Didn't know all that. :up: What I'm really concerned about is if climate action has a deadline to meet and whether we're already past that date with d...
I'll take first bite. Separation of Church and state - once we remove the religion factor, all peoples converge on the same set of laws/legal principl...
If the scene of the crime has been declared contaminated, no object in it may be used as evidence. No, Dr. Johnson couldn't have/hasn't refuted Bishop...
I'm reading this very interesting book on mental models - an exposition on how scientific principles can be applied in everyday life. There's a chapte...
What's a language? A mode of communication/of thought. Is the universe a language? The universe is information (knowledge) and a carrier of informatio...
An innocent is one who's ignorant of ethics (re A&E and their fall from grace). The question then is, can animals know? Do animals possess knowledge? ...
JTB theory of knowledge: S (a person) knows P (a proposition) iff 1. S believes P 2. P is true 3. P is justified When (1) S believes P it means, for S...
JTB theory of knowledge: S (a person) knows P (a proposition) iff 1. S believes P 2. P is true 3. P is justified When (1) S believes P it means, for S...
Since we're in belief territory, we're at liberty to believe anything we want (justification is about knowledge, not belief). Ergo, I believe that the...
Reminds me of the 20% (forgot the actual figure) rule in hypertension: Only 20% of hypertensives are diagnosed. Of them, only 20% are actually treated...
Another term for genius - gifted - says it all. One can't become a genius, there's no course you can take to make yourself one, rather one is born a g...
We must make war, in fact all violence, a very expensive business, it must be made unaffordable. That's the Western world's latest tactic - economic s...
First off, you really don't know if those beautiful butterflies are not behind the recent spate of extreme weather events. Second, is there any differ...
What choice do we have? I don't see anyone proposing solutions that are certain to produce results, practicable, fair, to name a few qualities that ma...
That would be our ol' friend fraction/percentage . Tithe or \frac{1}{10} = 10 \%. The same portion of what you have is given, but the actual amount wi...
Do a search (TPF has a search feature) of old threads. See if the topic you're interested already has a thread. If it does, post in it. If not...start...
I was once quite excited about esotericism; it being secret and all. One way of making a child open a box is to tell her not to. I feel like a a 5 yea...
There are 7 notes. Suppose I'm allowed only 7 notes per score. That gives me 77 = 823, 543 unique pieces (combinatorics). After that, it's repetition....
M = The universe is mathematical (Max Tegmark et al). What does M mean? We can do the most/squeeze every last drop with/out of reality if we apply mat...
Pre-life nonexistence \rightarrow Existence (life) \rightarrow Post-life nonexistence (aka death) \rightarrow ? We were dead (pre-life nonexistence)! ...
The first episode of the TV serie NUMB3RS is about a serial rapist-murderer. This criminal attempts to throw the cops off his scent by trying to rando...
& others. My take on the so-called planck time: It's basically the smallest time a clock with the smallest possible "tick" can measure. Time has been ...
I don't know how to explain this, but I'll give it my best shot. There's this belief, true/not you decide, that good has something to do with being in...
:up: All I wanted to convey was if climate scientists are using climate models to predict global warming, we should exercise caution for the simple re...
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