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LD Saunders

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Well, actually in physics, space does not seem to be infinitely divisible.
September 18, 2018 at 16:13
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by an actual infinite, but I can definitely state that the idea of the infinite does not hinder science. After all,...
September 18, 2018 at 16:04
The fact that there is so much garbage on social media and the web points in the direction that literature is in decline. It's difficult for me to ima...
September 17, 2018 at 16:58
As many have pointed out above, ethics is not in any way dependent on any alleged God. No religious person has ever established this claim, they simpl...
September 13, 2018 at 16:46
This reminds me of the negative eugenics movement, which was a pseudoscience pretending to be scientifically based. For one thing, there is rarely gen...
September 13, 2018 at 16:40
One may dislike her opinions, but to say she was not a philosopher makes little sense. After all, are her views really any worse than the gibberish fr...
September 05, 2018 at 18:22
So-called leading philosophers have turned out to be apologists for tyranny, like Heidegger, Russell, and Sartre. So much for the claim that studying ...
September 05, 2018 at 18:17
Hawking's assertion that "philosophy is dead," was self-refuting. Why? Because the statement "philosophy is dead" is itself a philosophical statement....
July 05, 2018 at 16:03
Uber: Einstein made great inroads into quantum mechanics, in addition to being the person who came up with the General Theory of Relativity and the Sp...
May 17, 2018 at 19:43
Uber: We do know the labor theory of value is false, and have known this for a long time now. The value of an object does not exist. Prices exist, and...
May 17, 2018 at 19:39
Nonsense. People forget the simplest ideas when it comes to math. It's often recognized that once a mathematical object is defined that it can only be...
May 17, 2018 at 18:13
Uber: Marx stated that workers would go to the lowest level of poverty, and that most definitely did not happen. Under capitalism, we saw the greatest...
May 17, 2018 at 18:10
Anyone who thinks Einstein's essay on socialism is scholarly work knows nothing of economics. Einstein was a genius in the areas of physics and to a l...
May 15, 2018 at 20:53
There isn't a whole lot from Marx that isn't complete fiction. He made numerous claims about matters that were not based on any actual facts, and were...
May 14, 2018 at 04:47
"Could be" also implies "bullshit."
April 25, 2018 at 19:55
This is what the OP states, "So based on this perspective it seems to me that mental pain including mental illnesses could be a symptom something is w...
April 25, 2018 at 19:01
The same parts of the brain that activate physical pain also activate for psychological pain. So? How does that mean that psychological pain is a resu...
April 25, 2018 at 18:30
You are misunderstanding what observation even meant. An observation can occur without any conscious or living being present. Basically, new-agers rou...
April 25, 2018 at 18:27
There are different types of pain, including pathological pain, which serves no useful purpose. You are also assuming that the cause of mental illness...
April 25, 2018 at 15:37
Math is non-empirical. This is why no discovery in science has ever overturned a theorem. So, shouldn't you be asking about future physics, which is e...
April 24, 2018 at 18:33
Philip: It has not been established that we don't make decisions. Just think of it this way --- if the mind decides to do something, that is still a c...
April 21, 2018 at 03:36
Actually, the universe is non-deterministic, and has been known to be non-deterministic for quite some time. The claim that everything has been predet...
April 20, 2018 at 17:14
How am I "alienated" from production if I help build something without understanding all of the production processes involved? It's just a made-up con...
April 18, 2018 at 20:18
Einstein's relativity theories rule out common sense. It's not just physics that goes against common sense, but virtually every science. In genetics, ...
April 18, 2018 at 18:12
We are evolved social primates, so our conception of morality is largely based on our evolution, although not determined by it. But, go ahead and do w...
April 18, 2018 at 18:03
Basically, on this forum, as on almost every social media platform, there is an enormous amount of anti-Semitism. It is basic for the left to be anti-...
April 04, 2018 at 17:56
Rene: How about you actually stop using double standards in judging Israel? Name a single time when you have ever evaluated a position by only looking...
April 04, 2018 at 17:47
SSU: Tell us all what so-called peace deal the so-called Palestinian Arabs have on the table? Israel has offered the so-called Palestinians a state of...
April 03, 2018 at 20:36
SSU: There is nothing objective about any UN organization when it comes to Israel. That's one of the issues that the US has with the UN presently. The...
April 03, 2018 at 20:28
SSU: You think the UN has an "objective" view regarding Israel? That's laughable. How about when the UN claimed that Zionism was racism? Rather odd si...
April 03, 2018 at 16:12
Charleton: No, it's not true, and I don't even need to waste my time looking at some conspiracy video on social media to know the truth. Go ahead and ...
April 03, 2018 at 16:03
SSU: There you go completely trying to twist my words. I specifically stated that not every criticism against Israel is anti-Semitic. However, a great...
April 02, 2018 at 18:59
It's amazing how many crazy Jew-hating comments are on here. Hitler supported Israel? That's absolutely false. Israel is a racist state? False. Israel...
April 02, 2018 at 17:06
I don't think it was ever the case that everyone could afford a college education, although these days the costs have risen considerably, due to the s...
April 02, 2018 at 14:57
The British Labour Party is anti-Semitic. The current issue of The Economist magazine even has an article on the topic. The Economist also featured ar...
March 31, 2018 at 19:05
But if a person believes that there are a number of purposes for education, like training people for jobs, getting people to think critically, creatin...
March 31, 2018 at 18:45
Are you intentionally assuming that there is only one purpose for education as opposed to a variety of different purposes?
March 31, 2018 at 03:07
Rene: Did I state anywhere that a philosophical question cannot be answered? No. I only stated that it cannot be answered by referring to empirical ev...
March 30, 2018 at 16:43
A philosophical question cannot be answered empirically, scientifically, mathematically or logically. Like questions regarding value judgments, can we...
March 29, 2018 at 21:07
Charleton: There you go again, completely engaging in a strawman with respect to my actual comment. I never stated that gold was the equivalent of wea...
March 28, 2018 at 20:38
MMT is a fine example of why economics is not a science. MMT is an ideology that attempts to "justify" rampant government spending. Now, while it is m...
March 28, 2018 at 02:00
Rene: The mods deleted my comment, which was basically stating that you don't know what you are writing about, that studies have shown toddlers have a...
March 08, 2018 at 06:58
Mr Phil: You are ignoring what evolution tells us about why you love your mother. It is essentially based on biological evolution. Now, how does evolu...
March 07, 2018 at 22:14
Mr Phil: Changing political views? There have been studies done that accurately predicted adult's political orientations based on personality tests gi...
March 07, 2018 at 22:09
Morality is largely hardwired into our brains due to evolution. Even when it comes to our political views and how we divide into left and right-wing p...
March 07, 2018 at 20:41
It's not that big of an issue, actually. People tend to needlessly complicated this issue of whether there is objective morality. Just start with your...
March 07, 2018 at 18:12
Charleton: Well, you can make up false claims regarding Marx all day long. In fact, every Marxist I know has never read his works. Marxism is bullshit...
March 07, 2018 at 16:20
A deductive argument is also the basis for all mathematical proofs, even proofs based on "induction." We know that a deductive argument is valid if th...
March 06, 2018 at 21:17
I admit I did not bother to watch the video. The title was enough to convince me it would be a waste of time. Labeling claims about white privilege a ...
March 06, 2018 at 20:08
Well, aren't you assuming that this is a bad thing when there is no basis for saying so? After all, if a particular candidate loses do to low voter tu...
March 06, 2018 at 19:40