The Questions not worth their own thread thread VII

[Bigfoot3814]

Philosophy question: Can someone explain the reasoning behind the argument that empirical reasoning is a self-defeating principle?

 

[Annex]

Is there any album that you have listened to more than 200 times? The only album I know of that has engendered that kind of listenability among its fans is the album Reign In Blood by Slayer. Most of the people I know that love the album, including myself, have listened to it more than 200 times. One guy I know said he listened to it 1000 times, but I'm doubtful.

Spoiler :

About 200 times, probably more.

 

[Tee Kay]

To the linguists out there:

What's the difference between hyponymy, metonymy and synecdoche?

 

[Camikaze]

Synecdoche is when you compare one to many, as in 'He was one of the soldiers who died'. Apparently it has other meanings too, but that's what I was taught. Metonymy is where you represent one through a part of it, as in, 'Rudd used fiscal policy' as opposed to 'The Australian government used fiscal policy'. I have no idea about hyponymy. You studying speeches?

 

[Ulyaoth]

Venezuela is split into 2 countries in this map, what are they?

 

[Dachs]

Looks like they're just showing the Orinoco River.

 

[Ulyaoth]

Yeah I see that now, at first glance though I wasn't really looking and just noticed it seemed split in two.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Why should that be the one of the only rivers shown, then? I see the Amazon (sort of) and the St. Lawrence, but not the Mississippi, the Rio Grande, etc.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Anyone know any online games where I can use nuclear weapons? (I can't use cybernations 'cuz I'm banned from there)

 

[PeteAtoms]

What are some reasons a person might need a trained guide dog (like what blind people use) which might not be visibly obvious to others?

Reason for asking: My philosophy professor brings a trained dog with her to class, and she says that she has it for a reason, but won't reveal what that is. And there is nothing obviously wrong about her senses (As far as I can tell).

 

[really]

What are some reasons a person might need a trained guide dog (like what blind people use) which might not be visibly obvious to others?

Reason for asking: My philosophy professor brings a trained dog with her to class, and she says that she has it for a reason, but won't reveal what that is. And there is nothing obviously wrong about her senses (As far as I can tell).

She is training it?

 

[Lord Baal]

What are some reasons a person might need a trained guide dog (like what blind people use) which might not be visibly obvious to others?

Reason for asking: My philosophy professor brings a trained dog with her to class, and she says that she has it for a reason, but won't reveal what that is. And there is nothing obviously wrong about her senses (As far as I can tell).

If they have a medical condition which cause them to lose consciousness or something - like epilepsy - sometimes people will have a trained dog which can dial a phone number, bark, and get help. I've heard of that, but never seen it.

Your professor could also be deaf or blind, and just shockingly good at hiding it. I knew a girl once who had been blind since birth, yet you coldn't tell unless she was actually walking somewhere unfamiliar. She got around school with no hassles whatsoever, so long as no one decided to be a jerk and stand directly in front of her or anything.

 

[Ulyaoth]

I was watching some show about Templars going to America in the 1300s to hide the grail, and they were talking about runestones being made, which I don't get. Why would French knights be using runes? I thought by that time even the scandinavians had stopped using the runic alphabet?

Besides that why would they call America Vinland like the Vikings did? It was New England they called such and not Nova Scotia or whatever it was the vikings called Vinland which makes it not even likely that they heard from some norse or something. The whole thing was just stupid, stupid history channel.

 

[Dachs]

Sounds like more of a rant than an actual question.

 

[Flying Pig]

EDIT: Wrong thread. Here's a question:

What was the first motor vehicle of any kind?

 

[Annex]

I was watching some show about Templars going to America in the 1300s to hide the grail, and they were talking about runestones being made, which I don't get. Why would French knights be using runes? I thought by that time even the scandinavians had stopped using the runic alphabet?

Besides that why would they call America Vinland like the Vikings did? It was New England they called such and not Nova Scotia or whatever it was the vikings called Vinland which makes it not even likely that they heard from some norse or something. The whole thing was just stupid, stupid history channel.

They werent French, they were Scandinavian. I dont know when the runic alphabet fell out of favor but I recall the scientists who examined the stone found nothing to show that it is a fake.

I dont know what you mean about the Vinland thing, your second paragraph is all once sentence and makes no sense.

 

[Cutlass]

EDIT: Wrong thread. Here's a question:

What was the first motor vehicle of any kind?

In 1769, the very first self-propelled road vehicle was a military tractor invented by French engineer and mechanic, Nicolas Joseph Cugnot (1725 - 1804). Cugnot used a steam engine to power his vehicle, built under his instructions at the Paris Arsenal by mechanic Brezin. It was used by the French Army to haul artillery at a whopping speed of 2 1/2 mph on only three wheels. The vehicle had to stop every ten to fifteen minutes to build up steam power. The steam engine and boiler were separate from the rest of the vehicle and placed in the front (see engraving above). The following year (1770), Cugnot built a steam-powered tricycle that carried four passengers.

http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aacarssteama.htm

 

[Ulyaoth]

They werent French, they were Scandinavian. I dont know when the runic alphabet fell out of favor but I recall the scientists who examined the stone found nothing to show that it is a fake.

I dont know what you mean about the Vinland thing, your second paragraph is all once sentence and makes no sense.

I can't remember the names but I could have sworn they mentioned French sounding names, besides that they were supposedly leaving from the Templar persecution which was mostly in France but whatever.

As for the vinland thing, I don't see what's confusing about it. Why would they just coincidentally call a part of the Americas, but not the part called such by the vikings, Vinland? Especially if they were Scandinavians, why would they care about wine making at that time when Europe was supposed to have gotten colder making the north unable to produce grape vines.

 

[Huayna Capac357]

I was watching some show about Templars going to America in the 1300s to hide the grail, and they were talking about runestones being made, which I don't get. Why would French knights be using runes? I thought by that time even the scandinavians had stopped using the runic alphabet?

Besides that why would they call America Vinland like the Vikings did? It was New England they called such and not Nova Scotia or whatever it was the vikings called Vinland which makes it not even likely that they heard from some norse or something. The whole thing was just stupid, stupid history channel.

The "History" Channel has been stupid for a while now Case in point, their laughable "Nostradamus Effect" series. They're swallowing the 2012 bull whole!

There was not one single Templar Knight in Scandinavia anyway. So it's disproved. Moving on...

Personally, I think they must have hitched a ride with Zheng He

 

[Ulyaoth]

I love their little pissing contest with the Discovery channel with stupid shows like the lumberjack thing to try to counter Deadliest Catch. Also the whole thing of them going from the Hitler channel to the Nostradamus Mayan doomsday channel.

And that's just as I thought, no Scandinavian Templars.