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Charleton: Marx lived off of hiss capitalist friend, Engels, and also played the stock market, which are two more signs of his hypocrisy. You never ad...
March 06, 2018 at 19:37
The comment above regarding Chomsky is a classic!
March 06, 2018 at 18:25
I'm you asking about a justification for the use of logic, or an actual so-called grounding? Your comment about justifying logic because it has been s...
March 06, 2018 at 17:57
It makes Marx a hypocrite, doesn't it? After all, he was in the non--working class, yet, he claims to have been able to identify with them. According ...
March 06, 2018 at 16:19
I am not sure why anyone thinks morality must be grounded, as nothing else has ever been grounded. Mathematics relies on unfounded axioms, so math is ...
March 06, 2018 at 15:58
CuddlyHedgehog: I'm sure that is true for some people, but the vast majority of us certainly have time to learn at least some of the issues currently ...
March 05, 2018 at 20:00
It depends on whether one is a layperson or an expert in the field. As a layperson, would you drive across a bridge that 97% of structural engineers t...
March 05, 2018 at 19:26
Aporiap: I wouldn't use another system besides a democratic one, and I do understand that in the USA we are a Constitutional Republic, but still, ulti...
March 05, 2018 at 18:12
I think your best bet is to start with a mathematics textbook that assists students in transitioning from computational classes to classes dealing wit...
March 05, 2018 at 17:24
When Chomsky writes about economic issues for the mass public, and he has no degree in economics, admitted he gets his economic ideas from watching St...
March 05, 2018 at 17:20
Trump is doing nothing different from what the GOP has accused the Democrats of doing, since the days of FDR. The GOP is not giving a tax-cut, because...
March 05, 2018 at 17:14
The reason why populist movements have failed in the past is because their economic policies never work. We know that a trade-war was one of the major...
March 05, 2018 at 17:10
Yatagarasu: I don't think that the government is controlling all information, so people are falling in line with political ideologies that are doomed ...
March 05, 2018 at 15:59
Well, let's see? Trump campaigned on a policy of supporting high tariffs. This is a bad idea. We know that a tariff war was one of the major causes of...
March 04, 2018 at 21:40
Bitter Crank: It's hardly a sign of being an intellectual that one argues in support of child-rapists. That's different from being a child-rapist. It'...
March 04, 2018 at 21:21
It's a statement that first of all involves a value judgment, therefore, it is a statement that cannot be assigned a truth value ----- either true or ...
March 04, 2018 at 21:19
Charleton: Actually, since you are an admitted math illiterate, your opinions are worthless. I'm an atheist, and would never claim that two Popes, esp...
March 04, 2018 at 01:13
BlueBanana: I'm not following you, but I really have no interest in spending any more time on the issue you are trying to raise.
March 02, 2018 at 22:38
Charleton: The real question is how are you any different from Icke, and the answer is you aren't. Where Icke is unable to understand basic mathematic...
March 02, 2018 at 22:35
BluBanana: If it's false, how could it possibly be knowledge? Saying we can't prove anything doesn't really matter, that's a given in first semester p...
March 02, 2018 at 21:24
Marx was as anti-Semitic as any stormtrooper, and not a Jew. He wrote that the Jews worshipped money, that they should be killed off, considered them ...
March 02, 2018 at 20:55
BlueBanana: That's been my point, but you are the one claiming that false claims amount to knowledge. That is what you wrote. Perhaps you made a mista...
March 02, 2018 at 20:53
Marx was quite vicious. When he wasn't speculating in the stock-market with his friend's Engel's capitalist earnings, he was writing demented tracks o...
March 02, 2018 at 20:43
Harris is not an expert on genetics, and for some reason, he's off on a pro-racist rant lately. Perhaps he needs more subscribers for his podcasts? Wh...
March 02, 2018 at 20:37
Rene: No, the Marxists infused the government with their Marxist superstitious nonsense. Even to the point of adopting a pseudoscientific claim regard...
