I take philosophy to be inquiry into what's true and its method to be reasoned argument.

It is not, then, a form of therapy. — Bartricks

I guess I don't understand — Marchesk

it doesn't though, it only appears to. Just like the Earth appears to be stationary, and to some deluded or ignorant folk, flat. — Marchesk

We don't need a theory of everything to understand the truth that the Earth rotates, creating the appearance of a rising and setting sun. That's a fact. — Marchesk

Well, the truth of propositions got brought up in this discussion. So, if we're talking about truth, then pragmatic everyday talk isn't good enough. — Marchesk

Sure, but which one? You may favour one and I may favour another for our different purposes.
— unenlightened

The one that's true. — Marchesk

One scheme can therefore quite reasonably be considered 'better' than another (more elegant, more useful, more parsimonious...) — Isaac

How do you translate that link without simply changing beliefs? — Isaac

Yeah, he's arguing against incommensurability and that people can have these fundamentally different conceptual schemas that can't be translated. Which basically amounts to abolishing he notion of conceptual schemas. We all live in the same world. I more or less agree with that.

So what was the statements being true and rising suns of the last couple pages all about? — Marchesk

But what if all they are doing is playing instrumental music? Base riffs an lead solos. A language without truth. — Banno

So we find, if we accept these considerations, that language cannot be set aside unless one also sets aside ones conceptual scheme; we find ourselves in the position of equating translation of language with translation of conceptual scheme. We may say that if what one person holds to be the case cannot be translated for another person, then these two folk hold to distinct conceptual schemes. — Banno

The show has attracted some negative criticism. The representation of Himba participants has been described as racist and exploitative, while the Moffatt family were seen as selfish and ignorant.

Yet while critics of the show may be well meaning, their views portray the Himba as passive victims with neither agency nor power, and the Moffatts as uneducated intruders. This reveals a deeply embedded paternalistic and imperialistic view of both Indigenous and working-class people and highlights why we need TV shows that challenge these biases.

So "language use including interpretation thereof not behaving like there's a scheme-content distinction" is the proposed defeater of "there are wildly varying conceptual schemes that lead to untranslateable sentences between agents that use/have those schemes". — fdrake

I would have accepted leave the day following the referendum up until Theresa May's first meaningful vote. — Punshhh

Ultimately they put party before country, which laid the blame for the Tory Brexit firmly at their door. — Punshhh

I think this is the bit where we’re meant to ask what they call their act, and for Johnson to triumphantly declare: “The Aristocrats!”

someone who "follows" — Gus Lamarch

It seems it is possible for our morality to stem from natural selection and adaptive drives. But if this were really the case, why aren’t our morals more viciously competitive? — Teaisnice

Political Darwin award shared? — Baden

Mogg was eligible to be put down. — Punshhh

But of course a person of such privelidge and high demeanour with a posh voice must be right. — Punshhh

Some leavers justify their stance as 'to get our country back'. — Tim3003

a new mathematical theory of economics surprisingly concludes that wealth inequity is inherent in any free market. — Gnomon

I'm not a nazi of the grammatical or any other variety. I ask you to withdraw that remark. — Chris Hughes

common but meaningless misspeak error, — Chris Hughes

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I'd like to ask the Britons here the following questions?
How are the Lib Dems seen in the UK?

In the UK the Lib Dems are acknowledged as the third of the main party's. In a largely two party system, they are often trapped in the middle, meaning that they often have large swings in their number of seats depending on the mood in the country. Their policies are as centrist as they can be, they are often criticised for being in line with either conservative policies, or Labour, by the other side. But they do have a solid support in the middle ground, the woolly jumper, Saab driving brigade. — Punshhh

If the Great Nintendo exists and is good, why did he create Bowser, and why did he put those stars in such hard to reach places? — Mario

To fight unhappiness one must first expose it, which means that one must dispel the mystifications behind which it is hidden so that people do not have to think about it. It is because I reject lies and running away that I am accused of pessimism; but this rejection implies hope — the hope that truth may be of use. And this is a more optimistic attitude than the choice of indifference, ignorance or sham. — Simone De Beauvoir

Although I think this argument is valid, I find the conclusion and its implications hard to agree with. I think that if free will exists, it doesn’t mean that heaven and hell are the alternative models. — Marissa

But regardless of the question of free will, I generally think that proving that several concepts (models) are consistent with another concept (a theory) does not imply that these concepts exist as more than concepts. — leo

A decorated army officer and the top Ukraine expert on the national security council has reportedly told House impeachment investigators that the White House transcript of a call between the presidents of the US and Ukraine left out important words and phrases.

That seems inappropriate to me. — uncanni

"Climate is a matter of faith and ideology," is vague. — uncanni