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Post by DRSB » Mon Nov 21, 2016 7:05 am

Whatever you thought was a fact, isn't.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Mon Nov 21, 2016 9:48 am

Is that correct? Or are we wrong about that as well?
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Post by pErvinalia » Mon Nov 21, 2016 10:24 am

Is this like known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown knowns? :think:
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Re: These are the facts

Post by DRSB » Mon Nov 21, 2016 10:31 am

Everything that is is a function of what it is not.
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Post by rainbow » Mon Nov 21, 2016 1:18 pm

DRSB wrote:Everything that is is a function of what it is not.
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Re: These are the facts

Post by DRSB » Mon Nov 21, 2016 2:05 pm

We make meaning by contrast. If you cannot distinguish between something and what it is not, then the something blends into what it is not.
Let's take a chair. How do you know what a chair is unless you know what a chair is not?
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Re: These are the facts

Post by Forty Two » Mon Nov 21, 2016 6:01 pm

There are two immutable facts in this world:

1. You cannot say the letter "m" without touching your lips together.













2, After reading that, you tried.
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Re: These are the facts

Post by laklak » Mon Nov 21, 2016 6:40 pm

The chair you perceive is not the chair itself.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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Re: These are the facts

Post by Forty Two » Mon Nov 21, 2016 6:50 pm

What was it that Heraclitus said? You never sit in the same chair twice?
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Re: These are the facts

Post by JimC » Mon Nov 21, 2016 8:08 pm

Chairs do not exist unless I am sitting in them.
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Re: These are the facts

Post by laklak » Mon Nov 21, 2016 8:12 pm

I thought it was "you never shit in the same hat twice", which seemed self-evident to me. After you shit in it once it's no longer a "hat". Well, I wouldn't wear it, but there's no accounting for tastes.
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Re: These are the facts

Post by Svartalf » Mon Nov 21, 2016 8:31 pm

JimC wrote:Chairs do not exist unless I am sitting in them.
so what is holding me at des height while I'm typing this? and I'm not standing.
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Post by Tero » Mon Nov 21, 2016 8:38 pm

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Re: These are the facts

Post by JimC » Mon Nov 21, 2016 11:12 pm

Svartalf wrote:
JimC wrote:Chairs do not exist unless I am sitting in them.
so what is holding me at des height while I'm typing this? and I'm not standing.
It may resemble what I term to be a chair (when sitting on it), but that is just a coincidence...
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