IE regulatory capture and soothing bullshit?
IE regulatory capture and soothing bullshit?
Thus is a holdover from half remembered lessons on Plato I guess. Socrates is contrasted with the rhetoricians as seeking Truth, a noumenal thing beyond us that we discover (or recall as Socrates would put it). The rhetoricians representative Gorgias has his argument famously summed up as “man is the measure of all things”, that is to say that nothing is either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
Rhetoricians famously taught people how to convince others of their point of view, essentially modern debate technique. Socrates undermined this practice by pointing out that the skills employed (tone of voice, rhythm, eloquence) had nothing to do with determining truth.
With this argument in mind we can see why “rhetoric” is now used as a shorthand for emotional appeals, or style over substance. Rhetoric is what you rely on when you cannot make a structured and logical argument, while in theory the truth is the truth even if delivered in a dull monotone of limited vocabulary.
The cats take valuable couch space
Remember when they AId Harris as a demon and she the result looked hot as fuck
Step 1: do not poop for three days straight
I don’t think anyone needs any movies in their life at all. People would like a minecraft movie in their lives because they like mine craft I presume.
Greater Belearia
Could God create a story so gay that even he could not fake it?
I often start reading a Dutch headline, oblivious to it’s true nature, and am then convinced I am having a stroke as I read further.
This is an anciano image that has endured because of the manic Joy in that dudes face
There is no intelligent operator in a neuron
The Chinese Room by Searle
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Pan Turinism
“No other culture can claim it” well Turkey sure as shit can’t claim it as they wouldn’t come anywhere near Anatolia until about two thousand years after Troy was destroyed and forgotten. Trojan culture simply doesn’t exist anymore, whatever it was.
You keep saying that, but it is very much not true.
This is him focusing on that. This statement makes it clear that the status of the Falklands is not his priority.
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so instead we get pissy about plastic straws, a regulation imposed on corporations by the government.
So, you agree people should not start drinking Coca Cola, and for their own health and finances they should make every effort to stop drinking Coca Cola.
Zappa was no hippy