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Yanks. They live in the past.

We should be in bed. In theory I'm writing an essay; what's your excuse?

I'm working, I wish I was in bed right now.

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I'm working, I wish I was in bed right now.

There are more English people around at 2am than there ever are at 2pm :/

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An essay on what specifically?

Nothing exciting I'm afraid. It's on Bertrand Russell's response to E.E.C. Jones' response to Russell's earlier criticisms of Gottlob Frege regarding whether or not the sentence "Scott is the author of Waverley" asserts an identity of denotation. Essentially, does "the author of Waverley" refer to Scott, or is it just a predicate which we can apply to Scott? To make things even more complicated, Russell thinks "Scott" doesn't actually refer to Scott either, but I have to write the essay imagining he thinks it does.

Next week I'll be writing about why nobody exists in more than one world at once. It promises to be much more exciting.

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Lol westerners, greetings from 10+ hours into the future!
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I need suggestions for time-consuming freeware games in case my internet goes down yet again.

Dwarf Fortress!

I'm on my way to LA. I've been on base for so long I forgot what the civilian world was like.

Come to Canada for a visit sometime, I'll give you a real taste of the civilian world, bby ;)

I'd love to taste your civilian world.

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There are more English people around at 2am than there ever are at 2pm :/



Nothing exciting I'm afraid. It's on Bertrand Russell's response to E.E.C. Jones' response to Russell's earlier criticisms of Gottlob Frege regarding whether or not the sentence "Scott is the author of Waverley" asserts an identity of denotation. Essentially, does "the author of Waverley" refer to Scott, or is it just a predicate which we can apply to Scott? To make things even more complicated, Russell thinks "Scott" doesn't actually refer to Scott either, but I have to write the essay imagining he thinks it does.

Next week I'll be writing about why nobody exists in more than one world at once. It promises to be much more eggsiting.

Zed...

It was right the first time you dopey cunt.

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Nothing exciting I'm afraid. It's on Bertrand Russell's response to E.E.C. Jones' response to Russell's earlier criticisms of Gottlob Frege regarding whether or not the sentence "Scott is the author of Waverley" asserts an identity of denotation. Essentially, does "the author of Waverley" refer to Scott, or is it just a predicate which we can apply to Scott? To make things even more complicated, Russell thinks "Scott" doesn't actually refer to Scott either, but I have to write the essay imagining he thinks it does.

Next week I'll be writing about why nobody exists in more than one world at once. It promises to be much more exciting.

I always hated Wittgenstein's language-game assertion and any school of thought derivative of the philosophy of language - especially referentialism. I don't understand Russell's latter assertion because basic Linguistic theory takes the predicativism stance about proper names is the thesis that a proper name, as it occurs in a sentence in a context of use, expresses a property, and its property expressed in a context-bound sentence. So "Scott" would be a predicate of identity because the "Scott" that "fell off a tree" would be different from the "Scott that caught Scott that fell off a tree". Oh language games.

But then again, now that I think about it, "predicate" in Linguistics literally means anything in a sentence that isn't the direct subject. So


Hmu when you start existentialism. Is that even existentialism? Nihlism? Extreme nihlism?

I'm really sad I wanna have a full clan for RHG but when Jthatcher got in his attitude got him banned. What should I doo~

Advertising your clan outside of the Chat Thread would be a pretty good start ;)

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I always hated Wittgenstein's language-game assertion and any school of thought derivative of the philosophy of language - especially referentialism. I don't understand Russell's latter assertion because basic Linguistic theory takes the predicativism stance about proper names is the thesis that a proper name, as it occurs in a sentence in a context of use, expresses a property, and its property expressed in a context-bound sentence. So "Scott" would be a predicate of identity because the "Scott" that "fell off a tree" would be different from the "Scott that caught Scott that fell off a tree". Oh language games.

But then again, now that I think about it, "predicate" in Linguistics literally means anything in a sentence that isn't the direct subject. So


Hmu when you start existentialism. Is that even existentialism? Nihlism? Extreme nihlism?

Philosophy of language is normally my favourite thing, but not this. I'm not even sure what I'm going to argue for.

But yeah, you won't catch me doing that existentialist nonsense. That stuff's for poets and Frenchmen. I'll take logic any day of the week.

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Advertising your clan outside of the Chat Thread would be a pretty good start ;)

Actually theres an actual thread for advertising clans. Don't do it here pls.

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I'm really sad I wanna have a full clan for RHG but when Jthatcher got in his attitude got him banned. What should I doo~

Also tell Thatcher to chill the fuck out.

Ice that motherfucker.

Pop a cap in his arse.