Indeed. That's the point I was making. If we're only using 'true' like 'blue', limiting ourselves to that which we all agree on, we're not going to ha...
Sure, but that would be a really weird use of the word. Totally out of kilter with the way it's used at the moment so I don't think you'll get many ta...
Woah, you've jumped from a simple example with only one variable to this massive assumption in an extremely complex multi-variate environment. What ev...
I agree (using your 'labelling' type definition of 'true'). But if the definition were limited to the sort of thing about which there is such agreemen...
As I said. I think the likely collapse of civilization is a reasonable ground to deny a right. We can't very well justify a claim to something which i...
I don't see how this could be the case. If there was substantial disagreement about which things were 'blue' it would be impossible to learn how to us...
I'm not advocating such a thing. I'm asking how you are justifying your rejection of some of these claims. No, you noted a distinction. You offered no...
Yes, I think so. What people often think of as an exception to this is, say, if you'd heard a word "pegasus" you might sensibly ask "what is pegasus?"...
That was just an example. Maybe the cost is in R&D (maybe not, if you trust the BBC journalism), paying for regulatory checks, whatever. The point is ...
Telling someone they have problems with something 'super basic' when you know full well they are an intelligent adult just because they draw different...
Ah well, if it's 'true' then that's alright. I never thought of checking to see if my propositions were 'true'. Where did you go to get that checked, ...
Yes, but these don't help us resolve differences over rights, which extend frequently into areas of morality over which there is far less agreement. R...
Yeah, that's the whole point. You can't escape from forming a simple gut belief about whether some data is worth doubting. You talk about databases an...
Right. But basic moral intuitions don't help us with issues of rights because people disagree. Basic moral intuitions are not agreed upon. So if we ta...
O What if I said yes? To what are you appealing here? If I said, yes, not providing constant back massages is seriously wronging someone, you'd like t...
It's a tool for mathematical theorms. Hence it is pseudo-technical to suggest it could apply outside of mathematics. Unless someone in a technical fie...
Right, so despite having given some pseudo-technical garbage showing its not possible to personally verify either of the rival claims (which is what I...
OK We could do. As you just said, rights are claims on individuals or governments, there could be one to ensure citizens don't die from exposure. So w...
Hang on, just now it was nothing more than a list of wants. Now there's reasoning? Reasoning which can be good or bad too? OK. Apart from your own per...
Iii didn't ask you why you distrusted doctors, I asked you why you trusted these other sources. If western pharmaceutical companies are just out to ma...
But you'd just agreed that these are your preferences, comparable to the preferences of other for different things. Yet here you refer yours to your "...
And you trust the medical websites and search engines to provide you with a statistically viable sample? Why? You've tested them personally have you? ...
I think the distinction between positive and negative rights is spurious and usually just a rhetorical trick to make some rights sound more 'default' ...
Right, so as I said everyone sees government as defending rights, property and freedom. Its just that you disagree with others about what those rights...
Yes, but not at random. Only to defend the rights property and freedoms of its citizens. Economic interventions defend rights to employment, sufficien...
How are you defining 'legitimacy'? Legitimate just means allowed by law, but since you reject the authority of law I don't see how we can proceed with...
No, because the concept of 'ruling out/in' by deduction is incoherent in ontology. Even if we had evidence which contradicted their existence we could...
No, governments offer that situation to an electorate who mandate it. Take up your concerns with your fellow voters. No, again. Private service provid...
We can't rule anything ontological in or out by deduction. Deduction only deals in tautologies, we need induction from evidence to rule in or out some...
In some fields, the right and the wrong answers are matters that people, in general want to put to some purpose. People allow/support experts in engin...
Bullshit, it's just about believing a person's claim to have more experience in a field (ie having accumulated more data than you) because trusting pe...
Indeed. Now is definitely not a stable time. Well, no. You're stuck on two grounds 1. The people doing the teaching and the curriculum itself would be...
Sure, you could. But I didn't get the impression that you were seriously advocating it. I thought you were using it as a reductio absurdum argument ag...
Sure. I forgot the particular definition of emotion you were using. Much broader than the one I usually work with. So yeah, CBT is not going to change...
I'm glad you found an alternative solution which worked for you, but this is not the sort of thing you can just disagree with. It's a fact of psycholo...
That's as may be, though I've never heard such a simplistic argument myself. But you actually said ... so I was just responding to that. It's monument...
OK, got it. This depends on the timescale. One definitely can consciously choose to feel whatever, but the process of enacting that choice takes time,...
Uh huh. A much more 'mature' idea, I'm sure, although it does sound like it's done much of its 'maturing' inside the digestive system of breeding male...
Who's the 'we' doing the thinking, that isn't the 'human' in human nature? Emotions don't really 'care' about anything, they're most often conceived a...
I'd first think about why people need a leader at all. What is it about the nature of people in a society which prevents them from simply going about ...
No, schools are places to keep children occupied so their parents can work, if any learning takes place it's a bonus, and the subjects are those thoug...
1. Diversity is good for societies. 2. Massive medical/technological interventions which we think are fine at the time often turn out later to have ne...
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