The Spanish had to endure years of horror under a fascist pig like Franco, because the German Nazis prevented the Spanish people from winning their struggle, even with the help of the international brigades. — universeness

Adding Guyana's oil, plus making Guyana's citizens bitter and resentful, won't help Maduro. — BC

for example, f and g sounds still occur where modern Spanish has an h (not pronounced), as in Ladino fijo, fablar versus Spanish hijo, hablar, and Ladino agora versus Spanish ahora

Legal professional full time — AmadeusD

Is 'honest' a noun or a verb? — YiRu Li

Neither. It's an adjective: — Vera Mont

I hope to live up to it and contribute good things to the forum. — JuanZu

Have you met the devil yet? — Sir2u

Regularly. — RobTAS

What, like lunch at the club every Tuesday? — Vera Mont

Works of art are things of imperfect beauty. If ever a work of art is made perfect, it becomes a crime. — Yukio Mishima

To be happy is to see the world of facts as a whole with expanding limits, whereas an unhappy man feel that the same limits, enclosing the same facts, were pressing on him.

'quickfix' experimental vaccines — Tzeentch

but I can talk a little about this point and see if it helps. — 013zen

A statement is a tautology if it's always true. — 013zen

so the analyses will take the form of a statement which has no factual content, and is in that sense empty. For example, the analysis of the phrase 'material object' will take the form, 'if anything is a material object, then the following requirements will necessarily be met...' And this will be an empty tautology.

A tautology, however, has no content because it doesn't tell you anything about the world.

Consider:

"It's either raining or it's not raining"

Etc

This is empty of content, as it tells you nothing about the world. — 013zen

From the Tractatus... — Fooloso4

In one of these cases the proposition is true for all the truth-possibilities of the elementary
propositions. We say that the truth-conditions are tautological. — Fooloso4

China has the largest buddhist population in the world, but this doesn’t seem to have prevented them from also being the world’s highest emitter of carbon, surpassing the U.S. So much for ongoing responsibility for deeds. — Joshs

There is only one solution: the acknowledgement that personal Identity is a concept, a heuristic, not an objective feature of reality. — hypericin

What is the name of this study? — Saskia

Indeed, to Goodman, aesthetics is but a branch of epistemology. Paintings, sculptures, musical sonatas, dance pieces, etc. are all made of symbols, which possess different functions and bear different relations with the worlds they refer to. Hence, artworks require interpretation, and interpreting them amounts to understanding what they refer to, in which way, and within which systems of rules. — Goodman

I assume there must be dedicated forums where minority groups discuss the issues that effect them particularly? — TiredThinker

I think the Greeks' different words for what we have subsumed into 'love' made some kind of sense, though. There is storge towards Ma and Pa; philia for the like-minded; eros for individual fierce attachments (though Plato had Diotima make this the fulcrum of everything) and agape for spiritual love. It would be an interesting enquiry as to how we have come to merge these different strands of feeling into the one word, which seems to me to burst at its seams to contain them all. — mcdoodle

Should there be a licence to have children? Short answer: yes. Will such a legislation ever be established in a nontotalitarian regime? No. — Janus

What personal characteristics would you look for in approving or disapproving parenthood? — BC

Do you think you are a competent prospective (or actual) parent? Why? — BC