Buckle up buckeroos... More people more problems. You're presuming that as our maximum number of geniuses grows out ability to take care of all the ex...
Actually there are all sorts of ways in which transgender people can benefit the species. First of all, it's important to consider that human beings d...
Skepticism cannot be completely defeated until we are in possession of absolutely certain knowledge of some kind, by definition. Until then, skepticis...
Regarding quality of life for the fetus, being aborted is usually interpreted to be a universal negative from their end. There may be extreme cases pr...
Interesting question, which for me has yielded less than fully satisfactory answers. If we're extending moral consideration to other beings because th...
I must confess I'm having a hard time understanding the logic that you're using. "Self" in the traditional sense (our discrete thoughts and experience...
I'm totally with you there. I don't hold solipsism as a belief nor would I advocate that anyone should. As a skeptical tool the fact that it could be ...
Oh my... "Post-truth": Post-truth politics (also called post-factual politics) is a political culture in which debate is framed largely by appeals to ...
I found something I wrote in my reply box around the time that you posted the thread but for whatever reason I decided not to post it (That happens to...
Keep in mind I'm saying we should not give consideration to solipsism beyond the hypothetical; we should not assume it. You say that if solipsism were...
I understand what you mean by saying that a realist framework (i.e "the other" pragmatically and semantically exists (per prevailing perception)) is r...
I don't understand why "makes sense" from a human perspective is is presumed to be an inherent quality of "objective reality"... Furthermore, the scen...
There are more than a few variations of solipsism, and not all of them reduce "the other" into incoherence. A kind of hard solipsism would be "Only my...
Short of massive and prolonged global recession, I don't think the world will continue heading toward de-globalization or more isolationism. One thing...
As far as I understand it, the succession from the union was indeed first and foremost about preventing central - or northern - authority from being e...
I don't know. I would probably feel angry personally if I was American, as if hoodwinked, but some people would be happy surely. It could lead to some...
I'm not exactly sure why solipsism is impossible as you describe it. As far as I can tell you say that "not-self" would be incoherent if solipsism wer...
You guys ever hear of "faithless electors"? As far as I understand it, the actual electoral college votes around December 13th or something. The popul...
10:50 pm Our sprites have given the most collegiate of tries Not least through constant and wanton spreading of lies. Whether we play a trumpet or pro...
Join me or a few brief moments on a journey into a mind so saturated with the ideas and ideals which have driven the creation of this thread that it b...
Well The Great Whatever, (Can I call you TGW?), the reason that I use the term "feminist" to describe myself is because the traditional academic femin...
In the complex system of today's national and global societies, racism certainly continues to play a role in influencing the outcomes of many individu...
Great post BC! I'm concerned that the greater economic realities at hand that contribute to many white and black communities' cyclical poverty might b...
I've clarified more times than I care to count that the term "sunrise" as I have employed it should be taken to mean strictly: "The sun's visibility w...
1.) Am I making a mistake by purchasing a form of media that objectifies women? A moral mistake? No. Presuming pornography is not inherently immoral, ...
What if the things which I perceive of as "not-self" are actually just works of fiction from my subconscious with no actual continuous existence beyon...
The brain in a vat scenario is useful to show that it could be the case that the sun (let alone sunrise), molecules, and atoms do not reflect or repre...
In my mind, (heh),The problem of an ill defined infinite regress inherent in solipsism makes it more difficult for us to make sense of things or to be...
You know very well at this point what I think; consistency in observation gives rise to an inductive argument that is the basis for the whole of scien...
If a hypothesis cannot generate or be used to assist in generating any testable predictions then we are unable to test it by observing the outcomes of...
I stumbled upon this while surfing ebaumsworld lastnight, (Yes I know, unforgivable), and while at first glance it seems campy and overblown or someth...
In theory he would have the power to call for his hardcore supporters to not accept the results when the time comes. He could cause tangible civil unr...
My operating system (windows 10) notified me via desktop pop-up the instant that Trump came out and said "I'll accept the results of the election if I...
How about that debate, huh, folks? It was nice to see them put more effort into making it seem like they were actually discussing politics (more so th...
According to Pew according to Trump "millions of people are registered to vote who should not be" and also according to trump "Hillary's people are te...
In the past we had predictive power yes, but science has given us more predictive power, and more reliable predictive power. Science is not useful onc...
Broadly, science deals with the physical world as a matter of study, whereas philosophy is a more broad term for many fields of study. Dathbarracuda i...
This is all so intriguing... Before the pussy grab remark video, the amount of animosity toward Trump at home across the entire globe (save in Russia ...
The problem that you're pointing out with the statement "the sun rises" (i.e: the sun doesn't actually rise) does not have anything to do with what I'...
The "sun" "appears" in the "sky" every "day". There's nothing untrue about this. The sun is visible each day from the surface of the planet earth. No ...
The pattern is that the sun is visible in the sky every day; that's the pattern, not the numbers or symbols we use to represent them. The sun appearin...
How does Einstein's general relativity contradict Newtons law of universal gravitational attraction? Say I want to figure out what trajectory and velo...
Could you give me a keyword to search in google so I can figure out how? I did provide an explanation of my position at least. Would you like direct l...
You are misunderstanding the point or claim that I made. I never said that the simple argument that the sun will rise tomorrow (from experience) was a...
"I don't wait; I just kiss". "When you're a celebrity they let you do anything, you can grab their pussy". In a vacuum I'm quite willing to defend the...
I'm not talking about "explanations", I'm talking about empirical observations. I was pointing out that measuring and recording the suns behavior (#1)...
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