TheMadFool

:ok: Forget I even mentioned it. It was irrelevant to the discussion.

Touché! Touché! :clap:

:chin:

I'll get back to you if I have anything interesting to say, Jack. Until then, adieu!

My pleasure. Did you read this :point: New Caledonian Crow?

Loneliness statistics You can be part of 7 billion people crawling over the face of the earth but you will always be one in 7 billion. A back of the e...

Sorry for butting in like this but have you noticed, Agrippa's trilemma is part of every philosophical debate? One particular problem Agrippa identifi...

I saw that too. Order is a phase in Chaos. Next up, the sun will now show us what it can really do! WTF?

Seems like you have it good Jack. I would've put in a word for you in the Oscar Awards Committee but, luckily or not, I don't have that much clout. Ke...

I think it'll help if we make a distinction if we're to make any headway on this issue. First let's begin with finite sets: A = {w, o, r, k} A has 4 e...

There's always a "but" isn't there? There's always a no-go area -> harming humans is where we draw the line. It's, I suspect, too close for comfort. R...

@"Jack Cummins" :point: Opinion

To play the devil's advocate, my response would be that in corvids (crows) the basic cognitive component (logic) seems advanced enough to compare to o...

If I'm reading you correctly, you can't hide all the time Jack. You may filter out some aspects of yourself you wanna keep under wraps but sooner or l...

Thanks for the info! I'll need that someday, I'm positive. The visible obstacle is a cakewalk compared to the invisible one, you feel you're free but ...

Different strokes for different folks. Waiter, I'll have the usual.

You're well-read and also well-informed. How do you find the time? Frankly, my mind is blown. Paul The Octopus made headlines for accurate predictions...

What I say may not make sense but I'm going to go out on a limb and say it any way if only as a test drive of my theory. When a positron (+) meets its...

:ok: G'day

Copy that! The Socratic call for self-examination serves a two-fold purpose then: 1. Make us aware of the problem - people are dumping stuff on us 2. ...

This is news to me. Not good news, bad news. Oh well, nobody said life was easy. I have similar thoughts about what Socrates said, I would love to exa...

Ah! So you think people are dumping ideas, like we dump garbage, on each other? I'm only half-convinced because the analogy seems to break down once y...

Nothing seems amiss. Can you elaborate a bit? I didn't quite get you.

I'm gonna speculate since the issue is about the future and all we can do is that. Historians have the habit of dividing up the timeline of human civi...

Are you saying a mother's sobs when she gets that dreaded phone call letting her know the only son she has was KIA isn't real? You're kidding right? A...

Good question Jack Cummins, truth-seeker. I have a very simple theory (@"Banno" won't be happy) about the self. It appears that the self is, inter ali...

To live then must be a crime/sin. Is it? The non-living commit no sins - they can be used to do bad stuff but they themselves don't initiate any actio...

The serenity prayer is a very good match for the stoic spirit. I don't know how far this is true but it's claimed christianity & stoicism have some el...

I would've but @"James Riley" made it crystal clear that I have a choice. :lol:

:up: :ok:

I'll take the first bite. Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr

Sorry you feel that way. G'day. See you around.

:up: An example please of a self-evident truth. There can be no such thing as lies on this view. Scenario 1 (traditional truth): Jane's gone to the ma...

Good luck. I hope you have better luck than me, Corvus.

One of humanity's greatest abilities, if we could call it that, is to change necessity into contingency. Kudos to those pathfinders who make this poss...

Ranting! Venting! Blowing off steam! Sorry you had to see this! By the way, did I say anything even mildly inappropriate? Apologies if I did. On a mor...

Balance, not my strong suit. Imbalance, my middle name.

It was implied by your statement. Either you're pro-choice or you're pro-life. If you're pro-choice then, isn't it obvious?, life doesn't matter. If l...

How right you are. The angle makes all the difference. From a certain angle, shit looks like shit, from another angle, shit looks like... :chin:

Yes, really!

There are a few books on logic I've read and the points you're discussing are part of what some have lovingly and condescendingly (reality's messy) ca...

Agreed!

1. All A are B 2. All C are B Ergo, you feel 3. All A are C A, B, and C are terms or classes/categories. In 1, A is the subject term, B is the predica...

The argument invalid. The middle term is not distributed (it should be). That's why you're able to construct a counter-example.

P = Republicans won R = Reagan won A = Anderson won P -> (~R -> A) Let's ignore "P ->" for the moment. Is (~R -> A) true? No! The conditional as a who...

Thanks for giving me an aha moment. The etymology of "robot" is slave. Ah, those good ol' days!

The conditional is formulated as if the following is true, Republicans win then the vote ranking will be: 1. Reagan 2. Anderson 3. Jimmy Carter It fai...

I have my doubts about trials-by-fire. Reminds of how theists argue about evil being necessary to apprehend good. But, by Jupiter, this much evil?! Ar...

The conditional is false.

Obviously theists haven't proven their God. Theism. Goldilocks: Too hot! Should I now become an atheist? No if you don't want to commit the argumentum...