Mad Man
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Is there a Nordic flag for Great Britain?
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Mad Man
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It almost looks like a table cloth
, thanks for the find.
, thanks for the find.
bernie14
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assuming this picture is in fact, that of a broken clock....how many times in a day would it be correct?
ok so far we have 1,2 and 4 (if your vision is really bad)....any one else care to take an educated guess? think out of the box my taleted critical thinkers from all corners of the earth (HINT)...
Mad Man
Your lord and master
I did some snooping around and found this
It's a flag of Norway and Great Britain, which is kinda what I wanted from the beginning.
madviking
north american scum
Old school.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the word "science" have multiple meanings in English, one of them is natural science, and one corresponds to Wissenschaft?
The new Webster's encyclopedic dictionary of the English language (1997) gives for example: "n. 1. a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws. 2. systematic knowledge of physical or material world gained through observation and experimentation. 3. any of the branches of natural or physical science. 4. systematized knowledge in general. ---"
I understand the word has changed it meaning a bit, but is it plain wrong to call, say sociology, psychology, mathematics or history a science?
On the general putting down of economics, it's subject is hard to approach, and their science is still in it's infancy. That doesn't mean it isn't worthwhile pursuing. Results don't come easy in any field, and usually you have to go through many wrong paths until you discover a grain of truth. It's no use to mock economics because it hasn't yet achieved what more advanced sciences have.
Sure people should understand the limitations of it, and not be ready to hand out political decisions to economists so eagerly as some are doing, but that's a different thing.
ok so far we have 1,2 and 4 (if your vision is really bad)....any one else care to take an educated guess? think out of the box my taleted critical thinkers from all corners of the earth (HINT)...
I suppose the joke is that the hour thingie is closer to 9 than 8, but minute thingie isn't at 6 yet, so the clock doesn't show a right time. That would be 0 times.
I wouldn't mind you asking it a third time.
bernie14
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darn and dagnabit....hadent noticed that was such a crappy clock...sorry, that was unintended.....the placement of the hands doesent really matter either.....
assuming this picture is in fact, that of a broken clock....how many times in a day would it be correct?
hint #2 you are not the only person looking at the clock
ps thanks for playing
Okay, 24 times a day, minute at a time. 
I would say that history, for instance, does not meet any of the criteria except the last one. It does not exhibit general laws, it does not involve experimentation, and it is not part of natural or physical science. Only the contention that it is systematized knowledge is correct, but that is a patently absurd definition for a 'science', encompassing, as it does, literary criticism, knowledge of the Star Wars fictional universe, and laundry. Referring to any of these as a "science" might be acceptable in the context of a work of dramatic fiction, e.g. "he had sandwich-making down to a science", but hardly in any actual real-world academic classification.
I cannot speak for economics, sociology, or any of the other so-called "social sciences", of course.
bernie14
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not sure how u come to this conclusion
Okay, 24 times a day, minute at a time.
i like where this is going, it is similar to what i did in my first train of thought, but why?"
ParadigmShifter
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Twice a day for each time zone.
Except that it's the modern Union Flag, upside down, with a weird Norwegian theme in the other half, quite apart from the fact that Canute was Danish anyway.
Yes, you're right, but the quote's purpose was more to illustrate that the dictionary has other meanings than "natural science" for the word "science". It's of course difficult to define the word, just like the word "table" is hard to define. This applies also to the meaning "natural science", if it isn't defined by enumerating.
Anyway, my intention was to ask whether the English word "science" has this kind of use, that it includes sociology, history, maths, psychology etc. I'm not native speaker, so I'm not in a position to tell it has, on the other hand, I can't take only one answer as a definitive, since people may be wrong about their own mother tongue too.
Once a day for each time zone, but in two time zones at the same time
ParadigmShifter
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It's not a 24 hour clock so it is correct twice a day.
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