Relativist

Nothingness is an abstraction mentally constructed from other abstractions: in particular, set theory. It is similar to the concept of an empty set. E...

No. Concepts are mental "objects", and the subtraction process is entirely a mental activity.

I don't see how there could be any. Nothingness is a concept that is mentally constructed by subtraction, but it has no real-world analogue.

Agreed- but the appeals will take a while, and (if elected) SCOTUS will find some excuse (possibly a good one) to keep him out of prison while in offi...

I agree: • SCOTUS will deny a former President has absolute immunity • Trump will be cash constrained at some point this year (not as early as you say...

The economy was doing well, and the summers weren't as hot. A President doesn't control either the weather or the economy. Regarding the economy, it w...

I disagree. The act of pondering could be a deterministic process and still not be an illusion. Peter Tse ("The Neural Basis for Free Will") has propo...

A God (defined as an omnipotent/omniscient being who intentionally created the world) provides a solution to all philosophical conundrums. If the worl...

The bold part seems equivalent to: Absolute nothingness is impossible because something exists. and Something exists: therefore absolute nothingness i...

Remember the "Trump Peace Plan"? It was a proposal "negotiated" by Jared Kushner and Netanyahu, that gave Netanyahu what he wanted, and virtually noth...

Are you predicting Biden will go to war with Iran before the election? Are you also predicting this would help his chances of getting elected?

Trump is promising a "perfect" border solution. Reminds me of his criticism of the (imperfect) Iran nuclear deal- he promised to get rid of it, and ge...

Dec 5, 2023: House Speaker Johnson is insisting on sweeping border security changes in a deal for Ukraine aid And now... Jan 26, 2024: Speaker Mike Jo...

I'm reading Robert Saplolsky's, "Determined - A Science of Life Without Free Will". I read some good reviews, but I'm finding the book extremely disap...

He defamed Carroll, and many other women who have accused him. And you're right, I don't like him doing that. What an odd thing to criticize.

As Carroll's attorney noted in her closing, less than 24 hours after the previous verdict, costing him a mere $5M, Trump again defamed Carroll. His di...

26 women are lying, while Trump's denials are beyond reproach, since he is always so careful to tell the truth. :lol:

Yes, it's totally irrelevant that Trump has sexually assaulted multiple women. Technicalies in the law should have protected him, and his right to deg...

$83M awarded to Carroll in her defamation lawsuit against Trump. The amount he was ordered to pay in the first trial clearly wasn't enough to shut him...

Consider Rob J Kennedy at 10AM yesterday. Rob had a set of unique set of properties unique from all others. This includes Rob's genetic makeup which m...

Define essence. In particular, are you talking about the essence of "humanness", or what constitutes an individual's essence (that which makes that in...

ROFLMAO!

If Biden were to declare a war, it would probably improve (isolationist)Trump's chances.

You should join a religion forum.

Sure. And you believe the facts are so obvious that there's no need to present the evidence and reasoning.

Oh my. I used to think you were a rational human being.

That is not the way everyone in the US views it.

Yesterday, I received a disturbing email from my Senator (the less crazy of two from Texas): Anti-Israeli rhetoric has spread like wildfire across soc...

The vast majority will have no problem making a choice between these two. A small percent will be disenchanted and either cast a vote for a non-viable...

Let me first clarify what I meant. I think intelligent Trump supporters could potentially grasp that certain things that Biden's done would be conside...

Still not clear, but I'd like to understand what you believe I'm getting wrong. I'm an optimist. I like to think that there are some Trump supporters ...

Good information. Thanks for the article.

Please clarify both these statements. I have no idea what you're saying.

Technically true, but an indictment for his mishandling of national security documents was highly likely before he announced. August 22, 2022 - Mar-a-...

My understanding is that delegates are committed by the time the convention rolls around. I guess they could vote to change that rule, but I doubt the...

It's true that everyone who thinks Biden's done a bad job is not likely to comprehend why anyone would think he did a good job. However, it's certainl...

Although there's a chance he'll be tried this year, there's very little chance the appeals will be completed. So I looked up the law on incarceration ...

Then it seems you have some level of trust in the system.

An initial state isn't an event, because an event is something caused by a prior state of affairs. I'll add more theory, to give us a scenario to disc...

No. It is a very real possibility, consistent with some interpretations of quantum mechanics. Some cosmologists have proposed models based on this. Un...

Not comparable. An initial state did not "begin to exist" within a state of affairs in which it previously did not exist. An initial state simply impl...

Fair point, there is potential for federal crimes, in addition to state crimes. However, DOJ investigated the allegations Trump made and informed him ...

Meta-laws are an unnecessary complication. It suffices to say that naturalism entails the fact that natural law accounts for all events in the world. ...

I'm 70 years old, and retired. During my working career, I worked for a time with a guy who would fondly reminesce about his high school days, when he...

I disputed this over many posts. Finally, I got it across to you: Yes, you did. See the bolded statement, above.

Still embracing those fraud myths, I see. No, it wan't in the President's official purview, because elections are managed at the State level. He had a...

My main point is that it's more impartial that a bunch of Senators. Their tendency is to vote with their party. No one is struck from the jury matter ...

These attempts consist of strikes, so they aren't selecting favorable jurors, they are only eliminating unfavorable ones. This process of competing in...

Out of all the things that could possibly exist, very few actually exist. So something that is merely possible, has a low probability of existing. Tha...

Seriously? You don't think efforts are made to select impartial juries? I could get someone saying it's not always sucessful, but there's no question ...