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Researchers had observed that the monkeys sometimes use these calls in an apparently non-meaningful way: to yell at a fellow monkey, for example, without communicating a specific message.

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How, precisely, do you find the comparison non-meaningful?

Cut and Run Steve Perry 2007

Posted Mar 8, 2007 at 5:34 AM | Permalink | Reply re #8: I think according to that principle, e.g., GPS must be working in a “non-meaningful” way Also, it is amazing that not only the averaging of the proxies gets rid of the non-linear terms, it also reduces the noise variance.

Juckes' Reply # 1 « Climate Audit 2007

How, precisely, do you find the comparison non-meaningful?

Cut and Run Steve Perry 2007

Our point of difference is that we assert that an MBH98-style reconstruction with bristlecones is also non-meaningful.

Q.e.d. « Climate Audit 2006

The simple grammatical form, “to be”, became a religious belief in a non-apparent God who confers non-meaningful “existence” upon things and animals which perceive and act quite without needing the extra claim of “existence” for them.

Kenneth Miller through a magnifying glass - The Panda's Thumb 2006

Now Ross and I categorically agree with Wahl and Ammann that an MBH-style reconstruction without bristlecones is non-meaningful.

Q.e.d. « Climate Audit 2006

Restricting the PCs in MM05a/b to only the first two 5d indirectly omits the information carried by the bristlecone/foxtail pine records and thereby leads to a non-meaningful reconstruction.

Q.e.d. « Climate Audit 2006

Although the two views are not incompatible (Ayer denied that moral claims were assertions, and the redundancy of the truth-predicate held only for assertions) the tension between the two is symptomatic of the worry that moral claims have so many of the features of truth-evaluable assertions that one has to be unjustifiably revisionist in construing them as non-meaningful.

Alfred Jules Ayer Macdonald, Graham 2005