The overall conversations reflect a broad curiosity about what it fundamentally means to say something—ranging from questions about scientific facts like the speed of light, to philosophical inquiries about existence and morality. The tone is often analytical and inquisitive, using specific examples such as space-time's existence, the nature of social or moral progress, and the meaning of 'unnatural' in food science, illustrating how the discussions are driven by curiosity and a quest for understanding rather than strong agreement or emotional reactions.
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Most discussions revolve around examining what specific questions about the meaning of claims imply; there is neither strong agreement nor disagreement with the publication’s premise.
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Abstract in brief
Cultured meat is often viewed as unnatural by the public, with concerns rooted more in emotional reactions like disgust and fear rather than logical reasoning.
The study found that perceptions of unnaturalness do not come from analyzing facts but are mostly influenced by emotional responses.
These insights suggest that marketing strategies should focus on addressing emotional factors rather than just providing informational content to improve acceptance of cultured meat.]
I don't understand this. The Constitution says if you were born here, you're an American. What does it mean to say that the US government will "no longer recognize" citizenship? Who the fuck elevated this doofus above the Constitution? Oh right, the Supreme Court did.
Well today feels as good a time as any to record my video lectures talking about “what is sex” and “what is gender” and “what does it mean to say that both are socially constructed”
Israel is a state that deliberately starves whole populations, then uses the promise of food to lure people to locations where they can be killed. What does it mean to say that such a state “has a right to exist”? www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
This video explores the relationship between dietary sugar intake and body weight. It highlights findings from systematic reviews indicating that reducing sugar consumption can lead to weight loss in adults, while…
Why does this matter? It goes to some fundamental questions about what it means to say that there is a "face region" of the brain, for example. What does it mean to say that? How do we know that it's just doing faces?
i tried because i heard he asked "What does it mean to say that there is something rather than nothing", which is central to me, I failed because he then proceeded to not actually ask that question except in a Daseinish kind of way
Hey all! This week we'll talk Unity Consciousness. We'll be at the Table Public House tackling questions like:
- What does it mean to say that everything is connected?
- Is this truly a new consciousness emerging — or simply humanity remembering something ancient?
www.meetup.com/denverbrewth...
I like this slide for today's workshop on money. It's a follow-on from a question raised at last week's session on what does it mean to say that currency is a commons? This is an idea that is put forward quite clearly (I believe) by Mary Mellor in her book, The Future of Money.
Few ideas in modern science have reshaped our understanding of reality more profoundly than space-time. But what does it mean to say that space-time exists? What kind of thing is it — is space-time structure, substance or metaphor? Read here: buff.ly/fg3RmlO
second aside: what does it mean to say that we value "autonomy" rather than "neutrality"? it must occur to us immediately that these concepts are as a matter of practice very much related if not very nearly identical!
Addendum: nvm I found your answer, though the 1st and 2nd sentences contradict each other. What does it mean to say that we can live how we want while simultaneously saying transphobes should be allowed to not accept us, especially on a legal standpoint?
Fin.
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philsci-archive.pitt.edu: What does it mean to say that science is value-laden?
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/cgi/export/eprint/26034/Atom/pittphilsci-eprint-26034.xml
I think @merriam-webster.com might need to rework this page.
“use of presidential to mean “befitting the dignity and character of the presidency” would imply:
- Spiteful
- Vulgar
- Criminal
- Ignorant
- Fraudulent
- Deceitful
- Ignorant
And many other adjectives if considered contemporaneously.
What does it mean to say that ~1/3rd of our compatriots are the "enemy"?
(Tbc, this is not a rhetorical gotcha scold-y question coming from a place of faux reactionary centrist unity.
I am firmly on the side of "fuck the fascists dead," but I can't quite work out the practical implications.)
