I see. I have a lot of sympathy for the methodological behaviourist approach and most of my earlier work was from that perspective. The reason, at the...
Nice use of irony, but no. To try and get you to see the unpleasant ease with which arguments you think are important can be rendered trivial by some ...
So we're equivocating about what 'side' means? Of course we are. The point I was trying to make is that we can easily pick up comments out of context ...
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that when @"boethius" says "I use the word surround rather than encircle", he possibly doesn't mean "I ...
You're joking, right? You're surely not seriously asking me what conflict of interest an actual soldier fighting in the war might have? Are they exper...
Mainly on this occasion it's because there simply isn't any unbiased access to sufficient expert analysis of Russian intentions. Assuming you're conti...
Intelligence data, transcripts, emails, interviews with key personnel, political analysis... How one would go about establishing a fact is not the sam...
No, but you 'really' intended to assert it, that much was obvious from your posts up to that point (according to my armchair psychoanalysis of you fro...
I love the way a load of armchair-bound foreigners are invoking noble virtues of 'freedom' to explain their advocacy for someone else doing the fighti...
I don't see why we should be expected to accommodate for your faux inability to tell the difference between what seems evident to you and what actuall...
And what 'analysis' are you contributing exactly? "Russia said it, so it must be false". Stunning next-level analysis there. Of course Russia also sai...
It doesn't make any sense. There's no body of knowledge about beauty, so there's no 'epistemic peers' relevant to the matter. If you just mean 'everyo...
Obviously not. I can't see an overwhelming majority of my epistemic peers agreeing on what is literally the most famous example of subjective judgemen...
The part in parentheses was "even if sometimes only figuratively", Ie not necessarily referring to an actual flag. The flag represents control by the ...
One which the overwhelming majority of my epistemic peers agree on. Like "the earth is round". Something which I would simply assume someone knowledge...
I don't trust entire media sources. As put it... Sometimes I see no reason to doubt Reuters, sometimes I do. Depends on the story. In this specific ca...
Or did they...? God they're good at this. Next they'll be cutting eye holes out of newspapers to observe other spies*. The cunning devils. *if you're ...
"We're playing Putin at his own game (but everything we say to the global media is, of course, absolutely true). Shh! Don't tell Putin - you're all sp...
No, it's my 'normal aggressive' way of undermining your attempt to imply people have said as much by writing as if you were responding to them. Cool. ...
If @"Apollodorus" is such a troll (not necessarily disagreeing) then their arguments can be safely ignored, no? If we're having a grown up discussion,...
Yes, I read that. I was wondering why (since no one had argued the contrary and it's blinding obvious) you felt the need to say such a thing. There's ...
Don't patronise me. Read what I've written. Did I at any point say that the US were either a sole or major factor in the downfall of the US? Did I mak...
This is a familiar line of argument for anyone who wants to dismiss and argument without having to actually address it. Who said anything about trusti...
If anyone were arguing that NATO expansion were the reason for the war then you could reasonably point to the inefficiency of the technique as a count...
As @"Benkei" said... ...or did you go to Ukraine yourself, talk to the soldiers there, gather that intelligence directly... You must get up very early...
That's true. I'm not (never have been ) arguing against claims of scale (Russia are worse in this or that case). I'm arguing against claims of kind ("...
So no intention of answering the question then? I didn't ask "What other reasons were there for the decline of the USSR?" I asked what mechanism preve...
Did you miss the parenthesised part or do you need me to explain it? IT was the bit where you said... ...just after I'd been talking about fighting ov...
'Real' according to whom? I don't agree with your assessment of those reasons. That's the matter we're discussing. Just circling back round to your st...
Wow, so you really are pushing the 'live and let live' narrative. See this is why its so hard tk remain civil. What was McCarthy? A little overenthusi...
I see. Not sure how that relates to the argument. Again, not sure how that relates to the argument. That the USSR collapsed isn't really in question. ...
Again, the point is not the actual story, that's just historicism. The point is whether it could have been different. The point I'm making is that say...
You've not answered the question of why Russia must choose from one of the already existing options. It just doesn't make sense as a premise, there's ...
From wiki OK. Have another go. To try and wrest this back to the topic... The argument was that Russia had better follow western societies (even at th...
They don't 'tend' that way, they are forced to move that way. Most developing nations have had their resources stolen from them at gunpoint (by the ve...
I suspect they have, but we'll let that lie then. Again, the problem is that destruction of alternatives is part of the system. It makes it very diffi...
I thought we were all trying to be more civil... I agree entirely, but it doesn't have any bearing on the fact that the absence of a viable alternativ...
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