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It's just like where women didn't have the legal right to abortion, but then they did. We assume that their rights just weren't recognized previously,...

Hmm. :grin:

The left abandoned structuralism because it seemed to say that we can't reinvent ourselves. Post WW2 and during the Civil Rights movement, reinvention...

Who are you referring to?

I think it's more that as Marxist projects emerged in the early 20th Century, established power bases threatened to destroy them before they were even...

Locke believed each person has a natural right to life, liberty, and property. So, yes. Do Marxists hold that human nature should be molded?

I think a way to start answering that is to look at the reasoning behind a cornerstone of liberalism: separation of church and state. It starts with r...

This virus is with us long term. It will join the other coronaviruses and flus that kill a bunch of people every year.

Oh, I see. Thank you!

Sure. Manyana.

Do you suppose there's an SEP article that clarifies the standard view?

You're presuming the standard view?

Sorry, what us the standard view of the extension of an adjective?

Blue can be used as a noun, as in "cobalt blue". We're contrasting a hue or shade with others. When "blue" is used as an adjective, it's reference doe...

It's used as an adjective, so it's like "blue" or "fast." I have one elephant. It's modifying a noun. So what's the extension of an adjective? It can ...

Interesting. :up:

NYT says he's leaning toward Warren.

What's the main thing about life in the Netherlands that needs to change?

It just means there are conundrums lurking whether you embrace constructivism or reject it.

Surely there's some aspect of life in the Netherlands that calls for a revolutionary change. And yet year after year you roost on the status quo. Why?

Surgical masks protect a person from droplet transmitted organisms. Droplets are produced by coughing or sneezing. N95 masks protect from airborne tra...

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Would you be happier representing the little man?

What are your credentials in this area?

I was just concerned that after putting forth great effort to defend a drug dealer you might find yourself without payment because you breathed your v...

Since you can carry the critter with no symptoms and spread it just by talking, you will potentially protect people in your community by wearing one. ...

If you're accused of ad hom, it just means you're attacking the source instead of the content. Sometimes attacking the source is warranted. Sometimes ...

In a democratic society that faces a significant question, the winning side will be the one that inspires people to put aside their differences and jo...

Ah, tim wood does a math joke.

What does that mean?

A set that has only the moon as a member is a distinct entity from the moon itself. A set is an abstract object. A set is criteria, kind of like a clu...

Yea, I didn't notice that.

Misstatement?

I think this is the correct answer from Snakes Alive: "It follows from the assumptions of a certain kind of naive set theory. The point is that it's n...

Yes. I don't know. Maybe the highest love is those things?

Love is amoral. 'That which is done out of love takes place beyond good and evil.' ---Nietzsche

Or the anima is the force that animates all things. For animals it sees, hears, and feels. For humans, it grieves and loves. So when you feel like cra...

You need water. Love isn't a necessity. To live without love is to be powerful and capable of anything, to rob, to betray, to exploit, to maim, to kil...

This is a totally new kind of vaccine. They'll have to do large scale trials to learn how to use it. In the meantime Moderna will start manufacturing ...

The RNA vaccine causes your body to create a portion of the virus, right? 43% chance of zombies.

Moderna's RNA vaccine works. The zombie apocalypse begins.

Reddit breathing gif

https://youtu.be/Qr28DwXeyu0

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I suppose. But if the Chinese guy who gutted that penguin had washed up to the elbows afterwards, we would all be bitching about something else.

I think Jews advocated washing up to the elbows when Noah's dog was a pup.

Every generation of scientists does the best it can. Degrasse would do well to be satisfied with that.

"Levelling" can be either one. You deflate me to raise yourself, or inflate yourself relative to my baseline. Either one is an attempt to compensate. ...

That's because scientists in horror movies are insane.

I see. Thanks