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['Member']Joined: July 01, 2018 at 15:24Last active: July 08, 2019 at 12:234 discussions24 comments

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In: Do you think you can prove that 1+1=2?  — view comment
Assume that F and G are "attributes". Assume that beings have some combination of attributes. the number of beings with an attribute combination which...
March 01, 2019 at 23:09
In: How to interpret this mathematical assignment  — view comment
It is not "safe" to assert that a + (bc) = (a + b)(a + b) because, as you demonstrated, doing so necessarily also requires that c = (a^2 + 2ab + b^2 -...
February 24, 2019 at 13:50
In: Could the wall be effective?  — view comment
It's definitely a question that moves us in the right direction, because it highlights the false dichotomy between immigration and having children - b...
February 17, 2019 at 14:49
In: Could the wall be effective?  — view comment
History seems to suggest that, if demand remains constant, then increased costs to firms tend to be passed onto consumers. A wall will absolutely rais...
February 15, 2019 at 22:14
In: Where does sentimental value come from?  — view comment
If I were the car, then my possibilities might be diminished. For that reason, if I were a car, I might feel some apprehension about being purchased. ...
February 04, 2019 at 21:40
In: Where does sentimental value come from?  — view comment
I was tempted to use an additional example, one not based on motion of physical objects, because I feared you would interpret the motion example as be...
February 03, 2019 at 16:23
In: Where does sentimental value come from?  — view comment
My background is in physics/statistics, and I couldn't even tell you the difference between continental and analytic philosophy. I've definitely been ...
February 02, 2019 at 00:25
In: On the difference between freedom and liberty  — view comment
fair enough friend
January 31, 2019 at 20:55
In: Where does sentimental value come from?  — view comment
I'd argue calculative procedure enlarges the 'value' of value so severely as to make it useful in every context except the extremely narrowly defined....
January 31, 2019 at 20:37
In: Where does sentimental value come from?  — view comment
The approach does account for sentimental value as I understand it. For example, imagine a commodity X which can be used for set of purposes Ux and a ...
January 31, 2019 at 16:38
In: On the difference between freedom and liberty  — view comment
I'd love to hear what makes you think I haven't
January 30, 2019 at 23:14
In: Where does sentimental value come from?  — view comment
I'd like to replace the necessity of human judgement with the necessity of human knowledge. That is, I'd like to imagine that human valuation of an ob...
January 30, 2019 at 23:13
In: Where does sentimental value come from?  — view comment
I like to imagine value as emerging from broken symmetry; more specifically, from broken possibility symmetry. That is, different objects have differe...
January 30, 2019 at 22:59
In: Where does sentimental value come from?  — view comment
So you'd argue that the amount of sentimental value added depends on how highly people regard the past?
January 28, 2019 at 23:43
In: On the difference between freedom and liberty  — view comment
I'd argue that liberty is literally the opposite: that liberty is the means to delegate our freedom to representatives of our own choosing. When I app...
January 28, 2019 at 23:33
In: Threshold society vs. maximal society  — view comment
You touch on something really good here: I was originally going use the term "survival society" instead of "threshold society", but then I realized th...
January 28, 2019 at 23:29
In: Threshold society vs. maximal society  — view comment
I understand the argument behind thinking they're both attempting to fulfill needs, and that surviving is just the first stage of thriving - and in a ...
January 28, 2019 at 23:18
In: On the difference between freedom and liberty  — view comment
The colonial americans already had a representative in the sense that someone made their decisions for them (parliment), their issue was that their re...
September 02, 2018 at 13:17
In: Group action is the origin of representation  — view comment
That is true
July 04, 2018 at 14:55
In: Group action is the origin of representation  — view comment
Haha well in reality sometimes I make the move even if I don't believe the other wants me to, just in case I'm wrong. Even if I didn't, at this time I...
July 04, 2018 at 13:08
In: Group action is the origin of representation  — view comment
While true of course, I'm not sure how those first few things are relevant. Killing is just a word I chose because the supposed intention is to eat th...
July 02, 2018 at 14:29
In: Group action is the origin of representation  — view comment
Why is an absolute guarantee necessary? I'm not sure which part of my argument implies that. If acquiring the stag is only possible by killing it, the...
July 01, 2018 at 20:10
In: Group action is the origin of representation  — view comment
The answer to that depends on why two people are necessary to hunt the stag. If one person needs to distract the stag while the other person gets a be...
July 01, 2018 at 17:51
In: Group action is the origin of representation  — view comment
The assumption is that if that wealth is being transferred to you from another, then you are inherently grouped with that other, with the desired grou...
July 01, 2018 at 16:17
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