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Random thought: is there a placebo pharmaceutical manufacturing factory somewhere?
Like, say you're running a double-blind clinical trial and you need a tablet or gel cap or whatever made of a specific formulation with no active ingredient that's visually indistinguishable from the active test subject and contains the same binders and excipients etc.
Or you're a film producer shooting a scene involving an actor taking some sort of drug that needs to look like a well-k…

Since it was relevant to a discussion I just had on here and is something most people probably haven't thought about much (unless you've taken one of a handful of philosophy classes), I thought I'd try to lay out a key piece of Descartes' Meditations (#philosophy

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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Edward Elgar, Finzi Singers & Paul Spicer:
🎵 The Prince of Sleep
#EdwardElgar #FinziSingers #PaulSpicer
https://open.spotify.com/track/1jJ0mYy4uynvvdkKvW6aAk

Yes, this blog post is relevant, and nicely lays out the difference between shared language and shared understanding:
https://kolektiva.social/@tiotasram/116843095949394078
It’s worth pairing that with Wittgenstein’s discussion of “the language game” in _Philosophical Investigations_. That’s a subtle and deeply worthwhile investigation indeed, and one I strongly recommend reading in the full original text and not just in summary.