Great article. I recall there were 2 outside consulting firms that were hired to search for fraud (Berkeley is the other). Political speech is general...
Very interesting post! I disagree that "all knowledge turns out to be about how the mind represents the world, not the world itself". Our internal rep...
I don't understand what you're saying. "Inference to the best explanation" is a form of abductive reasoning. It entails consideration of explanatory h...
The starting point, for a physicalist, is the basic, innate belief in a world external to ourselves, one that we perceive a reflection of through our ...
Truthmaker theory (as explicated by David Armstrong, the patron saint of Physicalism) provides a grounding for logic. A physicalist metaphysics is not...
I agree with Mww, but add that it's grounded by the fact that (IMO) physicalism is an inference to the best explanation for the known facts of the wor...
Explain why you refer to Kirshner's tweet as "propaganda". (def: information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publiciz...
You parrott Trump's nonsense about a "Russia Hoax", unable to refute the facts I gave you. How is that an appeal to authority? Use of the term seems a...
I've already shown you that the only "Russian hoax" was the one perpetrated by Trump. Understandably, you didn't respond, because deep down, you know ...
There are no quotes that depict Joe telling a lie. Sure, he used the talking points for his political benefit, just as Trump used the NYPost story, an...
Everything you just said is vague. What lie did the inteligence experts tell? "The White House" was the Trump administration at the time. What specifi...
Your vague reference to "they" suggests you are conflating actions by a variety of people and organizations. Point to an individual who knowingly stat...
If naturalism is true, and there are laws of nature, I suggest the true natural laws would be invariant. The way they manifest might be contingent on ...
You've conflated actions by social media organizations, the BIden campaign, and former intelligence officials.There's no evidence of any conspiracy, d...
The laptop was dirt on Hunter, and contained nothing that impugned Joe's integrity. That his campaign would seek to minimize the relevance of that dir...
The laptop contained one email that indicated Biden had met one Burisma executive. That's all it said, and there's been no evidence since then of it b...
It would be interesting to discuss what was actually done, why it was done, and what mistakes (if any) were made. However, it contained no information...
What "truth" was there to be afraid of? The NY Post article was available, and I read it at the time. It made Hunter look terrible, but he wasn't runn...
I feel safe in predicting that Biden will again win the popular vote... But it remains to be seen if he can carry the swing states he needs to win. Bi...
What worries me more are those who believe it doesn't matter who wins, because both candidates are flawed. They may sit out, vote for a 3rd option, or...
Changing the law is part and parcel of democracy, just as is contesting elections through legal means. What's not part and parcel is trying to overtur...
It's not mere insufficient knowledge of neuroscience. It just doesn't seem possible to account for certain aspects of consciousness through natural me...
GOP do not consider Trump a "proven loser" (70% believe he won in 2020), a majority are delighted Roe was overturned, and Trump's indictments just fir...
At this point, it seems a majority of the GOP want him to be the candidate, and believe he will win for the 3rd time. Losing the case against Carroll ...
It's logically possible that abstract objects exist, but their existence is metaphysically impossible if physicalism is true. In general one would jud...
No, it's Russia's fault. Ukraine was neutral when Russia invaded in 2014. Russia had signed the Budapest Memorandum in 1994 (along with the US and UK)...
Nonsense. Putin couldn't countenance a pro-West Ukraine. Ukraine has been moving toward the West since 2004, when the pro-Russian President (Yanukovyc...
Ukraine has been fighting against Russia's occupation of Crimea since 2014, a move Trump praised at the time, and actually parrotted Putin's assertion...
Any failings of Biden are related to one's judgments of policies he's implemented or failed to implement. Trump is a fundamental threat to our system ...
Children grow out of it only because they aren't constantly surrounded by enablers. There are tens of millions of enablers for Trump and Lake. The Tru...
Regardless of who appointed them, the "Conservative" Justices embrace the principle of Originalism. Sedition seems moot; the 14th Amendment refers spe...
Regardless, the mere fact that no one challenged his candidacy doesn't imply he was actually eligible to be President. Further, the mere fact one is i...
No, Debs was convicted of sedition, not seditious conspiracy. Even though it wasn't parallel, let's assume Debs' case made him technically ineligible ...
That would never have survived SCOTUS review. The Confederate States had left the US, so attacks on them could not be considered insurrection against ...
From a practical standpoint, 6 justices would have been needed to expedite. From a legal standpoint, the reason it's rare to expedite is because the a...
Yes, and courts determine what the law means. There is no law that defines what constitutes a rebellion or insurrection. Colorado violated neither the...
Great points. Further, it's not even clear to me what SCOTUS can do here. The Colorado Supreme Court ruling pertained specifically to Colorado law - w...
[ The only "lie" allegation I'm aware of is Joe saying he wasn't involved with Hunter's business, despite being put on speakerphone greeting Hunter an...
I don't think there's any possibility SCOTUS will rule Trump ineligible, with or without that verdict. He's not charged with insurrection, so he can't...
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