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Oh. Yea, there's a huge amount of data that suggests that relativity is correct.

We don't need any info about relativity to make the GPS work. We'd just adjust the time when necessary, maybe build it into the software to adjust it ...

Your GPS working proves that engineers kick ass. Science and engineering are good friends, but they aren't the same.

I understand what you're saying.

If you did something wrong, did you not justify it at the time?

Cynicism is just hope that's been disappointed. Hopeless people have no cynicism. I was just saying that there may be some grand truth regarding which...

Proving mind-body dualism is sort of the opposite of Chalmers' goal. The word "physical" was originally a medical term distinguishing bodily ailments ...

:strong: St. Peter might be up there waiting to explain to us which sort of censorship is righteous and which sort is evil. What I think we humans all...

Thank you. :D. I hope you had a good Thanksgiving. I ate Mexican. We can tell from stories reported by a guy named John Solomon that the plan was to a...

That whether you say it's good or bad just depends on which end of it you're on. Not exactly a profound insight, I know. I've tended to be reflexively...

But that's true of most tools. You risk cutting your thumb off if you use a table saw.

Stark. I think every target of censorship feels like a victim, though. Those who wield it always feel righteous. No?

Yep. Do you remember why Augustine said that?

Just looking for perspective: I think Trump was trying to destroy Biden's reputation with false allegations. Doesn't that make you gulp?

I knew you were a cabbalist. :razz:

'Love and do what you will' is the western version. It's Neoplatonic.

I don't watch that, but I think they're missing the anti-Semitic piece. So you deflect the question? Are you missing the courage of your convictions?

Would you say we should allow fascist propaganda?

I mentioned a number of cases of censorship in the OP. Did you happen to check it out? Let's zero in on my own victimisation, though. There were no bo...

Yep.

I'm curious about censorship and the strong feelings it inspires (F 451, for example). How do you think it would show up if I took your question more ...

Everybody does it.

It's all relative to the size of your steeple.

You said it's creeds that feel vulnerable to scrutiny that resort to censorship. I agree, but censors are always sure that their fight is important. M...

True. But when I'm all righteous in my anti-fascism it doesn't occur to me that I might be wrong. All censorship is like that isnt it?

They're also forgetful about numbers of casualties since nuclear would be the only way to defeat either Russia or China.

We wouldn't be stepping outside our universe in our efforts to censor. We'd be following the rule that says: Protect yourself.

Because nuclear war is on the trail started by this kind of interference.

They're just trying to protect their citizens. Do we love ourselves any less? That's a noble thought, unfortunately climate change deniers have usuall...

Ideological warfare, yes. Shouldn't we wage war ideologically against fascism, for instance? Shouldn't we wage ideological war against climate change ...

During wartime there's a fair amount of censorship designed to protect troops. Surely you don't argue against that?

So in choosing the procedure that ends all pain, you would be choosing death. Does reflecting on that change your mind?

It just seems that this is close to saying that the grave is what we truly strive for (I think Schopenhauer would agree).

If there was a quick medical procedure that would end all suffering, would you have it done?

Italian fascism on the rise

We don't have any recipe for dealing with a problem like this. But we're pretty amazing, so who knows? Some more info: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l...

As I showed earlier, it's wrong, so you're good.

A friend visited Africa with her son. She said the Chinese make propaganda ads claiming to employ Africans, but their labor is actually convicts. Also...

So not even in the ballpark. Yep. Nietzsche talked about truth as it exists in the real world. Davidson's truth is fictional.

For Davidson, if you have the truth conditions for a statement, you have the meaning. This is why he rejects intranslatability, because he thinks that...

Yep. Nietzsche says people lie to gain an advantage. We value truth primarily to avoid the pain associated with being deceived.

Beautiful dreamer, waken to me.

Why not? I'm not suggesting that society should be benefited, just that it is. There is no point. There wouldn't be any point to ending human life eit...

The lines are standing in as "matter" in your description of it. A closer look reveals that what's true of the duck is true of the lines. It's ideas/m...

An analysis of the duck/rabbit experience reveals ideas and uninterpreted stuff (matter in the old sense of the word). Neither pole of this analysis c...

I'm a nihilist, but I see the benefits to society of rules and punishments. Some people naturally color inside the lines and they need lines (to be su...

It was worth the laugh when I got it.

I’m going going to put Soames’ explanation for why Davidson’s argument fails in my own words. I’m really not much of a logician, so it took me a while...

Good point.

So Davidson misunderstood the applicability of Tarski, and if we use our common conception of truth in his argument, it falls apart. I'll explain it n...