m-theory

I am glad this thread got posted. I think this is a much better narrative than denial in the context of climate change debate.

Is it true that there is another way philosophy has long been practiced Yes or No?

What type of philosophy has long been practiced?

I argue something similar about sustainable energy. It will cost less to implement sustainable solutions now rather than put it off until later. While...

You want to control how other people answer, but at the same time, you yourself are against being controlled. That is kind of funny.

That is ironic.

I think he has a teds talk as well.

This would be great if it was about something.

I think we are done here.

WTF? You "Who cares that 10% died in the past"

Consumption is a basic fact of the human condition, we consume. This cannot be avoided.

I think you are not being very reasonable. Pinker does not imply that violence in more recent centuries is less appalling. He points out that it is a ...

Yes but if no one consumes their material they will not succeed in that intention.

Well Pinker addresses that in the vid.

Aren't all authors intended to be consumed?

I think Pinker gives us good evidence to believe that more recent centuries were not in fact the bloodiest of all time.

I am a glass half full type of guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ramBFRt1Uzk .

lol Scientology?

Well that should not be surprising being that there is a disagreement about what it is rational to believe. Theist are not much better in my experienc...

From your position you can't know if we can or can not obtain truthfully objective facts.

This is only subjective. This is only subjective. You still haven't proven anything about the objective. From you position, that everything is subject...

Basically by saying there is only the subjective you set yourself up so that you can't disprove that anything is objective. It is impossible, as you p...

This is not an objective fact. This is not an objective fact This is not an objective fact Nothing you have here has any consequences for objective fa...

Subjective facts don't prove anything about objective facts. So what, it is a subjective fact, who cares?

It is not an objective fact that it is impossible to find any objective facts. See the pattern yet? By definition you have not refuted anything about ...

That runs afoul with the same issue. It is not an objective fact that objective fact's don't exist. If it was, it would be self refuting.

Yes but it is not an objective fact. So why should I care? It does not refute anything about objective facts.

We can't go beyond subjectivity is refuted if it is supposed to be an objective fact

No I am saying that what you said is not objectively true. At least not without being self refuting.

lol, you are trolling me right now?

You mean it is not true unless I voluntarily admit I am wrong?

Right it is only subjective. Because you can't go beyond the subjective. This means it is not an objective fact what you have said. If it was an objec...

Me too. I wonder why people argue that. Then you can't say it is an objective fact that we can't go beyond subjectivity. That would be self refuting.

It is not an objective fact. After all you can't go beyond subjectivity remember.

I can't prove it to you. I am fine with that, as long as you agree that some things a true involuntarily and that it is practical to use measurements.

The point I am making is that, for practical purposes, some things are less subject to interpretation than others. The sooner you embrace this fact th...

Follow up question. If your life depended on it. Would you rather I simply interpret what is 6 ft, or use a tape measure?

Don't you agree that is why we use tapes, because they do not interpret?

You are not being very reasonable. Either tapes can interpret or they can not. Which would you say is the case?

There was someone on here that mentioned there are four different types of love I think that I agree with them from what they described. I think you a...

Yes but you did not answer my question. Do tapes interpret?

lol

Do you agree that tapes do not have minds and thus do not interpret what is being measured? If so wouldn't you agree that is the very reason for using...

No I measure with a tape, which does not have a mind. What that tape will measure does not depend on it's mind, it has none, so it does not interpret ...

I am 6 ft tall in the sense that this is what I will measure. Others, nor myself, cannot simply decide that this is not what I will measure. It is not...

It is not voluntary that I measure 6 ft, whether I measure or someone else does.

When I am measured.

I am 6 ft tall though.

I don't think that should be controversial. Everybody is irrational to some degree, we all suffer from cognitive biases. Nobody is completely rational...

I could argue that the RNC was stacked against Trump. But he still won the nomination. I don't understand why it is cheating to win more delegates tha...