On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:43:02 -0600, curmudgeon wrote: Is this the way we all should and must speak now ? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7457287.stm From: http://www.portfolio.com/resources/business-intelligence/corporate-speak action item An urgent task requiring immediate action—from someone else. as discussed A phrase used to remind someone of a conversation...

On Jun 22, 8:32 pm, "curmudgeon" <briticanlan...@bresnan.net> wrote: Do you say what you mean or mean what you say? I think that the subject and predicate, on either side of the disjunct, means the same thing; 2+3=5 is the same as 3+2=5. Conversion is a concept in traditional logic referring to a "type of immediate inference in which from a given proposition another proposition is ...

On Jun 22, 11:32 pm, "curmudgeon" <briticanlan...@bresnan.net> wrote: Do you say what you mean or mean what you say?  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7457287.stm *curmudgeon* "The best read illiterate in the country" I'm sure (or as sure as Kant would allow) that the anonymous inventors of this “jingoism” were all very proud of their literary ingenuity… We all love ...

Is this the way we all should and must speak now ? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7457287.stm

Do you say what you mean or mean what you say? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7457287.stm *curmudgeon* "The best read illiterate in the country"

Do you say what you mean or mean what you say? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7457287.stm *curmudgeon* "The best read illiterate in the country"

..., it is a limit of the world" (5.632). So the answer to his rhetorical question "Where _in_ the world is a metaphysical subject to be found?" (5.633) is "... image of throwing away the ladder, the Tractatus aims not at showing ineffable truths but plain gibberish. 3. Therapeutic Irrationalism (Bouwsma) holds that the Tractatus is proposing to abandon philosophical problems for the sake ...

... you and removes your entitlement. Its like in grammar class, it you just put out some gibberish with no grammatical structure like subject, predicates and objects, you talk nonsense. When you argue without ...is nothing like how the brain works. Again, ripped from its context. In debate or rhetoric this is a common ploy easily caught by participants and observers. In spades with ...

On Apr 5, 7:59 pm, "Peter Jason" <p...@jostle.com> wrote desperately: Can't we have simple justice, morality & ethics without all the controlling and cultural bullshit?! Answer that if you can. Why, yes, I CAN answer that for you: "Justice, Morality, AND Ethics" are all cultural... almost exclusively cultural in nature. I can't imagine any of them even existing without...

... as far as I can see. Trying to spread your religion's usual fear rhetoric still? Educate yourself about religions please. Then educate yourself about metaphysics. Then you might...in all matters. Bwahahahaha! Is that your evidence for a better education? Is your mother tongue Gibberish? Come back when you have learned not to down talk to your betters. You were ...