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I think that if we try to pick out certain essential properties we might end up just where Quine warned: that essence is just a matter of how we descr...

Yes, I read it. I mentioned before that Kripke claims Nixon couldn't have been a golf ball. Now I'm asking why not.

Once we know Nixon won the election, it's not possible he didn't win it?

So could Nixon have been a robot?

This is why they killed Socrates. Questions like this.

I don't think so.

All mammals have a common ancestor. Giant pandas and red pandas are just both called pandas.

Could have been in the same way a red panda is a type of panda.

Tim is wrong.

You may be right that Congress could theoretically impeach a president without any evidence of a crime. If so, I didn't realize that. It's never happe...

He must be a religious nut.

Those who pressed to impeach Johnson did believe they had evidence of a crime. Michael, to begin a trial without evidence would signal that a blatant ...

What precedent?

Why do you say that?

There will be no impeachment without some evidence of a crime.

Remove him?

The repercussions were supposed to be up to God. That's why the preacher and the copy of the Bible are there. We can't see into Donald Trump's heart s...

An oath is a religious thing. Impeachment is for breaking the law.

What crime is he committing?

Many rightists join leftists in calling for racial, economic, and social justice.

I think they're mostly justice motivated, but any crowd has its crabs bringing down the averages.

I think you must be giving this thread only a small portion of your attention. No problem. :wink:

I love Joni Mitchell.

Not according to Aristophanes. He just wondered what they were.

I don't know. It would have affected the ocean currents and so heat conveyors. I'll look into it.

The faint young sun paradox is not actually solved. The quantity of CO2 that would be required to account for the young climate would have left a mine...

Of course. And about the faint young sun paradox?

I'm not. That's why I specified "large scale ice ages" to avoid confusion. They do come and go and we are in one now. It would have to actually oscill...

Is that considering the faint young sun paradox? If so, I'm curious how they're solving it.

It's hard to see how solar forcing would be a significant factor in large scale ice ages, which come and go. We're in one now, obviously. Does solar l...

If they tracked proportionally, that would work. So why don't they track proportionally? Think about how glaciers form. It's a case of positive feedba...

Right. The figures I gave are averages. If the average temp was 14, why wasn't the average CO2 concentration 400 ppm? Three answers have been given. T...

Are you sure you're thinking of the Carboniferous? That was only 300 million years ago. Would you say this is a more significant factor than the impac...

Correct. Glaciers have a significant impact on the mean temperature. The world was unglaciated through much of the Carboniferous. We would expect the ...

Right. The Carboniferous period is very suitable for showing that CO2 concentration and temperature track. It was like our world backwards. Life chang...

No, the answer is much simpler than that. Think how smart you'll feel when you know it! Like Socrates unbound.

That's Hume's bundle theory, which is supposed to arise from trying to imagine an object that has no properties. Since we can't, we seem to know a pri...

The words you speak become the house you live in.

The US would probably take the UK as the 51st state.

I was looking for laws for what to do with the outcome of a referendum. Per Benkei, there aren't any.

Jinx

How do you know it would be permanent? The UK imports a hefty load from the EU, so it's not like they have no power to negotiate a nice deal. And ther...

Wow. They're totally wide open government-wise. No constitution, no elder statesmen, they can just make it up as they go. I read that in the case of n...

This is a very emotionally mature position.

So Parliament would just claim veto power over referendums? Would that need to show up in the British Constitution? Or are there already rules for tha...

I see. I misunderstood your earlier post. What's the route to ignoring the last referendum (other than just having another one, and then possibly anot...

Should we turn back and compare Kripke to Quine on essentialism? Or keep going?

In the early 19th Century, the Dutch transitioned to absolute monarchy because of the failure of their republic. They subsequently just eased back to ...

They probably got that impression from Science's ability to heal the sick and make hydrogen bombs.

I'm not sure. Could have just been friendly Muslims looking for online friends. My anti-social reflex kicked in. :nerd: