definitions

Inspired by this comment elsewhere: I understand that "conspiracy theories" is a vaguely recognizable genre in written communication. One that would be nice to label with warning signs and put where it rightfully belongs -- the trashbin, that is. However, I don't feel comfortable with the...

My experience with atheists, outside of the internet, is with folks that deny the existence of any deity. It was a dichotomy between atheist and theist. When I got on the internet and started getting into forums, I found atheists with a whole spectrum of beliefs, and the term qualified with...

From this thread: "The relationship between science and materialism", originally Posted by JustGeoff. He said: "The challenge is as follows. Please attempt to define the following: Subjective Objective Mental Physical 1st-person 3rd-person" Here are my definitions. I added "Noumena". 1)...

Something I've seen a lot skeptic movement bulletin boards, is a focus on definitions. I've seen things like 1) you can't talk about something unless you can precisely define it 2) posting a definition will end the argument 3) debating X means posting definitions of X to name a few...

I realised I had never looked up the dictionary definition of these terms before, so I dusted off my trusty Concise OED and found the following: A couple of questions. Does anybody object to this being described as a "treatment of disease". I don't because it doesn't imply anything about...

http://www.cc.utah.edu/~asn8200/rapid.html This is a great site! How long do you suppose until we have these 3D prototyping machines that can make these 3D prototyping machines? I vote "within 30 years", but that's "off the cuff". A lot of material science and evolution of this technology...

I got this one from Joe Bob Briggs site, and thought they were funny enough to pass on. Dr. Adam Fox, a specialist registrar at the Child Allergy Unit at St. Mary's Hospital in London, has been compiling a dictionary of the medical terms doctors don't want you to know about. For example, your...

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