Isaac

I grant that, but stability and consistency of contexts is hardly the 'hard and fast' judgement is it? If intention as meaning to say does something, ...

But I'm saying it is possible to know that the RH is true (just not at the same time as knowing that we don't know it's true). In other words, it is g...

As if all that has happened in Ukraine to provoke Russia has been of Ukraine's free unfettered choice. Your analogy fails. America orchestrated regime...

Proposition 1 only says that it is possible to know that the Riemann hypothesis is true. It doesn't state that it is always possible. Therefore 2 coul...

Yes. The historical record is absolutely clear on this. Without legitimate-sounding excuses, invasions do not occur. Haven't done for decades. So if y...

.... Ridiculous. Even if we are forced to accept dualism (which we're not), what the hell has the protagonist of a traditional folk story got to with ...

A justification (apart from just the technical terminology of being legal), I consider to reflect a genuine motivation. An excuse is just a wash of ju...

This is the basic error in @"Bartricks"'s appalling bad argument. That we do not deserve harm is not the same as that we do deserve non-harm. I don't ...

Right. So the context of child-bearing is one in which an as yet non-existent person is brought into existence. So is that one of the contexts which m...

In what way does materialism deny this possibility?

These aren't grounds. ...is just an historical fact. ...is wildly speculative, and flat out unsupported. ...no grounds here either, just again, wildly...

Is that supposed to be an argument? Or did you think I'd forgotten what your opinion was?

So your experience doesn't exist? Or are you saying it does have a position? Here - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002251931930458...

Maybe, but that doesn't answer the question. Derrida appears to be saying that there are rules of interpretation that apply to his work. I could make ...

No it doesn't. We do this all the time. Practically the whole of modern child-rearing involves this, our entire criminal justice system relies on this...

Why would you be making such an irrelevant point when the argument was that since excuses seem a necessary precursor to invasion, we ought not have be...

Who said anything about "justified". Where did I even mention the word? ... Does it translate into something else in Finnish?

So the moment there's a discernable rule it's wise to apply it?

Yes, I get that that's your point. It's just completely wrong. It clearly isn't moral intuition - people disagree with you, so it can't be intuitive, ...

OK, so what about the inconsistent, ever changing ones. Why not apply those? Uh huh. What would be the problem with applying rules from such a system ...

The fist fucking paragraph of the speech. Come on! You're becoming ridiculous.

Right. So the question would be why that relation, and not another possible relation? This is all very well, but Derrida here invokes 'stability' as t...

Except the bolded is not an argument. It's just a statement. Therein lies the basic problem. You keep just declaring this moral rule to be the case, b...

@"Benkei" I realise you were just making a point, but, in a continued vein, it's this^ that I've discovered anew, just from this thread. There's a rhe...

No. Just a thing that exists. It doesn't matter where it is. the network analysis is the same, it's based on data flows, not location. The estimation ...

Excuses were - Russian-speaking population, oppression of language, NATO risk to warm-water port access. How do you not know that? Who said anything a...

Then you're arguments are missing an important detail. Why? If it's not that the way you see the world is true, then why would I want to see it that w...

I don't think it's necessarily about policies, it's a bigger issue of trust. the Tories (and the right-wing in general) always have this automatic tru...

By coincidence, a good, detailed breakdown of the issues in Germany, many of which I recognise in England. https://jacobin.com/2022/06/germany-die-lin...

I don't think any have been presented. They always, on interrogation, seem to come down to "Plato said so". I've responded to everything you've writte...

I've absolutely no interest in a God-of-the-gaps argument. Even if there were an uncertainty to resolve around the means by which potential states bec...

Then your claim should have been "the EU takes worker's rights more seriously than most other countries". You can't expect us to second guess that you...

This seems to be the crux of our disagreement, and I seem to recall reaching it before (not that it's a bad thing to do so again, clarity is always us...

Mathematics serves a different function to unicorns (the concept of), but I don't know if that makes it possess a different "kind of reality". Again, ...

Absolutely. I'm not saying that the possibility of some 'spooky' action of res cogita is closed off as an explanation for QM 'spookiness'. I'm just sa...

No. Do you actually have anything to say about worker's rights in the EU? Or Ukraine, Or literally anything of interest? Or shall we just end this her...

It doesn't get any more satisfying or interesting a response with repetition, does it?

No idea what that's about, I'm on a different plane, mate. Take a deep breath.

The claim was that the EU took Worker's Rights seriously. It was not that other countries/institutions were even less serious. A claim that Hitler was...

Since you're so keen on definitions. Which part of "taking Worker's Rights seriously" involve increasing the number of actual slaves in the supply lin...

The trouble is, as ever, that you want to declare all that to be the actual state of affairs. You're claiming that the world is such that we only ever...

The problem is then what's left to be described as 'the resolution of an error'? Surely everything we'd previously described that way falls into the s...

Possibly, but you've still not countered the objection that they would never invade without any excuse (note 'excuse' not 'reason'). Every single inva...

Just begs the question. we're asking about the directness of the data stream from the cause of you thinking "That's a cup" to your thought "That's a c...

I think the authors answer that when they say... Since they're not arguing that the two 'substances' (Aristotelian substances) are not causally connec...

I think that's a strong possibility, but note that in Moldova Russia also had the excuse of a Russian-friendly breakaway and a corrupt main government...

Yes. That's the direction I've tried to take the discussion since the start, but there's been considerable resistance to people explaining hwy they co...

Where have I said that NATO is the only reason for Russia's invasion?

Two paragraphs - one complaining about people selecting opinions (among many) that are convenient to their narratives. The second literally selecting ...

I don't understand how that citation supports your interpretation. The authors (of the paper) state... ...and... I'm also interested in how you square...