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Well, you simply have to prove it in mathematics. If you show that either all or some the axioms of ZF are incorrect, then that is that's a positive b...
April 30, 2019 at 14:19
Maw is referring to the manufactured non-existent crisis that only Trump supporters and the anti-semite alt-right believe in. And that they have found...
April 30, 2019 at 14:00
Wrong. They do. The cardinality of aleph-null and aleph-1 is not the same. Really? So the bijection 1+2=3 you don't agree with? That isn't valid? Beca...
April 30, 2019 at 13:31
Well… what is your definition of a number? Numbers you see are used to measure something and when you have something that isn't measurable / countable...
April 30, 2019 at 12:24
And this is the most crucial thing to understand here. This has NOTHING to do with Post-modernists and Cultural Marxists and especially with snowflake...
April 30, 2019 at 09:27
Cantor avoids the paradox simply by having larger and larger infinities and not referring to the set of sets as you do above. The paradox is rigorousl...
April 30, 2019 at 08:52
But it sure works, because the institutions fear those PR shit-storms so much!
April 29, 2019 at 21:53
Virgins can talk about sex too, you know. And why not?
April 29, 2019 at 14:14
Objectivity I say. That you can test them if the assumption is correct or false.
April 29, 2019 at 14:11
I think it is extremely important to understand 'what is behind physics' and there indeed is a need for metaphysics. As the term itself is defined, yo...
April 29, 2019 at 13:26
Nietzsche and Heidegger post-modernists? _ _ _ Literary departments don't study philosophy, they use the views and methods of philosophers. In Philoso...
April 29, 2019 at 13:06
Scruton is a traditional conservative thinker and his hounding just shows that traditional English conservatism isn't so hip (never has been). What a ...
April 29, 2019 at 12:57
Learning typing is a somewhat regressive. It's these things that were you just learn by repeating the thing. You cannot sit an think and get the hang ...
April 27, 2019 at 08:27
Now that the Generation Z has reached the campus and makes it's own sillyness apparent, I always emphasize not to judge a whole generation by it's lou...
April 26, 2019 at 23:36
You obviously don't understand meritocracy and basic economics and actually my point about meritocracy. You see, a meritocracy doesn't mean every is j...
April 26, 2019 at 23:06
Do you really think that this is just about the elections? Fuck the elections. The Democrats are already a disaster. They have been that since the con...
April 26, 2019 at 09:44
How does it work for a Dutchman? Ah! I get it. The retreat to "every political issue is just campaign babble"-argument. Yes, there cannot be any, abso...
April 25, 2019 at 21:39
We are already doing away with physical money, with the cash and coins. Yet there are so many upsides to a monetary system than a barter system withou...
April 25, 2019 at 21:11
There was a time when you did have actual hereditary privileges. Yet there is a difference with having classes and having a caste-system. The problem ...
April 25, 2019 at 19:17
In the 60's it was typical in the leftist Finnish university circles to brag about finishing all volumes of Das Kapital. But it's an age old philosoph...
April 25, 2019 at 18:52
All that testosterone among young female teens today, btw. https://www.childtrends.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/youth-suicide-figure-2-2.png https:/...
April 25, 2019 at 18:43
Oh that's easy. For instance in Social History. You don't have to have any, absolutely no studies in philosophy, but in social history you do stumble ...
April 25, 2019 at 17:24
Yeah! Nietzsche told us about Master and Slave moralities. Those with the Master-morality had strong will and values like 'pride' and 'power' and were...
April 25, 2019 at 17:11
Oh don't be so modest. Even his absolutely terrible own administration and the hateful backstabbing people in it simply didn't implement his whackiest...
April 25, 2019 at 12:10
Starting from the students who are taught post-modernism, yet don't know anything else about philosophy. Besides, interdisciplinary studies demand too...
April 25, 2019 at 11:42
The unfortunate truth. This is why academia in the social sciences is dying a slow death. But that's what you get when you throw out objectivity as a ...
