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Just a few more things I see: And right after that paragraph in question which is ambiguous at best and seems to be more about how they deal with the ...

You mean the same charter that says this? “Hamas believes that no part of the land of Palestine should be compromised or conceded, irrespective of the...

Agree with all of this. Don't forget Ehud Barak. I think he came the closest! But unfortunately, it was the failure of that summit with Arafat that, a...

:up: I guess my response is this: That being said, yeah absolutely humanitarian relief into Gaza should have been part of Israeli policy in the form o...

That being said, I joined this thread to root out biases on both sides. The Middle East/Israel is probably the most one-sided debates I see on these f...

See the rest of my post, as I think this was addressed.

But Gaza borders Egypt, not just Israel. Israel doesn’t occupy it in the sense it doesn’t have settlements nor political rule there. Rather, Israel ma...

Well put.

As with the surrounding Arab nations, they should not have used the territories and Palestinians as a pawn. Accepted immigrants/refugees as full citiz...

Look at the greater history of the region. Palestinians are not generally welcomed in other Arab countries for a variety of reasons. One reason in the...

And this is the narrative you had. But who created whom and is it Israel in a vacuum?

There were times pre and post 1967 where Egypt could have kept or took control back of Gaza. You may have missed my broader point regarding Egypt and ...

But he hasn’t called for that obviously and you just changed the focus which seems a red herring. Just the fact you “don’t know” seems pretty telling ...

Hey @"Baden", you didn't answer.

So is that the same moral equivocation of Hamas with the Palestinians? Granted it's realpolitik, but isn't that what everyone in that region engages i...

They wouldn't need to bomb the Israelis if they controlled the land, no? They would simply call for every in the street to kill every Jew they saw, pe...

Sorry, could you elaborate?

I would like to ask you though, being that you are not biased, do you think that if Palestinians had full control of Israel, every Jew would be in dan...

Why isn't Egypt taking in Palestinians? Are they going to open up borders? The point that they are simply helping the Palestinians make a stand by rem...

:up: Insightful summary of the history of that period (pre/post Oslo and the resulting actions taken by Arab neighbors against Palestinians). And exce...

Wasn't that all the car/suicide bombings during the peace process during/after the Oslo accords in the 90s you are referring to? :up:

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But again, that's changing the goalpost, as I was referring to before the 1948 war:

I'm not sure that really answered the questions of Hamas' emphasis on para-military (terror) operations above prosperity for its people. Seems one can...

Things to consider.. This is going to piss off both sides: 1) Violating your morals to punish those who violated morals, becomes its own contradiction...

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Indeed, I'd agree here. Evolutionary biology and anthropology can be a form of storytelling. You are making inferences that don't necessarily connect ...

So remember, this was specifically a critique of the Private Language argument. Wittgenstein's contention is that the foundation of language is commun...

Some refer to this concept as an "exaptation" rather than a specific adaptation. Chomsky supports this notion, suggesting that language's emergence wa...

:up: Wittgenstein is armchair philosophizing, of course it's not going to be the same kind of theorizing. I have a few issues: 1) Wittgenstein engages...

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The Exactly.

Sure, but when precisely that being begins, is the hard part. Is intentionality really qualitative? I would say it's a good contender for a point of v...

Just to be the devil's advocate here, but doesn't it seem plausible that only animals have the capacity for "qualities" (experience, a point of view)?...

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I like this summation. While I agree to an extent on Kuhn's idea of a shift in how language is used in scientific revolutions, I don't know if incomme...

I believe I did.

Drop the mic. Everything is solved.

You asked, I answered why the juxtoposition. I am explaining the juxtoposition.. meaning, presumably why we can't (seemingly) have both.

Just my two cents but scientific naturalism doesn't allow for something akin to panpsychism. Its purely relational equivalent of pansemiosis is all pa...

Indeed, and I would go to these subjects to answer questions about how humans developed and use language. I would perhaps philosophize rather on the n...

Philosophy doesn't have to be about what one can prove empirically. It should be thought of as "avenues of looking", synthesis of ideas, or one's "ins...

Much of modern philosophy is trying to wrangle in previous philosophy from "going too far". Putting limits, whether that be language or the mind or ex...

Right. I'm saying how do you justify social entities like community outside of individual perceptions of what the community is, means, etc. There is a...

Hehe. Well that itself is a different axiom than the axiom of hinge propositions... Everyone puts down their flag somewhere I guess. https://www.youtu...

Yes, I meant it like that. What I was referring to with "belief" was the list you had (Platonism, nominialism, etc.). That is what I meant by he was n...

To me it seems arbitrary one builds their axioms there. Go further.. Dig. If you say that there is a limit, that is one position out of many.. Believe...

Good question but I’m asking it on the strictest metaphysical sense not just what it’s meaning is.

Other people is a reification of an idea.

Really? So psychology, sociology, and anthropology don’t contribute theories for this? How do you get out of circularity of what community is? Whence ...