Sorry Isaac, I didn't know you had changed the subject from Covid deaths to TB deaths, when you mentioned "nearly half a million excess deaths". Do yo...
Sorry Possibility, but I've read this over numerous times and I just can't apprehend the distinction you're trying to make. To me, "noticing" implies ...
As I said, I think that spoken words in the mind are just images, aural images. So thinking in words, and thinking in images is essentially the same t...
The article was concerned with "US Covid-19 Death Counts". You flippantly mention "nearly half a million excess deaths", and accuse me of being flippa...
Right, so if the evidence indicates that every galaxy is the center of the universe's expansion, than the evidence indicates that space expands from c...
How do you ever decide what to say or write? I think in spoken words, but generally not in written words. I can think in written symbols to an extent,...
Ever notice the dual meaning of "original"? In one sense, a brand new idea, never before thought of, is said to be original. In another sense "origina...
I think there's going to be a lot of counting for Trump. He's going to end up having to get out there and personally recount every single vote cast in...
In my mind you have these two reversed. Perceiving is the simple receiving of the sensory information. It may or may not require consciousness as a ne...
I agree with this in principle. I think we will start to see some very radical experimentation with visual effects in the medium of time. In ancient t...
We disagree fundamentally here, and I see no route to compromise. I think a description is necessarily confined to something observed, and I see no ne...
I disbelieved it "prima facie" because it appeared completely unreasonable to me, because of the specific claims which were made, and the way that the...
The problem is that we seem to disagree on so many fundamental points, that I cannot even get to the place where your "point" might even start to make...
This is what I propose. If spatial expansion is real, and occurs everywhere, then there must be a distribution of points everywhere, each being a cent...
But the article says it would be recorded as a Covid-19 death even if Covid-19 wasn't an exacerbating factor. That's a big difference. The principle i...
It is not a fixed point of observation, the present is not fixed. And the present is not an event itself. It is contradictory to call a fixed point an...
Obviously there is no recovery in my example. The person died "in" a car crash, not in a hospital. The article said that in some states, if any person...
I don't see how there could be variability in such relations. An event is something which has occurred in the past, therefore its relations are fixed,...
The Manhattan Project, for example, was huge, and hugely expensive; probably one of the finest examples of a large group of scientists working togethe...
The article is strangely reminiscent of Trump's attempt to disqualify Biden votes as illegal. And so it all adds up to the claim of "very significant ...
This is why we posit a "soul" in dualist philosophy. The physical body of a living being is always a manifestation of some prior learning. We need to ...
Are you overlooking the internal causes? Surely things like instinct and genetics ought to be classed as internal causes. And these are evident in the...
How do you know though, that it was really in your best interest to try? If socializing makes you feel uncomfortable, then you'd have to assume someth...
Right, our understanding of gravity is very clearly flawed, because all we have is a multitude of different ways of representing the effects of gravit...
The temporality of a thing is its reality. Having temporal extension makes a thing real because there is no such thing as existence which is just an i...
It is very evident, that the knowledge of how to make a device precedes the knowledge of how to safely use it. This is mostly because a device must be...
I don't see the relationship you are trying to draw between shyness and sympathy. Anyway, the issue at question is not a matter of preventing shyness ...
Not if Trump maintains any sway, which he seems to have a lot of right now, then he'll be right back next time. Wow, What a surprise! Maybe that's why...
The problem is, that the rate of expansion which you give is based in conclusions about the relation between gravity and spatial expansion derived fro...
From Wikipedia on "scientific method": Clearly there are two forms of logic which ought to be properly applied within the scientific method, induction...
I did that already, very clearly and concisely, the utilization of the concept of a center of gravity, or the center of mass. OK, so you say that whet...
I said it as a claim of philosophical understanding. Philosophers are allowed to judge scientific principles, in case you didn't know this. Otherwise,...
In philosophy we do not judge an understanding by the ability to make predictions. The fact that I can predict that the object in my hand will drop to...
Yes, well I think that a definition should be the starting point for a scientific inquisition, not the final say. The next step would be to inquire in...
I find the definition is difficult to understand because your use of undefined ambiguous terms like "piece of matter", and "free energy". So it appear...
In a pandemic that's for sure. There is an issue here of what do you value. What do you want in your life? What constitutes winning? If what is valued...
The idea that our understanding of gravity is flawed ought to be taken as a given, rather than rejected and argued against. The commonly employed repr...
The problem I see here, is that if "relation" refers to something variable, then a "relation" is inherently indefinite, as a "variabilitiy in arrangem...
Well, Pantagruel argued that a lack of ambiguity is required for us individuals to commune, and exist as part of a whole (the species). I argued that ...
I don't see your distinction between forms and relations. Surely a relation is a form, isn't it? I really can't see this distinction. A "form" is an a...
To make my point: Why would I want a word with a tighter definition? However, you might propose another word which would be more capable of refuting m...
That is a good explanation of why Possibilitiy's proposition makes no sense. We cannot assume in the same proposition, to remove the means by which we...
If the point you're making requires that a circle is a polygon, and mathematicians do not consider a circle to be a polygon, then it really doesn't ma...
I don't accept this bottom-up, top-down distinction. I see no real principles to support it. I do see a distinction to be made, in the Aristotelian tr...
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