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It's possible. One source of counter message is in forms of Christianity that teach having faith in yourself. They focus on how to avoid the pitfall o...

It would be cool if everyone could be looked at as individuals. But it's also true that some people have challenges where others have privilege, you k...

Is it? Are they better at taking responsibility for their actions?

I think you can take any behavior and analyze it out for influences from the most poignantly personal all the way out to the nature of life. One thing...

Intellectuals advise, but they rarely govern.

If you're a realist, you wouldn't say truth is "assigned.". You would just say some propositions are true and some are false. Some have never been exp...

So you're admitting that the dividing line is arbitrary?

Alisha was slightly pregnant, slightly wrong to abort it, slightly grieved, and overjoyed to get in with her life.

But one of the challenges the pro-choice advocate faces is explaining the dividing line between killable and not-killable. When and how does that tran...

Every frozen corpse on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person.

But we never had a nuclear war. That's a win!

It takes a lot of energy to amend the Constitution. That's as it should be.

They gang together, yes. That's how democracy works. An issue is powerful to the extent it gets people to put aside their differences and join forces....

Rationality is a matter of fashion. Do you even own a weapon of any kind?

You can't even justify believing 2+2=4. That doesn't diminish your civil rights.

They think it's immoral. The reason that matters is a little thing called democracy.

The honorable response to a person who claims crimes are happening is to listen to them, understand what they're saying, and respond with your own vie...

This argument is actually offensive, and you're usually a fair-minded person, so I'll chalk it up to lost in translation. Ok, so stop calling it a cys...

Not at all. I was just explaining what my fellow citizens see as a moral fault.

Point was it's a cyst with a beating heart. They think it's murder.

I guess things have changed, but the heart starts beating at 5 weeks, around the time a woman would notice she's pregnant, so most fetuses that are ab...

Excuse me?

It has a beating heart when they do the abortion. They don't like to do them before 12 weeks. Slavery is ok if it's legal?

It's a cyst with a beating heart. They just think it's murder. It's no more complex than that.

I don't know. I think he was saying that increased air conditioning doesn't account for their population increase. Yes. It's hot at the equator.

That's what I was going for, thanks!

I think his point was that humans can and do adapt to desert conditions with extreme heat. It's true. Some Spaniards wandered into El Malpais and died...

They were broken hearted about what's happening to Gaza. They aren't anti-Semitic.

The Middle East falls apart. Crude oil prices rise. Inflation rises. The Fed is stuck.

It occurs to me that if for you, understanding people doesn't involve looking for truth conditions for the statements they make, you're kind of talkin...

I don't know if it's relevant, but back then, there were no academic credentials to add weight to an idea. It was common for people to pass their own ...

Also western.

Quick question, do you find that different languages shape the way you feel?

We've talked at length about what a proposition is.

Maybe it's the same as long as we narrow our focus to propositions in the Fregean sense.

The next time you're homeless you're going to wish you had some verbal cardboard.

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I think this is trivially true.

I just need to know truth conditions for p. Then I understand p.

I see what you're saying. The way I've been thinking of it is that to understand p, I have to know what it would mean for it to be true. The way I do ...

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They have to make p true. I see.

I don't see how commands have anything to do with truth.

I was thinking of the AI that google uses. I think I only used ChatGPT once.

I get that. In terms of propositions, we could say it works this way: p is the proposition that the grass is green. The part that follows the word tha...

I develop propositional attitude by analyzing the context of utterance, specifically in the case of an assertion. It occurred to me all of the sudden ...

You're providing the sentences involved with that connection, though. You do this by providing context, although in this case I'm guessing it's fictio...

Oh, I didn't realize that.

That's not what he was saying.

I've seen Wikipedia provide misinformation. I've never seen ChatGPT do that, although I guess it could.