Right. The "No more war" chanting was coming from Sanders supporters and it was directed at Leon Panetta. My guess is that we'd probably get a slightl...
Existence without essence is something one can point to... obviously it can't be described. So most speech we encounter about identity is about essenc...
Folklore says it's heavy drinking during hot summers that results in a high incidence of violence in places like Louisiana. But the most violent state...
Cycles of revenge aren't fueled by religion. They're driven by the bloody mindedness that follows the funeral of the murdered, right? Does the state h...
Chris Stringer says there is evidence in our collective genes of prehistoric warfare. I'm glad I don't live in world where violent death is always nea...
A necessary evil. This is along the lines of Augustine's view (and perhaps Chomsky's). What I like about the Augustinian view is not it's conclusion, ...
They're kind of child-like because we have to feed them. Violently insane people seem more like wild animals... but again, like adults do with childre...
A Columbine-style mass killing is a side-effect of the existence of firearms. As one of our lawyer buddies explained, it takes less aggression to kill...
A meme (as Dawkins envisioned it) is a sort of cultural unit that survives by virtue of being selected. At first glance, it looks like the mass-killin...
That fear is supposed to have been a factor in the development of the Civil War (per Stephen Oates), but it was localized in the Southeast as an apoca...
There's food for wonder there.... the notion that perception, memory, and desire are more fundamental than identity. Do you mean that a creature could...
Ivan the Terrible became convinced that the only way to save his country was to reanimate Russian fears of Mongol warlords. Ivan was crazy, but maybe ...
Vinay Lal says watch out for the hidden imperialism there. If you are responsible for my terrorist actions, then you have the qualities of an adult (r...
Nobody bombed Saudi Arabia. I say each person is responsible for his or her own actions. Reject that and the dominos fall back to the Original Sin and...
My most recently favorite follow the leader story: Elizabeth Holmes. Endlessly entertaining to me for some reason. Recently banned by CMS from operati...
Depends on the climate. I think human life oscillates... ups and downs. Growth and recession. It's during extended periods of growth and development t...
I was on the way to pointing out that we don't know the nature of either consciousness or the universe. The conversation was not able to adapt, mutate...
Right. Frege did point out that there's a problem with picturing how a statement might correspond with the world. The real defeat of Correspondence Th...
No. Frege's argument that truth is unanalyzable rules out Correspondence as a definition. It rules out any definition. Period. The fact that there is ...
Let us please attempt to be precise in phrasing these questions with the proper attention being paid to the meaning which must be revealed on closer i...
Didn't you say that utterances correspond to experience? Five people look at an apple. The biologist sees a phase in the reproduction of apple trees. ...
We usually distinguish the apple from the experience of the apple for obvious reasons. Speech can be useful for conveying experience. It's notorious f...
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