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It's my own view, home grown in my own little brain, but yes, it's echoed by Nietzsche, and it's in keeping with the essential teachings of Jesus. So ...

The word proposition has a technical meaning in philosophy. It's along the lines of content. It reflects the way a realist talks about the world. She ...

You shouldn't use "proposition" if you don't accept it's meaning. For you, a truth bearer is an utterance, because you need someone to actually speak ...

You're doing what I said, which is making an assertion at a possible world. Asserting P is the same thing as saying that P is true. I think what you'r...

Yes. I think this will haunt Israel forever. It was a terrible mistake.

Outside the use of propositions, the options for realists is limited. You can do Davidson, but it's pretty convoluted. Your best bet is probably truth...

A proposition can be assessed at a possible world, which might be the actual world. The proposition isn't inside the world. Propositions don't have lo...

At least one of the people who said that was Isaac in an exchange with me. An otherwise normal person becomes unhinged when the topic is the USA. Weir...

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I'm just pointing out that you're expressing your bias.

I think the species will survive, but I assume maximum CO2 emissions, so all the coal in the world being burned over the next couple of centuries. Tha...

So there's some sort of connection between math and the world, as Max Tegmark argues. "Tegmark's MUH is the hypothesis that our external physical real...

So arithmetic also involves more than just word play. How so?

If arithmetic is wordplay, why doesn't it evolve as languages evolve?

Climate change

This is an interesting narrative, but no one remembers constructing that sentence, so it's along the lines of a myth: the origin of arithmetic myth.

I don't hate the US. There's something beautiful about its ambitions, its values, and its tendency to fall ass backwards into incredibly good luck. I'...

The US isn't a dependable partner for the EU.

If we had a global government, that would be an issue that could be raised. Redirect funds from social programs to defense? Although directing funds t...

You could say it's Beyond Good and Evil, yea. The OP has a starting place. He or she is an atheist.

Yes, but I thought Afghanistan was invaded on a quest to find Osama Bin Ladin. In the meantime, Afghanistan became a massive heroin producer, with muc...

Just picture who you want to be and what kind of environment you want to be in 5 years from now. You're like an arrow shooting through time. Good is w...

Is this a Buddhist take on it?

What does he mean by that? That Ukraine is the only thing stopping a giant BRIC takeover? That seems a little crazy.

If the world is mind-created, why is there so much misery in the world?

I'd be pretty surprised if he supports Ukraine in any way. Why would he?

The OP is just asking if we do good because otherwise we'll be struck by lightning, or go to hell, or reap the crop of evil? Are we good for social ac...

He liked to follow armies around, staying in his own encampment. I think he was just hungry for adventure. Do you have reason to believe he moved arou...

Yes, he seemed to have enjoyed traveling around. That's interesting about Kristina Wasa. :up:

Right, just where you deviate from the common narrative about Descartes, point out that you're offering your own theory. That reduces confusion.

He dedicated the Meditations to the Jesuits with an appeal to consider his new way of approaching knowledge. It's clear that he was attempting to enga...

He doesn't need to put any effort into that.

Right. Descartes was clearly not on a quest to undermine the authority of the Church.

The Counter-Reformation happened a few decades before Descartes was born, so no. During his lifetime, the Church was focused on losing ground to the P...

Xi publicly chided him for talking about nuclear engagement. I took that to be a sign that Xi is in charge. No? Unfortunately, it's impossible to tell...

He wanted the Church to reform, and he thought he could help it do that. He was a wild guy. He travelled around engaging in warfare when he felt like ...

He wouldn't have needed to displace the authority of the Church if that was his agenda. He could have just left and gone to live in Protestant territo...

This is a little discussion moderated by the Brookings Institution about EU defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DvDIgRIHt8 It's a long discussio...

Divided? Although it's more than that. As an idea, the self makes sense relative to its negation: the not-self, whatever that is. The Cogito signifies...

There would be car wrecks at the border every day. It would be horrendous.

I agree. The most fundamental duality is unity vs disunity. The Cogito points to the indubitability of the disunity part.

Right, there's experience, which is seamless, and then when we reflect on it, and go to say something about it, we automatically become dualists of so...

Why does the comprehension have to bestowed upon something? I'm not so much arguing with Descartes, just asking the general question.

So there are thoughts and feelings, sights and sounds, etc. Why does there have to be a seat of consciousness? Why does there have to be an observer f...

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True. And the government shouldn't interfere in a case where the company was mismanaged, or just not suited to its intended market.

My state subsidizes roof solar panels, so basically all tax payers contribute to make solar energy available. Doesn't New Zealand do that?

I think this is probably coming from his VP.

North American free trade undermines the position of US labor. It gives the US a more flexible labor force by putting it in competition with Mexicans ...

Or it might become reasonable to start making those items at home instead of importing them. I'd say more like two years, but I believe the tariffs wi...