Well then 'we offer reality' has the same status as any other assertionsuch as 'I offer you a nice bit of stilton on a cracker'. They could be wrong about the reality being reality, I could be wrong about the stilton being stilton, maybe it's roquefort or dolcelatte. Granted the whole of reality is much larger than a bit of cheese, but it's only a matter of scale, same difference.
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Sun 31 Jan 2010, 13:58,
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Yup.I think that's what Tribs was saying too. Glad we all agree.
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Sun 31 Jan 2010, 14:03,
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Come off it, roquefort is gorgeousalthough a bit overpriced, it's definitely nicer than stilton, because it tastes stronger without being as harsh. I'd have thought you'd pick on the dolcelatte, that's the one people usually sneer at for being sugary goop like a kind of cheesy nougat.
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Sun 31 Jan 2010, 14:11,
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I find that Roquefort still has that metallic taste that is common to blue cheeses.I had a brilliant blue cheese from a Cheshire cheese maker called H.S.Bourne last month that didn't have that horrible metallic taste. I was chuffed at finding it.
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Sun 31 Jan 2010, 14:23,
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But, unlike cheese, Reality cannot be sliced up.Except, as you say, for personal reality, which is the very part of reality that cannot be given.
Unless it is taken in the very abstract sense that - say - teaching is like reality transfer.
(Unless it is taken in the very abstract sense that - say - teaching is like reality transfer.
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Sun 31 Jan 2010, 14:05,
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"teaching is like reality transfer" sounds a bit inductivist.We interpret information that comes in through our pores and palps. There are no direct uploads into the brain.
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Sun 31 Jan 2010, 14:22,
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So the reality they are offering is ... umm.... what?An objective reality existing regardless of our own existence or our perception of reality as a result of our influence on the world and its influence on us?
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Sun 31 Jan 2010, 14:07,
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Good point, I've already got one of those, wouldn't know what to do with another.They probably meant "realism".
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Sun 31 Jan 2010, 14:13,
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That would make a little more sense.And still look as if it means more than it actually does. There is such an art to writing political taglines.
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Sun 31 Jan 2010, 14:22,
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I think what they mean by "reality" is"doing what the people on BBC's 'Have Your Say' think we should do".
If so, then this party might just turn out to be BNP Light (although that's a role already filled by UKIP).
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Sun 31 Jan 2010, 14:25,
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If so, then this party might just turn out to be BNP Light (although that's a role already filled by UKIP).
Dear Lord No.I used to contribute to "Have Your Say" but not for long. Reading the comments often made me fear for the future of humanity really it did. I much prefer b3ta as we have amusing pictures. And intelligence.
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Sun 31 Jan 2010, 14:34,
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