X is dependent on Y, but it is not dependent simply notionally, it is dependent ontologically, without Y there would be no X. When he defines substanc...
They are not unrelated. The problem is that, as the report states and I said above, the relationship could not be legally established by the investiga...
You have missed the point. It is not a question of whether cognition is a function or an action or both. You claimed that reality has three main realm...
Mueller is hardly my knight in shining armor. He was guided by precedent not law. He assiduously refused to state conclusions. This was certainly to T...
This is feckless. The title of of the report is: "Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election". There was ...
I approve of the approach taken by Saint John's College - a critical reading and discussion of the "great books". One learns to read to read a book by...
This makes no sense. There can be no cognition without mind and there are strong arguments suggesting that without matter there can be no mind. That m...
27: Immediate spirit is devoid of spirit because it is consciousness of something other, that is, it is not self-consciousness. The path from consciou...
Is this a proper representation of your arguments? It has been amusing seeing you flounder around but I have wasted enough time responding to your ine...
I think you know, and your continued attempts at obfuscation only make you look more and more ridiculous. What allegations are refuted if the transcri...
So, you ask what he did wrong to warrant an investigation but disregard the allegations of the very people who are investigating him. But even if you ...
From what I read, Trump was willing. No doubt he thinks he can talk his way out of anything. If it is was only his personal lawyers who prevented him ...
You are dancing around while trying to ignore the mounting evidence that an investigation is warranted, and more and more it appears to a Saint Vitus ...
I suspect you know better. One does not first have to be found guilty before an investigation is opened into whether or not he is guilty. Trump has no...
I think we will just have to wait to see how things develop before concluding that Trump is in trouble now. Even if there is ample and damning evidenc...
How do you know that there has been no crime and no probable cause for an investigation? If he did nothing wrong and there is nothing to hide then why...
Once again, that is what the investigation intends to uncover. Following the Trump playbook you want to declare that such an investigation is unnecess...
You are "allowed" to suspect whatever you want, but when you say: you are making a factual, if ambiguous, claim. He is not being accused of non-crimes...
First, I have not dismissed "the possible corruption of Biden". The ambiguity regarding which Biden the accusations are aimed at should not be overloo...
Accord to the transcript the favor was: Trump then mentions CrowdStrike, but Adam Meyer's, vice president of intelligence at CrowdStrike, is as puzzle...
The transcript is only part of a larger story. According to the transcript Trump says: A lot of people are talking about Viktor Shokin, Ukraine’s pros...
Yes, I agree, but that is not a distinction I find helpful unless when reading those who make use of it. One must accept the notion of a necessary bei...
As I read it, Socrates' concern is with justice, but that what justice is leads to aporia. It is an example of Socratic or zetetic skepticism. I have ...
Knowledge, or more precisely, the assumption of knowledge and wisdom is at the forefront of the dialogue. Socrates brings into question the knowledge ...
I thought it was very good. I almost cited it in my response. As to degrees of reality, I think it is important for understanding the ontology of thos...
This is an important point. One that I raised earlier: The irony here is that while appealing to reason Bartricks has demonstrated that he is incapabl...
Does Spinoza say this? In the quote from the letter to Meyer Spinoza is not talking about things in the world but measure, duration, and how many. It ...
Believe what you want. It is not something I usually bring up on the forum since I would rather be judged by what I say rather than by my credentials....
The first definition that pops up when you Google it: You are not expressing Plato's meaning. As I said, the issue is justice not reason. I certainly ...
This is not a paraphrase, it is a misunderstanding of Plato's dialogue. The Greek understanding of reason is significantly different from modern versi...
Trump is attempting to block California from setting its own higher standards for auto emissions. He has also rejected higher standards for fuel econo...
Christian morality is a misnomer. It ignores both differences in time and between sects. What did Jesus or Paul or the New Testament tell us about rep...
It is not religion but the religious right. They are enormously influential in matters of reproductive rights, education, limited government, and geo-...
It is not simply the influence of religion. There are plenty of religious people who are opposed to the power of the religious right, but it does make...
I assume you mean every individual human life. Your question leaves open the problem of the developmental continuum that that define a person as well ...
The religious right holds a great deal of power in the U.S. Our conversation has been about the U.S., starting with my response to your claim about: I...
The establishment of religion is not an intrusion into religion. There can be no protection of religion without protection from religion. Indeed it is...
: When you claimed that: it became a question at hand. You raised it as evidence that religion is "special". But it was not simply a matter of protect...
This is true, but the oppression was by not from those who were anti-religious. It was from those who held different religious beliefs. Freedom of rel...
Do you have such a demonstration? Well, I think we can agree that logic exists in some form or other. If we accept a logic that forbids contradiction ...
One could base a logic on such an assumption, but to require logic to conform to such an assumption is not something many of us would support. Okay, b...
That is the point! In their nascent knowledge they are inept. They cannot adequately protect themselves. They know that there is a need but do not yet...
Some hold that there is only God and God's manifestations. It is a question of whether an omnipotent being exists. The question takes it as a given, e...
God confirms the truth of what the snake promises with regard to knowledge: The snake, however, is devious, duplicitous. Snakes move in one direction ...
I regard the paradox as a pseudo-problem since an omnipotent being is a hypothetical, but I do not think the problem of logical contradiction here is ...
The case is analogous to mathematics. There are fundamentally different views of their ontology. And, of course, there are different views of the onto...
Having given my reasons I will leave it to others to say. The subject matter of knowledge includes things in the world - objects, events, processes, a...
That is one concept of logic, but certainly not the only one. Yes, omnipotence has, as the term indicates, to do with power. But the question is wheth...
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