@Humpleupagus@Senator_Armstrong You continue to insist on dualism, when I'm fairly certain you don't actually know what the word means since you're misapplying it. Sophistry, however, I did apply properly, as your argument has been entirely fallacious, and now you're attempting to appeal to authority rather than offering true arguments beyond your woo.
As for german philosophers, even if he was a bit of a mystic, Nietzsche had your number cold. Truly, you are the 'last man' he described.
This has been fun, Hump, but we really haven't progressed the discussion beyond going to fun name calling. Thanks for the argument.
@Humpleupagus@Senator_Armstrong No, dickcheese, that's not what I'm saying. That you can't understand what I'm saying suggests the true nigger is the one that requires concrete objectivity and is incapable of abstract thought.
Even the dog learns the word "stick" means something long and thin and probably made of wood is about to be thrown. That you seem to think this requires a supreme telepathic see of collective unconscious makes you more on the woo end than the guy who says "God gave me this brain that can recognize patterns, and through that ability, I can eventually figure out what the fuck other humans like me are saying."
@Humpleupagus@Senator_Armstrong This is sophistry. Dogs don't need to know what 'stick' is. They just know when you throw that object (because objects exist, language or no), he gets to run after it. We also know that object because we can see it, touch it, hold it, etc. We know it's a stick, because we've picked up that that's what others call it. To communicate to other humans that this is a stick, we use the agreed-upon sounds to reference the stick.
There are shared experiences. Every human being knows what a 'stick' is even if they've heard it called a stick, 棒, palo, lazda, ਸਟਿੱਕ, палка or sopa.
Also, get the kind of nigger I am right. It's "Sanchez" if you want to imply my arguments are bad because of a racial handicap.
@Humpleupagus@Senator_Armstrong But it is. You're using pattern recognition to realize sounds are associated with objects, actions and behaviors. Repeated exposure associates the sound "apple" with that red fruit the guy's holding. I don't see how that's not an explanation.
@Humpleupagus@Senator_Armstrong Pattern recognition. It's this thing humans are really good at. We see some asshole sitting on the hood of his car munching on an apple, and we've seen other assholes munching on apples, and we've heard people say over and over "That apple-munching asshole pisses me off." After multiple exposures, we associate the words "apple", "munching", and "asshole" to refer to people who consume a red fruit and do crude things. Thus, we now have built a phrase in a language.
I'm so glad that I'm so old and incompetent that I'm not on anyone's list. But if your HVAC is monkeywrenched all to hell, it's probably still not me because I rarely leave Coal Run.
@marius Not this frequent. The middle-aged internet could route around damage, whether government censorship or physical trauma. This internet is weak and dying. This isn't what it's supposed to be.