Isaac

No. The status quo is absolutely not a realm of open exchange. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of hurdles one has to overcome in order to get one's...

It needn't be a 'magician'. The point of the example wasn't to indicate what the alternative sample space might be, it was to point out that hidden in...

No. I haven't the faintest idea what you're talking about here I'm afraid. Demonstrating that a difference exists between two theoretical scenarios is...

I may be wrong, but I think I speak for at least a number of contributors here when I say that we're getting more than a little fed up with you openin...

Well, if its all just a series of undeniable objective facts then we all might as well just go home, job done. I can't think what we've all been wasti...

I'm not sure if what followed was the explication, but I don't feel like you've made the case for it being 'important'. I agree it's a difference, but...

Well then you need to ask about some basic principles, not provide an extremely emotional story about one specific case.

No. Frank said that Paglia's claim was akin to saying that a rape victim should be ignored. Her actual comment was that the university should not tole...

So the issue you're discussing has nothing to do with Paglia then? OK, but why bring it up then? I'm not sure I get the relevance to the topic here.

Come on! This is exactly the kind of polemic that encourages this personality politics. Unless we're watching different videos, what Paglia actually s...

No. I must have an image (or instructions) relating to a pattern in order to try to create another pattern just like it. Neither of them are the patte...

I haven't the faintest idea. That's the point.

Repeating things doesn't make them any more true. Why could it be any conceivable value from 0 to infinity? Why couldn't it be some inconceivable valu...

It doesn't apply right here. There's no reason at all to think that the correct sample space is the number of possible values you can think of. Why wo...

Please see my reply to Devans99 above, to save me having to write it out again. Basically, one cannot simply presume the sample space, it's context de...

The card could be any one of 52 cards, so this contributes to the sample space of possible cards. Only it turns out, it doesn't,because you were looki...

Yes, I think, in theory, having the right talk in the right place is the key to not incidentally lending legitimacy to some ideas that don't deserve i...

Right. So one salient piece of information can not just alter the probability space, but make it entirely redundant. In the case of a card trick, we d...

Obviously not, no stage magician would ever be able to make a living out of the probabilities such a sample space would generate using your frequentis...

I forgot to tell you that I am a stage magician, doing a trick, and you are a member of the audience. Still think the sample space is 1:52?

I'm not seeing the necessity here. How is our repeatedly using the same name to describe similar arrangements of colour and shape forcing a thing into...

I'm not sure either of you understand probability at all. If I shuffle a deck of cards, you pick one at random, I shuffle the deck again. What is the ...

I have a lot of sympathy for your position, but I think this point you make perhaps covers much of what has happened to Jones, Scruton and Paglia etc....

See Wittgenstein's discussions in the PI on exactness. Is everyone genetically identical? No. But why would you presume that is the level of exactness...

In your first statement you treat logic (correctly) as a method of thinking, we "use" logic. In your second statement you treat it as a set of rules w...

I wasn't denying the use of logic to draw conclusions. Science takes empirical observations and uses logic to describe and predict things about the un...

So, if the pattern exists as some other thing to the shirt, what happens if we destroy just the pattern (but leave the shirt completely untouched)? If...

Whether we like it or not, the effect of trauma simply doesn't work like that. The increase in cortisol resulting from early abandonment is greater in...

And why are we using the ease with which you personally can imagine something as a measure of what is, or may be, the case. What possible mechanism of...

Yes, absolutely it's not even a minor offence against an adult. How the fuck does anyone support the fact that on your 16th birthday what was "for you...

Only 2 for me, and neither anyone's fault. 12 times more likely to commit suicide as a result of childhood trauma and yet this is apparently acceptabl...

OK, so this is the bit that makes you want to reify the law. Cannot a realist say "The elastic deformation of this spring is described by Hooke's Law"...

What is it about realism that you think commits it to believing these "mysteriously lie elsewhere"? Meaning lies in the minds of those understanding t...

I wasn't talking about a totally unordered universe. I was talking about a universe which was ordered the way it is for no reason at all. I'm saying t...

You're begging the question here. Why would you say "it can't be random", what is preventing that from being the case? You've already presumed there a...

Remind me again why we're discussing the correct terminology? And why does a lack of definition mean "totally arbitrary", is there nothing in between?

Laws can be derived and enforced communally, no authority is required. Meat-sharing, for example, is strictly enforced in most hunter gatherer communi...

Where on earth are you getting this from? If you can find me a single example of a tribal chief wielding absolute authority I'd be surprised, let alon...

Would it? I presume you're basing that theory on the evidence that all the motors you've ever seen have been constructed by an intelligence? So why ar...

What kind of an answer is that? I presumed your evidence was somewhere in history, having ruled out the possibility of it being located in the future!...

I didn't ask you to re-state your assertion, I asked what evidence you were basing it on, how have you reached this conclusion? I agree. I don't follo...

I don't understand how your idiosyncratic history of law is related to my post? I asked how, if some immoral act should nonetheless be done, the term ...

I'm curious, if something being immoral doesn't necessarily mean one should not do it (breaking a law for example), then what information does the ter...

I see not being able to agree on what morality is hasn't prevented anyone from considering progress can be made in a debate about whether something is...

Yeah, that pretty much sums up 90% of my experience on this forum. You do know what a 'forum' is, what 'discussion' is? What are you posting on a publ...

Yes, and I said that consent to the establishment of law does not seem to imply a necessity abide by it, so I'm still at a loss to see how law makes w...

Well, I trust your intellect, so that's good enough for me, but I can't conceive of such a thing existing, so we either agree to differ or you tell me...

I agree that, if I'm right I'm only right by definition, but I disagree that it is the same as your ad absurdum. I have reasons for defining existence...

Hence my reference to the sorties paradox. We simply cannot proceed with any investigation if we hold such a high standard for 'the same'. We cannot t...