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It's best not to oppose false with true. This is because a true and honest statement may be demonstrated to be unjustifiable (false). So "false" is be...
August 26, 2022 at 12:35
This is precisely where the problem is, unwarranted attempts such as yours, to reduce the meaning of "a truthful account" to "an accurate portrayal of...
August 26, 2022 at 11:37
What kind of conclusion is that? Do you think "free" means incapable of considering the environmental circumstances when choosing one's actions? That ...
August 25, 2022 at 10:58
Isn't that bacteria laden sliminess better known as chicken shit?
August 25, 2022 at 01:44
I think that is wrong. Animal signals are caused by the animal itself, not the animal's environment. The human being acts by free will for example, no...
August 25, 2022 at 01:37
I don't think so. Most uses of "truth" point to honesty, as in "are you telling the truth?". It's just a certain type of philosopher, practising a def...
August 24, 2022 at 10:39
The piece of metal in my pocket is not a dollar, properly speaking. It's a coin which represents a dollar. That's what makes the categorical differenc...
August 23, 2022 at 11:03
I'd gladly assist any billionaire, if it would help to release them from that great burden of having an endless supply of money.
August 23, 2022 at 01:40
Unlike knife and piece of metal, there's a categorical difference between a sentence and a fact. It really can't be both.
August 23, 2022 at 01:33
What you are saying here is that meaning, as well as other human relations, requires truth (in the sense of honesty). So we should take it that truth,...
August 23, 2022 at 00:44
For example: sworn testimony is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. If this is true, then how could truth be anything other than th...
August 22, 2022 at 21:57
Like I said earlier, truth is best described in terms of honesty. And as such, it is quite simple. Use words to express what you honestly believe, to ...
August 22, 2022 at 21:51
This is oxymoronic. The mechanistic world view is simply the deterministic view. What it really says is that we have no power over the world, that we ...
August 22, 2022 at 10:24
Ghost Ship of Cannibal Rats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaNpka54DqQ (Respect!) Is never given enough today I'm tired of looking the other way (Re...
August 22, 2022 at 01:16
I am talking about everyday occurrences. And yes, there clearly is changes to the temporal continuity of existence of things, that\s what "force" does...
August 22, 2022 at 00:12
This will never work, because "truth" is a feature of particular circumstances, and the accidentals of particular circumstances cannot be captured in ...
August 21, 2022 at 11:51
Socrates, the prime example, the lover of wisdom. but in possession of none. Remember though, the relationship between "love" and desire and want, esp...
August 21, 2022 at 11:39
What I seek is the reality of the matter, not victory. You keep reasserting unreal claims, despite my demonstrations that these claims are incorrect. ...
August 21, 2022 at 11:32
The issue you describe here is a problem with the justification. The justification is somewhat faulty and therefore truth in the matter cannot be asce...
August 21, 2022 at 11:24
Now you've really got something to do. Read, read, read! That's if reading qualifies as doing something.
August 21, 2022 at 01:10
I think opposition, and negation, are very useful tools for logical processes, but descriptions and definitions are not logical processes.
August 21, 2022 at 00:59
Categories also are described, and not defined through reference to opposites, like the categories of colour, heat, etc.. These are not defined by ref...
August 21, 2022 at 00:44
It's really just a piece of redundancy which says nothing useful. It says "Snow is white" is true, if and only if "Snow is white" is true.
August 21, 2022 at 00:20
You haven't addressed the issue, only attempting to change the subject. The simple fact is that we define a thing by describing what it is, not by say...
August 21, 2022 at 00:11
I don't think this is correct at all. We define "A" with a description, not by saying what it is not. "Man", for example, was defined by Aristotle as ...
August 20, 2022 at 21:40
Wikipedia: "n 1969, Isaac Asimov said "I am a compulsive writer". Other artistic figures reported to have been affected by hypergraphia include Vincen...
August 20, 2022 at 21:26
Wayfarer is one who could really benefit from some serious metaphysical training. Most the other members here are so deeply enveloped by mathematicism...
August 20, 2022 at 11:21
I've got a great idea. Open a new thread to bitch about this thread. Then someone can open another thread to bitch about that thread, on and on, until...
August 19, 2022 at 10:35
That's not necessarily the case. "P is true" represents a judgement, but the truth or falsity of that judgement is not a feature of that particular ju...
August 19, 2022 at 01:36
Oh, I see. We assume the person is speaking honestly, unless the person is known to be dishonest. And the person who knows oneself to be known as dish...
August 18, 2022 at 00:25
No, this is wrong. A "true" statement is one which expresses an honest judgement. So "p is true" means the statement "p" is what the person making tha...
August 17, 2022 at 10:56
The mechanistic world view is dependent on the idea of continuous time. If, in reality, the flow of time is not continuous, then there are aspects of ...
August 17, 2022 at 10:36
I think the proper terminology is tuna fish casserole. The instant version, unbaked and not so hot (when you're not mid Minnesota winter), I believe i...
August 16, 2022 at 10:42
If "p" is true IFF p, and "p" is true IFF q, then p and q are the very same thing. I agree that this is very trivial, but it says absolutely nothing u...
August 16, 2022 at 10:30
First step on the road to the slammer.
August 16, 2022 at 00:58
Weather forecasting has become more scientific. The computers use observational data in producing their models. It is the increase in available observ...
August 15, 2022 at 00:42
I omitted the role of salinity because it is a secondary feature. The point is, that as secondary, changes in salinity cannot cause the GCB to actuall...
August 14, 2022 at 12:23
https://www.whoi.edu/news-insights/content/the-future-of-the-oceans-conveyor-belt/ https://www.whoi.edu/press-room/news-release/two-new-studies-advanc...
August 14, 2022 at 01:49
Climatology is said to be a science, I do not deny that. And what you've presented here you seem to present as science, that's why I called it "so-cal...
August 14, 2022 at 00:47
I think the situation is a lot more complex than this. Evaporation also increases salinity, and this makes denser warm water, possibly increasing wate...
August 13, 2022 at 12:11
There's a lot more than one flawed intellectual mechanism out there. And what has happened is that these flawed intellectual mechanisms have led us to...
August 13, 2022 at 10:35
There is no point at infinity in the complex plane. That point is by definition outside the plane. To allow it in is to break the rules of the structu...
August 12, 2022 at 10:39
It is mind-blowing if you're into that stuff, but I'd say it's not at all surprising.
August 12, 2022 at 01:39
The thermohaline circulation is not an ocean current, nor is it a group of currents. As I said already, it's a vague and extremely general abstraction...
August 12, 2022 at 01:08
If your goal is deception, ambiguity is a very useful tool. Therefore successful employment of the term does not indicate that the term is not ambiguo...
August 11, 2022 at 10:26
Let's just say you're beyond hope, Isaac.
August 11, 2022 at 01:34
Actually, I don't think the circulation requires a heat differential at all. As I explained, it is the product of the spinning planet. The heat differ...
August 11, 2022 at 01:08
Most mathematicians seem to just take zero for granted, with zero understanding of what "zero" means. But of course, as I explained, the meaning of "0...
August 11, 2022 at 00:44
No, I took those questions as personal problems which could potentially be resolved through introspection, not as having anything to do with "the trut...
August 10, 2022 at 10:52
Fractions are pure nonsense, from the get go, so we'll probably never get there. This is the very problem I referred to. The numberline shows us an or...
August 10, 2022 at 10:41