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If the conspiracies are true. As a thought experiment. Can philosophy be useful here?
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Why use foreign language title?

The answer is yes, but because conspiracies very often diverge at times quite a lot from practical truth, it is very unproductive to use philosophy for it, unless to prove a general point (for instance a point about the access of the public to government and other types of disclosed information) as opposed to a specific point (the ethics surrounding the hypothetical situation).
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Die conspiricies doelt u?





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The Voice of Time wrote:Why use foreign language title?

The answer is yes, but because conspiracies very often diverge at times quite a lot from practical truth, it is very unproductive to use philosophy for it, unless to prove a general point (for instance a point about the access of the public to government and other types of disclosed information) as opposed to a specific point (the ethics surrounding the hypothetical situation).[/quote
"The Voice of Time"]Why use foreign language title?
Why not? It's Flemish/Dutch and spoken where I live. It is the language in which I first thought the sentence, so I've kept it. But I think to my English native ear sounds great. I think English is suspect, so to use another language (as a non-native speaker) is interesting and possibly productive.

“Language is not neutral,” write Azzellini and Sitrin, “words transport and express concepts and ways of thinking. They can consolidate and perpetuate hierarchies, domination and control just as they can underline equality and strengthen consciousness.”
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Bill Wiltrack wrote:.





Die conspiricies doelt u?





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Wrong question. Als de complotten waar zijn. What do we see. Does philosophy have a position here.
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The Voice of Time wrote:Why use foreign language title?
i'm nor sure but, for the last many days, i've been listening to foreign music
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Wacht eens even ... Je vraagt ​​of de conspiricies waar zijn.

Ik vraag - Wat conspiricies? ... en DAT is het verkeerde antwoord?


Je bent me te verliezen ...





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growing up, upon growing up, i came upon many things, many of them were conspiracy theories, in fact, i read the supposed actual history of the, you name it...

i come out flabbergasted. can philosophy be useful in the question that you asked? i don't know for sure but i kinda wonder if it might
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Bill Wiltrack wrote:.



Wacht eens even ... Je vraagt ​​of de conspiricies waar zijn.

Ik vraag - Wat conspiricies? ... en DAT is het verkeerde antwoord?


Je bent me te verliezen ...



googantah!



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bus2bondi wrote:
The Voice of Time wrote:Why use foreign language title?
i'm nor sure but, for the last many days, i've been listening to foreign music
me too, I've been listening to the soundtrack from The Dictator movie, but what does that have to do with the use of unintelligible language in the title?
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The Voice of Time wrote:
bus2bondi wrote:
The Voice of Time wrote:Why use foreign language title?
i'm nor sure but, for the last many days, i've been listening to foreign music
me too, I've been listening to the soundtrack from The Dictator movie, but what does that have to do with the use of unintelligible language in the title?
It isn't unintelligible language, Dutch or German speakers can understand it (some see, some don't). To you it is abstract and obscure, like conspiracies are. Unintelligible language (to humans) would be barking dogs, or the sounds of dophins.
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Well to one who doesn't know the language (and how many here does?) it would be unintelligible xD

Or if you didn't know the language would you find it intelligible?
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Or if you didn't know the language would you find it intelligible?[/
No, I'd be interested in what it meant though.
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Bill Wiltrack wrote:.



Wacht eens even ... Je vraagt ​​of de conspiricies waar zijn.

Ik vraag - Wat conspiricies? ... en DAT is het verkeerde antwoord?


Je bent me te verliezen ...
Which conspiracies do I mean you ask. I mean those ones which are running through your mind when you here the words 'if the conspiracies are true.'
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Pluto wrote:
Or if you didn't know the language would you find it intelligible?[/
No, I'd be interested in what it meant though.
So just to poke interest? Yeah yeah, I figured it out, google-translate 1-2-3!...
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