Yes it is. And generally they value efficiency. One could try to determine enemy troop movements by looking at the entrails of caught deer, as used to...
Don't play with capitalizations and exclamation marks to make a point. Not at all, see my replies to Hillary. Of course we have empirical input, we ar...
Sure, science has axioms, but those typically do not come from mythical lore. There is also a difference in dogma from law and from the natural scienc...
Of course I know the VU, been there lots of times. The reason why we teach chemmistry, physics, math etc and not astrology is cultural, but not arbitr...
Circularity. You cannot empirically verify the value of empirical verification... One has to have had the idea that that is a pausible way to go befor...
verification can only occur when there is something to verify... so verification comes after hypothesisation. Ahh Kahneman... Objectively with a capit...
It is not possible to state this argument because it is impossile to value non existence. @"Hillary" who is this new God you talk of and what slaves d...
I do not think I am a conceptual relativist. Some concepts work better than others. There might be better arguments for some distinctions than for oth...
Yes of course you could. The fact that a law is applied and even upheld in court, does not mean it is a good law. So by all means, campaign against th...
Then you would not have to pay. However they will not do so because they will have to give their reasons for such a verdict and these reasons have to ...
I would like to ask to ask you to write in English, though I applaud your comment of Dutch. You are mistaken though. Also a left wing judge would rule...
Just to translate your last line, which actually doesn't translate well in English, but you state the judge is crooked not straight. (Using a pun on t...
I am Dutch... but I do not understand what you mean. You man that somehow judges judge wrongly because of custom? Every practice of course has its 'ha...
For me that whole question is so odd to comprehend. Ipso facto there will be a difference between the bread you eat in the morning and that I do, even...
No, because the word law in English is used in a dual connotation. It denotes the whole body of law, the legal institution, but it also denotes a cert...
They are different only because we decided that this difference merrited a distinction. Every material is different. My porcelain cup is different fro...
Good luck and have fun in Vegas. Tell me, where do you see the problem? That you are not asked for consent to the rules or have been asked to promis t...
No. It is also based on case law, codified law, treaties and some say legal principles, but that is debated. I know you mean something deeper with you...
It is legal technical, my apologies, I ran a little roughshot: I meant to say " custom is a source of law". In the early days there was little else. Y...
This takes us to the philosophy of politics and law. I must say, the more I delve into law, the ore I admire the simplicity of it, but also the deep u...
Yes, I agree, but the problem lies with the 'choosing wisely'. Not everyone will do so and with what methods and means may the state create a role for...
The harm principle is an important principle, but there are a number of problems with it. First it is overdetermined. If every harm done was unjust, t...
No, that is not the principle I seek. Sometimes harm is needed for the greater good. Punishment, afterall, is harm. So, would you abolish all of crimi...
Maybe 'justice' is beyond all speech and description, positive justice that is. We never know what 'the rght thing to do' is, because we never know th...
The first comment I do not really understand. Sure, moral justifications are offered for crimes, but what does it hve to do with the topic at hand. Th...
Thank you Haglund. I do wonder if you are Dutch or you are studying here. Somehow I think the latter, as you mentioned UvA. No, Wibautstraat is just u...
Ha! not quite, but it is a good guess and well... partly perhaps actually. I lived in the vicinity and the overpasses are reminiscent of the story. Th...
Ohhh, water pipe presumeably, filled with Turkish double apple flavoured tobacco, nothing else. I had the dream when I lived in Istanbul. The location...
I know we cross swords in another thread but I do work in education, so hence my answer and I will take your questions seriously. Ad 1. Well, I do not...
You think the contraictory quality of the statement resides in me liking them to be so? You must think highly of my capabilities. Not that I am aware ...
Meh... are those two statements not a teensy weensy bit contradictory? If objective reality was self evident then why would all those people rely on f...
Ohh dear we all missed the boat. I knew it, fuxx! However, on second thought, ethical and political principles have been established way before ontolo...
Using terms that sound philosophical does not make it philosophy. Education is not the same as epistemology. For instance you equate sexuality with be...
I think a philosophy of sex is very interesting and I think the sexuality of philosophy is even more interesting, but the questions you ask are more s...
I am not sure... I actually like many of the posters and I learn a lot from them, though maybe I am easily bewitched by the language of quantum physic...
To be is to be self perceived... that is interesting no? Being iis purely abstract, it means nothing, I agree. Then the question becomes what does 'be...
Ahh probably a defensive reaction... I am always puzzled by the heaps of scorn idealists here receive... You see, it is after all a matter of perspect...
Who said that science is moot under either physicalism or idealism? Perhaps idealism adds nothing, but you simply accept physicalism as the default po...
I do like this notion... "esse est percipi" prioritizes an observer over and above the inner life of the observed. It also prioritizes a detached look...
What is this matter you speak of? I find it ridiculous to elevate the way we think about the world (as consisting of wood, steel and dirt) and somehow...
Well in the whole thread we discuss the question what is real. Reality is a category, yet there is no such 'thing' as reality. Thought can be discusse...
Yes, but that does not mean that being is not for Hegel. It is the same and not the same as nothing. Logical, because they are both empty concepts, de...
What do you mean by 'pure being is not'? Hegel does not thematize the Heideggerian distinction. In fact 'being' is prety quickly 'aufgehoben' into bec...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrxePKps87k "A shadow is cast wherever he stands, stacks of green paper in his red right hand". I am thinking of the s...
That last part is true, of course. thinking and being are not the same thing, yet they are identical, one finds upon reflection. Yet, it takes time fo...
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