unenlightened

I'm not in the fortune-telling business, especially when it's your fantasy in the first place. But I do think that if the advocates of good sense are ...

Yes. In a democracy, politicians have to be responsive to public opinion.

I am a butterfly, and I might change the weather. Who knows how many potential mass murderers have been dissuaded, or how many despairing or cynical n...

Well the song depicts a man trying to persuade himself that he does not have tender feelings; a man trying to be manly according to a common image of ...

Sorry, what question was that?

A song for all the real men... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii6pRq0-mhY

The word you're looking for is 'feminine'. What is feminine there is the aesthetic concern with personal image over substance. Real men delight in the...

I can own this by removing one word - well three, for grammar's sake: I don't have to act as if I'm a logic chopping pedant, it comes naturally. I cal...

Bah. When you say 'leader', I think you mean 'figurehead' - an image stuck at the prow of the boat - rather than the guy in the stern with his hand on...

Well yes, I think you have it about right. Shall we say that a perceived deficiency, measured according to a faulty image of masculinity, leads to an ...

Yes, it's a self fulfilling prophecy. What is masculine is what men do. Men, masculine men, sometimes wear make up, and skirts and heels and have sex ...

No. I take the view that if one is man, then whatever one does is an expression of masculinity. And I am a real man, so you can safely agree.

Nobody likes a clever dick.

Me too like to play at linguistics. Me too want special treatment and blue suede shoes. Me always uses both together in posting behaviours, so solly f...

Yes, it's a very similar situation.But who organised the referendum in three countries? No one of course. What I'm pointing out is the paradox that be...

Incidentally, Catalonia also extends sentimentally into France where there is also Catalan spoken, known by those who speak La Langue D'Oil (Parisian ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs

No one can be independent, ever.

Thing about independence votes, they only work to separate, not much to join together. Identity is always separation. No homage, no fromage; it's a re...

Sorry, typo. P(~J?X?D)?P(~J?D).

Yes, it's like betting on the favourite and buying a lottery ticket. It works equally well if one is betting against the favourite. P(~J?X?D)?P(J?D). ...

The world is at peace. It is the mind that is restless.

There is nothing I want to say to cause you any discontent. Perish the thought!

I love philosophy. (That's an answer to your question, not a confession of perversion.)

I am incomparable.

Hello, welcome. Unfortunately I am old, not new. Sorry to disappoint.

I take this to mean, for our purposes, that what works for truth also works for evidence. Ok. Now you need to argue that, because that is what we are ...

Apart from the second premise, it is an exact quote of your argument. The second premise is the hidden premise that would make your argument valid.

But your argument is invalid. Let me give you a clue. The premise that you need is something like this: If p is true then p ? q is true. If there is s...

If you have a valid argument but you have a hidden premise, disclose the hidden premise and present the valid argument. I accept your premise, but you...

No. The argument you presented is invalid. How you go about convincing me is to present a valid argument. I accept the premise, but I reject the concl...

That argument is invalid.

"Why wouldn't there be?" is not a justification for your assertion. I have already presented in great detail considerations as to why there wouldn't b...

I don't think it affects my argument; the implication conserves truth, and justification is no more truth than belief is.

Ok, let's go back to the beginning. Gettier's claim is that B(p) -> B(p v q) for all q. My complaint about this is that the logic conserves truth, but...

Why not call it disempowerment and oppression? I would guess Arendt has in mind life in the concentration camp as the end state of dehumanisation. And...

Seems to me that when it it is said that sport has been politicised, it is not that there is a politics of sport in the sense that there is a runners ...

We know a song about that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bogz2xZy-bo

I'd like to see some evidence of this, just to make sure it's not dismissing itself.

Yes, it certainly seems on the face of it that a deduction from probable p inherits (at least) the same probability. IF (Improbably~p) THEN (improbabl...

Well let me ask you a question in return. If you have a reasonable belief p, and a reasonable unconnected scepticism q (say p - that aspirin is an eff...

It's not a calculus, merely annotation. In propositional logic, "probably p" or "believed p" does not add up to p, but to (p v ~p)

Nothing much. I'll just note that science, probability, and induction/abduction are what S does to arrive at his belief p. No quarrel with him there.

Hush. You just is, already.

No, it's always sound, because it already has your 'if' incorporated. I put it in capitals so you would notice. It is contentless because it does not ...

No. IF p, then (p v q). That's valid, sound, true and contentless. But if not, then q can really just fuck off. A person is to acknowledge the fallibi...

What makes a course of events unnatural? Is doing it on a mattress unnatural?

No, only if it is an actual truth. Only if it is known, because then it is true. If it is only believed then it may not be true. But in practice, beli...

However one couches it, the sceptical element amounts to, by malign accident, improbable circumstance, alternative interpretation of the evidence, or ...

But to the topic. There is perfect comfort and peace in the tomb, but this side of it easy is boring, and free is easy. We all hate health and safety ...