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In: Truth  — view comment
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...
February 02, 2020 at 21:35
In: Truth  — view comment
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...
February 02, 2020 at 21:33
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...
February 02, 2020 at 21:31
In: Truth  — view comment
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...
February 02, 2020 at 19:27
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...
February 02, 2020 at 19:23
In: Truth  — view comment
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...
February 02, 2020 at 18:36
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...
February 02, 2020 at 18:32
You didn't extend me the courtesy of explaining how I'd gone wrong.
February 02, 2020 at 18:12
In: Truth  — view comment
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?"...
February 02, 2020 at 18:12
Cool. Well you're tripping up on the basics.
February 02, 2020 at 18:06
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 ...
February 02, 2020 at 18:05
Telling someone they have problems with something 'super basic' when you know full well they are an intelligent adult just because they draw different...
February 02, 2020 at 17:02
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, ...
February 02, 2020 at 16:56
No. Just no. Proceed to whatever source of insight you trust and start over.
February 02, 2020 at 16:41
In: Truth  — view comment
How can one formulate a question about truth without knowing what truth is?
February 02, 2020 at 16:39
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...
February 02, 2020 at 16:31
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...
February 02, 2020 at 16:19
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...
February 02, 2020 at 14:31
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...
February 02, 2020 at 14:19
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...
February 02, 2020 at 13:01
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...
February 02, 2020 at 10:09
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...
February 02, 2020 at 08:19
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...
February 02, 2020 at 08:16
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...
February 02, 2020 at 08:11
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 "...
February 01, 2020 at 21:21
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? ...
February 01, 2020 at 18:16
I think the distinction between positive and negative rights is spurious and usually just a rhetorical trick to make some rights sound more 'default' ...
February 01, 2020 at 18:03
You call your wants and desires "rights" too, that's the point. Do you think your "rights" come from somewhere other than what you want/desire?
February 01, 2020 at 17:42
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...
February 01, 2020 at 17:10
Yes, but not at random. Only to defend the rights property and freedoms of its citizens. Economic interventions defend rights to employment, sufficien...
February 01, 2020 at 16:52
Who is proposing that a state do anything else?
February 01, 2020 at 16:35
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...
February 01, 2020 at 16:34
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...
February 01, 2020 at 14:51
No, governments offer that situation to an electorate who mandate it. Take up your concerns with your fellow voters. No, again. Private service provid...
February 01, 2020 at 14:29
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...
February 01, 2020 at 14:06
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...
February 01, 2020 at 13:39
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...
January 31, 2020 at 17:20
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...
January 31, 2020 at 16:40
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...
January 31, 2020 at 16:21
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...
January 31, 2020 at 16:17
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...
January 31, 2020 at 14:54
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...
January 31, 2020 at 14:48
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,...
January 31, 2020 at 14:15
I think you surpassed it. Well done.
January 31, 2020 at 13:49
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...
January 31, 2020 at 13:46
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...
January 31, 2020 at 13:43
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 ...
January 31, 2020 at 10:45
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...
January 31, 2020 at 08:23
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...
January 31, 2020 at 07:28
What is it with you people and the fucking free market? Does it also heal leprosy and find my lost keys?
January 30, 2020 at 21:11