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Granted it seems intuitively accurate, but what logic prevents it? You could cut a square out on the back of a circle. And argue which side defines th...
October 13, 2024 at 22:12
Perfectly round with four corners.
October 13, 2024 at 21:50
I agree with both statements in acknowledging the difference between logic as a transmission protocol and logic as it happens about the mind. Saying o...
October 13, 2024 at 16:29
Specifically, it's provided by Statistical mathematics which reaches for an approximation to the truth. Which is probably why it's reliable, unlike sy...
October 13, 2024 at 15:37
I think we have to differentiate "doing science" and presenting scientific evidence. Inspirational moments and the willingness to try anything isn't t...
October 13, 2024 at 04:30
Drop in after a couple years to concede your point on knowledge and find you discussing Popper and Russell. Anyways, you're probably right. Whatever t...
October 13, 2024 at 00:52
It seems like it would be within civil liberty to start a religion. I wouldn't recommend it, but I wouldn't oppose it.
October 20, 2023 at 17:21
We defined knowledge as perfectly true and then decided we could rationally doubt anything.
October 18, 2023 at 21:23
It was a deliberate weapons test. They even avoided bombing the city earlier in the war so they could better measure the outcome. The bombs purpose wa...
October 18, 2023 at 20:16
I did and then you decided this all only applies to the limited context of "places divided by sex". I was trying to clarify your context. You said in ...
June 04, 2023 at 19:51
So, your entire argument is regarding the caveat moments such as dressing rooms and bathrooms?
June 04, 2023 at 15:03
Do you run around tearing wigs off of bald people? Do you refuse to acknowledge that they appear to have hair? Same difference. It's rude to point out...
June 03, 2023 at 22:05
Oddly enough the last two times I had to comply was to avoid the homeowners association community management company for towing it away from my own ho...
May 16, 2023 at 16:04
It seems like people will go out of there way to be legally compliant. I have to get the vehicle I drive inspected knowing there's nothing wrong with ...
May 15, 2023 at 01:07
Do people value truth? In the sense of ideals, certainly. In application it's contextual. If they are trying to dismantle a bomb then the truth of whi...
May 14, 2023 at 22:42
The Mona Lisa is just a painting of a girl.
October 29, 2022 at 19:45
Odds are when I wrote this last year; I had accepted the premise that philosophy needed some sorting out(missing the point). She's making the same poi...
October 10, 2022 at 22:39
I never had to reference a Sanskrit dictionary before, so kudos. You run into a bit of a problem with a declaration of we can't distinguish real vs un...
October 01, 2022 at 19:28
It would have to be a pretty lousy simulation if the people in it were constantly pointing out they were in a simulation. Really, at that point it cea...
September 30, 2022 at 20:44
He's bending solipsism a bit toward participatory realism. It's right in the sense it's his particular view on the matter. You are correct in saying t...
January 01, 2022 at 18:12
I should clarify the point. The belief that free will is historically an affirmative indication of a theist world. Not simply that one implies the oth...
December 30, 2021 at 22:37
If we're content in treating the matter as a deliberately unresolvable philosophical soccer ball, then perhaps. Best I can tell is that free will is r...
December 30, 2021 at 18:14
If there is no free will then we are holding people accountable as a product of determinism(or insert variant x). Really, it's an attempt at reductio ...
December 30, 2021 at 17:29
They assume God's got a really good reason they can't understand. Probably don't want to get tortured. It's kind of a hostage situation.
December 23, 2021 at 19:12
Probably mobility. The inability to leave the places suffering the effects of everything mentioned.
December 22, 2021 at 03:24
I'm trying to find a primary motive. You have some imagined debate between pro and anti "equality". You haven't presented an argument or thesis yet. I...
December 21, 2021 at 17:01
It's an attempt to justify inequality with genetic basis. Instead of saying a minority group is disadvantaged from centuries of oppression OP would pr...
December 21, 2021 at 04:56
Wouldn't the concern be a function of the genes you carry and your counterparts family history regarding genetic disorders? This is rather specific. I...
December 20, 2021 at 19:19
Qualia is useful for thinking outside the box while in the box.
December 20, 2021 at 16:14
And you want to determine their sameness? Or just place arbitrary value judgements on differences that you find appealing? Somewhere in-between perhap...
December 20, 2021 at 16:09
The title says the modern equality movement. A movement is not a methodology of discourse. I'm not sure what a methodology for discourse would be outs...
December 20, 2021 at 14:23
In the rare case one compares population genetics such as the outcomes of a cultural tendency toward inter-family marriages the term "equality" still ...
December 20, 2021 at 12:51
Glad to be of service then.
December 20, 2021 at 03:08
I agree, but does "mainstream" vegan doctrine?
December 20, 2021 at 03:08
Honestly, I need to give the matter more thought, but I have a few first impressions. Imposing or labeling other people's moral choices with your judg...
December 19, 2021 at 22:44
It's not a scientific statement. It's an a priori for a legal framework. It has an implication that all people are owed a reasonable degree of fairnes...
December 19, 2021 at 20:42
I commend the reasonableness of your discourse. Some people choose to "double down" on an emotional argument and I can see you're willing to consider ...
December 19, 2021 at 20:04
Is "torture" a less loaded word or do you have a novel definition of this as well. Best I can tell is you don't believe you.
December 18, 2021 at 23:43
Maybe it's just unreasonable to take an absolutist position and then hold everyone else to it. The idea of not using animal products is fine with me. ...
December 18, 2021 at 22:34
It's dishonest to label every pain felt by animal for the production of food as "cruelty". It merely serves as shock value to gain a false moral posit...
December 18, 2021 at 18:52
I think it's the part where you tell other adults what they should and shouldn't eat that gives veganism a cringe twitch. The constant equivocation be...
December 18, 2021 at 18:01
I wouldn't say "hate" vegans. It's just that what one consumes is inescapably ego-centric. So, involving others in a self-important or judgemental way...
December 18, 2021 at 05:31
Fair enough. We didn't make hate speech laws is that what you referenced in the Op? Our right is convinced being kicked off twitter is a violation of ...
December 18, 2021 at 05:26
Equality movement was racist white people offering to pretend other people weren't different. The present equity movement acknowledges and values diff...
December 18, 2021 at 05:17
Thinking a lower interest rate on a marked up vehicle is advantageous exhibits a misunderstanding of the auto market. I'd rather buy a depreciated car...
December 18, 2021 at 04:52
1. You can refinance a loan on a used car and get the interest rate pretty close to what you'd see on a new car. If you're paying high interest now I'...
December 17, 2021 at 16:51
I think a fair number of people argue for sport and enjoy the ego boost of imposing an argument they have learned to make; similar to studying a chess...
December 16, 2021 at 17:35
I go a step further and argue "randomness" is a strawman that disposes of the concept of 'will' for the sake of argument. Fundamentally, the world is ...
December 16, 2021 at 16:30
The basis for determinism; such as the planets going around sun. The physical forces are overwhelming enough to rule out alternate paths and the subje...
December 16, 2021 at 16:06
Never hear people mention the under reaction happens on an exponential curve and the over reaction on a logistic curve. When something fails to contai...
December 15, 2021 at 21:35