As far as I can tell, the conventional definition of "exist/existence" does have a matching experience - we can say of things that we can sense/detect...
I don't want to be a spoilsport for you but if you were in a life-threatening situation and you asked me, your last hope, for help, how confident woul...
You wouldn't be able to ask this question without knowing the defintion of "how", "do", "you", and since you did ask the question, I'd like ask the qu...
Ok. Are numbers material in any sense of that word? You mean to say there's some kind of hazy border, a gray area, between what a universe is and what...
I thought scientists are, first and foremost, concerned only about the material. Also, I meant vagueness and not ambiguity. If it's the latter then it...
The best version of the good book compilable would be a book that's consistent AND a book of morality (ensuing from god). Consistency goes a long way ...
Are you suggesting the word "universe" doesn't commit us to the existence of "a complex and orderly" system? Precising definitions come into play when...
Let me rephrase my words then: that you believe "it's better than nothing" shows, given that these words are dripping with optimism, that there's not ...
That your expectations are so low - better than nothing - indicates we're on the same depressing page in the storybook of humanity. The frightening th...
Well, we needn't add fuel to the fire by creating more ways to divvy up humanity, each such division becoming a spawning ground for hate-filled confli...
My humble opinion on the matter is that cooperation, in and of itself, is morally neutral. Japan and Italy cooperated well enough with the Nazi regime...
Being ugly myself, I think I can safely poke fun at the aesthetically challenged. So, here's my two cents on the issue of government: If you're ugly, ...
Well, the first thing I notice in that list is that all these categories have been major factors that have shaped the history of the world. Slavery (r...
Why not? The only problem I see is that there is no "energy" version of neurotransmitters, neuroleptics, psychotropics, mood enhancers, anesthetics, e...
The argument I made was deductive, with the Axiom of Causality as a premise. I didn't make an empirical claim and even if I did confirmation doesn't e...
Prima facie, a compelling argument based on the premise that if a certain type of thing, x, interacts with some other thing, y, then the thing y must ...
This is a contradiction. Hermits specifically aim to get away from society and all the baggage that comes with being in one. Yes, hermits may maintain...
I'm not claiming women are actually less intelligent than men and I made it a point to qualify the conclusion with a statement that a lot rides on whe...
Sorry if it seemed as though I didn't consider other relevant factors in the equation. I fully agree with you that winning a Nobel doesn't cut it as a...
I did mention a caveat... Well, the actual numbers can be misleading that's what makes proportion important. For instance, a town X of a 1000 people m...
The population to consider is all females and if the fraction of them who won Nobel prizes is less than the fraction of men who bagged a Nobel then, i...
@"ssu" By the way the ratio of men to women Nobel laureates is 866 : 53 = 16 : 1 approximately. If gender doesn't affect the chances of winning a Nobe...
I believe the actual number of men and women in science doesn't matter. What's important is the percentage of men and women who win Nobel prizes. If t...
The first thing I notice is that there are two parts to this problem: 1. Judas betrayed someone 2. That someone was Jesus, the son of god The first pa...
It seems that to dress to emphasize one's sexuality doesn't necessarily imply that a woman is saying yes to sexual objectification per se. Indeed a ca...
You could say the same thing about all causality in general. How are you so sure? Think of it in terms of causality. What causes these "circumstances ...
That makes the difference. Are hermits insane? Believe facts, avoid things that contradict facts. Being sane doesn't imply your beliefs have to be fix...
I agree that the attention sought by dressing in certain ways is particular as in some men of interest and not general as in all men. Yet, showing ski...
Let me be clear, I'm not a male chauvinist at all. That out of the way, I'd like to ask you a simple question: what is it that's being revealed by wea...
It seems that sanity/insanity or normal is defined in terms of 1)how much in touch with reality you are and 2) whether you belong to a group or not. L...
Yes. Certain clothes accentuate sexuality and wearing them is a deliberate act of presenting the wearer in an erotic light and that, in my humble opin...
Judas is, at the end of the day, a tragic figure. He lost so much for what to me is next to nothing. How would you feel if you were to become the main...
I'm of the view that nurture - desiring/hoping/encouraging it - serves only as a means to all the other stuff you denied viz. power, pleasure and mean...
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