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But doesn't the problem of induction show that we all believe things without proof?

I would get a textbook from a college course on climate change. David Archer wrote one.

It's easy to end up living a life that isn't your own. It's like there's a voice in the world telling you what to eat, what to wear, what to say, what...

Be true to yourself and let the cards fall where they may. I'm in just such a situation now. It's exhilarating.

Not if you understand how to play that language game.

It's a reddit thing. It's just an invitation to put an argument together.

No one gets up in the morning and says, "I think I'll just be wrong as hell today." Because being wrong is not a choice, it can't be immoral.

Maybe the SkyDaddy will set that up.

I see. You still wouldn't be so bitter if you weren't so idealistic.

He was already retired, though.

Why? Drugs?

If you weren't so idealistic you wouldn't be so bitter.

We'd probably say the math they used was wrong.

Aren't you from eastern Europe? If so, you get no wow from me. You're what I would expect.

It requires enough faith in people that you can allow them to discover their own way. Every generation faces challenges to that faith. People who want...

It doesn't appear to me that you understand what democracy is. You have to have the emotional maturity to accept loss.

Davidson allows us to separate truth realism from physical realism. His own stance on physical realism doesn't alter that.

True.

You were saying that truth realism is the same as physical realism (per Dummett). That's an intuitive position, but Davidson's ideas about translation...

Are there fascist political groups where you are?

Was that a factor in Brexit? Or no?

Yes. Believe it or not, democracy is about power.

So what I'm gathering is that you didn't know the EU is just a partial government. It's not a fully functional government like the USA. So you need an...

https://youtu.be/rVN1B-tUpgs

Is there some reason you can't engage others like a normal person?

It means the EU's clutch isn't engaged. It's never had to function as a real government. If it transpires that it has to, it could grow into a real de...

A sign that this forum needs new blood is that I already know you aren't going to understand what I just told you.

This is how democracy works: prior to the American civil war there were five different parties that claimed to be anti-slavery. Only one party was pro...

I'm not. He's just another American oddity.

Apology accepted.

1. Babies show recognition of object constancy at 8 months. 2. They may or may not be able to speak at that age, but their rationality is definitely l...

Holy shit. It's all starting to make sense.

Did you know that in Spanish "USA" is "EU"? Estado Unidos.

And I think a big difference between now and the 1918 epidemic is that most people don't see how bad the disease can be. We don't have corpses laying ...

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I used to think that as well. Nagase explained why Davidson offers a way out. The cost, as I've tried to explain, is that realism becomes just another...

I met a guy in ICU, sick with covid, and he offered his speculations about what kind of illness he had. I realized he didn't understand he had covid, ...

He's talking about truth realism.

The T-sentence can be taken in different ways. It can represent truth deflation, which means the truth predicate has a social function, but no meaning...

So true. :cry:

For the sake of simplicity, let's call them active and passive intentions. With aesthetics, it's both. The beauty of the golden ratio and the perfect ...

You're a math anti-realist. *shrug*

I see. Maybe they could use an ultrasonic device on the trucks to repel the kangaroos. It works for deer.

https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/twra/images/mammals/deer/Tennessee-buck.jpg

Where I live, running into white tailed deer is a problem, but since doing so will inevitably total your car and risk your life, we try to slow down w...

I'm so sorry. :cry:

Face it, the human race is incredibly weird.

Yes. I think it's the remnant of what our ancestors took to be a divine voice. Language became so prominent for humans that we interact with the world...

Scott Soames explains in Understanding Truth. A proposition is not any particular sentence. It's not any particular utterance. If you and I assert the...

Davidson did. I would think a realist would want to avoid them. They're 'meaning as an entity.' Abstract objects.