Txastopher

I'm referring to this type of activity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Women%27s_Strike_2018 When half the population claims that it is o...

Functionally, P.C. is an iteration of the ad hominem fallacy. It is totally meaningless in terms of establishing truth, value, logical consistency etc...

Belief is what you choose to hold to be true without requiring objective evidence. This can be for the sake of convenience; I am willing to accept tha...

If you're suggesting that I don't consider that women have a collective grievance, then you're wrong. Nevertheless, I question the relative of importa...

Indeed, the problem is methodological in the sense that you wish to generalise from a particular. Not good when discussing race.

I don't understand your use of 'meaningful' here.

No.

Has been used as tool for, yes, undoubtedly. Ultimately a tool for, no. If there are differences between historically isolated groups of humans, I'm i...

Racism is the discrimination against groups and individuals on the basis of racial prejudice This seems unfair and as such is unethical. Racialism (fo...

I'm not sure if a modern direct democracy is 'unlikely'. There are many instances of participatory democracies which bridge the gap between direct and...

It's worth pointing out that by 'aristocracy', Plato meant a type of meritocratic rule by the 'best' rather than in the privileged, hereditary landown...

I'm not doing this, vegans are.

The problem is not the supposition that similar beings have similar experiences, but rather the supposition that the more dissimilar to me the lesser ...

Look, what is convincing on Instagram is not necessarily convincing on a philosophy forum populated with (mostly) thoughtful adults. Good luck with yo...

Look, if you want to base your diet on an intuitive anthropomorphic ranking of suffering, go ahead. However, you are presenting 'ethical' veganism as ...

I agree that the 'ethical' vegan suffering argument is valid, but the fact that it could lead to the absurd conclusion that it is wrong to eat any liv...

If, in addition to animals, plants felt pain and one was to conclude that it was immoral to eat them for this reason, then it would follow that all ea...

If X is wrong, and you make a choice not to do X, then you gain some positive morality. However, in order to establish that veganism confers moral sup...

Is it conceivable that no controls on migration would create some kind of migratory entropy in which no one nation was significantly more desirable to...

There seems to be assumption that suffering is a necessary condition of suicide.

The degree of outrage and victimhood appears to be inversely proportional to to the degree of personal responsibility for one's individual situation. ...

Is too.

I didn't ask the quoted question, but since you mention it; "This proposition is false".

Bearing in mind that all I claim is that it is refutable, then I would ask you, "Are you lying about your ear itching?", if you replied truthfully in ...

I thought we'd established that we are not talking about beliefs. If my ear itches, then it is irrefutable that my ear itches on an internal level. If...

Clearly, but when dealing with the concept of refutability it does since irrefutability is a quality predicated on refutability. If we don't accept th...

I'm sure you don't, but at the very moment you make your observation public then you invite reasonable scepticism.

So we have deductive, inductive and abductive reasoning. The fact, that not everything is as clear cut as your a priori examples does not mean that re...

My understating of 'irrefutable' is that it describes a fact that can be shown to be true and as a consequence cannot be disproved. Your example of an...

Presumably, that the statement has been arrived at by valid logical mechanisms and derives from true premises. In other words, is the product of a sou...

What do you mean by 'irrefutable belief'? If something is irrefutable, then their is no possibility of of disproving or denying it. Whereas a belief i...

. Hard to translate, but means that only fools take consolation from the fact that many others have the same problems that they do. Gets to the heart ...

This is what happens when you fire your speechwriters.

You might want to read Bertrand Russel's Pursuit of Happiness. It's not philosophy, and it's certainly not the final word on the topic, but I think th...

Yes, I am. Your inability to say anything clearly has that effect. Other than a series of feeble attempts to save face, you have no position.

I have no idea what you're talking about. If you claim that you are an atheist, you surrender the bases on which to make claims about the nature of go...

The problem is that you can't take an atheist position and make claims about the nature of the deity.

Ah, so now you're claiming that whatever god had to say, it may or may not be correct. So this god that you claim not to believe in has, nevertheless,...

You needn't restate your position. It was clear the first time. It's still incorrect though. To suppose that something will happen based on inductive,...

No it's not, to the extent that one even considers what will happen in your example, it is a strong inductive inference.

It's interesting that you mention the scientific method. Scientists accept the best explanations of observable phenomena. At some time in the past, a ...

This has got to be one the most ill-informed posts of all time.

Wow! You really are dogmatic. So if God did put in an appearance, as per your request, you still wouldn't believe in him. They must be overjoyed with ...

Cum hoc ergo propter hoc.

So what you're saying is that you want god to appear and clarify his wishes, but if he demands anything that you don't like, you won't do it. What do ...

Let's say God did appear and said that, "yes, homosexuals should be euthanised". Would this make you change your mind?

If you understand it and you explain it clearly and your interlocutor is sufficiently intelligent then he or she will understand you.

If you can't explain something clearly to an intelligent individual, you probably don't understand it.

What kind of clarification would you accept?

Alternatively, just continue to eat what you feel you should be eating, and let others do the same. The problem here is not the vegan diet, the proble...