Isaac

If you actually read what I've written, it explains clearly that sentences are not unambiguously of one clear meaning, but that this is not a fault wi...

Ah, so we know you're the one in the right this time because you also think you were right all the other times. Classic argument. There's nothing wron...

Right. And we know it's my reading comprehension that's at fault and not the quality of your counter-argument how, exactly?

Yeah, I understand why. I didn't mean my comment to be read as any disapprobation of the judgment, just it's a shame, that's all. There's half a dozen...

Well, that's a real shame. I've had a few disagreements with S in my time here. Firstly he was no worse than someone like @"StreetlightX" in his abusi...

You're mixing your ethical methodology and so it's yielding paradoxical results. You start from a consequentialist position (some negative event resul...

Atheists (any I know about) don't reject the very principle of unexplained belief. Atheists don't believe in God. It's as simple as that. You don't be...

Yes, I agree. The proposition I raised that quote in opposition towards was that those appealing to the sciences to support a lack of free will were w...

It has nothing to do with reading comprehension. You said... Those are your actual words, right? So Your claim is that it is wrong that the standard v...

Yeah, whatever. I'm quite happy to engage in a discussion, any time you feel like actually advancing anything beyond posturing, but I'm not going to p...

So why do you think libertarianism should be about threats to liberty when such threats do not in any way constrain the liberty of the listener?

I literally quoted the bit I was responding to, which was a claim about the beliefs of the ""there is no free will" crowd", specifically that they con...

So what. It can't be an actual imposition on liberty because is has no causal effect. It's only a imposition on liberty if I believe the threat, so wh...

Oh dear. Its never not about you and your ideas is it? Read my post and tell me where my response has anything whatsoever to do with what your crazy i...

How is coercion (even if there is no physical impediment) count as a threat to liberty when speech has no causal effect?

Absolutely, but if it's an exercise in risk management, then the measure of the 'power' of any belief is no longer truth is it? Its the valuation resu...

That's because it completely is the standard view of the sciences, when it comes to brain function.

Fiction can work better than truth as a decision-making tool if the fiction is more easily calculated and still right most of the time. Newton's theor...

I'm not sure how much progress can be made if you can't define it. Yes, probably. I'm a pragmatist when it comes to truth values. I think you're mista...

Why would you imagine truth had power? By truth I presume you mean something like correspondence with reality, yes? Consider the possibility that real...

Actually, it has everything to do with the teeth of natives. The point of the commons is about the ethics of managing shared resources. The choices ar...

Try reading the actual article next time rather than than just googling until you find something that matches your prejudice. The study found decay at...

You have frequently rejected arguments against positions you hold which consist of nothing but reference to how many people disagree with you. Your ar...

Irrelevant? No. I'm countering the opinion that it has any necessary connection to capitalism. To make that claim you'd have to demonstrate that it wa...

So, ad populum arguments are fair use when they suit you? No need to present a case for why I'm wrong, simply refer to the fact that educated people t...

A measurement is a concept. It doesn't exist outside of someone's mind, the only thing I concede probably exists outside of someone's mind is the hete...

Firstly, name the 'senses'. Secondly, explain why you think some brain activity ('the senses') make the conclusions therefrom amenable to investigatio...

Yeah, that too. The problem with @"Hanover"'s argument is that basically, better surgery and the discovery of antibiotics have had a hugely disproport...

Now are you just going to repeatedly ask the same question, or are you going to address the glaring hypocrisy in dismissing my position because it uni...

I've given my answer to both. The stuff the measure is made of is objectively there, the division by which we name it and think of it as one thing (as...

No. I think the measuring device as a distinct object is subjective, the stuff it's made from probably isn't. Where does the stuff stop being 'air' an...

No. I think it's independent of my brain, I'm not totally sold on the idea, but it works best for me.

No, I think the device is an artificial division of the stuff reality is made of. I'm pretty agnostic about whether the reality it's made of is actual...

OK, since your immediate response to me was to ask for a citation, I'll play along in the same spirit. Cite me the evidence that it is more than just ...

So, given what you said above about anomalies, how can you know this? Have you asked everyone in the world whether they're capable of doing what you'r...

I'm not getting into this again where I've got to find some quote with the exact wording your looking for. As far as I'm concerned they're as close as...

Yes. As I said all there can really be (if there's anything at all) is a sea of heterogeneous stuff. The device (as opposed to its immediate surroundi...

What, the measurement? I've never seen one. All that's in the world outside of mind is (if anything at all) a sea of heterogeneous stuff. All objects,...

Yes, hence my reluctance to go back over the several thousand experimental results firming the history of psychological research in order to demonstra...

I'm still waiting for you to intrinsically link the whole of the capitalist infrastructure to preventing childhood deaths. It's got nothing to do with...

We can't make objective measurements. Every measurement is of the form "I looked at the measuring instrument and it seemed to me to say X". It is a su...

How is "I measured the earth and found it to be flat" not a subjective report?

The figure you used was 40s which is incorrect and you then went on to say... ... which the figures do not show since every other aspect of hunter-gat...

Thanks. That saved me a job.

OK, so how do we go about holding any theory at all by that standard? We have a theory that the earth is round but Bill says he measured it and it cam...

Happens to me too, I'll try and '@' you if ever I think you're missing out on my edifying pronouncements. So, the main thing you'd need to explain to ...

This is just such a tired old trope. Among most hunter-gatherer groups those making it past the age of 5 live to an average 65 years, the same life ex...

Found it. To directly support my comment.

The paper is basically a summary of the state of psychological and neuroscienetific thinking on the matter. If you're not going to trust the expert ju...

The paper I cited is a really good overview. I've not got a good Internet connection at the moment, but I'll see if I can track down a link with no pa...