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By that time it may be too late to remove him by force or any other means. He has made it clear that he will be firing military leaders who do no demo...
November 15, 2024 at 13:52
That is a legal principle. As a non legal standard, if one or two people accuse someone of something then it might be reasonable to not reach a conclu...
November 15, 2024 at 01:48
In such cases the only evidence is the word of the victim. Whenever accused of anything Trump plays the victim. Why, in case after case, do you take h...
November 14, 2024 at 14:04
You asked for a link. I provided one but apparently you did not read it. The tape is only one part of a larger picture. There are 27 women over a peri...
November 14, 2024 at 02:30
I posted this above. It gives clear textual support for what you are saying. The dying for your sins is an after the fact attempt to make the incompre...
November 13, 2024 at 18:46
These is such a thing, but that does not mean that when Trump just starts kissing women there is implicit consent. It does depend on the circumstances...
November 13, 2024 at 18:37
As I hope you know, there is a big difference between: a and a situation in which there is a "vibe". I am quoting from a transcript of the conversatio...
November 13, 2024 at 15:18
That is the problem! You are arguing as if this is a legal matter. It's not. There are no legal cases.
November 13, 2024 at 14:40
Sorry, I misunderstood. I thought you were referring to my comment about lawyers. It is not clear what "they do" refers to. You misquote me. What I sa...
November 13, 2024 at 00:04
One of those who do not care about the truth? Are you just pretending to be clueless? The defense will do what they can to attempt to discredit the ac...
November 12, 2024 at 21:50
.What is the "good news? According to Mark: (1:1-4) (1:14-15) The good news is that the kingdom of God is near. It is the beginning of a new beginning...
November 12, 2024 at 20:53
There are many, both men and women, who choose to remain silent or do not press formal charges. They do not wish to undergo a difficult, traumatic, an...
November 12, 2024 at 19:06
I agree. Whenever philosophy moves away from being self-reflexive it loses its bearings. Socratic philosophy - self-knowledge, knowledge of ignorance,...
November 12, 2024 at 15:46
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November 12, 2024 at 15:32
It would seem that Paul was not one of them. (1 Corinthians 15:42-44) The physical or natural body, including the physical body of Jesus, is perishabl...
November 12, 2024 at 15:22
I think that they play an important role. We are not so easily moved by statistics and theories. We are emotional beings. But this can be manipulated ...
November 12, 2024 at 14:35
The specifics of the current political situation is something that Aristotle could know nothing about. It does not. Here is what he says: Where is exp...
November 12, 2024 at 13:57
I did. Did you? Did you miss the two questions raised? These questions are not limited to the teachings of Paul on resurrection. Please point out the ...
November 12, 2024 at 01:19
If there is an upside to this is that those who oppose the MAGA movement will have to come to a better understanding of the majority and attempt to ad...
November 11, 2024 at 22:09
It is evident that your own knowledge of Christianity is far less extensive than you seem to give yourself credit for. From its beginnings Christianit...
November 11, 2024 at 21:58
I am not denying that ethics should play a role in our evaluation of politics, but without specifics the claim is vacuous. For example, you said you w...
November 11, 2024 at 21:10
He might not see it that way. He may believe he is so privileged as to do whatever he wants or so delusional that he thinks all women will welcome him...
November 11, 2024 at 19:01
The simple answer is yes. From its beginning there have been Christians on both sides of this. A couple of things muddy the waters. Resurrection was a...
November 11, 2024 at 18:16
One thing that should be evident is that philosophy is not a distinct set of well defined set of practices with an agreed upon starting point, foundat...
November 11, 2024 at 18:07
Come on Bob. I think you know better! Not all women let "a star" do it. And to assume ahead of time that they will is a rapist mentality. But I see th...
November 11, 2024 at 16:00
.Wittgenstein asks: (7) The idea of giving a phrase sense marks another departure from the Tractatus. It is a rejection of the idea that: (6.53) There...
November 10, 2024 at 16:51
I like that one too. Wittgenstein says pretty much the same.
November 09, 2024 at 20:11
Arthur Koestler's definition of philosophy: "the systematic abuse of a terminology specially invented for that purpose."
November 09, 2024 at 18:33
His bivalent extremism puts me in the position of appearing to defend religious values over secular values. He has much more in common with religious ...
November 09, 2024 at 18:24
We have Trump's admission that he grabs women by the pussy. 27th woman accuses Trump of sexual misconduct On Tuesday, May 12, 2023, the Manhattan jury...
November 09, 2024 at 18:16
Trump won on promises. More people are for various reasons dissatisfied with the way things are and where they think they are going and believe Trump ...
November 09, 2024 at 15:26
Based on the results of the election, the people support the incoming MAGA government. If and when they become dissatisfied and want a change things w...
November 09, 2024 at 15:02
Very good article with a range of views on where we are and where we might be going.
November 09, 2024 at 14:36
He is a sex offender, and not because he engages is consensual acts that some might find offensive. You seem to have missed the point. If your nation ...
November 08, 2024 at 23:24
I think the problem is more pernicious and extends beyond liars and parasites. Post-truth is cynical nihilism. On the one hand, the doubt or denial th...
November 08, 2024 at 22:04
Following the election Robert Reich remarked that we should stop pretending Trump is not who we are. Is Trump who we are? Has Trump always been who we...
November 08, 2024 at 19:21
One will become president of the US in a few months! What is you are a citizen of one of those inferior nations? Why must we have a vested interest in...
November 08, 2024 at 18:48
Philosophy is for Hegel science. It differs from the natural sciences in that its subject matter is not an object that is other than the subject. It i...
November 08, 2024 at 14:34
To the contrary, much of philosophy is modeled on the success of science. Consider also the proliferation of the philosophy of science and its discipl...
November 07, 2024 at 23:22
The only thing special about philosophical discourse is that we cannot identify anything that is special about it, that is, there is nothing unique th...
November 07, 2024 at 22:25
I think all of our capacities have limits, except perhaps for our capacity to deceive ourselves. I can't say what those limits are, but they fall shor...
November 07, 2024 at 22:00
Such presuppositions are the death knell of philosophy.
November 07, 2024 at 21:16
Why would you assume that the limits of human thought are the limits of being? Perhaps what is is without limits.
November 07, 2024 at 21:12
I take him to be saying that the question: "What I am calculating by?" is misleading. There is not this something that is analogous to the hand or mou...
November 04, 2024 at 19:53
Wittgenstein takes up this question in the PI: 236. Calculating prodigies who arrive at the correct result but can’t say how. Are we to say that they ...
November 04, 2024 at 17:24
What does Wittgenstein mean when he says? (6) He is not denying that we think, but rather that the mind is the agent that thinks: (6) He continues: (6...
November 03, 2024 at 16:11
(1) A substantive is some thing named: (1) What is at issue is a critique of the Tractarian metaphysics of mind. The logical necessity of the connecti...
November 02, 2024 at 17:38
It is Plato.He uses these two different words. As Paine pointed out, the fault of the translator lies with those translators who fail to distinguish b...
October 18, 2024 at 20:43
Plato uses two different words ???? (621c) and ???????? (621a) when referring to the same thing, the river. Heraclitus might say it is not the same ri...
October 18, 2024 at 18:42
Socrates' task as set out at the beginning of Book 2 is to persuade them, as Glaucon puts it: (357a-b) It is about the connection between them and wit...
October 17, 2024 at 22:52