..., you would be moron if you nickpick on spellings and phrasings that are not critical to the main ideas. Sometimes,Xah, your spellings and phrasings, to say nothing of your wierd variable length quotes with dangling bits, make your message all but indecipherable. you think? could it be that your criticial thinking and readings ...

.... And, you would be moron if you nickpick on spellings and phrasings that are not critical to the main ideas. Sometimes, Xah, your spellings and phrasings, to say nothing of your wierd variable length quotes with dangling bits, make your message all but indecipherable. Eli has one up on you there. English isn't his native language...

...that has no 'sense' (i.e. there is nothing *in* the world that it represents -- Tractatus ... increasing confidence in the model we may even say (as a matter of linguistic convention) that its...> conceptual objects 'exist'. Since anything we might say exists would be a matter of "linguistic convention," the qualifer seems superfluous. We need say nothing more than this, and there is no need to postulate metaphysical objects that ...

... for ones point of view when their best shot against the Word of God is to say nothing but just post some links. It's easy for people like you to blame the Bible ... writers of the Bible didn't have nearly enough evidence to say any of the things that you supposedly worship. huh, ... You know that is a flat-out lie. that is to say, from a worthy translation. of course, if the Gnostic were ...

...an inherent absurdity in ranking colleges and universities with mock precision from first to 569th. The sort of student who will thrive at Williams might drown at Caltech, to say nothing of West Point. And it is possible to get a "Harvard" education at the University of Minnesota, just as it possible to get a "University of Minnesota...

.... A guy at the company selling the product being discussed in the book says nothing good about the book. What does that tell you? Honestly, what does that ...? You have to understand he was straining to say the best he could, and he said the book...". And the author could not find anyone to say anything nicer. Good lord. Mind you, I may... and said he would not know what to say so they had a little fun and Larry ...

... and when they last ran me through the Stanford- Binet I.Q. tests I scored 168. All that shows is that you can score 168 on the Stanford-Binet IQ test. It says nothing about your intelligence. Perhaps you didn't write that exactly right. I kind of like it, though. It must have a fair few scratching their heads. -- Ray

... they last ran me through the Stanford- Binet I.Q. tests I scored 168. All that shows is that you can score 168 on the Stanford-Binet IQ test. It says nothing about your intelligence. And you? <Choke, snicker, giggle, snort, guffaw, chuckle...> (Oh yeah, I forgot; I play with thesauri, too.) -Pete -- Jane British OO, ...

... and give a shot at trying to explain what it was you were _trying_ to say, and then we can chuckle at that too? Actually, on second thought, don't ...dishonesty of the despicable sort. Physical reality is not binary. Thus, saying that in, say, the 1960's, computers were not capable of supporting AI, says NOTHING AT ALL about whether computers today are that capable. I suppose if you attach a prospectus, guide to your ...

...contended it to be true. That is intellectual dishonesty of the despicable sort. Physical reality is not binary. Thus, saying that in, say, the 1960's, computers were not capable of supporting AI, says NOTHING AT ALL about whether computers today are that capable. You are equally ignorant and functionally illiterate with the person you are defending. I suggest that...