No, I don't think so. Me blaming myself and us (as a society, or community) blaming others are two different things. Once we act as a community (you s...
I've literally just said. There's nothing to counter. All you've done is tell us that something seems some way to you. It doesn't seem that way to me....
There's nothing to counter. You've told us what seems to you to be the case. I have no reason to doubt that it does seem to you that those things are ...
Again, the fact that Popper highlighted falsification issues with psychoanalysis (I presume that's what you're referring to here, I find 'tests' conde...
You were talking about issues which were considered fairy-tales at the time but later turned out to be true. That we can travel to outer space at that...
Freud did a lot of detailed and painstaking work to arrive at his theories. Later, even more detailed an painstaking work showed them to be wrong and ...
Yes, that's exactly it. Proving a theorem by the rules of mathematics is seen as irrelevant because the game is not to accept the rules and try to und...
I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. At a guess I'd say you're trying to make some point about the fact that many things we now think ...
Yeah, I think that's true. I see it as part of the whole uncertainty issue. I mentioned this briefly on the Lazerowitz thread. Socially, the rise of s...
No. The mere existence of two possible outcomes does not in of itself make the probability space 50/50. Consider a coin flip. There are three possible...
Go to 'Categories', pick the one you don't want to see, scroll down to the bottom of the page and there's a little eye. Just click on that and the who...
I was prepared to let all this garbage about God as an explanation on a par with the Big Bang slide, but misuse of probability is where I draw the lin...
I only really know enough about maths to enjoy the explanations given here, not to provide any of my own, but I do know about the psychology of crackp...
No, you've just misunderstood what systemic racism is. Any system which disadvantages a culturally defined group who do not have the power to rectify ...
What rich white kids are you talking about? The overwhelming majority of those protesting were from the affected community. This seems to be your only...
Why hasn't this shite been consigned to the fairy-story section (or philosophy of religion, as it's optimistically called)? I usually have this stuff ...
Fair enough, but that's not the impression I've got from any of the arguments here. The focus on the protestors is out of place. The established polit...
Again, this is arguing against something which is, by using the disadvantages of something which might be. Having a street protest might well delay an...
Why would they? They're angry, it doesn't mean they've somehow turned into unfeeling sociopaths. Where is this slippery slope fallacy going? Maybe we ...
I think you're seeing this too much as a tactical decision made in real time. The fact that riots work and the deliberate tactical choice to riot are ...
Yeah, maybe. If other methods don't work. It depends how unfair I think it is and how many people suffer as a consequence. Just because I'm arguing ag...
I don't think I do need to look it up, because it's probably Latin. Either way, you inferred that one should not make a negative judgement about a tac...
One can always use 'so far' as an excuse. It's a non sequitur because it's unfalsifiable. I've already linked the BLM demands. Here's a link. And here...
I expect it'd be because police admissions wouldn't allow it (Minneapolis police psychological testing actually dismisses a disproportionate number of...
Right, I'm not familiar with the history there, but presuming you're right, at the very least we can say that sometimes peaceful means work and someti...
. This was after media coverage, two lawsuits, a series of police complaints, letters to the mayor and weeks of peaceful protest. All with absolutely ...
Thinking implies someone who thinks and that someone is never part of the thought. You haven't improved matters by taking questions into the realm of ...
That's because for a lot of people, a meaningful question (in a social environment) is one which has an answer in a social environment, and as I've ju...
You make it sound like appeal to data was just an arbitrary add-on in materialist methodology, like its a choice as trivial as what colour hat to wear...
I didn't specify the origin of the racially motivated policies. It is without doubt that living in a systemically racist society promotes actual racis...
Systems put in place by people wanting to justify the economic disenfranchisement of a social class. Race only became the tool-de-jour because of the ...
Fair enough. I really don't think a couple of storefronts are that important that their destruction has to accompanied by a detailed and watertight ar...
Gosh you expend an awful lot of text explaining an argument that I neither misunderstood, nor contradicted. We can just leave out the entire chunk whe...
I see. Did you read the articles StreetlightX posted earlier by any chance? I think they detail the issue better than I have, but it's primarily about...
What makes you think a racist belief is necessary to start it? Right. Which would support my claim. Still not seeing the psychological effect you thin...
But surely hope isn't enough in the face of almost complete failure to progress at anything like the speed we'd like. I don't think it's sufficient ju...
I'm not sure how any of what you've just said relates to the position in your first comment to me, nor answers my question. I claimed that racist beli...
I'm not sure if I understand the question, but if you're asking what I think you're asking, then that would be a question about whether there exist ra...
I think this is wrong on both claims. Firstly it doesn't require a racist belief system to generate systemic racism. It only requires systems which do...
Wow, is that how the assignment of onus works? Based on which argument you personally find initially most plausible. You must be kept very busy indeed...
Again, I'm not asking for a reiteration of your position. I know you think the first three are correct. I know you think the last one cannot be inferr...
No you didn't. My question was quite clear. Of the four properties of the faculty 'reason' which I gave, your claim is that three of them can be infer...
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