It would cause a global economic depression. Marxists were the first to start talking about the social effects of the boom/bust cycles of capitalism. ...
The British were in debt before the Great Depression. That debt was never repaid. The whole global economy just reset after the war. The same thing wi...
Our way of life is dependent on the idea of virtual capital. The banking system as we know it started in Italy. Italian bankers financed wars and from...
According to Elvira Bary, romanticizing criminals is a legacy from the Soviet days for Russians. So like Russian baby boomers and Gen X wouldn't be as...
The Russian elite, as a class, descended from criminals who managed black markets and engaged in illegal manufacturing during the Soviet era. They pro...
I think he's saying you could discipline your philosophy purely by semantics, but it's likely to end up "distorted." He might mean that you could end ...
Suppose AP never does anything with the questions it raised about the nature of meaning. Will it fall back toward mysterianism? What is the future of ...
For explaining dialectics I would ask: if everything in the universe was green, would the word "green" have any meaning? Trying to drive toward the re...
Or another thing comes to mind, there's a mystical saying: "The one becomes the two, the two becomes the three, the three becomes the fourth which is ...
But you are a blend of two different people. If you have siblings, they're other ways to combine the two, just as there are different greens that can ...
Right, it's always been a little intimidating to get a lawyer and claim your rights have been violated. It's dastardly that the executive branch would...
In the reading, he's talking about theories of meaning that were supposed to be assessed by testing them against language use as we find it. He's sayi...
Say the professor points to the board with a 2 written on it and says "That's a prime number" A realist would say the professor referenced a state of ...
This kind of theory would say that a sentence's meaning is its truth conditions, right? I think the basis of that view is intuitive. It might seem tha...
Global temperatures are expected to rise by 2-4 degrees Celsius (3.6-7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100, according to the Wisconsin DNR. The US Climate S...
It's fascinating, yes. Animal cells probably resulted from archaeal cells that swallowed mitochondria. The theory has been around for a long time that...
That's because there's something wrong with your ability to discern wrong-doing. They came to the West Bank in waves, some of the refugees were living...
This is the lack of flesh I was talking about. My discussion with Pierre-Normand ended up in the same place: a fairly large disconnect between his vie...
That would require work on my part. :smile: I told you that when the Israelis forcibly displaced Palestinians from their homes in 1967, many of them w...
Ok. I guess I just don't get where you're coming from. When I told what Israel did to the Palestinians so that they ended up in refugee camps, you lau...
I was referencing the fact that we model the world and react to the model prior to reacting to the world, but more physiologically, the most powerful ...
I agree that an organism and its environment are intertwined. I don't agree that stasis is an illusion. It's one pole of an opposition. You can't conc...
I talked to @"Pierre-Normand" once about embodied consciousness. It's an interesting idea, but far from fleshed out enough to make assertions. You wou...
I don't feel that way. Israel created a lot of innocent victims and it's spitting on their graves to act like Israel had no choice. Let's just say it:...
Wolfowitz believed democracy would spread outward from Iraq and eventually change SA. He had witnessed this in SE Asia, and so thought would happen in...
I think the US knew Saddam couldn't back down. After the war, Wolfowitz explained that the point was to democratize the Middle East starting with Iraq...
A feeling is an activity? You can change the way things "strike" you. You can influence your emotions through will (up to a point), while your actions...
I just think when a person asks what it's like to live in a city, they're asking how it feels to live there. You'd want to help them connect it to fee...
If someone asked what it's like to live in Kansas City, I would imagine they're asking what the people are like, what the local culture consists of, t...
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