Yes, and subjects can appear to know facts that they appear have had no means of knowing, for perfectly normal reasons (such as coincidence and acquir...
The research isn't fringe or alternative. Scientists research the testimony of children for all sorts of reasons. My own field, psychology, is greatly...
That right there is the unjustified prejudice you've been accused of all along. How the hell do you suppose science ever arrives at new 'means' (gravi...
How? What would the mechanism be by which this would be brought about? Is there some gatekeeper somewhere that I'm unaware of ensuring that YouTube vi...
Yes, but no one has provided either a definition of what law in general, or law in principle, actually is. Nor, most importantly, how it is more than ...
You didn't only claim that morality was inter-subjective. You additionally claimed that some morals were "near universal", and it is that issue that I...
What distinction is that? Still not seeing the link you're making. I am always subject to the law of my country. OK. Then you leap to me being under a...
I'm not confusing the two. I'm claiming that things like 'law' as law do not exist. Law, as a concept is not coherent. It is 'some laws'. 'Law' is the...
I don't believe it does. I think the obligation exists already as a desire. Not seeing the jump there. That the relativist refers only to his own feel...
But we've been through all this and you're just not adapting your argument, or acknowledging counter arguments. I've just spent time explaining why it...
What's missing from your argument here is the mechanism by which this happens. Are you suggesting that there's some system in place which ensures ever...
I have a problem with the racist implications of this. Not that I suppose for a moment that you intended them, let me make that abundantly clear first...
No, not by necessity. If you want to argue that respect for the law 'as law' is prior to the creation of laws individually, then you'd have to again p...
... Or... Are you saying that people know instinctively who is a member of their community, such that this category is (near)-universalised by biology...
But this doesn't cover places like Nazi Germany. Here, "the Jews" were turned into "the other" and thus it was considered morally OK to murder them (o...
Yes. So none of this relates to his "hard work" at all. It's an aside, but it riles me this reference to "hard work" to imply some virtue to the top o...
I'm happy to go along with this definition but I'm not sure what it gains in terms universality. The imperative "do not murder a member of your commun...
One key component of your argument is that one "benefits" from being in a community. If the black population of South Africa at the time of Apartheid ...
Just felt the need to highlight that this is ideological garbage. Democracy is the pacifying of those who might otherwise turn to violent revolt by pr...
So explain to me how 2+2=4 without invoking Peano's axioms. How 2+2 just is 4 without any premises at all that we must first agree on. I'm beginning t...
This is probably the most amusing thing you've come up with yet, well done. God really wanted some intelligent life to entertain him so he created som...
Oh no, I dread to think what that would be like... If only there were some kind of Internet forum where that happened literally all the time... It cou...
I hope you are feeling better now. Publishers, corporations supporting advert-funded media like Breibart and YouTube, and funding foundations like the...
Woah, cool. You're a psychic! Yes. We can talk about unicorns without establishing whether they exist too. I don't. I suppose I would be asserting whe...
Any reason you missed this bit out? It seems like most of what you've put under 'reasoning' (which should be only logical relations) belongs here. Let...
..and we're back to arguments which you have already had countered. There is not a 'probability' of the existence of God. You have misunderstood how p...
But it's neither, because it's not a massive fluke if it wasn't by design. If no one was aiming for or wanted a life-supporting universe, then it wasn...
Wow. @"Merkwurdichliebe"'s ramblings actually sound like something...anything... You've done a better job than me of squeezing so drop of meaning out ...
It doesn't 'happen to be' it is the only number it could ever possibly have been because had it been any other number we wouldn't be here. We are here...
Yes. So there are perhaps more than a billion ways the universe could be (or could have tried to be). So what? If ask you to pick a number between 1 a...
It's not a billion to one fluke, for fucks sake man. It's like talking to me brick wall. It's not a fluke, a win, a gamble, a lucky break, a surprise ...
No. We did not 'win' because we were not playing. The lottery was played, the variables set, and then we evolved directly because the universe was tha...
I'm talking about "exists" in the sense in which one would answer "no" to the question "do unicorns exist". Not in the sense in which one would answer...
Is it? To what alternative weakness do you suppose most lesser mortals succumb? Losing the basic sense of their meaning in the face of dissent? Are yo...
Yeah, that I can definitely see being the case, so perhaps I did read maw's comment wrong afterall, if that was the limit of the implication. This is ...
At the risk of just pissing everyone off by disagreeing with all sides, do you really think it's "silly" to think that billionaires don't just donate ...
How are you determining that the "neurons, synapses, and things like that" are not the pattern? Again, you're begging the question. You're assuming 't...
I don't really want to get on the wrong side of this, because I'd happily see the Koch brothers pistol-whipped, but this hysteria (of maw's, not you) ...
I'm commenting on your tone and attitude, exactly as you are doing with me here. Ad hominem is a fallacy of avoiding or detracting from the topic by r...
Well it didn't take long to get back to the condescending attitude did it? I disagree with you about what 'the law' is, so I must "not know" what it i...
No it isn't. We are here to remark on it, which means we must have won, which means the fact that we did is not remarkable at all. A billion to one sh...
Firstly, this thread is 19 pages long. No one has dismissed your arguments without consideration. They have been dismissed (where they have been dismi...
I really don't think that is the way things work, but it would take quite some investment in the social psychology literature to even review the argum...
Your syllogism is correct, but I don't agree with (nor can see any reason for) the premise. Why would our ability to measure something have anything t...
Apologies for not responding this earlier. My intention was not to confuse matters thus, but only to re-emphasise the significant difference between w...
I'm not seeing the link there. All I'm saying is that if de-platforming attempts like those in response to Shapiro were somehow stopped, then such peo...
The difference is that Devans is trying to do maths with the numbers and using the resulting probability as an argument for the unliklihood of the cir...
I agree, with one important caveat. Where there is a widely accepted body of knowledge which relates to a position, I don't think a person unaware of ...
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