unenlightened

Are we talking real actuality here? or actual reality?

"You can't make a Hamlet without breaking legs." That is the quintessential abuse 'actually', and it's going in my Really thread.

Ah yes, the good old days when the ice was melting and Doggerland was flooding... I remember it well.

Perhaps, but doctors do not constitute a majority - that's lawyers. The problem is one cannot have a good, cheap, universal, private healthcare system...

Consider the following trilemma: Reduce taxation. Increase government spending. Balance the books. One might rationally be in favour of all the above,...

Looks like Trump has a radical new green policy aimed at reducing the population. https://archpaper.com/2018/08/epa-asbestos-manufacturing/?fbclid=IwA...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Euclidean_geometry

Totally different in the UK. We're all Picts apart from the Celts the Angles The Saxons, the Vikings, the Normans, the Jews, the Poles, the Spanish, t...

They won't thank you for that, armed as they feel themselves to be, with the simple sword of truth and the trusty shield of fair play.

I am a historian. Historians are better than the rest of you and know more and are right about everything. And this is the case whether they are relig...

Ecophilosophy has been going a good while: 50 -60 years. I think now it's a question of whether you want to die trying to reduce the catastrophe or di...

On the other hand, there are others who think that being slagged off by the Tories counts as a plus... https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/sep/16...

It seems to me that there is no problem with threads that argue for atheism. When you're tired of an argument, you can drop out. Where there is a pote...

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140708-when-crowd-wisdom-goes-wrong Wikipedia has faults and limitations. And so does academia. Even doctors have as...

https://truthout.org/articles/this-is-not-the-sixth-extinction-its-the-first-extermination-event/?utm_source=sharebuttons&utm_medium=facebook&utm_camp...

There's nothing to say that humanity is viable in any configuration. But I am implementing nothing, but describing the sort of arrangement that is gen...

I don't think we are that far apart. Cat knows about mice. Has mouse-hunting competence. Has a language-less experience of its own. In that senes of b...

George should have known better. 'Heap' resists being given a definition. But what has become clear of late is that democracy cannot be identical with...

Well I don't know who you agree with, but it ain't me. I say a cat knows when there is a mouse in the mouse-hole. It has the belief, justified by smel...

I'll take both at once. One cannot talk about knowledge without using introspection, because knowledge is interior. I can know shit without introspect...

Yes. It seems fairly intuitive in this case, and the only reason i brought it up is that it illustrates another feature of Monty's knowledge that is s...

Imagine a world where you always get caught, you always get found out and you always get punished to a degree that the crime really doesn't pay. Virtu...

I'll need a deal more than that for my kiss and tell stories.

The best way to learn a new language is to take a lover, and I think you will find the Germans more attractive than the ancient Greeks. So take the Gr...

Better sex. Do pay attention. This lot are so conservative.

Eh, what? Sex was much better in the old days.

It's an interesting question and a complex answer. I would suggest two movements both originating in the US, and influencing through Thatcher and Blai...

Kant is probably a good source for Kantianism, at least as good as Jesus is for Christianity. And Stanford is the go to place for online scholarship o...

Is that (that it didn't remove your guess) a reason not to switch? Note that the computer in this case knows, as monty Hall does, what the right answe...

So there's a game on uk telly called 'Who wants to be a millionaire. A series of questions with 4 possible answers A, B, C, D. On one question, you ca...

My door. C______G_____G Monty's G_G___C_G___C_G Six permutations, but the combination G+G is eliminated by the exposure of the car, as indicated above...

The best way to make it intuitive is to add more doors. So - 100 doors, 99 goats, you choose a door, then Monty chooses 98. There's going to be a lot ...

No indeed. It's hiring four failures on the trot that is incompetent.

No Frank. I'm not offended, I'm on strike.

Racists often deny being racists, and fascists often deny being fascists. "I'm not fascist, but I believe that there should be no hindrance made to th...

Everyone becomes conservative once they get their own way. Even one promoting continuous revolution wants the revolution to - continue.

There is no incompatibility; in the relation that is a conversation, there is on both sides, or as many sides as there are, both talking and the silen...

Well that is not certain. Plato disagrees, for example. Many people call this world 'the world of appearances'. Now Descartes would agree with you, th...

The author of Sherlock Holmes believed in spiritualism, fairies, and the like. I think his fiction is not the best source for a philosophy of science.

That happened for definite at the old forum at least once. I think we banned them for a mix of low quality and being broken records. It was a very sil...

I blame women. Eve and Pandora in particular. And that is non trivial and highly satisfactory to most men.

This is where we live, in the mind of God. We call it existence and reality and we take ourselves oh so seriously, but no doubt God will think better ...

Send not to ask at whom the unenlightened laugh, They laugh at us. Should I mention that knowledge is widely considered to be a species of belief?

One reason that religion threads are often poor is that they are too often started by folks who find it safer and more comfortable to question other p...

Two psychologists meet: How am I? You're fine, how am I? Some of us are so radical as not only to rely on our own introspection, but also on that of o...

Which Sci fi writer had a dept of sabotage to prevent governments becoming too efficient?

Lest y'all become complacent with all the good news everywhere these days, here's something to exercise those worry beads on. https://www.theguardian....

I would like to point out that I have not posited any such state; I made a distinction.

Yes, as i thought. Partial not impartial.