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Hall of wit and epicness.

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Hall of wit and epicness.
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RE: Hall of wit and epicness.
February 23, 2014 at 7:48 pm
(February 23, 2014 at 7:46 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: He said if, so even if his actual usage of the word is wrong (which I don't believe it is when consulting the Stanford encyclopaedia of philosophy), his epic point stands.

Don't be confused; the point was normal and in no way epic.
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RE: Hall of wit and epicness.
February 23, 2014 at 7:52 pm (This post was last modified: February 23, 2014 at 7:52 pm by fr0d0.)


The point was devastating and therefore epic
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RE: Hall of wit and epicness.
February 23, 2014 at 7:57 pm
(February 23, 2014 at 7:52 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:

The point was devastating and therefore epic


To be devastating something needs be devastated.
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#354
RE: Hall of wit and epicness.
February 23, 2014 at 7:58 pm
(February 23, 2014 at 7:46 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: He said "if", so even if his actual usage of the word is wrong (which I don't believe it is when consulting the Stanford encyclopaedia of philosophy), his epic point stands.

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Quote: We witness the spirit of the scientific world-conception penetrating in growing measure the forms of personal and public life, in education, upbringing, architecture, and the shaping of economic and social life according to rational principles. The scientific world-conception serves life, and life receives it. The task of philosophical work lies in [...] clarification of problems and assertions, not in the propounding of special “philosophical” pronouncements. The method of this clarification is that of logical analysis.

The foregoing passages owe to a manifesto issued by the Vienna Circle. ... The clarification or logical analysis advocated by positivism is two-sided. Its destructive task was the use of the so-called verifiability principle to eliminate metaphysics. According to that principle, a statement is meaningful only when either true by definition or verifiable through experience. (So there is no synthetic apriori. See Kant, Metaphysics, section 2, and A Priori and A Posteriori.) The positivists placed mathematics and logic within the true-by-definition (or analytic apriori) category, and science and most normal talk in the category of verifiable-through-experience (or synthetic aposteriori). All else was deemed meaningless.

~ Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Logical Positivism

It is indeed an important point. It's also a well-known point. You don't get epic points for stating something commonly known.
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RE: Hall of wit and epicness.
February 23, 2014 at 8:06 pm (This post was last modified: February 23, 2014 at 8:07 pm by fr0d0.)


No, you get it for saying it succinctly and well. Heck we'd have to clear this thread out if that were the case
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RE: Hall of wit and epicness.
February 23, 2014 at 8:17 pm
(February 23, 2014 at 8:06 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:

No, you get it for saying it succinctly and well. Heck we'd have to clear this thread out if that were the case


Okay, I can agree with this. Some stuff here is certainly raising-of-the-eyebrow worthy.
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RE: Hall of wit and epicness.
February 23, 2014 at 9:30 pm
(February 23, 2014 at 7:57 pm)Bad Writer Wrote:
(February 23, 2014 at 7:52 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: The point was devastating and therefore epic

To be devastating something needs be devastated.

Or at least devastatable.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Hall of wit and epicness.
February 23, 2014 at 10:31 pm
(February 23, 2014 at 9:30 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Or at least devastatable.

Evidently it was Tongue
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RE: Hall of wit and epicness.
February 23, 2014 at 10:37 pm (This post was last modified: February 23, 2014 at 10:38 pm by Cyberman.)
That would fall under the heading of things that need to be demonstrated, I fear. Unless you're using a non-standard definition of 'evidently'.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Hall of wit and epicness.
February 24, 2014 at 4:56 am (This post was last modified: February 24, 2014 at 4:56 am by fr0d0.)
Hmm OK I agree the evidence thing always was a pile of croc.

Wow you sure are butt hurt huh
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