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It's moral nihilism. I'm not sure why you're acting like it's from outer space. Everyone thinks amorally from time to time: for the sake of sociology,...

I don't dispute that one can't know real cities a priori. So I'm afraid we're in agreement. I will present an argument opposing modal rationalism invo...

Modal knowledge is only about possibility and necessity. Knowing whether there is a Main St is not modal knowledge.

There are three kinds of possibility for us to consider: physical possibility (what is possible given the natural laws we know), logical possibility (...

Ok. I propose a micro-debate in which I take modal rationalism against your hybrid view. Ok?

It's a construct based on appearance. And the fact that a genetic merging between whites and blacks eliminates whites is one of the sources of racial ...

He referenced this in a comment about Heidegger. So maybe their views were similar in regard to a separation between the realm of language, which slic...

Ok. So he wasn't saying that we project our logic on the world. I wonder what he was saying, then.

By consulting with a know-it-all on reddit, I can officially say that Wittgenstein was talking about how the logical structure of language and the log...

Sorry, I am intruding on the thread in a state of ignorance. Is the picture Cartesian?

Sorry, you're still held captive by the picture. :grimace:

And you've been emancipated from the picture. That's great.

Bring it in, big guy. You know you want a big com-pu-ter hug!

That's not the way it is! See: two expressions, one meaning.

And I turn to the world with new eyes, seeing it all as if for the first time because I know I'm close to the last. The world reflected by a dew drop....

I want to speak for a moment about why Terrapin Station has brought up something that is related to a valuable perspective. Somewhere along the journe...

I totally get that you have good intentions.

Digging a little pit so a previously pregnant woman can be tied face down in order to be whipped for killing her own newborn baby because she couldn't...

I agree. Hurting someone's feelings is not inherently immoral. Racism is mostly about a certain social structure. Where a people have been through hel...

Where racist views predominate, it's not so much that an expression of racism hurts anyone's feelings, it's that members of the oppressed race interna...

This is an example of finding value in labor time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CBZtCjAuTI We ask why the tunic was left behind because we recogni...

You don't mean that we literally choose a logic, do you? I think you mean it's as if we make a choice, because we think and speak and write in a way t...

My great realization happened when I discovered that Europeans might not have brought the American Bison close to extinction. Hunting killed many, but...

True. And climate scientists point out that since for some portion of the next 10,000 years the mean temperature will rise above what it's been since ...

You're a jackass.

Correct. The author of the article explains that he rejects the temperance of a scientific attitude. Correct. And yet H.G. Wells predicted WW2 with so...

If you look at global temperatures for the last million years, you'll notice what climatologists point out: that during the time human civilization ap...

Do you think we should actively engineer adaptation? Or should we let Nature tell us where to put our resources?

Another thing I want you people to think about is: why aren't more scientists saying that it's too late to do anything about AGW? Why aren't we turnin...

I think some of you are entrenched in a certain view and that keeps you from studying the document mentioned in the OP with an open mind. What I want ...

But wait. You're just saying that because you disagree with him, right?

I have a plan for the OP. Ditch the dubious article and read up on AMOC shut down. It's not expected to happen in this century, but it could, and it w...

:up:

Yep. The Atlantic has been encroaching on the whole east coast for about 200 years. In recent years they resort to making sand banks to protect real e...

We were.

I did confirm that social disruption is on the horizon, you $$#%^&&. :)

I've seen the light. The collapse of the Roman empire was nothing. The Bronze Age collapse? Sniff. We're all going to die. So eat, drink, and be merry...

Fair enough. Tell me what you want me to back up. My point was that the fact that it's been warmer during the last few decades doesn't mean it won't c...

Scientists don't simply extrapolate. They computer simulate. I'm not sure why you're fixated on my textbook. I don't have it anymore, so I'm not going...

Good, then you know we shouldn't extrapolate from current conditions. Also, Banno would say that since I'm being more civil than you are, I automatica...

What do you want me to back up? That the climate varies such that the next decade might be cooler?

I don't think you understood what I said. I wasn't being condescending. I was telling you something basic. If you promote the habit of looking at the ...

Very simply, this is why one should resist the temptation to extrapolate from where we are now: the climate varies. In the next decade the climate may...

He is the founder of some think tank. There is no such thing as bad publicity.

I totally agree there will be social disruption. I totally agree that there is "fuck all" we can do about it. If those are the only claims we're consi...

China is a very robust dictatorship. It's survived tremendous stress during the 20th Century and is now poised to become the dominant political entity...

If the scientific community truly believed that human extinction is possible due to climate change in the next ten years, this would be of tremendous ...

@"unenlightened" You could easily clear this up by quoting the section of the article where the author states that global social collapse is inevitabl...

Unenlightened said he was quoting the article here: We're discussing it because unenlightened has been adamant that the article is from a reputable sc...

If unenlightened is actually the source of that sentence instead of the article, then I withdraw my statement that the author of the article is an idi...