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What I said about them is based on what they have said they want to do and what they say motivates their actions, which are in turn consistent with th...

Frankly Benkei, this is rancid. I mentioned "secular values, freedom for women, reason and the diversity of cultural heritage, democracy, dissent, and...

This article points towards some answers: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isis-really-wants/384980/

You might want to read the article instead of imposing your readymade cartoon narratives on to what I'm saying. I'm not making it about us and them, i...

I'll take that as a "no", at least to the first question. The problem is that there is a bunch of bloodthirsty genocidal dickheads with power and terr...

Have you read the article? Also, are you suggesting that the defeat of ISIS is not a worthy goal?

Thanks, got it.

@"ArguingWAristotleTiff" Okay now mention me.

Your characterization of my position does not follow from the words I quoted from Kenan Malik. You're joking, right?

Yes, and? What does that have to do with your characterization of my position--the one I objected to?

Just a note to point out that I did not say anything remotely like this, nor would I.

But ISIS is not a group whose immediate targets are Western states, and they are not motivated primarily by anti-imperialism, and they are not made up...

Yes, that article was an education for me too. It casts doubt on the oft-heard opinion, expressed already in this thread, that military action is usel...

Once again, many lefties and liberals rush to characterize this attack as an understandable response to Western militarism. It seems like a willful bl...

I can hardly imagine a sentiment further from the spirit of science and free enquiry.

I am willing to sacrifice my reputation for the good of the community. O:)

Thanks for the like :D

I think I agree.

Quick question: wouldn't "Hello!" be treated as a sentence in linguistics?

A supplementary question to that option is this. If it is not in fact possible to do that, or not possible for a while, would you rather have likes as...

That is very cool.

70s Iranian funk. I'm guessing 1979 put a stop to this sort of thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2UxJ9LtsTs

Looks like it's a Bing thing. The same search here, without quotes, returns TPF in second place behind you know who. Pretty cool.

By "Man's primeval nature" I take Arkady to be referring to Kwalish Kid, but he's yet to find his way here.

You're welcome to submit it darth.

Talking of baking, my girlfriend made bagels today. I didn't realize the chewy texture came from boiling them.

You click on the first link that goes to another article.

Amateur! (Though it happened to me too)

Where did @"Hanover" go?

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Almost, but the first link in consciousness is 'quality'.

@"shmik"'s in the lead so far. The object of the game, I suppose, is to find the least philosophical thing on wikipedia. Note: when any links go to a ...

It was quite remarkable that in each case the last several steps were the same, beginning at natural science, even in the case of Bieber.

If you do know that the sun will rise in the east, we'll grant you all the rest. But do you?

But "I don't believe X: I know X" means "I don't just believe X: I know X", and this is often how the colloquial use is put. It's very much in line wi...

What empirical evidence?

Cool. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/color/

It's very controversial in philosophy, which is what we're doing here (saying that "I don't think it's a philosophical issue" is a philosophical point...

I and a great many philosophers (it's not a minority view as far as I can see) totally disagree. But I'm not here to argue the case; I intervened to e...

This really will not do. You are asking us to take your verificationist argument to be unassailable. I was inviting you to engage with the actual phil...

Good point. Done.

I wasn't trying to change your mind. I was showing that it was incumbent on you not to present a controversial thesis as if it were obvious. And if yo...

I thought that his use of analytic/synthetic to describe the different methods of the Prolegomena and the CPR respectively was mostly unrelated to his...

It's not a problem, John. The more discussion the better. :) But that's just an uncharitable reformulation of what I said. It is this interpretation t...

Only subscribers get to upload files as things stand.

Right, I wrote this too so I'll post it. Then I'll hold off for a while. And if anyone thinks these walls of text aren't suitable for the thread, let ...

Nice post @"Moliere". One thing I avoided when writing my own summary was this: Can you say more about what he means by this? I was never quite sure.

Note that colour realism and objectivism are popular views among philosophers. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/color/

You're right, I'm not very interested, but I'm smarting from the charge of internal incoherence, so let me try again. Between making use of the distin...

Here’s my bit about the preface. Preface or Introduction First, I like that it's well-written, which is not something Kant is famous for. But he could...