Reason magazine posted an interesting article about how gun rights were a part of the American civil rights movement. "I'm alive today because of the ...
Yes well that's the tricky part. The first generation sees themselves as part of the colonizers. A few generations later they don't. Even in the Ameri...
Too subtle for the room I see. Ok here's a version with a higher word count. A long time ago in a mythical land, a powerful empire had some colonies a...
Everything in the real world has two sides. How about clean air? Nobody in their right mind would argue against clean air. So I will. You can clean up...
EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not at my end. I thought it was funny. My sense was that English was not Sap's native language ... but it turns out that he is B...
Excessive literalism on the part of some. "So shoot me!" is not a command for you to shoot me, nor is it a request. It means "The hell with you if you...
I'm happy to discuss the grammar. I was officially instructing the moderation staff that if in the future I say something objectionable to them, I wou...
Since I am not the OP (hence I had no dog in this fight) I thought it was perfectly clear that I was making the general point that a forum operator sh...
Edison said genius was 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. If you wait to be inspired you'll never get anything done. Or as Flaubert said, "Be regula...
Pretty good example. You're right, to argue against your example I'd be forced into levels of sophistry I'm unwilling to embrace. Interesting that you...
I hardly know where to start with this chain of bad reasoning. Any physical property is objective? I'd give you Bishop Berkeley as a refutation. Or Pl...
Interesting point of English usage. It's a very common locution among American sportscasters to say something like: "If he doesn't fall flat on his fa...
So it's like Great Britain except that the king or queen picks the prime minister? I confess I don't see the benefit but I want to make sure I'm under...
OP can you give specific examples of subjective and objective things? Subjective things are easy to give examples of. I'd like to see you or anyone gi...
People should be more specific about vague goals such as world peace. Thought experiment. Remember the Star Trek episode where everyone wears a pain c...
That's a preference. "If you don't like me, ban me." That expresses my preference. If you're deliberately misunderstanding that in order to stir up tr...
I haven't followed this learned discussion in detail. But it's clear that evolution provided the means for a primate to type the complete works of Sha...
I expressed an opinion. I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm always up for a little friendly squabble but I can't understand your point enoug...
In my opinion I would rather have a post of mine deleted than changed. If you don't like what I write, delete me or ban me. But don't change my words....
You lost me there a bit. The uniform distribution is the line segment y = 1 between x = 0 and x = 1. Yes? I'm trying to translate my math lingo to you...
I don't know much about probability but I believe you. I'm not really sure what probabalists mean by randomness. Definitely not Kolmogorov et. al. Alt...
Analogy. When our ancient forebears looked up in the sky, they saw a mighty hunter with his bow. That was their science, that was there belief, that's...
Some can, some can't. Letting 1 stand for heads and 0 for tails, a sequence such as 1010101010... can be generated by the deterministic process "start...
I can not believe that this is the correct explanation. If a photon is capable of reaching the outer lens of a telescope; it is certainly capable of g...
American culture is deeply neurotic at the moment. Terrified of its own shadow. The usual suspect is political correctness. But I think there's anothe...
Sounds like psychopath logic. You attack some innocent person, subject them to horrible pain and suffering, and tell them, "It's for your own good. Th...
People say tech has a downside. Sure. But I like tv and high speed internet and automobiles and a huge variety of products on the store shelves enable...
Wait, harlots are male? What are their characteristics? How did that usage evolve to the modern meaning of harlot being an obsolete name for a lady of...
Ok I'll play the game. Baby Hitler and your cute little cat are in a burning house. You can only save one. I'll make this sharper. The adult Hitler is...
There's a lot of philosophy in this event. It's the philosophy of hype. Of "events." This is not a boxing match in its normal sense. Mayweather retire...
Well you know Mayweather's boxing style is as close to pacifist as a prizefighter can get. His body seems to adjust in real time to the entire space o...
People tailgating me on a four lane freeway. Happened again this morning. Dude if you don't like how I'm driving then pick one of the other three avai...
If causal chains must be finite then there must be a first cause, who is God. Now if Occam leads to the conclusion that it's simpler to believe in an ...
The conclusion violates premise 1. Therefore the chain of reasoning must be wrong. Also what do you mean by saying that "is very improbable that there...
Thanks for your comments. I disagree with you on three points, summarized as follows. 1. Even if I were using actual infinity, so what? After all, act...
Oh I see. Yes I agree that my objection applies pretty much to every logical argument. After all if I prove that the order of a subgroup must divide t...
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