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Wittgenstein on the Metaphysical Self
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Is there any possibility that 250.000 eye-witnesses be ALL wrong?
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God bless America --why we are doomed
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Why can't car speedos be accurate?
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Re: Wittgenstein on the Metaphysical Self
Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile · Search for concept in alt.philosophy
Author: Publius
Date: Sep 20, 2008 11:45
..., and do not presume that the entities postulated have "metaphysical existence" (insofar as I understand the meaning of "metaphysical existence"). I've also been arguing that "metaphysical existence" is a noncognitive concept, and hence cannot be significantly asserted of any entities. IOW, "conventional existence" is the only *cognitively meaningful* "manner" in which something can be said to exist. So you were *...
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Re: Is there any possibility that 250.000 eye-witnesses be ALL wrong?
Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile · Search for concept in alt.philosophy
Author: Rev Dr Feit C Taj
Date: Sep 20, 2008 10:49
... and digest the article. No. If you have something to say, say it. I'm not going to dig around on Google and Wikipedia, trying to guess what your point is. If you can't present the concept the wager represents yourself, I'm not going to do your work for you. Remain wilfully ignorant, then. I did do a search for "Descartes' Wager", just for shits and giggles. Guess how many results I ...
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Re: God bless America --why we are doomed
Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile · Search for concept in alt.philosophy
Author: Day Brown
Date: Sep 20, 2008 10:19
... Mambo Duckman wrote: Day Brown wrote: As women take power they will cut the support to religions based on the alpha male tyrant concept of god, and move away to a more ambiguous concept with nature and the world seen as sacred and not profane. Yeah, I am sure this is one of the top three things ...
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Re: Is there any possibility that 250.000 eye-witnesses be ALL wrong?
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Author: Aardvark
Date: Sep 20, 2008 10:19
...>>find a Wikipedia article about the subject. Read and digest the article. No. If you have something to say, say it. I'm not going to dig around on Google and Wikipedia, trying to guess what your point is. If you can't present the concept the wager represents yourself, I'm not going to do your work for you. Remain wilfully ignorant, then. -- Liverpool. European City Of Culture 2008 http://www.liverpool08.com
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Re: Is there any possibility that 250.000 eye-witnesses be ALL wrong?
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Author: SODDI
Date: Sep 20, 2008 10:17
... to dig around on Google and Wikipedia, trying to guess what your point is. If you can't present the concept the wager represents yourself, I'm not going to do your work for you. Remain wilfully ignorant, then.... to dig around on Google and Wikipedia, trying to guess what your point is. If you can't present the concept the wager represents yourself, I'm not going to do your work for you." Not "ignorant" - just sick of ...
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Re: Survey: What led you to functional programming?
Group: comp.lang.functional · Group Profile · Search for concept in comp.lang.functional
Author: Tom Lord
Date: Sep 20, 2008 09:36
...it takes to systematically teach the concepts of (a) programming by composing functions...programming is "built up" from the concept of taking single steps, each ... outputs plus the essentially inductive concept of self-application. There is ... doesn't help learn sequential concepts. It's possible to get ... long way in communicating these concepts (and not a line of ... unless you already know the concepts of composition and recursive definition ...
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Re: Parsing text files with standard words
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Author: Anton Ertl
Date: Sep 20, 2008 07:11
... but not the spirit) or that they crash in some way? Or throw. Yes, any of those. This is about the inadequacy of the QUERY spec. or the previous definition of QUERY being incompatible with the concept of nested input sources. Yes. But will the specification of FILE-SOURCE and CLOSE-SOURCE be better, and more importantly, good enough not to create problems. (Off topic) Shouldn't all the obsolescent words be deleted from ...
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Re: Why can't car speedos be accurate?
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Author: John Wright
Date: Sep 20, 2008 05:17
... is needed - perhaps some sort of radar signal bounced off the road below the vehicle? It all adds up to reasons why setting speed scameras to clock anyone doing 1mph over the limit is a stupid concept. -- John Wright "What would happen if you eliminated the autism genes from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socialising and not getting anything done!" - Professor Temple...
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US-NY: Brooklyn-Network Engineer
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Author: JobCircle.Com
Date: Sep 20, 2008 05:04
... LAN/WAN systems to help design and install internal and external networks. Tests and evaluates network systems to eliminate problems and make improvements. Familiar with standard concepts, practices and applicable procedures. Requires a related Bachelors Degree 5 years min related experience with TCP/IP LINUX Open Source Novell Netware 6.5 Microsoft Windows Server ...
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Re: How to get rid of *GNU Emacs* buffer on start-up?
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Author: Alan Mackenzie
Date: Sep 20, 2008 01:11
.... Think about how many writers are there in the world, what's their percentage with respect to, say, programers. Emacs is intended for programmers, though it's great that other sorts of writers find it useful too. Perhaps the concept of thinking for one hour on academic subject is something you've never done. Hahahaha! That's so funny it's not even an insult. Even when it [the *scratch* buffer] is not used, it's not ...
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