tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post726062130494759969..comments2024-02-29T03:34:23.190-05:00Comments on Who Were the Sea Peoples?: The identitarians are not always wrong!gcallahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10065877215969589482noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-6475150341361936692017-07-07T15:05:24.832-04:002017-07-07T15:05:24.832-04:00Just so. Samson lately seems to be on a tear denyi...Just so. Samson lately seems to be on a tear denying the obvious.gcallahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10065877215969589482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-73773802889329218442017-07-06T02:22:08.206-04:002017-07-06T02:22:08.206-04:00A more correct way for me to capture what is going...A more correct way for me to capture what is going on here would be the statement 'for all x, there is sometimes a tendency for this to occur, where 'this' is the occurrence'. The word 'sometimes' is not in Gene's statement, but TENDENCIES are not absolutes, and he obviously doesn't mean to use the word in this strange way. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00053155617490357148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-14177148213938684112017-07-05T23:57:15.151-04:002017-07-05T23:57:15.151-04:00Samson, what is your point?
If you are suggest...Samson, what is your point? <br /><br />If you are suggesting that Gene is making an analytical statement, then I don't think you understand the logic of Gene's sentence. He is saying that for all x, there is a tendency for something about them to occur. This is not an analytical statement, because the word 'tends' is in the sentence. <br /><br />Here is an example of what that sentence would be if it were the type of sentence you think it is:<br /><br />"So, for instance, libertarians are certainly correct in asserting that any attempt at economic regulation ALWAYS GETS captured by special interests."<br /><br />So, Gene isn't saying what you seem to be suggesting that he says. <br /><br />If you don't think that Gene meant that, then why would you bother to state 'this claim seems very false on analytical grounds'? You are either objecting to what he said because you misunderstood him, or you are stating something that is obvious! In fact, Gene *agrees* with you - that is why he used the word 'tends'!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00053155617490357148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-67021106781555325182017-07-03T20:30:16.817-04:002017-07-03T20:30:16.817-04:00Consider, too, Prateek, that when we talk about th...Consider, too, Prateek, that when we talk about the ethnicities of people of European descent, we will break it does into Irish, English, French, Swiss, Italian, and so forth, but when it comes to people of African descent it's just one big "African".Samson Corwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10148822362930969284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-37306525726229251212017-07-03T20:27:48.964-04:002017-07-03T20:27:48.964-04:00"So, for instance, libertarians are certainly..."So, for instance, libertarians are certainly correct in asserting that any attempt at economic regulation tends to get captured by special interests."<br /><br />This claim seems very false on analytical grounds.Samson Corwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10148822362930969284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-41829706613537506762017-07-03T13:52:27.251-04:002017-07-03T13:52:27.251-04:00Hard to draw a really sharp line. Of course there ...Hard to draw a really sharp line. Of course there are interesting corner cases. French for instance is a failed beta version of English. Ken Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12976919713907046171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-84841021518708884372017-07-03T03:59:22.586-04:002017-07-03T03:59:22.586-04:00Knowing many people who have had mutually intellig...Knowing many people who have had mutually intelligible conversations in Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese (I am a Spanish speaker myself and often spoke in "itaƱol" with Italians in Barcelona), one wonders why those are considered languages and not dialects.<br /><br />Meanwhile, even African languages that are not mutually intelligible are considered dialects.Prateekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15287835907015065883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-53548723670743361202017-07-02T19:35:28.196-04:002017-07-02T19:35:28.196-04:00Well, my Ghanian friends told me they were languag...Well, my Ghanian friends told me they were languages. But they weren't linguists.gcallahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10065877215969589482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-6698956365643448612017-07-02T17:46:11.032-04:002017-07-02T17:46:11.032-04:00Actually Twi and Fante are dialects of Akan. Actually Twi and Fante are dialects of Akan. Ken Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08207803092348071005noreply@blogger.com