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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Nietzsche and Heidegger post-modernists? _ _ _ Literary departments don't study philosophy, they use the views and methods of philosophers. In Philoso...
Scruton is a traditional conservative thinker and his hounding just shows that traditional English conservatism isn't so hip (never has been). What a ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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:/...
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 ...
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...
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...
Starting from the students who are taught post-modernism, yet don't know anything else about philosophy. Besides, interdisciplinary studies demand too...
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 ...
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...
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'...
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...
'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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I think Krugman misses one important point. That is that this debacle, which is a culminating triumph for the Russian intelligence services, is simply...
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...
? 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...
Great answer. https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/wsfsmDNZ9WmmvvWRTKfuq4VJ1Orc8oyCdiMk-pHiTk_C7jq4K4QhkVFyso-xxtG3JnPX_qRAU6fAlK3h97cXb1AYjGs-2paP6BCjt3...
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...
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 ...
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