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Vera Mont

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Reason hasn't failed, either. People, however, choose to employ reason for some decisions and not for others.
May 08, 2023 at 23:54
Yep, that problem's been around for a while now. That will be fine. When/if it happens. OK It would, yes. So I ask you yet again once more and for the...
May 08, 2023 at 23:41
What's that in plain English? And how does it reconcile morality (which brand??) with fact (which ones??)
May 08, 2023 at 22:39
That's not helpful to people who haven't read, or can't remember all your previous threads. It works equally well to convey falsehoods, misconceptions...
May 08, 2023 at 20:02
Well,that didn't take long! It would, indeed! As would pretending that "equal" (in a specified context) = "identical".
May 08, 2023 at 19:13
There is nothing there to refute: three sides are what defines "triangle. " One might generalize from that a bigger truth: "the definition of any thin...
May 08, 2023 at 19:11
So do many people feel that - only not about the same truths you consider undeniable. And how does one test for "undeniability"? How does one go about...
May 08, 2023 at 19:05
Conceive, yes. At least, according their own code of morality and standards. Achieve, no. Quite the reverse: having the unique ability to conceive of ...
May 06, 2023 at 23:32
That is an immense existential threat, right there. How many of these clever machines, and how much of their capability is dedicated to weapons of mas...
May 03, 2023 at 15:47
That was my whole argument regarding all those "crowning achievement" superlatives early in the thread. I wasn't putting humans down; merely pointing ...
May 03, 2023 at 13:02
Who says they can't speak? We don't speak their language; that doesn't make them inferior. Look, instead, at their system of values, which is formed b...
May 03, 2023 at 02:59
Where does one normally see confirmed evildoers? I suspect the situation itself creates a bias. I have seen people happy because they were doing somet...
May 02, 2023 at 13:02
Are they? In academics, maybe. In life, not so much. In political life, economy is central: it frames so many issues, influences so many decisions, de...
May 02, 2023 at 04:50
Not anymore!
May 01, 2023 at 23:58
You might consider asking them yourself before demanding clear answers on muddled topics As usual, it depends. Good or bad act? Good or bad person? In...
May 01, 2023 at 23:47
In what way good or bad? In which category? Subjective, moral, legal, social or statistical? Intent, causation, character or outcome? From what perspe...
May 01, 2023 at 23:23
Either, neither or both.
May 01, 2023 at 22:27
Aha. It's about 50,000,000 shades of grey. There was a bit of human history even before 1939 and a bit of evolutionary history even before humans lear...
May 01, 2023 at 18:30
Here was my answer:
May 01, 2023 at 18:28
If you want this proposition to be taken seriously, you might look to the language you employ. Also a few of the assumptions you seem to have consider...
May 01, 2023 at 15:06
There is a lot of that - an assumption of superiority, even supremacy - in all human cultures. It's an almost inescapable tenet of our self-regard as ...
May 01, 2023 at 04:41
That is a serious problem. Creation? Apex? The role of man? The Biblical delusion? We should have been able to come with something more plausible by n...
May 01, 2023 at 02:26
Good luck with that one! Men kill a lot more men than zebras kill zebras or tigers kill tigers. Rise above animal nature... what vanity!
May 01, 2023 at 01:26
Since humans invented both concepts, and humans describe and define the world and everything in it as a reflection of themselves, humans must possess ...
May 01, 2023 at 00:46
Given. I can't imagine life, or any other ongoing process in nature, taking place in the absence of consistent order and constant laws. Also given, th...
April 30, 2023 at 22:15
Culture changes. We have become so many and so technological that distance communication is more common now than face-to-face. I wouldn't be surprised...
April 29, 2023 at 18:34
I don't think it's 'covert'; just more palatable than preaching. In authoritarian regimes, any expression counter to the administration's narrative po...
April 29, 2023 at 12:26
No, I said that's the best that can be expected in large, diverse populations. Right you are.
April 29, 2023 at 12:15
No, that would make it a completely different problem. Machines, however omni and benevolent they eventually become, began their evolution from adding...
April 28, 2023 at 15:43
What if no human has more or less value to the god than any other human life, or any other life, or any life at all? You can't know. What if the god d...
April 28, 2023 at 14:39
32 intel agencies without oversight are a lot more dangerous and expensive. Nobody can investigate them, by their very nature. And every developed nat...
April 28, 2023 at 03:11
Yes. In large populations, that can't be helped. In small ones, each person can be considered individually, as can each situation. But even in a syste...
April 27, 2023 at 12:55
Justice and fairness require that persons be classified into groups and judged according to a uniform standard for each group. A child, or adult with ...
April 26, 2023 at 19:04
It's not just AI. Citizens really are being watched, by several agencies. Paranoia in the US - and, incidentally, but not accidentally, lots of other ...
April 26, 2023 at 01:18
Well somebody made them! Evidently, that somebody wasn't you, because laws are quite a bit older than you, but it was somebody who was also part of so...
April 25, 2023 at 04:43
Great. So if they say it's okay to kill the people they don't like, you afford them the right to do so. Even if you are one of the the people they don...
April 24, 2023 at 23:34
It doesn't. That is a word, and nothing more. If you have a solid (when frozen) definition of ocean, it provides an object or image to place into a se...
April 24, 2023 at 21:35
The sentence can be modified; the definition of "ocean" can be modified. You can even modify both to the point of gibberish, but that still won't make...
April 24, 2023 at 21:27
Are they still technically "oceans", or do we just use the term because they resemble bodies of water that we observe on Earth? The same can be said o...
April 24, 2023 at 21:23
Not disputing the truth of facts. I was asking you whether there is any extra information conveyed by repeating the definition of something, and furth...
April 24, 2023 at 21:19
Of course it's true: that's how it was invented: What is a triangle? A closed figure with three sides and three angles. What is an ocean? Can you defi...
April 24, 2023 at 20:47
And yet they disagree, both regarding their own nature and 'rights'. And yet they readily commit unfair acts from a young age, unless their elders pre...
April 24, 2023 at 20:31
Where do these 'natural rights' of human beings come from? What is 'justice'? In nature, the best adapted genetic material survives in offspring; some...
April 24, 2023 at 18:12
It is not a T/F proposition; it's an opinion or observation by a conscious entity, made in imprecise language. In order to be true or false, its non-s...
April 24, 2023 at 14:43
That is not a T/F statement; it is a subjective judgment. A thermometer measures increments of heat; it does not indicate truth or falsehood. A day is...
April 24, 2023 at 14:11
The whole apple sequence is. 1. Red = sweet: F 2. Apples grow on trees: T Neither statement, nor their respective falsehood and truth, is affected by ...
April 24, 2023 at 03:04
So far, nobody wanted to make government smaller - at least in the US. Just more efficient - without suggesting the means whereby it is to be accompli...
April 23, 2023 at 23:15
I'm using different words that mean different things, because I intend to convey different meanings. The truth or falsehood of a statement, such as "M...
April 23, 2023 at 23:05
That may be so, but it's not in the example you presented. No, it can't. It can, however, render it inapplicable, irrelevant or nonsensical. Just as y...
April 23, 2023 at 20:44
http://www.netage.com/economics/gov/images-org/gov_chart-landscape.pdf That's a chart of US federal government departments. Are they all necessary? If...
April 23, 2023 at 13:33