unenlightened

Well I'm trying to follow the maths. Firstly, if there are a limited number of ravens, then there are some ravens. So we are not saying merely that th...

Perhaps not, dude, I'm saying how I feel, where I am looking, not listing my achievements. I don't think it does. Perhaps you need to start speaking f...

Bite the bullet dude; induction is not logical. I have shown it to you every which way, with analysis and argument, and finally with an example from h...

Imagine yourself an Englishman. You have seen {insert number} swans, all of which have been white. You conclude from this evidence that all swans are ...

This is the problem. This what is wrong, and since I cannot convince you, I'll just refer you to Hume.

You seem to be missing the fact that the contrapositive is the same claim - That the intersection of the set of nonblack things and ravens is empty. B...

The argument is that if you make a claim about X where X = non-black ravens, and the claim is that there are none, that claim is not evidenced in any ...

Time to address my argument, not to repeat yours.

Decrease the number to zero, and see how that affects things. You have already declared that there are eggs. That is confirmed by every egg, but that ...

Well you start with a compound statement from the beginning. "there are eggs and they are all white." Then you also stipulate how many eggs there are ...

That. If 1. then not 2. /uploads/resized/files/8c/shd3yjwni5n431zv.jpg "All ravens are black" declares the blue area to be empty. This is refuted by e...

I'd say it's a knock down disproof. Unless you wish to make it definitional in some way, such that being Welsh means being a woman, and men cannot be ...

The point you are missing is that if I don't exist, there can be no evidence as to my gender or my place of habitation. None at all. Not green apples,...

Only if I exist. Are you claiming I exist? Then there can be evidence.

Fuckin ell Micheal. You can if you want, but if you don't say anything that populates the world, you ain't saying anything about the world, and no evi...

I really feel I sorted this out earlier, but obviously not. I'll try one more time. If they are taken to be analytic, they say exactly the same thing,...

Probably nothing practically, I don't know. Rather as a Christian is not a good person, but a sinner, and climbers can often be found at the foot of t...

I don't know what your life is about. It is for you to say what is the most important thing to you. For me it is love - which is not to say that I am ...

It means your life is about something. What is important here, your giving, the ring itself or your wife? And are any of these the centre of your life...

I tend to think that the analytic/synthetic distinction is a matter of choice. 1. All swans are white. 2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABl...

I'm not your Biblical scholar, but It looks to me as though you aren't looking for that. So from first principles ... Everyone must put something at t...

It's not the discovery that is significant, it's that messages can be targeted. If you're gay, you'll get messages about Islamic gay persecutions, if ...

Well add a few million black ravens and no non-black ones, and you might start to see that no evidence at all multiplied sufficiently starts to become...

This is the bollocks of a loser out of his depth.

The thinking is that if a black raven is supporting evidence that all ravens are black (not proof, note), then by the same token a green apple is supp...

If you enjoyed this test, buy a few women's magazines and answer endless questions about you - yes you - the centre of the world and the most importan...

I would if I could, but my unity has been greatly exaggerated.

I think the analysis is complete if one points out that 'there are ravens and all ravens are black' is no longer equivalent to 'There are non-black th...

Have you considered a trolley? Apparently they're very effective against other people's pets and children.

Yes, it is the end. Because scientific claims are existential claims, and in logic universal claims have no existential import. Thus the claim 'All ra...

Well no. The evidence that as far as I know all ravens are black is limited to my having seen some ravens and them all being black. (That's the point ...

I don't think so. You just have to preface your universals with 'As far as I know', or some such trope. Science is provisional, but you don't have to ...

Back in the day, 'all' statements had no existential import, whereas 'some' statements did. Following which, one might have a bit of a get out, by den...

If only you hadn't trodden on the roses, I could pull the petals off one by one saying, 'cats', 'Hitler doll' alternately until the miracle happened.

What's even more annoying is that intuition seems to say that a black raven is not evidence that non-black things are non ravens. Unless someone wants...

That modification is a lot more acceptable.

We know, by definition, that there is no gene for PTSD. We know, as Freud started to know, that childhood trauma in the form particularly of physical ...

I think we're on the second go round at the moment - no names, no sick laughter.

Seemingly not. Which explains why there are no significant female philosophers. They are just too difficult to understand, and not worth the trouble, ...

Aldous Huxley answered that a while back in Brave New World.

No it isn't, it's a matter of an ethernet cable. Joining them with an imaginary cable doesn't work.

I know what you mean, but I disagree. I am not in the habit of drawing boundaries round stuff. One does not need to draw an imaginary boundary round a...

I thought there was something in the constitution about not having an established religion. Anyway, we should obviously be doing the same here. Priori...

There can be no selection without rejection. Try calling it 'natural rejection' for a while. It should make no difference to the theory...

That's just your pro-life bias talking - as if the universe really wanted you. This is the odd thing, that this view is so primitive and antiscientifi...

There can only be one last word.

No, you have the teleology backwards. The aim of genes is to go extinct, and most of them achieve this eventually. Natural selection provides the opti...

Well not really the same. The Big Dipper does not imagine itself. A group of particles with an imagination is more than an arbitrary invention of itse...

What's with all this welcoming refugees nonsense. Send them all back, they'll only create problems and undermine our civilisation.

I save time, you spend time, they waste time. Time is money. Or possibly not. The trouble with Maslow is that he couldn't multi-task. That and getting...