Relativist

There ARE easy answers: gender-neutral restrooms, single occupant restrooms. Single occupant shower/changing rooms in gyms are also feasible. Trump is...

Of COURSE I don't want Trump to legislate on it, and his executive orders have created more problems. Too thorny for what? Too thorny to be solved? Th...

Trump's actions haven't solved those problems, it ignores them. For example, where SHOULD a transgender person go to the bathroom? Biological women ta...

This is ridiculous. The biggest problem with the gender identity issue is the intolerance that many people have with it. The only legitimate issue I s...

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That's B.S.. They've gone after anyone who was involved in the investigations and prosecution of Trump's crimes, and the crimes by those involved in 1...

So far, nothing relevant to the assassination has been found in this trove of documents, but it has revealed the social security numbers of hundreds o...

This demonstrates that Kash Patel is first a foremost a political operative. It's highly unlikely there were every any constraints on pursuing any of ...

This sounded to bizarre to be true, so I googled it. Here's one of the many stories that shows it's true: Donald Trump insults himself by slamming tra...

They shouldn't have been surprised. In his debate with Kamala Harris, he was asked if he wanted Ukraine to win the war. He refused to answer yes/no; h...

It looks interesting. I'll read it when I get a chance. The bibliography also lists some references that may also be helpful.

I imagine it entails pattern recognition: seeing the same image pattern against a relatively constant background. Artificial neural networks learn pat...

Do you condone Trump's blatant assault on free speech? ICE Arrests Columbia Student Who Helped Lead Pro-Palestinian Protests Trump seems to be conflat...

It's counter productive to attack CHIPS, because it's purpose was to wean the US of its dependency on China for semiconductor chips. As you said, the ...

Unprecedented political retribution.

If you set the world back to just before the decision point, all the factors that led to the decision would still be present - even mental factors tha...

Great! You at last agree that reductive physicalism is possible. Rewrite this while Incorporating the mind's "vertical causality. OK, that gives a con...

This treats strings as fundamental, consistent with reductive physicalism. But all these "laws of physics" are a consequence of the fundamental laws o...

As I said, same old tired crap. I've discussed all this with you before and showed how wrong you are.

"During her Jan. 15 Senate confirmation hearing, Bondi denied that she would engage in a politically motivated purge of the Justice Department..."Poli...

Same old tired crap. ssu was discussing Mueller, and you bring up a distorted view of the predecessor investigation - omitting the fact that it was mo...

For those who prefer to read rather than watch, here's NPR's fact-check: https://www.npr.org/2025/03/04/g-s1-50488/trump-congress-joint-address-fact-c...

You ask "what is faith?" There's no objectively correct answer. It would make more sense to ask what someone means when they use the term. Here's an a...

What accounts for this being possible? IMO, something must exist to account for non-actual possibilities. The alternative is to assume everything that...

I struggling to see a difference between Trump and dictators. There seems to be no impediments to what he chooses to do.

We all believe things that haven't been verified, so I don't think it's necessarily unreasonable to do so. Philosophers convince themselves of all sor...

Weird reaction. I was just describing the nature of faith: it's is incorrigible belief. Additional context is also relevant: 1) God's existence is log...

Some beliefs have emotional components, others don't. Most of us have no emotional attachment to the 4-color theorem or Goldbach's conjecture, and thi...

"Law of nature" = an aspect of physical reality; an aspect of the way the world actually is (whether we know it or not) "Law of physics" = a theory (d...

No. Rather, their faith would lead them to believe there's something wrong with the logical argument. Example: William Lane Craig was asked a hypothet...

That is a recent "red line" of Putin's, that Trump uncritically accepts. Go back a few years, and Putin expressed indifference to former USSR states j...

"Traditional" Republicans are anti-Russia, but they're pro-personal power. Trump's presence as President gives them power, but only if they support ev...

That's a perfectly fine approach, but ontology of mind will continue to be of interest to many philosophers.

I distinguished between the laws of nature (which are ontological) and laws of physics (epistemological; best guesses based on available data). Newton...

‘Putin Is on the Inside’: Shock as U.S. Caves to Russia in Cybersecurity Fight The White House is reportedly dropping Russia from its list of threats ...

Anselm, and everyone else who believes they can prove God's existence, "prove" only a generic sort of deity (in Anselm's case, based on "greatness"). ...

I've often found that theists place faith in arguments that "prove" God, instead of directly in God. When I've challenged their premises, they reverse...

You're sidestepping the issue. You need to explain to what extent you are the same person, and how you account for this, given that MoK begins to exis...

Under a theory of everything (TOE), the hypothetical different forces and particles would be local manifestations of that TOE. The TOE would be the fu...

Potentially, one of the many unintended consequences of the willy-nilly staff reductions: US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit di...

Over the years, Putin has showered Trump with complements (e.g. "an intelligent and experienced politician", "He behaved, in my opinion, in a very cor...

After today's meeting, Trump's approval ratings skyrocketed...in Russia: "As expected, the Russian government seemed thrilled over the public spat bet...

Correct, it's not identical, but there is a causal relation between consecutive temporal parts. No other object in spacetime has this unique series of...

I discussed my view (perdurance) earlier. Here's an article in the Stanford encyclopedia of Philosophy. Because they instantiate universals. Laws are ...

Sounds like a typical conspiracy theorist, who constructs an entire scenario in his mind, often in collaboration with others of a like mind. Facts are...

In one of his recent efforts to undermine rule of law, Trump has suspended enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Trade Practices Act. Americans and Ameri...

I didn't ask about intrinsic properties being preserved, I asked about how identity is preserved. It's relevant to your first premise: P1) Physical an...

It's relevant to the contradiction you demonstrated in this thread and the other:" the brain (or electron) goes from one state at time t0 to another s...

No, because it leaves too much to the imagination. You need to describe: - how you account for identity over time: what makes you the same person your...

I cannot make sense of your contradictions, because contradictions make no sense. Illustration: Consider a married bachelor. If he divorces and marrie...