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Amazon seems to be doing rather well with mistreatment. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/02/revealed-amazon-employees-suffer-after-work...
December 24, 2019 at 02:13
Presumably they did not have just cause in whatever government or employment or union related contracts. Obviously they would have done that if they c...
December 23, 2019 at 20:00
you've read an argument or made one. Have you checked it enough? such that you can now assume it is sound? (intuition will be involved) Is your sense ...
December 22, 2019 at 20:17
At the very least it would seem like it depends. Will they later figure out they were manipulated? How important is it that they believe X right now o...
December 22, 2019 at 20:12
Sure, and for being abuse of power jerks they can take responsibility for their santiy and experiences in prison for a short time, and then likely go ...
December 22, 2019 at 18:40
They were convicted of harrassing people. Which they did. They were not convicted of causing the suicides. Which would then be some kind of homocide. ...
December 22, 2019 at 16:22
It is a non-scientific vague term for a goal. Using another phrase for it does not hide information. I see that some people have definitions, again va...
December 18, 2019 at 08:02
It's more like protected from PR from google. There is scientific fact or research being hidden and people are not being protected from findings, rese...
December 17, 2019 at 23:25
But it's not science. It's a way of describing a technological advance. To ask if science should be politically correct raises ideas like should peopl...
December 17, 2019 at 23:06
Actually the assumption in the question is not the case. Large 'objects' are affected by quantum effects. Birds use strange quantum effects to navigat...
December 17, 2019 at 12:16
I know lidl. The offer a reduced selection because they snatch products they can, at the moment get cheap. They have reduced labor and cut costs every...
December 16, 2019 at 12:46
Can we ever confidently label something knowledge, by this definition? We can certainly evaluate justifications, but how do we evaluate 'true' if not ...
December 14, 2019 at 09:48
And to understand phlogistan, in the context of the thread, you need to understand what they knew (and then didn't know at the time). To call it simpl...
December 11, 2019 at 20:49
I guess I think there's some good intuitive intelligence around questioning the use of resources and use of experts to send people to the moon, right ...
December 11, 2019 at 20:33
Then I've met a good number of scientific materialists who are insane in philosophy forums. Perhaps you will say they are not really scientific materi...
December 11, 2019 at 20:26
Right, but I rarely meet the other kind, at least in forums like this one. In fact the scientists I know would probably say they are materialists if c...
December 11, 2019 at 20:18
Anyone arguing from scientific materialism, however would require it. IOW if a materialist argues that God does not exist because it would entail a du...
December 11, 2019 at 14:02
I think there is some distrust, yes. But I also think that often what an educated middle class person would call intelligent a lot of Americans don't ...
December 11, 2019 at 13:56
I appreciate the contextual disclaimer. It seems to me people distrust and trust too much intelligence or what seems to be intelligence. Yes, some peo...
December 11, 2019 at 09:46
That would depend on what you are doing it for.That makes every act, including your posting, futile and superfluous.
December 11, 2019 at 06:37
It would be their job to move whatever society they are in towards a Marxist state. If they all leave, then the chances of this go down. And, again, p...
December 11, 2019 at 05:44
Sure, but then, I was talking about religious societies. Perhaps they misinterpreted the scriptures, but they did this, and those that are this now st...
December 11, 2019 at 05:36
And a religious society, at least the ones we've had, demand sacrfices of individual will to moral systems determined by scripture and religious autho...
December 10, 2019 at 16:29
Well, sure they can. They can spend money on vodka and go swimming or they can have consciousness raising meetings. Marxists in Western societies can ...
December 10, 2019 at 16:22
ve t I get what you mean and I think there are ways they work together, but there are a number of materialisms that are often if not usually couples w...
December 10, 2019 at 14:44
Just to be fussy, we should make it clear what we mean by materialism, since a philosophical materialist could be an ascetic. One can believe that the...
December 10, 2019 at 14:31
assuming arguendo? perhaps Those participants can easily just avoid the topic, or join in the thought experiment. Given that it is the assumption, it ...
December 09, 2019 at 08:58
Which doesn't add up to either you or your friends knowing what is going on in you and has very little to do with knowing what is happening in non-dru...
December 08, 2019 at 11:15
We can induce people hearing things with drugs also, this doesn't mean when they are hearing things at other times, there is no thing they are hearing...
December 08, 2019 at 11:13
I said 'fully' separate or someother verb. And we may find that when we decide this was merely a belief, it comes back later as a truth. And what we a...
December 06, 2019 at 12:48
Well, that was a bunch of posts in a row where you repeat, more or less, your position, but don't really interact with anything I said. I really did u...
December 05, 2019 at 15:32
1) people often want things that make them unhappy 2) if they weren't choosing from a variety the companies would slowly choose to give them less of o...
December 05, 2019 at 15:20
I see all lives where the individuals have any choice at all as constant trial and error. They may not deal with the data the way we would wish or con...
December 05, 2019 at 15:03
Well, I don't know what to do with that. ( ?° ?? ?°)
December 05, 2019 at 15:00
The words are trying to describe two categories that, given our fallible in situ, in time, nature we will never be able to fully dimabiguate in practi...
December 05, 2019 at 14:59
This is not quite an answer to your question, but I would say in practical terms that I choose to have a flexible idea of truth, flexible epistemologi...
December 05, 2019 at 14:56
I would say they observe and experiment while trying as hard as they can to limit variables and repeat. I don't think they observe and experiment more...
December 05, 2019 at 14:53
I know it's not what your focus is but this post made me think immediately of mobile phones. I see them as a kind of drug phenomenon, passed off as a ...
December 05, 2019 at 14:51
And there is a complicated nexus of nerves near the heart. Also one near the gut. The idea that we have gut reactions (with a cognitive content) and h...
December 05, 2019 at 14:49
Actually I would say that it does seem to be verified to most believers. They experience a presence. They are able to quite drugs. There will be some ...
December 05, 2019 at 14:47
Well, there you go.
December 05, 2019 at 14:46
Again this is the point I was making. Though it is not binary. A belief may work but be in part or nearly all false. Certain kinds of positive thinkin...
December 05, 2019 at 14:45
Actually sometimes he worked with math and thought experiments and only decades later what he worked out in his mind and on paper was verified empiric...
December 05, 2019 at 08:18
And again, if we know it is false but it works, it is also not working. Not predicting some outcome, not explaining something. It is not useful in som...
December 05, 2019 at 08:12
I was arguing for a pragmatic version of truth.
December 05, 2019 at 08:06
I would guess this is true. But if we know they are false, that means they are not working in some way. They may be working in one way, but not in oth...
December 04, 2019 at 16:54
But users would have found other ways to do this or shaped their own platforms as they have with other things where the parasites can't come in and ma...
December 04, 2019 at 08:36
Perhaps, but there's still a difference between a programmer and a taxi driver, probably even in Singapore. For example, Uber drivers are not able to ...
November 29, 2019 at 16:16
This sounds like you were in a professional field, probably well educated, and your clients are seeing you are more or less an equal, not simply becau...
November 29, 2019 at 11:25