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The first quote is: This is saying that knowledge pertains to particulars, abstractions, and combinations of the two. History seeks to uncover knowled...

Since it's counter to conventional wisdom, it would be.. bold. If you're from New England, there's a factor you may not be aware of. To the rest of th...

Right. I barged into the conversation because one of my few pet peeves is conflation of science and engineering. Science is a servant to engineering. ...

Note that the attitude attributed to Quine here is not about a general assessment of philosophy as it is. It's about Quine's beliefs about what it sho...

Although, a predator (or lethal virus) that kills the whole herd will die out. Predators and prey tend to discover a balance. The advanced civilizatio...

A civilization would be some distance past radio capability before realizing that making noise attracts predators. So the silence would be a result of...

I think when we talk about emergence, we're talking about properties of entities, not entities themselves. IOW, liquidness is an emergent property. If...

Wouldn't we expect to be right back where we started in the long term? In the meantime, people are without jobs, banks are foreclosing on homes, the s...

The quote you provided doesn't indicate that Quine put physics on one end of a spectrum and philosophy on the other. Based on that quote alone, I'd th...

I think the issue may be in the realm of psychology. Those who talk about embodied life and consciousness are, in a sense, talking to themselves. They...

In biology, we do separate the two. When we talk about anatomy, we're talking about the blob of Stuff. We're identifying structures in it: the femur, ...

sorry, it's hard for me to follow what you're saying.

But right now most of the government's income comes from the top 10 percent of earners: 70 percent of total taxes. Wouldn't an exodus of the elite lea...

:up:

Eating hors d'oeuvres at a party, "immortal and free" is how some of them tasted. The sunlight is the feeling of being drunk, or how being drunk alter...

I think the present nation state complex is going to collapse in a few centuries. It will be a dark age for a while.

I dont think so. The wealthy would just leave. That's the great weakness of socialism. If it's not global, it will fail.

How would we know whether they transcend definition?

The "tax value" of a property is usually lower than what the house would sell for (unless the market sucks). You can appeal the tax evaluation if you ...

The average property tax in my state is 0.9 percent (and it's one of the lower taxes states). I told you it hurts.

You don't seem confused. Who is?

I think your story is of a community that isnt used to what we call "property tax" in the US. Yes, it hurts, but it's very common here and has been fo...

Life and consciousness actually are things. Pointing out that these words refer to processes doesnt change that. A process is a thing. So if you're ri...

See, if you wrote an article about analytical philosophy, I'd pick up on your bias and abandon you pretty quickly. I want as close to zero bias as I c...

Walter Kaufman said philosophy has always been divided: analytical vs existential. He said it's very rare to see a philosopher who's both. He thought ...

Oh thank god.

I thought it looked ok. The main thing I learned from analytical philosophy is the art of noticing when an apparently philosophical question is really...

If you construct a bird feeder, you'll see that native American species congregate together without much friction. But if transplanted starlings show ...

Cool. I was originally talking about politicians making up outlandish lies about one another.

Really? Could you share your source for that?

There was never any need to lie about the Soviets. Yet he won't be. How do you explain that?

Simple deduction. Even a fucking retard like me can see it.

I think we are indebted to the Chinese. If they initiated a run on the dollar, we'd be in bad shape.

Trump was trying to manufacture dirt by way of a public statement from Ukraine's president. Creating fictitious dirt isnt a new activity in American p...

One barrier to a socialist agenda in the US is that it would require drastic fiscal restructuring: a progressive property tax probably. No president c...

Tally ho. Get that fox!

Only if you were high at the time.

Frank, if you're on a space station, take in the view, don't worry about American politics.

I'm sure he does appear strong in some places. It's a big country, though. I don't see him connecting with swing voters, especially after the promise ...

If racism has a biological basis, tolerance must also.

The Democratic field is obviously weak. The economy is ok. The impeachment trial will be forgotten. Trump has fairly decent chance of winning a second...

That leads to the question of whether science is itself a social construct (or a type of game). There was once a strong bias against the "recent Afric...

Yep. In Russia, Jews were employed as tax collectors and the boyars often deflected peasant ill-will away from themselves to the Jews. It was a situat...

Maybe, but anti-Semitism was also associated with Germany's failure to become an integrated nation like the UK or France. They attempted forced assimi...

I don't know if the Nazis got around to making a law about that. They would probably say the offspring is Jewish. His OP isn't about what drives disti...

Jews are born to Jews. Aryans to Aryans. Again: if your point is that race isn't biological, though true, that's irrelevant to Madfool's point.

Circumstances of birth. So?

I don't think Madfool suggested otherwise. He just said racism is related to our ability to place meaning on distinctions. Ashkenazi Jews lived in the...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=04ERSb06dOg&t=215s

Did you not look at the explanation re Noether I sent you in the "no"?