Re: [FRIAM] Friday Venue this Week

2018-12-24 Thread Frank Wimberly
Same to you and yours, Nick! --- Frank Wimberly My memoir: https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly My scientific publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 Phone (505) 670-9918 On Mon, Dec 24, 2018, 6:15 PM Nick Thompson Frank, > >

Re: [FRIAM] Friday Venue this Week

2018-12-24 Thread Nick Thompson
Frank, FWIW, it looks like I won’t be able to come this Friday. Jessica and Chris will be leaving at that time. Have a merry, and a happy, Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University

Re: [FRIAM] Friday Venue this Week

2018-12-24 Thread Frank Wimberly
Not easier but free. If you get to Saveur by 9:00 you will find a place in their free lot. Otherwise there are dozens of metered places adjacent. Saveur is quieter and has better food and drink. Frank --- Frank Wimberly My memoir: https://www.amazon.com/author/f

Re: [FRIAM] Friday Venue this Week

2018-12-24 Thread Tom Johnson
Might parking be easier at what used to be Capitol Coffee and now O'hori's near Kaune's? T Tom Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA 505.577.6482(c)505.473.9646(h) *NM Foundation for Open

[FRIAM] another good bundle!

2018-12-24 Thread glen e p ropella
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Re: [FRIAM] Abduction

2018-12-24 Thread Nick Thompson
Eric (Charles), I like THAT answer, too. I am still flummoxed by the grammar of “real”. Unicorns can be real but they cannot be true. “That unicorns are real” can be true but it cannot be real. But I am the only one who seems to be bothered by grammar. Nick Nicholas S.

[FRIAM] Friday Venue this Week

2018-12-24 Thread Frank Wimberly
The Coffee Shop Strong John's will be closed this week. A couple of times in the past we have used Saveur as an alternative. I was just there and confirmed that they will be open this Friday. They said they could handle a group of a dozen or so. The coffee and food are very good. It's located

Re: [FRIAM] Abduction

2018-12-24 Thread Eric Smith
Eric and Nick et al. May I ask a question as someone who wonders about this topic as a “general knowledge” user but without a commitment to try to do serious work in it? I often, in a hope of staying oriented in the complicated world, try to think of how many of the informally used language con

Re: [FRIAM] Abduction

2018-12-24 Thread Eric Charles
*Wouldn't it make more sense to say real things are subjects of true propositions of the form "x is real".* I suspect that either begs the question or becomes a tautology. Compare: *Wouldn't it make more sense to say green things are subjects of true propositions of the form "x is green".* Though