Thanks for noticing the error in my post. I made the necessary corrections. How is it a paradox when you agree that falsifactionism requires those who...
Why? The statement "ghosts exist" isn't inconsistent in and of itself. It becomes inconsistent in relation to other facts but of itself it doesn't vio...
Indeed, you're right. It seems that the ability to see differences which I'm talking about doesn't quite explain anti-semitism, at least not in a biol...
How about the category E = things that exist? It's a valid category, isn't it? Thanks for the detailed exposition on Aristotle's syllogisms. As I unde...
As you can see Nazism had a racial discriminatory policy based on skin color - a phenotype. Racism against the jews was based on a different, but not ...
Indeed. Logic alone doesn't cut it. However, a superior logic, even if only provided with bits and pieces of life's puzzles, will rarely make glaring ...
The inclination to trust a speaker is proportional to how reasonable are his positions on various topics and I think, ceteris paribus, clear and ratio...
Yes. Looking at bodies. Phenotype. To make matters explicit and hopefully not offend anyone in the process, let's look at common racial slurs: Nigger:...
Social differences were race-based weren't they and race, as you agree, is all about, as you put it, observable differences. When racism took root it ...
Do you or do you not believe the Darwinian Theory of Evolution? If you don't then I have nothing to say but if you do then it follows that every trait...
You seem to be very knowledgable on the issue but I think you overlooked an important American hero, the great Athlete Jessie Owens (1930 -1980). The ...
Phenotype includes a lot of things other than what is obvious such as color of the skin, etc.; phenotype includes the color of your hair, the shape of...
Strawman! :lol: It's not that stupid. You ignore the fact that the domain of the necessary condition of the ability to see differences is limited to h...
Differences in phenotype - physical appearance - seems to be key to racism. I maybe wrong but don't racists compare some races to monkeys and apes in ...
I get what you mean. It's not just a question of whether differences exist or not. It's also about whether people deem the difference to be, as you sa...
I watched video. @"fdrake" posted, Many thanks to him. The author basically claims that the concept of race is arbitrary and so lacks a sound rational...
StreetlightX and 180 Proof have a dekko at what Baden wrote below. 180 Proof, you understood the meaning because you replied with :lol: :up: Thanks Ba...
What bothers me most is better conveyed as a story. Suppose there are two friends, A and B on the integer number line. If A says to B, "let's travel t...
I'm not trying to justify or naturalize racism; all I'm offering here is a biological explanation for it. The keystone premise is that all conflict or...
How on Earth did you infer that? My argument is watertight. 1. Assume A = All propositions are false, is true 2.. From 1, A itself, being a propositio...
You speak as if I'm completely wrong about this but have a look at the first few lines on racism on Wikipedia: It's quite clear from the passage above...
Why such a violent reaction to a young girl who's bringing the world's attention to a matter of great urgency for us all? I really appreciate her hear...
:ok: Infinity is not a number and even if it is 1/(-/+infinity) will always be a non-zero value for the simple reason that there's no number that sati...
In my humble opinion, the story of philosophy is much like that of the average family. Philosophy has birthed many, many children and the succesful on...
The entire abortion issue should've been buried the day contraception was invented. After all, if we can prevent conception as easily as is now possib...
I like Neil deGrasse Tyson's view on science, here standing for the "more" educated segment of the population, and religion. I'm going to invent the s...
It seems that Forrester's argument turns on one premise which is that if we murder then we must murder gently which he bases on the brutal/savage murd...
I have absolutely zero understanding of deontic logic but there's a key rule that applies to Forrester's argument and it's this: 1. p -> q implies tha...
The great Aristotle defined humans as rational animals. I believed he used the word "man" and not "humans" which reflects the age-old tradition of men...
as far as I can understand Forrester's argument is like below: 1. If you commit murder then it is obligatory that you murder gently 2. If you murder g...
Why would I ask a trick question? I'm just trying to figure things out. :rofl: I think I'm missing more than a "few" molecules but that's beside the p...
If I travel from Istanbul to New York by plane the distance is 8,065 km. If I return from New York to Istanbul, again by plane and on the same route t...
Firstly, I'm more than a little concerned about you using the word "mind". Some people consider the mind to be a function of the brain, an emergent ph...
Yes. Thank you. I was simply pointing out that, taken as a function, f(x) = 1/x, we can see that just because f(a) = f(b), it doesn't imply that a = b...
To All interested. When one considers the function f(x) = 1/x, we can see that the inputs to the f(x) changes dramatically with positive infinity and ...
I think this doesn't follow. f(x) = 7x and g(x) = 2x if x = 1 for f(x) and x = 2 for g(x) then we have f(1) =7 and g(2) = 4 f(1) > g(2) but 1 < 2 So, ...
Is infinity a Western Concept? I wasn't aware of that? Anyway...here's a simple argument: Suppose a distance of 100 km between points A and B. If we t...
Thank you for the lesson in logic but what I meant to convey was that it's uncertain whether your premise: If there are mental states, there is an obj...
The above, to me at least, indicates a dim view of humans/humanity which you reversed in later posts and below To begin with, you're not ham-fisted. S...
A very difficult scenario to make sense of. What would a lonely existence in an empty universe be like as an experience? Since the universe is empty t...
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