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What do you think drove this phenomenon? Greenspan was an economic conservative.

He was basically in charge of the economy. He was a staunch conservative. So you're saying that American liberals just sort of sold out, right?

Do you know who Alan Greenspan was?

Oh.

Can you give a name associated with it?

Chiming in! I dont have Trump derangement syndrome, but I agree that it exists. We pick on NOS because he's clearly a troll. He puts up ridiculous cra...

Sorry, I misinterpreted your phrase "took off." Neoconservatism "took off" in the 1960s in the sense that it started then. Ok.

It was the 1960s, not 1980s. I'm sorry your American relatives don't have those things. Where are they situated in terms of education level and employ...

I've heard from two ED docs now that theres a concern that ventilators are doing more harm than good. I'll believe it when I hear it from a pulmonolog...

Thanks. I think there's an SEP article on abstract objects if you're interested.

The prevailing view among mathematicians is that it's an abstract object. You can call it whatever you want.

There is corruption in the US. It's not worse or better than it's always been, though, and somehow elections do continue to shape events. American his...

We can discuss if you like. I dont feel strongly that I need to prove anything to you. And if I did, we'd have to start with basics.

Dont be burdened by what you dream of to the point that you cant accomplish anything. Focus. It was good enough for Frederick Douglass, it's good enou...

Right, so the question that follows is: what happened so that we generally rejected constructivism? And what are the philosophical costs of having don...

Someone once told me that god is like a coffee cup, the mind picks it up and moves it around by the handle, never fully grasping it. With an idea, we ...

It should be managed case by case. I imagine there will be an investigation eventually.

That's finitism I believe.

Uh.. ok.

At least an attempt was made to get her to the hospital. It's not clear that she was actually turned down. Maybe it wasn't clear how bad she really wa...

:up:

I think you're in an alternate universe.

Abstract object.

Getting Obamacare back on track is a good start. We have to move forward together. A socialist-leaning president wouldn't be able to create a coalitio...

That's totally immoral. Is it really true?

You don't remember? :joke:

Yay! :cheer:

Cool. How did he explain finitism? Aristotle?

We need a philosopher of math. They're rare.

I'm not sure you understand what finitism is if you think it precludes talking about infinity. It doesn't. It just doesn't allow talking about the inf...

A finitist has no problem with speech about infinity. The spaceship travels on forever. The reading on the odometer is always finite. That's all. Wher...

Weird, I could hear Trump's voice while reading that. :grimace:

I have a feeling we'll be seeing him run for president in a few years.

Our cousin

COVID-19 patients present with a condition similar to ARDS. There's only one piece of research that backs up the associated ARDS protocol. That resear...

Who should we rely on to advise us on public health issues?

What's the alternative?

Medicine isn't research based for the most part. Some of it is. The rest is literally like what's happening now: Americans calling Germans asking what...

I'll pass that along. I don't think they realized that.

We used to aerosolize Ribavirin. It's rarely done now.

My first thought was nanobots with little UV lamps. Or maybe just chemo and radiation. Then we wouldn't be able to tell if the virus is making them na...

They're apes. They do what apes do.

Receiving hospitalization or mechanical ventilation?

@"Banno" So if numbers are an aspect if counting, and one cant count to infinity, then finitism.

We have a lot in common with other apes. They just cant talk.

cool

We're great apes.

What does this mean to you?

Hominidae

Strictly speaking we are apes. It's the intellectual who wants to forget that.