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AI offers the best explanations You want the best explanation for why AI can't be used here Ergo, ask AI why you can't use AI here.
August 20, 2025 at 21:09
Very well. Sketch your best guess about how we evolved and then insist we stay true to that course else be punished by Mother Nature.
August 20, 2025 at 14:38
It does remain a real question though where AI obtains its underlying facts and reasoning abilities. Each of us contributes to some degree, and I'd li...
August 20, 2025 at 14:15
Even assuming you've accurately described humanity's educational odyssey from the cave until today in those few paragraphs and you've deciphered with ...
August 20, 2025 at 14:05
My thought is that this is an attempt to justify Christianity upon rationality alone without reliance upon revelation, perhaps because you believe rat...
August 20, 2025 at 12:47
ChatGPT tells me you can tell it which sites to pull from and which to ignore. I've turned off the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and prioritized...
August 19, 2025 at 23:41
Found the perfect one: /uploads/resized/files/gl/92koy03h1d0z6sd5.jpeg
August 19, 2025 at 09:41
Speaking of which, I just started a book called This is Ear Hustle. It's a prisoner's account of life in prison. I've gotten through thy first part th...
August 19, 2025 at 03:45
It doesn't have to be, but it ought to be.
August 19, 2025 at 03:34
Yeah, that's the issue. If we eliminate basic scientific epistemology, what do we replace it with to know if something is publishible, for example.
August 18, 2025 at 22:07
Perhaps try: "We have apparently reached an impasse because you're an idiot. I wish things were different." I think that might be appreciated. I think...
August 18, 2025 at 20:53
I'm fully supportive of the social sciences being considered actual sciences and I don't take the position of the engineering types (Clarky excluded) ...
August 18, 2025 at 20:49
I think we can admit that the scientific method is one of a number of possible hermeneutics without having to resolve the objective/subjective questio...
August 18, 2025 at 13:23
It could be just that there were multiple versions of the various stories and a desire to create a single consistent story was of less priority to the...
August 18, 2025 at 04:19
Your cite was to psychopathy, so there's that. But thank you for the thumb compliments.
August 17, 2025 at 21:33
Sounds like black magic. I'll have nothing to do with that.
August 17, 2025 at 21:13
It's "Hermeneutics: A Very Short Introduction" by Jens Zimmermann. It's in the "Very Short Introduction" series. It provides sufficient expertise to d...
August 17, 2025 at 21:02
No worries. The issue of how scientific anthropology should be seems unsettled and controversial within the field.
August 17, 2025 at 19:14
Typing in from pictured quotes is a category error. Proper consistent technology use works like this: /uploads/resized/files/07/9u5kgbcfpnhxspmk.jpg
August 17, 2025 at 17:17
Apologies if thumb is in the way. I've not mastered the technology.
August 17, 2025 at 15:22
Here's a response. It's an old school way of cutting and pasting. /uploads/resized/files/hq/t9mipoouwuyn8oz4.jpg
August 17, 2025 at 15:22
It would seem @"T Clark" being from Massachusetts should know something about Plymouth Rock chickens since they've lived near his family since strutti...
August 17, 2025 at 15:17
There's a chicken breeder near me who breeds all different kinds and my wife just picked one out. We've had a bunch of different kinds over the years,...
August 17, 2025 at 15:10
We're getting some Blue Laced Red Wyandottes. /uploads/resized/files/5y/9jcpmefdfqci551n.jpg
August 17, 2025 at 14:39
I'm actually picking up 6 chickens today. They're 6 weeks old, so big enough to live outside in the coop. We gave our last few to the neighbors a whil...
August 17, 2025 at 11:09
What do you await? How it's used? It's irrelevant that there are no essences we can point to.
August 17, 2025 at 00:20
How might a computer recognize a cat? Surely differently than humans, but is the code, whatever it might be, the best definition of a cat? I'd suspect...
August 16, 2025 at 23:27
They do and they don't, both good and bad. There are those families caught in cycles of poverty, poor education, and violence, and others with long te...
August 16, 2025 at 20:44
Fascinating stuff. I see that Han argues protection against this encroachment against our humanity is engagement in communal ritual. While not advocat...
August 16, 2025 at 16:53
The article indicated the decision was reached after bitter internal debate within the anthropology community over methodological disputes. It was not...
August 16, 2025 at 03:07
"Anthropologists have been thrown into turmoil about the nature and future of their profession after a decision by the American Anthropological Associ...
August 16, 2025 at 02:13
The issue isn't that we're in the gray zone, debating the edges where the scientific method begins and ends. Anthropology admits it is not scientific ...
August 16, 2025 at 02:02
I actually wanted an example to understand what you were talking about. In any event, I don't see how there can be scientific and unscientific branche...
August 16, 2025 at 01:56
What does this even mean? I gather up 5,000 definitions of "dog" and I add them together and divide by 5,000? How do you add definitions and divide th...
August 16, 2025 at 00:21
That might mean you like Scotkebabs better than Turkkebabs. The imitation exceeded the original.
August 15, 2025 at 21:49
I had some of those. Plymouth Rock chickens.
August 15, 2025 at 21:16
So give me an example. We have justice (seems a good loaded example). Offer me your GA analysis of what justice is. Are we engaged in hermeneutics, ph...
August 15, 2025 at 20:58
I'm not suggesting the social sciences are not sciences because they aren't reducible to the hard sciences. My objection is any enterprise that sugges...
August 15, 2025 at 17:25
That article challenges that. The official decision of the American Anthropological Association was to remove "science" from its mission statement. "A...
August 15, 2025 at 17:08
I see there is a debate within anthropology as to whether to make it a science or an interpretive scheme, with the interpretive scheme folks having ga...
August 15, 2025 at 15:41
Don't call it "anthroplogy" if you have no desire to treat it as a science. If it's just a heuristic unsupportable in principle as a way to consider h...
August 15, 2025 at 15:18
It's coming to Broadway next month with Keanu Reeves. I hear the music score and dancing are amazing.. First sentence is true. Second, not so much. I'...
August 15, 2025 at 14:14
My limited research on it shows a small but loyal following, but it mostly serves as philosophically thought provoking as opposed to it being scientif...
August 15, 2025 at 14:05
This poll says only 12% of the population was offended by the Sweeney ad. https://nypost.com/2025/08/12/business/12-find-sydney-sweeney-american-eagle...
August 15, 2025 at 04:36
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Really, you believe that she was describing the collapse of Western civilization's reliance upon a foundational diety and challenge of finding a suita...
August 14, 2025 at 22:41
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Sure, personal change is often forged in trauma, and maybe yours was, and possibly yours is a story of overcoming great adversity, and maybe I'm a dic...
August 14, 2025 at 22:30
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Do you think that responsive to my post?
August 14, 2025 at 22:26
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My point is simply that this is a philosophy forum, so what difference does it make philosophically whether your mom used religion to build a horribly...
August 14, 2025 at 22:25
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Doesn't the word "Therapy" work better in that sentence than "Philosophy." What I got out of the post is that she suffers from religion trauma, a thin...
August 14, 2025 at 21:26
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The problem is that your post is just a trauma dump, leaving the only appropriate response to be "sorry you went through that," and then maybe sharing...
August 14, 2025 at 20:29