"What happens" is synonymous with "what the truth is." If you tell me what happened and tell you that something else actually happened, then our dispu...
That's a restatement of the correspondence theory of truth. It's discussed here in detail, with all the various arguments for and against: http://plat...
Is your objective simply to point out the hypocrisy of those who claim to be conservatives by showing that they receive the same sort of government su...
If you are the sort who spends considerable time creating the perfect "I don't care" look, then you fall squarely in the gay camp (but could also be m...
Despite your abandonment of your people by not being a snazzy dresser, I have remained true to my roots by being frugal at every turn, despite my occa...
Had it been the Black Panthers staging a sit in at a Housing and Urban Development building, refusing to leave until changes were made to policies aff...
Another reason it won't happen (although I'm not really conceding the well thought out point that it's only their whiteness that is acting as their sh...
What hurts workers wages and their work conditions isn't an Established Order of Illuminate who control the levers of society. It's not them. It's you...
You'll need to complete your thought experiment with some additional facts. Why exactly have these Muslims seized this federal outpost? Are they tryin...
The problem with taking a position that you clearly don't believe in is that no one will take you seriously when you say it, but maybe it was fun to s...
I don't think it will, nor do I think it will end in a deadly inferno like Waco. The bottom line here is that you likely admit that the danger posed i...
Yes, I'll take that bet. If they were black or Muslim and in a remote Oregon outpost arguing that some ranchers got unfair treatment, then there would...
In Ferguson (which seems to be the alluded to other event), a young man stole some stuff from a convenience store, knocked down the store owner, and, ...
I agreed with the first half of your post where you pointed out that varying responses to varying threats made sense, but then you devolved into argui...
The Tea Party didn't camp out in public places. There's a difference between protesting and living in the street. Regarding the Oregon situation, thes...
No, I don't know what would have happened if 150 African Americans converged in rural Oregon to protest someone's prison sentence. It'd have been odd,...
Physics at its heart is an empirical field, so you can arrive at a full understanding of physics through experimentation. If you want to know how far ...
Using the Hebrew lunar based calendar, my birthday was on the 2nd day of Sivan, 5726. I'd like a birthday wish each 2nd of Sivan. All else is gentile ...
I was born on the 21st day of May in the year of your Lord, nineteen hundred and $ixty $ix. I say your Lord because I'm Jewish and we started counting...
Even if we accepted the WHO data as gospel (and note that the article I cited performed the same DALY analysis as WHO and achieved very different resu...
This is useless information. I don't mean that in a mean way; it's just that your personal assessment of the folks you've met is pretty irrelevant.The...
This assumes an ethical subjectivism, where right and wrong are simply personal preferences. As in, it's ok to take your stuff as long as I don't feel...
Not to moralize here (ahem), but had you kept the $100, it would have been theft. There's a difference between keeping abandoned property (as in the p...
Hyperbole, indeed. hy·per·bo·le /h??p?rb?l?/ noun noun: hyperbole; plural noun: hyperboles exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken lite...
It is irrelevant whether we say "this is what is means to be human" or whether we say "this is what "human" means." In either event, you are attemptin...
I don't see how resorting to family resemblance offers a solution. You are still left with the requirement that for X to be a human (for example) that...
But this is just to say that the brain is the center of the nervous system with nerves extending out to the legs, with those nerves communicating inpu...
I will consider your initiation even if it does not include homosexuality, but you do know that if you don't make the initiation sufficiently difficul...
I don't think it's just lack of inhibition. I think it's lack of natural skill and probably practice and training. The same would hold true of an inab...
It's fairly clear, though, that the movement of the leg is determined by the stimulus it receives from the brain. If we severed the spinal cord so tha...
I agree with much of what you've said here, but I don't know if I'd apply the same cultural influences to everyone in the South. The Celtic culture ha...
In civil suits, punitive damages are considered by the jury after being told of the wealth of the party being punished. The Supreme Court has held tha...
My very first post at PF was about this, although I didn't know the term "doxastic." It was actually this question that caused me to search for a phil...
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