Yes, well, I have tried mentioning it on several flights, but usually they think I'm just a bit nervous about flying and give me one of those flight safety jackets, with the arms that fasten at the back.
Don't airplanes work by airflow or something like that? Also, I heard hot air rises. Naturally, I concluded that in the case of the wind failing to deliver, I could lean out the door and provide some lift with the hairdryer.
Was:
No association game
I read:
Make associations. You have to make associations. If you don't, chaos will follow, the universe will implode and everyone will die.
The one time I went to the US, one of the things I remember is a kind of independent tour guide near the grassy knoll, in Dallas. He just kind of stood there going on about this or that thing he thought happened, and waving his arms about. The Donald would be good at something like that, I...
I learned that people post about things they didn't learn on RF in the things I learned on RF thread. The horror! I shall have to confine myself to bed for a week. Maybe a bit longer.
That's kind of a non-point. What do you think it has to do with whether or not the mind is immaterial, or what Kuhn had to say? Read the following sentence. Picking parts of a someone's post to raise irrelevant points can come across as arguing in bad faith.
Note also that whatever you think...
That older/newer paradigms can only be evaluated on their own terms isn't an argument that there is no new knowledge. What is it you understand from that? Can you elaborate a bit on what you understood from the point, I mean what your understanding is and how you arrived at it.
Kuhn argues that scientific revolutions are arrived at incrementally. His argument (or part of it) is that paradigms don't suddenly shift because of one act of genius, but through iterative processes that build to a kind of critical mass. That is as opposed to the idea of a kind of flow wherein...