True that, but "I'll kill you" is quite a different kettle of fish from me actually killing you, oui? Then there's libel/slander; in Japan, dishonor m...
Nirvana fallacy? There are certain margins of error we must be willing to accept, especially since the world is, for some reason, imperfect. The human...
I don't think anybody does/should. Why, do you enjoy 'em? Why You're putting words in my mouth, Nickolasgaspar. I never said religion, science, and ph...
Exactly! How lamentable it is that this is parenticide. Daughter ideas attacking/killing parent ideas. The world of memes seems more depraved and viol...
A circle is a (geometric) shape, true, but its precise definition - the set of all points equidistant from one other point (the center) - is more prec...
Just remember, the way philosophers speak disparagingly about theology and theologians and dismiss it as woo-woo is exactly how scientists treat philo...
I remember watching a video lessons on geometry back a decade or so ago. The speaker, a lady, goes to great lenghts to point out that geometric defini...
Get the angle right and we could see T. Rex chasing down a triceratops or, get this, even see the dino-killer asteroid streaking through the sky. 10-9...
This is wild shot, but what if the words "do not" is something like "me" in "heeeellllp!"? So, "the Almighty commanded kill them all" is actually "the...
For what it's worth, there is a standpoint known as nonjustificationsim; the idea has its roots in post-Karl Popper science. After all, no (scientific...
I once mentioned this to apokrisis and I feel this is as good a time as any to state it again. Nothing/0 = (+x) + (-x). If an object is sitting there,...
:up: Thanks a ton! What's the difference between a log fire and life? Both are chemistry. Are we conflating complexity with emergence i.e. are we simp...
I would like to be me again! I have some very reliable people who can/will ensure that is the case...till the sun grows cold and the stars are old. :g...
My gripe is a simple one. As far as I know, the only justification a transsexual man has for identifying himself as a man is that he feels/thinks he i...
@"jorndoe" There doesn't seem to be an appropriate concept in psychology for my views, so I'll describe it: When it comes to thoughts, it all boils do...
:up: You're on target 180 Proof. The thing is there's no strong evidence the other way round too i.e. we don't have any strong justification to say th...
Here's the thing... We can think whatever we want. We can't do whatever we want. Speech, looks like, is intermediate between thinking and acting and s...
Radical skepticism is in order. We must put logic in the dock, interrogate it! How did it come to be this powerful? What vile trickery did it put to i...
I sense you're conflating authority with knowledge (justified true beliefs). Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that there's nothing amiss about putti...
Even if you were right, and as far as I can tell you are, philosophy, to my reckoning, is not a democratic institution i.e. we're not warranted to fee...
All I'm trying to get across here is that the transsexual argument boils down to: 1. I feel/think I'm a woman/man Ergo, 2. I am a woman/man. If you ab...
Everybody knows what free thought is. Look it up. I said nothing about science. Nevertheless, you would be going against the spirit of science if you ...
:ok: We need to be very clear as to what constitutes a cause then. In the OP's example, the ball is not the cause, nor is its weight the cause because...
Suppose there are identical twins, A and B; it doesn't get more similar than that. If then A thinks she's B, then A is B?! There's something quite odd...
You raise some very important points. I too am of the view that there should be some things that are sacred if that's what you're getting at. In the s...
Methinks trans people are confused. There's a difference between I want to be a man/woman and I am a man/woman. For instance, there are young teenage ...
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