April 25, 2019 at 11:37
Until you get your democrat in power? I think the Presidency will manage on Trump.
April 24, 2019 at 21:14
Yeah well, not actually intended as a jab. :roll: But actually your point is one reason why we have this disparity. Things have gotten better especial...
April 24, 2019 at 19:49
Of course. That's this kind of inherent assumption. But it's better to start "In the US feminism is a response to disillusioned white women..". Women'...
April 24, 2019 at 19:33
First of all, Russians are extremely wary of media. They, the smart ones, are quite skeptical about the official line. Far more than Americans, actual...
April 24, 2019 at 16:20
'Is going'? You are referring to the former FSB-director and last Prime Minister of Yeltsin that rose to power by starting the Second Chechen War afte...
April 24, 2019 at 16:01
Politics with a defined practical necessity where the decisions don't have anything to do with the identity of the people. Is monetary policy about id...
April 24, 2019 at 11:30
In order to use anything that is 'post', one has to understand and know just what was before it, the thing before the 'post'. If you know modernism (a...
April 24, 2019 at 08:19
Don't be a simpleton (like Peterson) and think that Marxism and the actual Real-World implementation of Marxism are equivalent issues. This isn't abou...
April 24, 2019 at 07:56
I don't. Sorry if I look like that. OK, I watched the whole thing and thus I hope I'm not coming off being too concerned of this, but... There is the ...
April 23, 2019 at 23:37
Yet an important comment from Zizek was that "This isn't a competition". But of course the Tribalists don't care about that. Philosophy is about winni...
April 23, 2019 at 23:06
Here we go with the US centrism in everything... So what do you think about Feminist movement let's say in South Korea, with the minjung feminist move...
April 23, 2019 at 22:50
Who is a Marxist anymore? I think that there are many intelligent leftists here, but nobody in the Forum comes close to the old-school Marxists that I...
April 23, 2019 at 19:58
Taken what you said literally would be very condescending. They still were in the same Century, you know. Even if I'm not a huge fan of Stephen Pinker...
April 23, 2019 at 19:37
RT had a great article about the debate called ‘Crustacean Jung v Cocaine Hegel’: Zizek-Peterson debate blowout sparks meme war: https://pbs.twimg.com...
April 23, 2019 at 14:47
But wouldn't you agree, unenlightened, that what has happened in China is that kind of progress that you do accept? It genuinely has been about turnin...
April 23, 2019 at 14:41
Capitalism has come always in many flavors. Yet the amount of Chinese billionaires shows that indeed the Chinese system is a hybrid. To me modern Chin...
April 23, 2019 at 14:28
Not actually, Even if it is difficult for a clinical psychologist to understand a philosopher (who knows that he would be on thin ice if he would star...
April 23, 2019 at 06:45
I think Krugman misses one important point. That is that this debacle, which is a culminating triumph for the Russian intelligence services, is simply...
April 23, 2019 at 06:31
Well, that "great leap" indeed caused a famine that killed officially 15 million, and perhaps twice the number, yet I meant to say that after the last...
April 23, 2019 at 05:48
? I'm not trying to bully you. I just wanted to ask a question about how economic growth and the rise of prosperity do fit to the traditional narrativ...
April 22, 2019 at 18:48
Great answer. https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/wsfsmDNZ9WmmvvWRTKfuq4VJ1Orc8oyCdiMk-pHiTk_C7jq4K4QhkVFyso-xxtG3JnPX_qRAU6fAlK3h97cXb1AYjGs-2paP6BCjt3...
April 22, 2019 at 11:27
Oh I've listened to Mr Greenwald. Not only commenting this issue, but also how Mr. Greenwald defends the Venezuelan regime and how it hasn't done much...
April 22, 2019 at 11:24
There's a lesson in these comparisons: Do you know that the GDP of China was equivalent of the Netherlands in the 1990's? It actually was and earlier ...
April 22, 2019 at 10:53
I'm not sure what your question is about anyway. Thinking and physical movement or speech or quite separate things.
April 22, 2019 at 00:19