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Is that a South American or a Caribbean dance step? I guess it's just that rhythmic wiggle after each 45 degree shift which provokes the possibly unjustified ascription from me to it.

Thank you. I am frustrated with the Ilovephilosophy forum. Funny you should mention it. Really at the end of my rope with them. Are you on any other forums? I lurk at a lot of places, rather than posting / being registered. Including Philosophy Forums, Online Philosophy Club, SciForums' General Phi...

Nice to see you return here from that ilovephilosophy place, Bill. Maybe you'll spur things up on some of these dead forums, if for no other reason than provoking others to ask WAYTA.

There are some philosophies which state I don't exist. One philosophy is mereological nihilism. A traditional television screen certainly isn't conceiving or interpreting its isolated pixels as a dynamic world of Earthly entities, humans, events, and stories. A lizard (one with with colored vision)...

Can anyone please explain why such a racist, sexist, utter moron is considered a hero? Wow, Hercule Perot, that's quite a "needle in the haystack" feat: Finding any dead white man at all who was racist and sexist, from the 18th century! Damn, that old misogynist KKKant sure as hell would ...

The Voice of Time wrote:As title says: write the first thought that comes to your head! Mine: I need to grab another coke can from my fridge

Mine: I wonder if even this second attempt to post on PNF will finally appear.

Anyway, I will leave it there. I am interested to know whether anyone agrees, or disagrees, with the basic idea that 'number is real but not material'. "Real" (?) interpreted as useful meanings, purposeful / effective instructions attached to abstract quantitative symbols. "Not mater...