Israel is a state that deliberately starves whole populations, then uses the promise of food to lure people to locations where they can be killed. What does it mean to say that such a state “has a right to exist”? www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
What does it mean to say that God is vulnerable, disabled even? Thanks to @lisadpowell.bsky.social for the great conversation! You can check out the full Personalist Manifesto(s) jam here: personalistmanifestos.substack.com/p/the-disabl...
What does it mean to say that they’ve ’led the way in sucking carbon out of the air’ when they haven’t even managed to remove their own emissions, let alone anyone else’s? Climeworks has been a net emitter of CO2.
What does it mean to say that a machine “thinks”? Does a chess-playing machine think? Is an AI-generated image creative work? Does a self-driving car have its own mind?
What does it mean to say that someone is a useless eater? Does RFK Jr expect to benefit somehow from someone else's eating?
I could make the equally absurd argument that RFK Jr is a useless shoe tier since I get virtually no benefit out of him tying his shoelaces.
If so, then what does it mean to say that a child "has the right as far as possible to know and be cared for by his or her parents."
If they mean adoptive parents, they could just grab two randos and presto! "adoptive parents." The passage is meaningless.
2 Timothy 3:16 is a verse that is often quoted. But what does it mean to say that all Scripture is God-breathed?
bit.ly/Devo041725
#BibleStudy #DailyDevotional
I'm not the least bit embarrassed. The word just doesn't convey any meaning. It's like saying, "Really bad thing is really bad." I think most Republicans are evil, but what does it mean to say that? I'd rather try to understand what corroded their brains.
On the shelves at Verdurin: A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
verdur.in/store/a-secu...
What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we—in the West, at least—largely do.
In principle, this is true but very problematic in the logic surrounding the concept of extraneous variables. If they nonetheless affect the response (ie the denominator variance), then what does it mean to say that they are extraneous?
What exactly do you think the CIA did? It's easy to say "the CIA did it", but they didn't provide weapons or assassinate people, so what does it mean to say that "the CIA supported it"? That just seems to be American arrogance and claiming responsibility for the accomplishments of others.
The politics of evidence-informed policy: what does it mean to say that evidence use is political?
This post continues the discussion begun in What is politics? I tend to use the question Why do policymakers seem to ignore your evidence? as a vehicle to introduce political issues. It highlights…
The politics of prevention: what does it mean to say that ‘prevention is political’?
This post continues the discussion that begins in What is politics? It informs a talk on prevention for Public Health Association Australia Preventive Health Conference 2025 'Prevention is Political' The politics…
What does it mean to say that Bitcoin is owned and overpowered by big miners?
Public mining companies control 0.4% of the Bitcoin supply.
That means that they don't control 99.6%. That doesn't seem overpowered.
What do you mean when you say the rest of us have not much to say? What about nodes?
Stop using AI to make political 'art' otherwise you end up with a political cartoon that is completely illegible.
What does it mean to say that 'cuts to socia curims' is being snuck in under the trojan horse of 'tutunal security security'?
Thanks! What blows my mind is how we make sense of those patterns (both in intersubjective experience and how we make sense of your results). Like - what does it mean to say that neural coding schemes construct a sense of social identity? How do we conceptually bridge neural patterns and identity?
What does it mean to say that a composite quantum particle containing red, green and blue quarks is “colourless” and does not feel the strong nuclear force?
What does it mean to say that the world's 7th largest asset "won't take off"???
There's only six assets larger than it. Seems like it already "took off'
What does backed by mean? Like I know that the dollar used to be backed by gold and that meant it had an official exchange rate and that the golden dollars were interchangeable.
But what does it mean to say that USD is backed by ______?
But what does it mean to say that "good has always won"? Terrible events have been repeated since the dawn of time, and for those who died of them, good did NOT win.
Most words are not made-up words the way most made-up things, and some words, are made up. "Chortle" was made up at a particular time by a particular person. "Made" wasn't made up like that, so if it was made up, how so? What does it mean to say that all words are made up
I think it's impossible to know what was in his head. He's a self-absorbed idiot, that part is clear. But what does it mean to say that he's a Nazi? That he wants to kill Jews? I don't know, maybe you are right. After all he is strongly in favor of the AfD and he's throwing them buckets of money.
