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I just want a simple example. Something like: I'm a jury member on a murder trial. The prosecution has show me <some piece of evidence> which I ration...

Keep in mind that the majority of trans support in society, up to and including the idea that they should be allowed to compete, comes from females. I...

quite the opposite

that will become clearer when he answers with an example

sometimes "informal logical fallacies" can still be reasonable arguments

I'm going to ask you to think of a situation again. Last time I tried this you got caught up on some tiny detail so I'm going to ask in a different wa...

Okay, you disagree with both me and on that point. Would you like to know why we disagree with you? Would you like to know why Bayesians disagree with...

Reading the story, it looks like this person is allowed to compete because there's no explicit age restriction to the competition - any 50 year old wo...

my disagreement with you wasn't about physicalism, it was about evidence and compatibility. Have you corrected yourself on that point yet? Do you acce...

Good. That's what meta was disagreeing with me on. He was not correct about that.

the only thing we talked about the whole time I was talking to him was the idea that evidence for X can sometimes be compatible with not-x. I cannot t...

I don't think he got anything. The point he was making against me is easily disprovable. I could prove it to you right now. You just have to imagine a...

I'm still not really sure what you were agreeing with the other guy about earlier in the conversation. The dude was basically saying, there's no such ...

I really don't see how you're still maintaining that the evidence isn't even related to the claim of physicalism. If physicalism requires, as you say,...

I don't know what you mean by that. "Evidence isn't incidental".

Well I'm happy that you see that technically, it is. I can't ask for more than that.

So you don't think information that raises the probability that a statement is true is evidence for that statement?

But still, even so, if we assume it's equal evidence for everything that isn't pure idealism (which I don't - I don't think it's equal, but let's gran...

you think we have the resolution to be able to tell if it's 1:1 or not? I don't.

I don't understand how you think that quote is unrelated to physicalism. That quote is surely EXACTLY the prediction physicalism would make. Like, ima...

that's a little too abstract for me. Care to tie it in more explicitly with the evidence that began this conversation?

Fully agreed. The process of pondering is, apparently, implemented in physical brains doing physical things. That's not the illusion of pondering, tha...

Or, to put it another way: If you wanted to implement an agent, how might you do it? Perhaps you would... I don't know... make something resembling a ...

You lack imagination, or you don't know what evidence means.

Really ironic, that the guy that filled the supreme court, the guy that's being treated by the legal system with kiddie gloves, the guy who has immens...

Literally any other person would be able to answer the question with ease. It's not trickery, you're just weird. Please don't talk to me if you're goi...

You think the finding is unrelated? The finding in question seems very very related to me.

even if it does just rule out <one thing that isn't physicalism>, that's still loosely evidence for physicalism. It would be evidence for everything t...

Ah, the ol' argument from fiction. You can prove just about anything if we can take fiction as evidence

I've noticed that a lot of what they say in these conversations is like that. They say stuff that's only meaningful to other Christians.

Sure, but one not need delve into the deep jargon of philosophy to think of simple examples where you have evidence for something that's nevertheless ...

You're waffling too much for me. It seems like you're deliberately trying not to understand, but it's possible this is really just all too much for yo...

you have a lot of misunderstanding about evidence. Either you're using the word in a way the majority of other people don't use it, or you haven't tho...

I didn't say it was evidence for both. You decided to say that. I said it was evidence for one, and COMPATIBLE with both. I even put compatible in all...

I actually think there could be non conspiratorial, non-dishonest reasons that might happen. I understand the intuition that that seems fishy, but it ...

Finding a murder suspects DNA at a crime scene is often evidence that they committed that crime. However, finding that DNA is still COMPATIBLE with th...

I still don't know what you mean by "disregard". Does "disregard" just mean "allow a public protest or rally that they don't like"?

I think the idea is, events are allowed to take place that you disagree with because there's a certain amount of freedom of speech. I don't see a prob...

What do you mean "disregarded the Jewish protesters"? Did the nazis at the event harm the Jewish protesters physically, and the police allowed that to...

They might not be exactly minding their own business, but they wouldn't feel the need to explain themselves I don't think. God doesn't explain why he ...

The real Ubermensch would have no need or desire to prove he is to a bunch of randos on the internet. The existence of this thread demonstrates that y...

Me, as a physicalist, saying "the evidence for physicalism could also plausibly still be compatible with non-physicalist ideas" is not me rejecting ph...

The guy I was responding to said that the best evidence for physicalism still leaves the door open to other theories. I'm just expressing that *that's...

I say the following as a physicalist: most positions, including absolute idealism, ARE alive. The evidence for physicalism doesn't push the probabilit...

Seems to unfortunately be one of those situations where the word has a little bit of wiggle room in meaning. I don't think one definition or the other...

Why would you assume that? That's very abstract. How about something more simple: it's impossible, as far as we can tell, because there's no known phy...

Love it. Magats will of course ignore, but this just goes to show what's been obvious the whole time: Trump didn't believe the election was stolen bec...

I wouldn't call the commitment to a peaceful transition of power a small margin, personally. The difference between a dictator and just a president wh...

What reason would any person who thinks Trump tried to steal an election have to "pause" voicing their view right now? I don't understand why you thin...

why is THAT the thing that makes you think they're insane? January 6 happened nearly 3 years ago, Biden is not saying something new. This has been sai...