Fantastic articles both. Thanks for linking them. The latter particularly said 'narrative' a lot, so it gets my vote. I shall have to up my game if I ...
Seriously, though. One of the things I do at work is provide a social psychological element to economic risk analysis. Actually, this kind of response...
It means that anyone wanting to run needs lots of money. That places restrictions on who can run and on what demands will be made of them. Securing fi...
The idea doesn't deserve this amount of scrutiny. It's simply that Einstein solved what might have otherwise been put down to mind-dependence. It's ir...
Yes. Still surprised at how much gets lost in this medium of communication. It seems I'm understood less often than than I am misunderstood. I never h...
No. It's the result of exactly the right amount of government legislation to achieve that state of affairs. Assange. Restrictions on freedom of speech...
It was a hypothetical. I'm just saying that it has always been the case that two observers would measure objects at different lengths depending on the...
It's odd. It has always been the case (though few would ever have found out) that two observers viewing objects moving at different relative speeds wo...
I'm sorry, are we on the same planet? The one where a journalist is currently facing inhumane imprisonment for his media coverage? The one where the g...
But the underlined is not what you've written above it at all. What you write as precursor is that you're dissatisfied with the way in which people ha...
I think actual policies are only of limited importance. A lot of people still vote on the basis of wider issues such as trust, tradition, ideology... ...
Yes. Some physical stimulus from the external system perturbs the first nodes (the sensory nerves, in this case) of the internal one. I'm using 'inter...
Well, yeah, but that opportunity has already been headed off by having such a high threshold of expensive and tightly regulated media coverage require...
Well, then I amend my proposition to "...very few people believe...". The point still stands that if the premises are heterodox, one can hardly be sur...
Can you explain, then, why they have a permanent seat on the UN Security Council? Seems a reckless oversight on the part of the world's primary govern...
Plus Lula, in Brazil - still ahead in the polls. Odd because we have the opposite problem in the UK. The left's power-base has been lost because of a ...
As I said earlier... Yours is no exception. We cause harms to others to achieve what we think is right all the time. So long as we feel satisfied that...
... What the latter shows is that direct connection is necessary to experience a thing. It does not then follow that all things we experience are exte...
No, nothing of the sort. Your argument is that we are in direct connection with the outside world therefore we directly experience the outside world. ...
Why are you deciding that military action constitutes force, but economic pressure, diplomatic pressure, intelligence operations and bribery do not? W...
That shows only that we contact the world directly. To show that we 'experience' the world directly, using that argument, you'd have to also show that...
The dichotomy is bizarre. If I were to say that fishermen either did or did not deserve sports cars, you'd think me mad. It's obviously nonsense to cl...
I don't see how this relates to the matter of where meaning inheres? Physics is a practice of our culture, sure. I don't see what you could mean by 'p...
I agree, but if one accepts (for the sake of argument) Feser's distinction of thought from neural networks, then thought is left seeming like the sort...
Yes. I've already agreed that my asking of that question doesn't have any inherent meaning. I can, however, have a very high degree of confidence that...
Indeed. In my opinion, a classic example of expressions whose meaning is not found in an analysis of the words. "Thoughts are inherently meaningful" h...
Yep. As with all antinatalist arguments @"Bartricks" starts with a bizarre premise with which no-one else agrees and then proceeds to show that it yie...
I don't see how that follows at all. If metal-detecting can find metal in a metal-detector, does that imply that metal is inherent in metal-detecting ...
If thinking is meaning-making, then meaning is the product of thought not the property. In the same way as building is just house-making. The product ...
I don't think the former supports the latter. That a system is only as good as its implementation means that a system which is failing might not be br...
I'm afraid repeating the assertion with increasing incredulity isn't making it any clearer. What I asked was a question. It has meaning to you, it has...
How so? I mean, this is not even a comparable analysis. Thoughts aren't entities capable of possessing inherent properties, and even if they were, wha...
That's right. We might borrow the language but not the function (when I say 'we' here, I perhaps ought to clarify that, in this branch research, I'm w...
The point I was really trying to make was about policies. Even if we include campaign promises (rather than actual enacted policy), we have this funda...
As @"Streetlight" has already suggested, these are campaign promises, not policies. I don't know the ins and outs of the specific manifestos (I'm Engl...
Ah, the final question was rhetorical. But on the off chance you're uniquely able to define what is and isn't part of the 'democratic process' then cr...
Absolutely. What astonishes me is the godlike status these parties are afforded such that any policy they come up with is waived through as being at l...
It's utterly astonishing that as soon as less than 100% support for the Democrats is raised, the alternatives are assumed to be some kind of bloody re...
Yes, I can see how it might. Current social norms do love putting people in impossible catch-22s. "If you try, you're faking it, if you don't try, you...
Absolutely. It does, however, go to a pet interest of mine which is strategies for making decisions in uncertainty (also to answer )... If we cannot k...
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