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I want to know what caused the singularity. I don't much care about what caused it to collapse (explode).
March 31, 2025 at 21:43
They aren't strawmen. They are how leftists behave, en masse, where their behaviour can be reviewed (interviews, protests, news reports, instagram con...
March 31, 2025 at 21:42
Certainly can, but there's no reason to suppose someone who doesn't think so is wrong. This is my entire point (and I think most of the discussion is ...
March 31, 2025 at 21:39
Yes, a fair point. Embarrassingly ignorant of me (genuinely).
March 31, 2025 at 21:22
Not at the women I know, so he is definitely wrong. That's not to bring down the importance of the issue, but it is actually pretty important to note,...
March 31, 2025 at 19:19
You said a lot more than that. That's not correct, at all. Violation of human rights, when you're grop thinks it's ok, is the MO of 'leftist' thinking...
March 31, 2025 at 19:13
False.
March 31, 2025 at 19:11
Yeah, which is a bit wild given their position on that document by lip service. Yes, that's been quite troubling for sure. That spells out something f...
March 31, 2025 at 07:38
The former. But not particularly strongly. Anything could happen. I'm a pretty seriously doubter though.
March 31, 2025 at 07:32
So, what I pre-empted. Okay.
March 31, 2025 at 07:32
No, not at all as I see This is nice. Very clear key to your thinking. . The statements of medicine are simply not ethical statements (unless you mean...
March 31, 2025 at 07:31
The exact level of discourse I'd like to avoid. This isn't Twitter.
March 31, 2025 at 06:23
My feedback is that this isn't a good move.
March 29, 2025 at 22:23
It is. I am really unsure hwo you're saying it's not, and I've full understood the rest of your comment. I agree, stomping babies is bad. Whether it's...
March 28, 2025 at 10:29
No, but that's not something in the world. It's something about things in the world. All the things that could represent that equation wont stay the s...
March 28, 2025 at 10:17
I agree, but I think that's just a mistake of analysis ). One has consequences we want to avoid. The other, generally, is trivial. That doesn't really...
March 27, 2025 at 00:54
Can this even be, given time passes? What could stay the same?
March 27, 2025 at 00:46
For my part, I cannot think of 'masculine' and 'feminine' as actually telling us anything at all unless there is some tie to the sexes. Otherwise, we'...
March 27, 2025 at 00:40
I agree. But ethical statements do rely on emotional positions. I do not see anything else happening when one makes such statements. The deliberation ...
March 27, 2025 at 00:25
Huh. I see the train, I guess i just bare disagree. We'll see, I suppose :)
March 27, 2025 at 00:21
What, isolationism? Hehe.
March 26, 2025 at 19:16
Further making clear your ethical system is emotivist at base. This isn't particualrly a dig at you - I just cannot understand why people have such a ...
March 26, 2025 at 05:31
Your use of Truth precludes us from ever having it. Nothing to do with our influence on it. Contradiction, on your own terms. That's my entire point. ...
March 26, 2025 at 05:28
It was rhetorical. If that's all you need to make you 'sure' of a generational speculation, I'm unsure where to take this.. Yep. What's the relevance?...
March 26, 2025 at 05:25
Neither was mine. I was excluding it, as religious revelation would surpass the level of certainty he indicates. Are you suggesting there is some othe...
March 26, 2025 at 01:02
Are you sure this is what's happening? I don't really see it. I can see it as a (foreseeable, and dismal) side effect. That said, I'm unsure this woul...
March 26, 2025 at 01:00
Well, that isn't really my position. My position is that the way you are using 'truth' results in this state of affairs. Nothing rises to the required...
March 26, 2025 at 00:56
I'm with T Clark here. Nothing meets the criteria you're using, without plain supposition. Therefore, for what the word truth is mean to entail, it is...
March 25, 2025 at 23:47
I don't think that is true. Yes, some civil services are being dismantled, with a view to restoring them in better (read: more efficient) forms (wheth...
March 25, 2025 at 23:03
Belief that it is true doesn't rise to knowledge. Justifying that belief seems to be doing the work, and actual Truth not attainable. So, I return to ...
March 25, 2025 at 22:55
A good quote! And unless we're giving credence to religious revelation, I can't see another avenue for use of Truth.
March 25, 2025 at 20:03
I don't see how it could be, given it's stated separately? Justification is the reason for believing. Not it's veridicality. Also, that is jettisoning...
March 25, 2025 at 19:17
Yes, i've scored off this ball earlier. I don't fault you for not seeing it. This is where a truly rational person cannot escape their faulty thinking...
March 25, 2025 at 06:05
I think you've missed my point - that is T truth, as far as we could possibly conceive. I dont understand why we would say anything else.. I do think ...
March 25, 2025 at 06:00
Can this be rounded off, though? Are there not cases where you would say, given there is literally no possible further indicator, that something can b...
March 25, 2025 at 02:36
I think probably you're missing that a great number of people do not think your take on his policies are that way. I mean, I can see objectively that ...
March 25, 2025 at 02:29
Oh, i see where you're going. Thanks for clarifying. Hmm okay, well again, my answer was 'no' so maybe I intuit something similar. But yeah, life isn'...
March 25, 2025 at 02:24
I'm not entirely on Outlander's vibe here, because I think comparing reality to utopia is silly, but nevertheless, I don't think AOC is 'fine'. I woul...
March 25, 2025 at 02:22
100%. Some are in government now, by concession it seems, so we may actually have to come to terms with how ridiculous that way of comporting oneself ...
March 25, 2025 at 02:00
I fail to see any reason to answer to such a weird charge in the fullness with which you've laid it out. My answer to the direct question is "no". But...
March 25, 2025 at 01:58
Ignore them. They are not playing hte game. And they know it. That's why the 'woke' don't actually get much truck. You'll never see a screaming blue-h...
March 24, 2025 at 23:41
It always does. Hume doesn't scare me. We go through these changes. We're in a stable enough civilisation. I don't see any reason to think it wont. Re...
March 24, 2025 at 23:15
Bang on. The content of your thoughts is brute. Whether its veridical, we can discuss.
March 24, 2025 at 22:18
This is it. We should do what's been discussed in some recent forum feedback - ignore. When they get louder, as they inevitably will, laws will be bro...
March 24, 2025 at 22:05
I think everyone's got good things going on in these comments. It seems we're all on the same page of not treating anyone differently based on their s...
March 24, 2025 at 21:29
Yes, i agree with that. There's a clear area on the spectrum of 'masculine' behaviour which is pernicious and destructive. Equally with feminine behav...
March 24, 2025 at 19:46
100% true. That's not to ignore the disproportionate results of each.
March 24, 2025 at 19:23
Yes, true, but the concept filled with sense data (in the IDR sense) is not synonymous with the concept. It's a particular, modified expression of the...
March 24, 2025 at 19:18
Fair enough. Neither am I, but that's because we're on a philosophy forum. If i was, in earnest, charged with carrying a motivation of consolidating m...
March 24, 2025 at 19:15
It'll be quite interesting to see how these threads go when, in say six years time, shit's the same. No disaster, no world war, no collapse of society...
March 24, 2025 at 19:01