How are Arabic numbers read?

Comment on http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2009/05/how_are_numbers_related_to_you.php
In Arabic, numbers are written in the same system as in English (even though the symbols are different)- high digits on the left, low on the right. This is why we call our numerals in English “Arabic” numerals – as they came to us via Arabs from India. So, if there is an [...]

Comments on meaning and social construction

From Critical Cafe, 2 July 2008:
Despite what someone said, Popper did not appear to condone waffle. He did say that he did not believe in getting hung up over the meanings of words, and would happily agree a contrary (though undoubtedly temporary) meaning for a word if it would advance the discussion. What he [...]

Homeopath’s emotional blackmail

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eveningperson Says: December 18, 2007 at 9:13 pm GaleG Says:
Hi there-
Has any one of you held a very sick child or a dying animal in your arms? Any one of you stayed up all night with a fretful feaverish, very ill child? In other words, have any of you dealt [...]

Cheers

From Critical Cafe, 18 June 2008:
donalmcevoyuk wrote:
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Perhaps your intellect rises well above this assertion and you can show that the etymology of “cheers” is unrelated to the term “cheering”? (People say “cheers” when toasting; they are in effect “cheering” each other – its entry into the vernacular, as a surrogate for [...]