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Assuming no asteroids interfere and so on, we feel confident that the outcome will be either fully and completely heads or fully and completely tails....

He's like a pet.

If we flip a coin a thousand times, we can be pretty confident that 50% of the flips will be heads. If we lack confidence in logic, we can do it and t...

Yes. If I say: "this is how it was when there were no humans...", I might be about to assert a non-POV POV. Maybe better: if humans had existed at the...

This is way of presenting logical possibility. True, it's derived from facts about the system, but it's still at most a way of weighing expectation. I...

I wouldn't say incoherent. It's the Realism-1 I was talking about: its says that the world as we know it would be just as we know it without any witne...

The concept of potentiality I'm familiar with isn't about any success. Success is a judgment. The acorn's potential is something we recognize by looki...

I think so. What I didn't like (I don't think you were saying this, I just made it up as I was trying to understand) was the idea that reality is out ...

Are you familiar with this guy? Probability is a way of expressing prediction, but it doesn't apply to unique events. Trying to squash the concept to ...

What are you calling "potential"? I don't think I'm following what you're trying to do with dimensions. It appears that you're positing "4D" as a base...

By mentioning the fact that the US guards Greenland (and other places), he appeared to be proposing that the US has a special status wrt obtaining own...

So you aren't really focusing on possibility at all. You're concerned with your own power.

I'm feeling the need to watch Zhang Yimou's Hero.

In your scenario Denmark's military protects Florida per treaty?

Ok cool. :up:

Read the article.

There was a poster who used to pop by here who turned me on to actualism, which is close to my homebase way of thinking. As opposed to being caught up...

I like Bernie. I don't think he has much of a chance.

Who's your pick to run against Trump?

Tell us about your beautiful Motherland.

But you aren't american

Why does the Chinese govt put out false propaganda?

Nature.

The American healthcare system is heavily regulated, directly for quality by CMS, and indirectly for cost by Medicare. It's an artificial system. What...

You can google Medicare. Medicare pays set prices by diagnosis. So they pay a certain amount for a pneumonia diagnosis no matter how much the healthca...

American price systems for healthcare costs are set by Medicare.

Cool information. Thanks.

I'm a little amazed that you believe this. It isn't true. What I'd like you to do is consider what would happen if it was true. So you're persisting i...

Few libertarians would argue that there should be no laws to protect the infrastructure of the market. An American libertarian should be understood in...

1. Government intervention creates a social situation that will continue to require intervention, but the power of a government waxes and wanes. For i...

I didn't equate them.

How would you say they misinterpret it?

Much better. I think you were trying to attack Adam Smith with the assumption that he was an intellectual light weight.

Because they aren't in favor of harshness. They're opposed to government interference. It isn't. I'm not a libertarian, BTW, I'm just playing devil's ...

Mutation is only one contributor to phenotypical diversity. What are the others? Again, you're totally failing to grasp the libertarian argument, so y...

The argument assumes that the basic principles of evolution apply in a variety of situations, so it's not equivocation. If you object to the wider app...

The libertarian argument is old now, so I assumed an American reader would know it. For non-Americans: it holds that natural evolution, though sometim...

Concepts are residents of the realm of reflection and analysis. Retrojecting them into unified experience is a natural thing to do, but it produces ph...

Bernie is amazing

I know what you mean. Knowing the scientific name for the tree species would take you even further out of the moment. It can be hard to get back once ...

Do you mean like the cloud of unknowing? I haven't read that, BTW.

But I can't know a thing is a tree if I have no concept of a tree, so maybe it's about knowledge (and foreknowledge). But having said that, I think I'...

Sounds like indirect realism.

I see. A concept may be shaped by an agenda or it might facilitate something. It's not that the concept of a tree is supposed to be solving a problem ...

Could you give an example of this? Is a concept supposed to be solving a non-conceptual problem? I think it's concepts all the way down, so this persp...

Yep.

I have malice toward none.* If you don't see his stupidity, I wonder about your own situation. *reference to a truly great American president

Ok.

There's at least one.

Well. There you go.