Well today feels as good a time as any to record my video lectures talking about “what is sex” and “what is gender” and “what does it mean to say that both are socially constructed”
I don't understand this. The Constitution says if you were born here, you're an American. What does it mean to say that the US government will "no longer recognize" citizenship? Who the fuck elevated this doofus above the Constitution? Oh right, the Supreme Court did.
What does it mean to say that terrorism is evil? And what does that imply for the extent to which we can understand acts of terrorism?
Short Open for Debate blog on Terrorism and Evil:
blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebat...
what does it mean to say that Ontario has a shortage of 471k houses? anyone who wants to buy a house can obtain one if they bid high enough. so it's not a shortage in the normal econ101 sense.
What does it mean to say that your kingdom is not of this world, when Jesus said the Kingdom of heaven is upon us? What does it mean to embody and be co builders of the kingdom if we are not confronting the death-dealing powers that be in a meaningful way?
In general, sure. But remember what the wavefunction is: a mathematical fomalism for making predictions about the outcomes of observations. What does it mean to say that such a mathematical formalism goes through both slits at once?
Compiler/PL friends…roast me!
I'm working on one of the last chapters of @WasmGroundUp, "What Makes WebAssembly Safe?"
I'm hoping I can explain it in a way that's both approachable, and also…not totally incorrect from a PL perspective. Feedback on either is v much welcome!
What does it mean to say that "sex" in Title IX is defined to only be "biological sex" for purposes of athletics? I am not sure the answer is as obvious as both House Republicans (who want to move a bill on this) and many of their critics are suggesting.
Attlee had a solution to the problems of the interwar period and Thatcher to what were seen as the issues of the’70s. What we’re faced with now is the problem Miliband grappled with post 2010: just what does it mean to say that the state can do good?
right! but there's the issue:
what does it mean to say that the probability of something increases? and that correlation 'establishes' something? are you saying those are probabilistic claims?
What does it mean to say that b is in units of a standard normal distribution in this setting? And indicator variables are not supposed to be standardized, usually.
Is Cixin Liu's "The Three Body Problem" a Great work of art? Can Sci-Fi achieve that status?
What does it mean to say that a certain work of art is "successful"? Is commercial success or impact on culture more important?
: ahijazi.website/2024/prometh...
#scifi #thethreebodyproblem #cixinliu
To @schistosomnia.bsky.social's points, though, what does it mean to say that the "duration of ABX is not guided by CRP?" If people are ordering CRP, it certainly could play a role in the decision to stop antibiotics.
So taking a couple book examples, what does it mean to say that two books are the same or that two books are different? Using the axiom of extensionality, which books contain the same elements and which books contain different elements?
What does it mean to say that there is a feminist sociology?
Grounded in a need to change society AND the discipline, feminist sociology challenges the foundations of traditional social science, articulating new ways of creating knowledge & the role of the researcher.
(First post on this platform)
What does it mean to say that social or moral "progress" has occurred over some period of time? An important Q for political progressives, IMO. In this essay, I argue that it entails a judgment that social *learning* has taken place during that time.
t.co/00KH5ilnRJ
Ok, let me be more precise.
We can rephrase the question 'what is understanding?' as 'what is it for something to be understood?' or 'what does it mean to say that something is 'understood'?' and the answer is that it can mean a variety of different things depending on the context. But...
Even if this were true (and setting aside a lot of questions about what the terms here actually mean), what then? What does it mean to say that "we need" a social formation that doesn't exist? Anybody can start a political party, but you can't make people WANT it.
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Headings:
- What does it mean to say that someone has an invisible illness?
- 1. “But you don’t look sick…”
- 2. “Why don’t you just go to the doctor?”
