I think this is the main problem here when we start from the logical premiss of "the future is what really will happen". To change the future assumes ...
Clausewitz said it well: "The political object—the original motive for war—will thus determine both the military objective to be reached and the amoun...
I agree with this. Specifically going after the combatants and simply denying them any territory from which to operate is already quite decisive way t...
WW2 should be remembered really, as the name says, as a continuation of WW1 or the end result of WW1 and the afterward made peace. Losing WW1 is the r...
Surely the German leadership would have preferred to that especially in 1945, but here again one has to remember that WW1 had happened. A negotiated p...
Theoretically it's totally possible. Of course in order to prevent this democracies do have constitutions and these can either not be changed or deman...
This is true, for example Switzerland, a quite stable democracy, had it's later Civil War in 1847 the Sonderbund War. Hence being a democracy (or a de...
For the worse, actually. It's telling that the ICC court now found both the Israeli leadership and the leadership of Hamas guilty of warcrimes. And bo...
Well, when it came to Poland, Stalin had been an ally to Hitler. So by his standards, that was a totally reasonable possibility (which many Nazis in t...
I think the laws of war are quite clear on this case: if a combatant uses an otherwise restricted area as a fighting position, let's say a hospital or...
Sounds more like the present sanctimonious propaganda of trying to give an excuse why population centers should be bombed in the first place. Because ...
Naturally after the "darkest hour" had passed, nobody will admit that they were for negotiating with mr Hitler. In fact, any possible attempts to end ...
We are talking here in the context of WW2 about the strategic bombing campaign. Naturally the industrial base of the military industrial complex is a ...
I wouldn't think of Elon Musk and the like as "entrepreneurs". It's YOU who make this reference. The corporations Musk and some Bezos are the head of ...
In history, using counterfactuals (what if's) is actually a way to think about actual reality that happened. It is using the history itself to answer ...
Well, a lot of the actual workforce in every country are those valuable "parasites", as you call them. Nearly one fifth of the workforce in the US are...
Read carefully: he advised to use chemical weapons. And therefore yes, someone that has advise the use of chemical weapons makes it clear how he does ...
Churchill himself advised to use mustard gas on Iraq rebels, so you don't have to assume here that Churchill would have had to be encouraged to use th...
That's my main point: the idea that in some hypothetical situation usually should mean that this has something to do with reality. Otherwise it would ...
This fallacy goes around and is very popular (with the like's of @"BitconnectCarlos" and the type). First, abstaining from warcrimes simply doesn't hi...
Oh no, that's not it. I'm just saying that it cannot do what it doesn't do. This is the law of non-contradiction: it states that contradictory proposi...
Reading a lot does have effects, hence the stereotype that those that read much have glasses. And audio books are a great way to use time for instance...
NATO was formed because of the actions of the Soviet Union. Hence that misses the point as obviously East Europe at that time didn't have the ability ...
But "unfortunately" NATO has a charter and there is this article, number 10: And there were enough Eastern European countries feeling threatened by Ru...
That's what Ukraine hopes to do also. Holding a victory march in the Red Square isn't the objective. And what's the difference here? We were talking a...
That's the deterministic model of the universe, which Laplace's demon ought to easily calculate. Just remind yourself what Laplace is talking about: h...
That's the peril, Vera, our devices are too convenient. With the computerized feed back of the customers to those who make the apps and the algorithms...
But do notice that Laplace isn't using the metaphor demon/daimon! It's only afterwards others have referred to a demon. Laplace refers only to an inte...
Well, I'll hope this will be such an astounding victory like the Winter War was for Russia. And I'm sure to have found people like you saying so then....
Do notice the time when Laplace lived: the Scientific world view was quite Newtonian and causal determinism was quite mainstream. And notice that he d...
Oh @boethius, just like you two years ago wrote: Well, two years have gone from that remark from you and uh..., oh well. I think we know you and for w...
:snicker: The victorious Russian Army simply goes onward from triumph to triumph! But seriously, Russia does have this year a window of opportunity, b...
This is what Laplace thought is "all" that needed. But Laplace really missed the point that a forecast of the future can have an effect on the future,...
There's ample stats from the Finnish Statistical bureau (Statistic Finland). By their stats ALL kind of reading (not only books) has decreased from ov...
Well, that's basically my point. And do note that Laplace really didn't make this point at all. Yet notice, that isn't actually something that has bee...
I'm not sure that Laplace himself thought so. His idea was this kind of idea of extrapolation to the extreme, if an entity would have all the informat...
Oh no, basically they are all electronic books. But then again, a lot of the courses are simply a mish-mash of books and a web course. It's actually h...
Just how much they back will be interesting. Because do note that this isn't an alliance: attack on Iran doesn't trigger anything, as an attack on let...
Despite the tough rhetoric, actions now show how the US simply doesn't want end up with a quagmire of war with Iran. Because there's obviously the que...
It's not even predictable to the demon, if the demon is part of the world itself and has to interact with it. You don't need to assume the quantum rea...
As now the dust has settled, seems that Iran-Israel have played well the de-escalatory responses. Neither lost face in the domestic scene. After the i...
Yet the system collapsed. After Hoxha died, his successors accepted the reality around them, had even multiparty systems. And then communism simply ga...
If there's still some amateur philosopher like me that hasn't either read a lot or all of Dennet (but just something) or doesn't have the he time to r...
When it comes to the EU, one simply has to understand that the bickering is simply structural when you have so many sovereign states trying to form a ...
Well, then I guess how about "Heated Political Discussions" category? With enough bitter disargeement and near flaming, a thread would get there. Actu...
Indeed. As interesting to consider this thought experiment is, this simply isn't a paradox. Perhaps we all are, who don't see a paradox. :smile: And w...
In politics, really, how are you going to moderate that? If someone doesn't follow the site guidelines, that's it, those are the guidelines. Otherwise...
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