March 02, 2018 at 20:35
BlueBanana: I'm not sure I understand your point. Since you are claiming that knowledge can be false, which contradicts the JTB assertion, then how ca...
March 02, 2018 at 20:29
Right, Charleton, laughing is just such a persuasive argument. Let's see? You claim that two Popes, at least one of whom has a serious baggage problem...
March 02, 2018 at 17:47
Sorry there, Charleton, but those two Popes are not intellectuals at all. How could that possibly be? Because they wear silly hats and expect people t...
March 02, 2018 at 17:17
I think one of his examples where a person looks at a broken clock, that just happens to be stating the correct time, to then say someone does not hav...
March 02, 2018 at 17:14
Charleton: How are the followers of people like David Icke not against those who think? After all, a basic understanding of physics would have made hi...
March 01, 2018 at 19:31
I wonder why people keep associating Marxism with atheism, when Marxism is a supernatural belief system, start to finish. The fact Marxism bans other ...
March 01, 2018 at 19:25
It is impossible to study any specific person and figure out how much of their intelligence is due to genes versus the environment. The human populati...
March 01, 2018 at 16:49
BlueBanana: When you state that knowledge doesn't have to be true, then how can it be knowledge? If I "know" the capital of the USA is Portland, Orego...
March 01, 2018 at 16:02
Inalienable rights do come from Locke, who simply based his claim on magic --- or, excuse me, a belief in God. Inalienable rights are typically misund...
March 01, 2018 at 01:07
Well, negative Eugenics was based on a pseudoscience, not actual science, which is one of the reasons it failed so miserably. To the extent genetics i...
March 01, 2018 at 01:00
Imagine what FOX NEWS would have said had Obama stated while president, "Take the guns first; go through due process second"? Isn't it amazing how a R...
March 01, 2018 at 00:52
ArguingWAristotleTiff: Thanks. I'm not really sure how to maneuver around here yet.
March 01, 2018 at 00:43
Tim Wood: Pretty much everyone. Trump. The NRA. Bill Maher. Name anyone who is a pundit on gun control, someone who is a well-known public figure, who...
February 28, 2018 at 20:43
Charles Murray is a racist though. And his work was so over-the-top unscientific, it's only still known because racists love it. Murray is a political...
February 28, 2018 at 20:40
If the Muslims happened to be right, and you worshipped pagan Gods along side Allah, you'd still go to hell. You can't side-step the criticism that Pa...
February 28, 2018 at 20:05
I agree with a lot of the people who have responded, who stated that yes, the USA does have a problem with anti-intellectualism, but so do many other ...
February 28, 2018 at 19:59
I agree with you that Gettier was not successful in what he wanted to achieve, but I disagree with the claim that JTB is not what we need for knowledg...
February 28, 2018 at 18:40
The vast majority of social media these days consists of groups that quickly ban anyone with different viewpoints. I'm not sure whether that applies t...
February 28, 2018 at 17:50
One cannot even do social science these days without knowing game-theory, not if one wants to be taken seriously. I also never claimed that game-theor...
February 28, 2018 at 17:44
Actually, game-theory is commonly used to make accurate social predictions, and even when it fails to do so, it does give us an insight into what rati...
February 28, 2018 at 16:16
That's true, and there is also political correctness on the right, as well. If one does not support a war, then one is labeled a "traitor," and how to...
February 28, 2018 at 16:13
The USA does have the greatest speech protections in the world. As an American, I won't even go to Europe, because I could easily be prosecuted for sa...
February 28, 2018 at 16:02
Well, just take a look at game-theory? Game-theory tells us that we are less safe the more guns we have as a community. Just imagine if you were the o...
February 28, 2018 at 15:59
In reviewing the initial post and the comments following it, it looks like most people have raised good points here. The statement first off was poorl...
February 28, 2018 at 05:11
I know the number of permutations for a deck of 52 cards is straightforward enough. It is 52!, or 52 factorial. There are 52 possibilities for the fir...
February 28, 2018 at 05:04