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I understand what you're saying. Trump played his part by not filling vacancies for judges at the border, and then Honduras went into crisis. And then...

Who are they? Like which kind of policies? Ones that lead to greater wealth disparity?

I know a number of people who voted for trump. I'll channel them for you: Q: Did you think Clinton referred to you as deplorable?" A: What did she say...

Whether he's racist or not, what we've observed is that he seems to court racists. Have you not seen that at all?

Did you feel like Clinton's comment about deplorabless was directed at you?

I have a hard time understanding this. Obama was apparently the reincarnation of Chairman Mao and the Antichrist, all at the same time. I never though...

It's uncharted waters, so America will do it the way we always do things: fall ass backwards into it. I think adjustments in wealth and power are on t...

Don't know. Part of isolationism is not caring until there's a need to nuke somebody.

It's not a history of capitalism.

Are we still talking about a broader isolationism, or Turkey's problem with its border?

My point was that much of the benefits we sometimes think of as capitalist in origin are really just a side effect of the use of an abstract medium of...

It's not so much capitalism that unleashed human potential. It's money. Read Jack Weatherford's book: The History of Money. He explains why money and ...

Most technological innovations that take root are improvement relative to the hosting society's agendas. So there's a vague similarity to evolution. M...

I dont think it will be much worse than it has been.

It's Mad Max all the way. And upon the return of civilization, they made a wormhole and spirited across the universe eventually evolving into cute cud...

I think we ventured a long ways from the OP.

Propositions are abstract objects. So is the world (as the set of all the stuff that happens). Are propositions in the set of all the stuff that happe...

Ok.

Bittercrank and I discussed this recently. We agreed that it would take some sort of profound crisis, a large scale military defeat (so nuclear, I gue...

Just trying to understand, as always. So correspondence is saying that one aspect of the world corresponds to another aspect of the world? And by virt...

If there aren't two things, then how is the word "correspondence" being used?

Truth is a concept.

You think democracy is dying and nobody is paying attention. One cool thing that's going to start happening around 2020 is that millennials are going ...

I think we should be clear about one thing: truth is a concept, maybe a multi-faceted one. It is too fundamental to be analyzed. There is rigorous pro...

Propositions -- world There's two.

I know. The GOP isn't going to budge, though. They aren't going to find him guilty, at least that's what they're signalling right now. All you can do ...

It's dualistic, though. This is an old objection to correspondence: that all we have is a vague intuition about what it's supposed to mean. How exactl...

You're such a basically good person. Trump probably isn't going to be removed from office. He's probably going to be re-elected. It's really not the e...

Erratic American foreign policy means nations learn not to trust America or rely on it. The US just becomes a reason to reach out to China for militar...

That's not our problem though.

I appreciate your comments. :)

I'm not going to vote, even though like you, I'm in a swing state. I just can't vote for Trump because of what he said after Charlottesville. I'm not ...

I know the feeling he's talking about. It's a kind of derangement. It's the reason the Penguin laughs before he poisons Gotham's water supply. It's no...

Lol. There is something wrong with you. You know that, right?

I agree.

I think you're wrong, though. By stone-walling Congress, Trump is producing a problem that has to be addressed. Maybe a few steps before that, it woul...

Seeing these truths is a matter of coming to know yourself (which may involve living enough to grow into who you are)? Once a moral truth comes into v...

Drill bits. I'm familiar with the notion that truth is a property of propositions. It gets dualistic. Think outside the dualistic box (without losing ...

Sometimes correspondence is close to what's meant by truth, but that doesn't bear up to close inspection. Corresponds how? Truth as actuality also mak...

Have you read any if it?

It's for others to perceive whether you've earned your fortune, respect, trust, etc. Ties into white advantage: the white person reasons: "I worked ha...

War. Victorious warlords in the interior took prisoners to cripple defeated tribes. Moors showed up looking for slaves (as their ancestors had been do...

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For the Celts, steeling cattle was right. Are you disagreeing with that?

The man carrying the lion is Gilgamesh. He encourages people to go off and steal somebody's cedar trees. There are multiple ancient cultures in which ...

Here's a thought as an objection to Nietzsche: Morality was never placed in the mouths of divinities by powerful kings. We projected ourselves onto th...

Cool.

Judgment, in order to be of any significance has to have the power of enforcement. The greatest power on the scene has that power. Any lesser wielders...

Yes. Tarski's t-sentence is a rule for the use of the truth predicate in formal languages.

Tarski was a logician, not a poet. He explained very explicitly what the parts of his t-sentence mean.