states of affairs, and then delve more deeply and state that facts are logical relations between obje...

Indeed. The question on my end is how do facts obtain their status of facthood.

I feel you. I just don't understand why you think heroin would solve anything. You seem to have devised a scale of pleasure that is defined by the dru...

You lost me. And how does this affect the obtaining of facts?

Me interacting with you through this forum, and since old PF we also had chats, then that's not true. Hurried? I guess that's true. I like to advance ...

Whoa. Dude, that's disturbing. You sound like a troubled mind. Just being upfront and honest here.

The point should be directed or focused on dealing with it effectively, and only paid professionals can help with that. The only element missing in al...

What's that?

I can only offer advice about coping with depression. Unfortunately, it never goes away, the thought patterns are deeply embedded. There are always al...

Your post kind of rambles along. But, suicidal ideation is often a precursor to the act of suicide. Philosophy can only do so much, and professional t...

Generally speaking, addicts miss the features of the drug that influence them. Such as heightened perception or increased productivity. The initial hi...

I want to just be clear that I'm not for reporting threads and deleting them or such. The point should be to restructure or give form to some discussi...

What do other mods think? You seem to have some underlying prejudice against what I'm professing. That's fine.

So, then a philosopher ought to improve how we communicate? Does that sound right? No, it's the other way around. Philosophers are competent individua...

Not so basic if a great deal of confusion, ambiguity, vagueness comes about. Ambiguity, vagueness, and uncertainty about terms is surely a philosophic...

How so? Is this just postmodernism being professed here? Yes, that bugs me. So, what can be done about it?

I don't know how to put it; but, stipulated definitions are a form of false notions of what the object of inquiry ( God forbid abstractions ) are. I f...

Cicero phrased the question as so: To each his own is beautiful. (Cicero) What does he mean by this in philosophical terms?

This sounds like asking about qualia. How is it like to be a butterfly of sorts(?)

Can you explain what you mean by 'being' a process more?

Try this for size: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9L4q-0Pi4E

I think, that what can be said about stipulative definitions is that if a person makes one the moderators should ask for a clear explanation of it bef...

What do you think about the Platonic interpretation, Ciceronianus and BitterCrank?

Also: http://e-catworld.com/

What does he mean by saying "Suum cuique"?

A tool of what? What do you mean by tool here?

Do go on...

If you're feeling up for it, there's this book also: https://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-Transmutation-Reality-Cold-Fusion/dp/1892925001

You can look up on that website articles published by Tadahiko Mizuno and other Japanese. Their work spans something since the start of Cold Fusion wi...

Have at it. A compendium of knowledge about LENR can be found here: http://lenr-canr.org/

Yes, feelings are ineffable. They can't be spoken of. But, we're deviating from how facts obtain their status of facthood. Is it when reality hits you...

Yes, rules are bad. But some are common that we seem to live by them. So, we take these rules to be true, which they are in a majority of cases, but s...

By idealized I mean that they exist the in the sphere of imagination/thought/mind; but, can become realities in the world.

We can invent ways to occupy our mind with things. Suppose we created a new meta-material that can interface with our minds and fly or levitate or cha...