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Yeah, about that...When did mankind reach that singularity? Are there any other species on Earth that have reached that singularity? Electronic life a...
December 01, 2017 at 02:36
Do you agree that the statement "an orange is a fruit" is a true statement? Replace the word "is/was" with "matches" to see the left and right side of...
November 30, 2017 at 21:39
If what's on the left matches what's on the right, then the statement is true If left only partially matches right, then the statement is only partial...
November 30, 2017 at 06:09
The measurement truth is a comparison between a subject and an object. Truth doesn't exist outside a relative context of matching similarity of two th...
November 29, 2017 at 21:40
Willingness to be wrong is part of the equation. I can state with 100% certainty what the sum of the roll of a pair of dice will be before the toss: I...
November 29, 2017 at 16:38
Confidence in the mathematical sense used in probabilities and statistics. Roll a single six-sided die: Prior to the toss I am 5/6 confident (83%) tha...
November 29, 2017 at 05:29
Does anyone here disagree that speed is a measurement defined as velocity = distance/time? If distance loses it's meaning of 1 lightyear = 1 lightyear...
November 29, 2017 at 05:21
Paragraph > 3 sentences, tl;dr. It seems the author/witness is excited over the idea, which is kinda adorable, but it distracts the focus from message...
November 29, 2017 at 05:12
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If rape is at epidemic proportions and conviction rates are low, then the conclusion I reach is that accusation of rape is a function of those two ass...
November 28, 2017 at 23:44
Does the red-shift seen in the color of light from distant stars represent the distance between us and that star, as in has distance been tightly corr...
November 28, 2017 at 18:51
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There's a couple peculiarities endemic to our system of law that aren't consistent with maintenance of an organized society. 1). There is almost no di...
November 28, 2017 at 16:00
Who decides what should be censored? I propose that life does its own censoring through the process of culling away the least fit. Good in that sense ...
November 28, 2017 at 05:08
Some people people claim they meant to do that afterwards, and some people claim they mean to do that beforehand. Would you care for some popcorn?
November 28, 2017 at 04:49
My speculation is that truth is a comparison, a measure of equivalence or differentiation. This apple is red is a comparison of the apple's color to a...
November 28, 2017 at 01:28
The notion of should do something implies motive toward a goal, as in if I wish to accomplish A then the best known route to do so is pathToA. The cli...
November 27, 2017 at 23:07
Let's take morals to mean the sorting of actions into good/desirable and bad/undesirable. How did they come to be? I burned my hand on the stove. Mary...
November 27, 2017 at 13:49
Or it could be like sorting where each path goes and choosing the destination ranked highest. And that ranking system seems to have more than one axis...
November 27, 2017 at 10:03
The question has to do with the meaning of intent, as in should behave a certain way. It is my opinion that the phrase should behave a certain way is ...
November 26, 2017 at 22:26