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He clearly doesn't even understand the basics, or so he'd have us believe. Talk about black-and-white thinking. It's either arbitrary arrest or you co...

Seizing the moment with a lesser candidate wouldn't be ideal. Sure, it would be better than the Tories. But merely being better than the Tories isn't ...

So then you do allow for a methodology which permits all kinds of nonsense, like the example I gave? And... you don't see that as problematic?

A number of ways, but yours doesn't tick the right boxes. You seem to purely rely on some feeling of yours without testing it properly. I might have a...

How is it a red herring? It isn't. Are either of you going to explain what lead you to that erroneous judgement? Once you've finished jerking eachothe...

Beliefs, by definition, are what you're convinced of. There aren't any exceptions. That's not the definition of knowledge, although of course you'd be...

I don't care, but if you care about your false accusation of a red herring, you should attempt to back it up.

Yes, agreed, one can choose a course of action to take, and that course of action might lead to a belief, but one can't choose to belief something. Yo...

That's an interesting guess, but it's wrong. I believe that, like I said, because beliefs simply aren't the kind of thing that can be chosen, even if ...

I've just had a great idea. I'll go to a philosophy forum and pretend that adverts have literally no effect on anyone, ever. Even though that's absurd...

I don't have to be in your head to see what you're doing.

Good. No, it isn't. That's a misleading statement, since although it accords with the law in the US, it doesn't in most other liberal democracies. It ...

His trolling tactic is to treat something perfectly ordinary and uncontroversial, and pretend that it's absurd.

He not only contradicts himself, but he sees contradictions where there are none, like in his priceless gaff over law enforcement. Although of course ...

I've reported all of your off-topic posts. Hopefully a moderator will come along and delete them, along with this one.

Statistically, those who are extraordinary are more likely to be crackpots than geniuses.

Yes, you are, because you're going by an idiosyncratic definition, rather than the ordinary one that we're going by. What did you expect? You're creat...

Sorry, I got distracted by your apparent stupidity relating to how law enforcement operates. (I say "apparent", because if it's not stupidity, it's tr...

From premises to a conclusion. You know how reason works, so why ask?

That was the title. The discussion quickly lead on to the related topic, which is the same topic of this discussion you redundantly created, and it st...

I've never been more convinced that you're a troll until now. I think you've gone a little overboard and need to work on your subtlety.

I'm using arbitrary in the way made obvious by the example I gave. And yes, through reason.

Good, because I can't stand sarcasm.

"I wasn’t aware there were other threads on the topic". :brow: "Well, there was that one thread, but... ". And it's pretty funny that you'd call me a ...

A whole bunch of things. You could google it or ask specific questions which you can't easily find an answer to through googling.

Yes.

I will call you the Prince of Carrots.

I wouldn't even say that about those philosophers I really can't stand. This is surely a personal problem for you, rather than a problem generally spe...

I don't agree with baseless speculation.

That should only be brought in if it wins in a referendum. We don't need another referendum on it, I'd say. The results would probably be more or less...

Ah, you ruined it. He probably already knew the answer but was just trolling, anyway. Hard to believe someone could be that stupid.

He certainly didn't miss it. He was largely involved in one of those lengthy discussions. He's just lying.

But that's arbitrary, like saying that I'd have no crimes that begin with the letter "M".

Hatred, according Google's online dictionary, is intense dislike; hate. Literally everyone has had intense dislike; hate, including this Swan person. ...

It would be really funny if you genuinely don't realise your glaring error here. I'm not going to spell it out for you, though.

Expect? Anyway, no it doesn't. You be trollin'.

All of them.

Is your Google broken?

That's an ignoratio elenchi.

That's how law enforcement works everywhere. You don't have to have committed a crime to be arrested.

"If the president has done what has been alleged, then he is stepping into a dangerous minefield with serious repercussions for his administration and...

That's how law enforcement works everywhere. You don't have to have committed a crime to be arrested.

That's how law enforcement works everywhere. You don't have to have committed a crime to be arrested.

Is your Google broken?

No, that's validity. Soundness is where the argument is valid and the premises and conclusion are true.

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I find it very strange that you obsess over the same oddly worded truisms. Yes, stuff existed before people first started talking about stuff. Perhaps...

Not 66?

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