Ah, yes. I consider the term 'expert' to already cover the idea of it being a relevant field, but I see what you mean about people abusing the term. I...
In the first half of this you use "should" and the next part use "are not". Which are you talking about, the way things are or the way things ought to...
Thought I'd pop this here. https://images.jacobinmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/23144400/47de8a49-97b5-4598-a14f-d3b927687271_2108x2180-653x675.pn...
Seriously? You dismiss entire swathes of analysis as lunacy, pro-Russian, uninformed, beneath response... Do you think those posters would agree you'v...
Our governments are involved in the war in Ukraine. Their involvement is therefore squarely on the subject of the war in Ukraine. Taking part in negot...
Yes, I think something like that can happen these days in a way that would not have been possible 20 or 30 years ago. It's very worrying. We see a swe...
No, indeed. I understand 'Post Truth' to be a group term describing a set of rhetorical tools which all make use of the same basic theme - that of eli...
It's been 'discussed' at great length, if by discussed you mean mentioned, immediately dismissed as delusional Russian propaganda and then rendered be...
@"Jack Cummins" This is an interesting topic, but @"Banno"'s right here with The idea of 'Post Truth' is not really about truth at all, it's about bel...
You've continued to paint all opposing views here as bafflingly delusional at every opportunity. This was not a one off rhetorical tool. I've taken pa...
Treisman concludes by rejecting the first two possibilities. But again, this is not the point (unless we're going to go through every single opposing ...
I've read the above. It sounds like a wavering opportunist speaking. Now what? I'm consigned to the looney bin because I disagree with your interpreta...
I'm referring to his 2016 Essay in Foreign Affairs on why Putin took Crimea, but that's not relevant. If I make the claim "all men over 50 have grey h...
Ahh, so now Putin's actual words are indicators of motive. Great, then we have our answer. Here's why he chose to invade Ukraine. Or is it just some o...
Of course there is. If Putin is an opportunistic politician who uses imperialist rhetoric when it suits his ambitions, then all your speeches prove is...
I've provided plenty of sources throughout my contributions, but on this particular issue (the motivation behind Russian foreign policy) there's acade...
Who's denying that the view is held and shared as justification for the current actions? People hold all sorts of views. Hell, I could probably find s...
What could possibly debunk them? They are someone's opinion about the intent behind Russian foreign policy, what do you expect me to debunk? That in f...
I think that's right, but one can, perhaps, speak sanely about those practices which lead to a promulgation of war and those which work to limit it? P...
What sources could possibly back up the claim that you are presenting opinion as fact? Such a claim only requires a rational analysis of the type of p...
The Kremlin take an anti-NATO position. So if following the Kremlin's line is reprehensible, then you're basically saying that no-one can take an anti...
This is a lovely piece of spin, it should get some sort of award... Russia will cow the west into getting Ukraine to stop the war (despite all that fa...
Hyperbole is absolutely the worst possible response in the world, there's literally no worse response, you couldn't think of a worse response if you t...
In what world does you coming up with a handful of sources become 'every analysis'? We live in a terrifying new world where one side has 'the facts' a...
I thought this comment I read in a interview recently was very pertinent to @"Olivier5"'s absurdity, he's talking about Paul Mason, but the point is t...
Your 'point' is as transparent as ever. Parrot Western mainstream media and deflect any criticism by transferring all responsibility to this amorphous...
So by that token your comments about Russian military policy have been out of place. It is carried out by Russians and affects Ukrainians. Nothing to ...
Yes, that's how I see it. The outcomes are 'put together' by an entirely different process ('social construction' in old money), so we'd have no reaso...
Apologies to everyone for the much shorter responses than your interesting questions deserve. I have a work commitment this week which will require mo...
The duration of elapsed time between the events and the narrative created around them doesn't magically make bias disappear. Neither you nor I are in ...
I don't feel qualified to comment on the potential differences because I wouldn't claim to know very much about Kant's noumena. From a complete layman...
Well, yes, to a point. Although the topic here is 'truth' I think the reason we've diverged so much is that the simple redundancy that there's nothing...
Yes, this is what I've been trying elucidate, but perhaps you're right and my use of 'fiction' here has only confused matters. There's perhaps a bette...
There's a muddle of temporal terms here that I can't make sense of, You say that we "never encounter evidence...", but then ask "were we...". 'Were' f...
From hidden states. Who said anything about the world surprising us? You said... This is only true if the terms are interchangeable (that truth is abo...
Your reply is a performative contradiction. If tagging someone constitutes "jump up and down trying to catch attention", then why are you tagging me w...
So dodging the substantive question again, then? Notwithstanding the fact that nothing in the article you cited comes close to refuting @"Tzeentch"'s ...
Why would that lead to a lack of surprise though? You're not joining the dots. You didn't say why there should be no surprises using my analogy with "...
This is brilliant. So your 'proof' that Russia intended to take Ukraine is that some analysts thought that Russia could beat Ukraine in a full invasio...
I still don't see how you're getting here. Why should there be no surprises if the world is the model? Yes. Only if you already beg the very question ...
I don't understand how it's not possible to be false. "Aragorn is the king of Mordor" is false. Why? You're connecting 'truth' to surprise but that's ...
Wierd. I asked "what is Ukraine's negotiating position?" You answered... And... I didn't ask what would bring Russia to the negotiating table. I didn'...
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