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Why the ellipsis? "The probability of a Ukrainian military victory - defined as kicking the Russians out of all of Ukraine to include what they claim ...
November 22, 2022 at 20:11
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November 22, 2022 at 10:50
You are evidently confused. In the quoted claims of mine the word "valid" is taken as qualifying "justification" (not "assertion") for a perceptual be...
November 22, 2022 at 06:38
Of course, if there is an adequate legal codification behind the "security guarantees". Yet that doesn't imply that there will be justice to Ukrainian...
November 21, 2022 at 21:17
Guarantee in a sense of certainty doesn't exist anywhere with the reliability of a physical law or mathematical truth. "Guarantee" just expresses a fo...
November 21, 2022 at 19:20
Good summary of your neverending misunderstanding, troll. May view didn't evolve. Here is my statement: The best interest of both US and Soviet Union ...
November 21, 2022 at 18:38
Still a liar, my position didn't evolve. It's your understanding of it that did. Still in the wrong direction! Besides, the fact that you use a if-the...
November 21, 2022 at 17:05
I answered that already but maybe you didn't get it. There is no deduction or inference or conclusion since these concepts for me apply more appropria...
November 21, 2022 at 16:48
If you want to discuss about "preconditions" attributed to Zelensky ("discussing Zelensky and his preconditions for dozens of pages”) or “Zelensky's p...
November 21, 2022 at 15:19
First, in our exchange, you wasted all occasions to quote where Zelensky used the word "precondition" in support of your argument. Second, what may be...
November 21, 2022 at 11:25
What argument are you talking about? Quote yourself. First we have to agree on the notion of "justification", otherwise we are talking past each other...
November 21, 2022 at 09:14
That's why I have no pity for your intellectual misery. A sequel of nonsense one after the other: - I'm claiming that you keep misunderstanding my cla...
November 20, 2022 at 17:01
Quote whatever you think was my original claim so I can claim it again and then you explain its meaning to me, dude. Sure like a rational requirement,...
November 18, 2022 at 21:44
Here I claim it again: The best interest of both US and Soviet Union was calculated by taking into account the deterrence means they both had (but Ukr...
November 18, 2022 at 15:49
I wasn't arguing to support Christoff's understanding of Zelensky (I find Zelensky's attitude toward the missile incident questionable). I was arguing...
November 18, 2022 at 14:17
And what holds for US and Soviet Union doesn't necessarily hold for other countries not possessing such weapons, like Ukraine. I never said such a thi...
November 18, 2022 at 14:01
An attack can be called "ad hominem" and yet not be fallacious in the specific sense of: "A makes a claim x, B asserts that A holds a property that is...
November 18, 2022 at 12:24
Any possible military success in that direction is conditional on the military support the West provides to Ukraine. And I'm not sure the West will co...
November 18, 2022 at 11:20
I never denied making the claim you literally cite (quote where I did). I continuously denied that you literally understood my quotes and I still do (...
November 18, 2022 at 11:06
You keep quoting only the claim that triggered your misunderstanding without taking into account all my clarifications. But you misunderstood that quo...
November 17, 2022 at 13:41
That's not what I claimed. I'm not interested in claims, I'm interested in arguments. I'm not interested in claims, I'm interested in arguments. It ha...
November 17, 2022 at 13:26
Never made such a claim. Quote where I did. Besides, since when conceivable possibilities constitute evidence to falsify factual claims? Here: The imp...
November 17, 2022 at 13:02
Quote Zelensky. And then comment. Besides I didn't claim anywhere that I would use the word "pre-condition" the way Zelensky does. Saying that nothing...
November 17, 2022 at 12:51
For the sixth time, the general principle is the following: available deterrence means are taken into account by rational agents when engaging in nego...
November 17, 2022 at 11:16
Here: available deterrence means are taken into account by rational agents when engaging in negotiations. If you think that's what I claimed. You are ...
November 17, 2022 at 10:06
"The probability of a Ukrainian military victory — defined as kicking the Russians out of all of Ukraine to include what they claim as Crimea — the pr...
November 17, 2022 at 09:27
Right, and I took the case of the US and the Soviet Union both as a way to illustrate this general point, and to compare it to the hypothetical case o...
November 17, 2022 at 00:29
Dude, for the third time, you are mistaken about what I claim. I didn’t write anywhere that nuclear weapons is a “precondition of any agreement”. Mean...
November 16, 2022 at 21:48
Again that's not what I claimed. I didn't talk about the content of the agreement. Read carefully: The best interest of both US and Soviet Union was c...
November 16, 2022 at 13:03
You misunderstood my claim. I was referring precisely to the following condition: “each side saw it was in their best interest to avoid a large scale ...
November 16, 2022 at 11:03
https://www.dw.com/en/russian-missiles-cross-into-nato-member-poland-report/a-63770954 shit hitting the fan?
November 15, 2022 at 19:25
Maybe Kherson is not as high priority as land access to Crimea, yet it has its strategic importance (i.e. securing freshwater canals to Crimea). Never...
November 15, 2022 at 11:59
Does Russia want Kherson?
November 15, 2022 at 11:09
Zelenskyy outlines Ukraine’s 10-point "formula for peace" at G20 summit https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/11/15/7376378/
November 15, 2022 at 10:50
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November 15, 2022 at 10:33
US and Soviets had also deterrence means that Ukraine doesn't have though.
November 15, 2022 at 10:29
What makes you think so?
November 15, 2022 at 10:28
I took a position about the notions of "justification" and "knowledge". Here: I think "justification" is a normative term, not a descriptive one. Addi...
November 15, 2022 at 10:02
Prior to the midterm elections. Now the situation doesn't look so bad for the Democrats though.
November 14, 2022 at 20:31
Again, it depends on what one means by "justification". If justification must comply with the "no false lemma" (or equivalent) then the farmer is not ...
November 14, 2022 at 18:51
Yep. And? So what? For what? After 10 posts of yours I still didn't get what your point is.
November 14, 2022 at 08:12
Are you suggesting that “literally anyone in Russia” whose daughter got “murdered by a Ukrainian operation” could become Kremlin ideologue? Coz that’s...
November 13, 2022 at 21:50
Nevertheless Following the murder, Putin became “seriously interested” in Dugin. He sent him a telegram of condolences, and has since encouraged the a...
November 13, 2022 at 15:44
We could put some effort into clarifying the notion of "justification" according to an internalist epistemology. In that sense, I think "justification...
November 13, 2022 at 11:07
Well due to our past exchange I don't trust your way of framing problems. Yes but there might be some catch in the term "follow" (between perceptual b...
November 13, 2022 at 08:49
On a hill at Bomma near the mouth of the Congo dwells Namvulu Vumu, King of the Rain and Storm. Of some of the tribes on the Upper Nile we are told th...
November 13, 2022 at 08:09
https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1590729203485356034
November 13, 2022 at 07:49
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1591308229333905409/photo/1
November 12, 2022 at 15:28
I and Creativesoul had a very long exchange about his views a while ago so I’m reusing here expressions I clarified there (and without worrying too mu...
November 12, 2022 at 09:39
Not sure how to understand your questions, but I could say that there are 2 conditions to take into account: 1. perceptual evidences 2. justificatory ...
November 12, 2022 at 07:02