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If you're interested in the topic, I recommend an overview of philosophy of truth since Frege. A good one is Understanding Truth by Scott Soames. I ge...

This is definitely not true. I'd suggest we get to the bottom of what your data is actually showing. Who are the respondents?

Can you get one of those paper referred to there so we can see what they're talking about?

Neoliberalism didn't come from post-modernism. It came from Hayek and brainless western leftists. True enough.

Our world is profoundly Cartesian, though. I wasn't talking about monism leading to delusion about the world, but about the nature of thought. I guess...

Just to exercise my understanding of Cheshire's view, he's using "foundationalism" to refer to an approach that builds up from within. It's a Cartesia...

Right. Educate yourself. That's the best way to gain immunity from click bait.

It's probably mostly religious groups that spearhead pro-life. OP answered. Shrug?

What would be an example of that?

You can see it, but you can't put it into words?

I thought your argument was that you can tell by sight.

I think most people follow the bandwagon that fits their profile. Neither side tends to know much about science. But scientists can be wrong, so skept...

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!!

The situation Hegel is pointing out isn't paradoxical, if that's what you mean. The secondary source I read said that Marx didn't use dialectics much,...

I agree with Wallace. I think the same idea is in Phaedo as the Cyclical Argument.

I think for Hegel a thing contains its opposition. So for redness, non-redness is part of what it is. Everything you think about is like that. You thi...

I guess if we aren't committed to the LNC, we don't have to be committed to the principle of explosion. Thanks for the follow up. :up:

Could you explain that again? Sorry if I'm a little dense. You're saying that a monistic system has no constraints on truth?

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Honestly, I don't think I can. If it looks like the LNC isn't holding for me, I'd wonder if I just had a stroke. :razz:

A really good one? A good what? I think we call the LNC necessary because we can't conceive an exception. It's not like we thought: "let's ordain this...

Yes. I'm a butthead. So are you.

I'm not sure we can conceive an exception to the LNC. Think of quantum theory. All this time and no one has seriously considered it as an exception. W...

Wittgenstein argued that since logical truths are necessary truths, they have nothing to do with the world, because if P is necessarily true, it's com...

You guys need Planned Parenthood. These are small clinics that offer a range of services for women's health including abortion. Like a lot of stuff in...

Why did she need an abortion?

It's true the acorn and the oak are the same species, so in that sense, the same thing, but the loss of an acorn is very different from the loss of a ...

Ok. I think you might not realize that there are 8 US states that have no restrictions on abortion at any stage. It's legal to abort a fetus that coul...

Are you a progressive Christian? Is that the right term? My question would be this: an acorn is a potential oak tree. We wouldn't identity the acorn a...

Creeks are self cleaning. About every 100 feet, whatever you plopped in is now down in the sand. That's per a scientist friend.

Fair enough. Others who used that terminology appeared to be reducing all abortion to zygote termination.

Hitler liked the word "vermin."

Wash in a Polish creek. Isn't that what you guys do?

I think the focus on the single cell is for the insult value. "Let me talk at you instead of with you. Zygotes aren't human and neither are you as far...

I use an immersion heater. It takes about 10 minutes.

That would just delay the change by maybe a generation. Part of the problem is the ways people have adapted to a high energy lifestyle. So many people...

And if the majority decided we need to have a human sacrifice to help the crops that would settle it for you? :roll:

It starts with the present King of France and why it's false that he's wise. How do we evaluate a proposition whose subject doesn't refer? Meinong att...

I don't know. Maybe the piano is the universe. What's odd is that we can detect this. The simulation has to be calibrated to the world. We can tell wh...

Logic is supposed to describe the structure of thought, so pluralism is basically saying there are multiple ways to think instead of just one. Nihilis...

I really don't know. Somewhere along the line I started thinking of identity as analogous to music. The bass notes are physicality, the middle tones a...

This may be true, but I don't think we know enough about how consciousness works to make any assertions one way or the other. But it's entirely concei...

I don't know. Why do you think it is?

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Ok. Please report back your findings.

Is it because your body changes slowly, that your consciousness is unified over time? But an abrupt lack of body would obliterate your identity?

But your body is in a constant state of flux. Every seven years, all the cells (except neurons) have been replaced with new ones. So are you saying th...

Blasphemy! Could be. Maybe we're uploadable.

We're all immortal

I tend to trust procrastination. It's happening for a reason. Wait for the wave of inspiration and then ride it. Although, sometimes finishing what I ...