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I am looking for a quotation of the tale described below. I know it appeared at the beginning of an article or text on paraconsistent logic but I can't find that source nor any other authoritative...
03 December 2024 8,702 15 View
Are there any cases where Romans used the term "decimatio" in a nonmilitary sense? Or were all uses of "decimatio" implicitly referring to cases of "decimatio legionis" ? Please give examples and...
22 September 2024 5,113 1 View
I am looking for a no frills search tool that will find highlighted text in pdf and epub files. I just want something that will just take me to the next highlighted word or phrase in the way a...
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Suppose, hypothetically, that a reputable journal publishes an extremely scathing review of a book of which they had received an advance copy. Meanwhile, the book's publisher changes the title of...
27 March 2024 5,593 2 View
Circa 1983 Peter Glassen, in response to Patricia Churchland and John Eccles, wrote a paper entitled: « 'Is Determinism Self-Refuting?' No, But......
08 December 2023 5,907 0 View
This passage occurred in a short story by Isaac Asimov: "... You're weak on logic, that's the trouble with you. You're like the guy in the story who was caught in a sudden shower and who ran to a...
07 December 2023 8,876 4 View
I am haphazardly filling a few gaps in my knowledge of British history and I am currently reading Trevelyan's England Under the Stuarts because his name often came up when I overheard my friends...
31 March 2023 5,163 3 View
The gifts (gold, frankincense, myrrh) were not of such a nature that they would've been of use to humble folks, except as items with a resale value to a broker. It has been suggested that the gold...
24 December 2022 9,203 18 View
What is the current consensus among historians and other scholars? Apart from his alleged relationship with Mrs. Crawford that compromised his political career, did Dilke have other clandestine...
16 July 2022 7,921 2 View
I was once asked to volunteer to teach a philosophy course for U3A. I had to turn down the request because of the excessive time involved in travelling to and from the venue, otherwise I would...
07 September 2021 2,598 5 View
Can the second-language version, strictly speaking, be considered a translation of the first-language version or is it merely a somewhat looser interpretation? How do such authors approach the...
11 December 2020 5,400 25 View
I have encountered people who, when confronted with a counterexample to a general claim, will respond with another example that is consistent with the general claim, as if this somehow refutes the...
29 June 2020 9,743 15 View
This question is the title of a video on Youtube that intrigued me, especially because of these accompanying remarks: «It sounds like a hugely arrogant and self-serving suggestion to imply that...
09 November 2019 1,488 54 View
Chemicals added to swimming pools leach into the air above the surface of the water, with the result that regular lap swimmers must be inhaling them to a significantly greater degree than casual...
05 April 2019 2,479 11 View
Where I live there is a large park that has a picnic/barbecue facility that can be freely used and is mostly used by people from the local area (upper middle class) living within walking distance...
20 March 2019 1,135 8 View
Many other apparent clashes between the Quran and science are explained by scholars by treating the problematic passages as poetic language that can be reexpressed or explained by more literal...
13 January 2019 6,717 18 View
I've seen evidence of strange behavior among people who walk their dogs on trails in parks or seminatural areas in my suburb. People will carry plastic bags for picking up their dogs' feces but...
28 December 2018 3,179 2 View
The phrase "geriatric profanity disorder", together with its initialization "GPD", has become somewhat of a meme, being mentioned in TV shows like the Simpsons and receiving an entry in the Urban...
08 December 2018 8,706 2 View
The word "orange" is commonly cited as an example.
18 September 2018 6,812 52 View
Where can one find the most up-to-date and comprehensive list of journals in the humanities (esp. philosophy and literary studies) that should be avoided because of their unwarranted publication...
11 April 2018 9,378 6 View
I remember reading an article (in Scientific American I think) back in grad school (late 1970’s) that proposed a 24-valued logic. The basic idea had to do with rust fungus on crops and the values...
07 March 2016 5,969 12 View
The ISS is nearing its decommission date and various deorbiting plans are under consideration, but they all seem to involve crashing it into the Pacific Ocean in one way or another. That's a lot...
01 January 1970 8,274 2 View
I asked three different Artificial Intelligences an arithmetical riddle and got three different answers, which each claimed was the only possibility. Here is the riddle: Alice and Bill each...
01 January 1970 338 10 View
There was of course a need to eliminate the reflex posting of mere congrats and thankyous (often by people who hadn't even bothered to look at the research), since the few informative comments...
01 January 1970 8,582 2 View
I'm beginning to notice a number of answers on RG that look suspiciously like they've been generated by AI. The usefulness of posting such answers is not clear, since those seeking an answer to a...
01 January 1970 7,338 5 View
