–Fellow dummies… this business about objective truth is complicated… As turtle says, it could mean different things…
Atlanta is most likely in Georgia… since I’ve driven through there… but boundary lines on a map are a social construction, based on law and human artifice…
Separtists in Atlanta… not that there are any… might think that Atlanta is really part of Kentucky… stranger things have happened…
On a related note, I have an ancient philosophical puzzle for us dummies…
…If a tree falls in a forest… and nobody at all is around… does anybody hear it?
There was a young man who said, “God
Must find it exceedingly odd
To think that the tree
Should continue to be
When there’s no one about in the quad.”
Reply:
“Dear Sir: Your astonishment’s odd;
I am always about in the quad.
And that’s why the tree
Will continue to be
Since observed by, Yours faithfully, God.”
No miracles ever happen.
A miracle is by definition an event which confounds the laws of nature, and thus by definition does not occur except in the imagination of the weak minded.
If I trawled though enough shit I probably could find something. DOn’t hold your breath though, I’m not sure I have the patience to wade, with hip-high rubber leggings.
Why do you ask?
lev can you point to an important philosophy post on ilp
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If I trawled though enough shit I probably could find something. DOn’t hold your breath though, I’m not sure I have the patience to wade, with hip-high ribber leggings.
Why do you ask?
For example: this is in the ‘shit’ category, and not really philosophy.
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are you joining us dummies…this is a very special group here…
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Special, as in “Special Needs”?
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you can join but you have to be nice