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We predict the force of gravity between two objects by looking at their mass and the distance between them. This is physics 101. We don't know what gr...
October 15, 2016 at 19:50
I must admit I am kind of confused... Did trump actually confess that he is a sexual predator? Or are you referring to the pussy grab remarks?
October 15, 2016 at 19:33
It's pretty much a sure thing at this point right? We need to buckle up and accept the fact that it's Hillary's turn. How history will remember her pr...
October 15, 2016 at 05:34
It seems fairly apparent now that Trump's campaign is a goner. It turns out that that sex and the condoning of vague sexual aggression is the worst th...
October 15, 2016 at 05:24
The pattern is inherent in the numbers though; in the data; in the observations. In the most basic argument saying "the sun will rise tomorrow", the o...
October 15, 2016 at 02:56
Well they had to bend their false models to comply with observations in order to be able to make reliable predictions, but you're missing the point. T...
October 14, 2016 at 05:28
Regarding "the sun will rise tomorrow" as a statement of fact, let's try to remember that this not an example of deductive reasoning, it is an example...
October 11, 2016 at 03:20
The "sun rising" every day is a great example of a strong cumulative argument.which requires very minimal technical or absolute depth in reasoning or ...
October 10, 2016 at 09:25
That debate though... It really blurs the lines between comedy and tragedy...
October 10, 2016 at 08:45
I really don't want to defend trump here, the point I was making was that what trump was describing is not necessarily a description of sexual assault...
October 10, 2016 at 08:38
There's no proof against solipsism; perhaps the thing of which we are most certain of is actually our own prevailing lack of absolute certainty. When ...
October 09, 2016 at 21:36
Hillary is just as big or bigger of a flopper though, and according to the recently leaked "wall street speeches" she has both a real and a private po...
October 09, 2016 at 21:18
well, if he can be convicted of sexual assault, that might be one thing (to be honest it might not even actually disqualify someone for the presidency...
October 09, 2016 at 20:54
I gather that you really dislike trump and all, but do you honestly think that "2 billion worth of free air-time" is a fair point to make? Two billion...
October 09, 2016 at 20:32
How can a man with hands that small be president? What is he gonna shake Putin's baby toe? That's not classy. In all seriousness though, no, sex scand...
October 09, 2016 at 06:04
Descartes cogito ergo sum was the first un-doubtable truth that he came to (IIRC) in his process of attempting to doubt everything (and thereby come t...
October 09, 2016 at 05:33
Eyeballs and Enzo Ferraris are really very "absurd" things. When I was young I could not fathom how such absurd things could come into existence and I...
October 07, 2016 at 21:18
The reason why the statement contradicts itself is that it's first premise "There is a phenomenon called "thinking" ", is mutually exclusive from it's...
October 07, 2016 at 06:12
The hard problem of existence (what cogito ergo sum purports to satisfy) is a bit different than the hard mind-body problem, which is in one sense the...
October 07, 2016 at 04:25
Someone should erect a PF funerary/memorial/eulogy thread where we can say our piece, reminisce and rant about the good old days.
October 05, 2016 at 05:53
It's well fucked guys. Tits up. IT'S A GONER! If anyone has content they put a lot of work into on the old forum, what you can do to try and recover i...
October 03, 2016 at 22:46
I wonder how you would have approached this comment had you not known that I was a man... Can you even imagine how you might have responded if you did...
September 26, 2016 at 21:44
Reading that paragraph is as a soothing balm on an open wound :) More universities are going to start following suit, not only for their own protectio...
September 26, 2016 at 03:53
Just want to leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMkWxN8wWLM This is a striking example of many of the problems I've sought to describe.....
September 25, 2016 at 23:18
Complexity science and morality, especially if I get to mix the two.... For the last several years I've been trying to piece together a full blown "mo...
September 22, 2016 at 09:46
The problem with using "white supremacist patriarchy" as a description of disparities rather than a description of the cause of those disparities is t...
September 14, 2016 at 08:32
For all intents and purposes this discussion is feminism's ambit. I'm a feminist, you're a feminist, and we seem to disagree; the present discussion i...
September 14, 2016 at 08:15
Here in this thread, yes, we're having a conversation about feminism itself rather than feminist issues, but you must understand the point I am raisin...
September 14, 2016 at 06:51
Greetings StreetlightX, fellow male feminist here! I too wield the sensical and uncontroversial definition of feminism and liberally apply it to mysel...
September 14, 2016 at 05:46
Satire has been as oxygen to me of late, especially with respect to the current topic of discussion. Of course, that is eminently due to the fact that...
September 14, 2016 at 03:14
So you're essentially saying "we should not trust Vagabond's arguments because his penis makes him less aware". Nobody should "trust arguments"; we us...
September 12, 2016 at 21:09
Umm, I tried to reply to your post but I accidentally hit "flag" and now I cannot un-flag :( Sorry about that! But regarding "virtue". The anti-"regre...
September 11, 2016 at 22:04
I had a trouble understanding the main thrust of the entire talk. It's main focus is colonialism and only a few times goes into any specifics regardin...
September 10, 2016 at 22:32
Glad you found it useful, I only wish that it was possible to go more in-depth without basically writing an entire book on the subject. The speed with...
September 10, 2016 at 09:07
This particular game of uproar came about as the result of the kinds of ideologies I described becoming over-internalized. Keep in mind that the woman...
September 10, 2016 at 06:30
Most women actually do not call themselves feminists, and of the minority of women who do consider themselves feminist, many wholeheartedly reject rej...
September 09, 2016 at 21:44
I've had my ear to the digital ground specifically in regards to how feminism has been manifesting online for over a year now. It's really difficult t...
September 09, 2016 at 06:13
This is a phenomenon that I've encountered in my own moral and ethical reasonings which I first became aware of through a maxim that I have never been...
September 07, 2016 at 21:56
Let's take a closer look at each of the criterion you have mentioned: 1) Restriction of opportunity. No part of the American legislative or economic s...
August 28, 2016 at 04:44
How rotten? You say that American hypocrisy pisses you off because America's disregard for it's horrible history of treatment of blacks is not all ove...
August 27, 2016 at 22:12
All I'm asking for is some kind of measurement of racism within the system. You have qualified racism as being a component of the system we live in, b...
August 27, 2016 at 21:14
I would like clarification on whether or not police arresting a black person is necessarily racist... If a black cop arrests a black man, is that stil...
August 25, 2016 at 20:11
Your point is that the police arresting black people, regardless of why, is racist? What is racism? Is police arresting a white person, regardless of ...
August 25, 2016 at 05:20
It's interesting that you suggest economic factors might play a role in causing higher crime rates in poor communities; that's what I've been doing in...
August 25, 2016 at 05:13
For a series that portrays itself as a "decoder" of controversy, it really does a poor job of doing so. The speaker in the video very passively acknow...
August 24, 2016 at 22:31
Without getting into a discussion of broad economic theory, the point I was making is that the minimum wage has not risen comparably to inflation and ...
August 24, 2016 at 21:44
Frankly it is very easy to deny your direct experience because my own direct experience contradicts it. The kind of evidence I'm looking for is two fo...
August 24, 2016 at 21:19
The way you say it though, "police are quite literally out to get black people", is unnecessarily divisive and somewhat misleading given the larger co...
August 24, 2016 at 20:35
"Culture is the presence of history"... So you're not saying that all white people are inherently prejudiced, just that white culture itself is prejud...
August 23, 2016 at 23:18
I actually discuss the Friar study in the second post of this thread. Having read a fair bit of it myself it does make many acknowledgments toward the...
August 23, 2016 at 22:00