- 3. “But you seemed fine yesterday…”
- Dealing with these challenges
#spoonies #invisibleillnesses
And what does it mean to say that she's Indian and not Black? To believe that means something about her character, her policies, or her capability is racist as hell. Be better.
And what does it mean to say that she's Indian and not Black? To believe that means something about her character, her policies, or her capability is racist as hell.
Be better.
what the heck is Being anyway
what does it mean to say that there is something rather than nothing; what is the distinction between something and nothing
for how much of my thought hinges on this question, I really don't even have the graspings of an answer to it
“FT, what does it mean to say that psychiatry functions as a form of social control?”
Well, if you take a legal medication and it fucks you up, that is called a “side-effect.” And if you take an illegal medication and it fucks you up, that is called a “drug psychosis.”
“FT, what does it mean to say that psychiatry functions as a form of social control?”
Well, if being discriminated against your whole life somehow leads you to the conclude that the world is fundamentally biased again people like you, your therapist will tell you you’re mentally ill.
What does it mean to say that an imagining is accurate? Amy Kind provides a thorough discussion of this question in her new paper "Accuracy in imagining", which was recently published #OpenAccess in #PhiMiSci as part of our special issue on remembering and imagining:
What does it mean to say that reality is "not one"? What do Christianity and atheism have in common? We try our best to get to the bottom of these and a host of other questions in our 2-parter with @PeterRollins. We hope it clarifies, but at the very least, we had fun.
My column. "Defining Away Palestinians’ Right to Resist: What does it mean to say that rising up against injustice is impermissible?" foreignpolicy.com/2023/12/14/h...
It's not, I think, unfair to understand the position of the Nixon voters who hated decisions like Engel v. Vitale as "We Want Nullification!"
In light of all of this, what does it mean to say that O'Connor demonstrated "pragmatism and compromise" in her jurisprudence?
Jaz, if you have the time, will you answer a dumb math question for me? What does it mean to say that users in the 99th percentile have 1,003 posts if the number of users who have made more than 1,000 posts is 5,782? I'm having trouble getting those numbers to square. Thanks!
Never thought I would have an exam as a full professor:
What do you think of modularity of mind/brain?
What is a brain “area”?
What is cognition?
How conservative is brain evolution?
What does it mean to say that networks are dynamical?
How does causation work in complex systems?
Answers please!
Turn the question around. What does it mean to say that a group difference is (partially) genetic? Seems to me it has to mean that (part of) the gap would remain even if historical and current environmental differences didn't exist or were controlled. That isn't possible, QED. /2
RT @briandavidearp: What does it mean to say that cultured meat is unnatural? - ScienceDirect https://t.co/Sir6fuVkzn
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@briandavidearp · X
What does it mean to say that cultured meat is unnatural? - ScienceDirect https://t.co/Sir6fuVkzn
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What does it mean to say that Christ has a divine nature and a human nature? Good question! The answer is not short, but the stick figures do help. :-via @YouTube
youtu.be/s6wK-lRZP-k
Fun! But I always wonder: what does it mean to say that if Betelgeuse is 600 light-years away, events we see there “actually happened 600 years ago”? From what POV? https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/economist-radio/id151230264?l=en&i=1000462606355
Excellent follow-up comment to my piece on what "X causes 16% of cancers" actually means http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/05/10/what-does-it-mean-to-say-that-something-causes-16-of-cancers/comment-page-1/#comment-85459
If a story says something causes X% of cancers, here's what that actually means (& how it's often misused) http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/05/10/what-does-it-mean-to-say-that-something-causes-16-of-cancers/
For ppl who enjoyed last night's rant about PAFs (those X% of cancers caused by Y figures), it's now a full post http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/05/10/what-does-it-mean-to-say-that-something-causes-16-of-cancers/
Heard that 16% of cancers are caused by infections? What does that number come from & what does it really mean? http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/05/10/what-does-it-mean-to-say-that-something-causes-16-of-cancers/
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