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I want to just take a look at the other side, for a moment. And I'm gonna start with an iconoclasm: There is no such thing as sanity; it's not even a ...
October 12, 2025 at 08:19
There is no evidence one way or the other of the future. There is no evidence at all of the future. Not of laws coming or going or remaining the same....
October 09, 2025 at 21:02
While the long term result of trauma tends to be chronic stress, the long term result of abuse is more typically shame, guilt, self-disgust. Trauma an...
October 09, 2025 at 18:07
It seems you are conflating an explanation of facts past and present and a prediction of facts future. So you have arrived at your best explanation, a...
October 09, 2025 at 17:07
I'd really like to see that justification. The problem of course is that any evidence that might be brought forward for the future being like the past...
October 09, 2025 at 09:57
Separation between 'us' and 'them', between superior and inferior, between human and the rest of nature. If this is true, then you are trying to say w...
October 08, 2025 at 14:03
Your claim of superiority entails a separation. This separation contradicts the other claim of a unified vision.
October 08, 2025 at 10:39
If you do not see the contradiction, I probably cannot convince you, but the 'we' at the top do not seem to be unified with the animal kingdom as long...
October 08, 2025 at 08:50
This is a fine summary of physicalism. It doesn't really argue though, it is a statement of belief, what used to be called a 'creed' from the latin, '...
October 08, 2025 at 08:26
Broad beans, and runners this year. Sometimes some french dwarf beans -purple teepee is a favourite. But This year seems to be the year of beetroot an...
October 07, 2025 at 14:34
I's grown a lot of beans. Just sayin, they are what they are, end of.
October 07, 2025 at 08:42
RIP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oshFOK9-sk
October 05, 2025 at 15:08
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October 05, 2025 at 09:55
October 04, 2025 at 15:13
"Physics is fun." my teacher used to say. But the German Science Guy is super excited about some new chemistry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0els-o...
October 04, 2025 at 14:12
It's mainly Europeans who leave their countries and settle in America Australia, India, Africa, and the Far East, etc. And the way we generally do it ...
October 04, 2025 at 12:34
"Snow likes to be very quiet, and when someone disturbs it, it does its best to quieten them down." The point I am making is more so grammatical. Of a...
October 04, 2025 at 08:32
Answers to 'Why' questions all end up the same way, sooner or later— "Because I said so!" or the less responsible version, "It's Godswill!". Either ar...
October 03, 2025 at 09:07
Yeah, an Irishman with 3 trades - that's really funny - so goes against the stereotype!
October 01, 2025 at 14:44
That sounds like a good joke, why not tell it?
October 01, 2025 at 13:18
What I believe is that science is a sceptical endeavour, that progresses by means of demonstration. which is to say, that I expect scientists not to p...
September 30, 2025 at 18:21
No it doesn't. Scientists are not all equally scrupulous, and are subject to peer pressure, the persuasion of big pharma et cetera, and the need to ge...
September 30, 2025 at 17:33
Hume's attack is not on science here, and it is not on morality when he points out that you can't derive an ought from an is. As I have pointed out el...
September 30, 2025 at 08:21
That all?
September 29, 2025 at 20:10
What is objectionable about this, is not just that it fails as any kind of defence of the rationality of induction, but that it takes astrology - the ...
September 29, 2025 at 11:19
Yes, darling, but that's my comment, not Hume's.I am arrogant and righteous, so you can dismiss me with a casual projection like that.
September 28, 2025 at 22:06
The thing is, it used to be a necessary truth, "All swans are white." Philosophers dined out on it for years. And then there wasn't 'a black swan even...
September 28, 2025 at 22:03
Look chaps, I can claim very little credit for any of this; it is seriously ill advised in my estimation to try and contradict Hume. he is The Man. He...
September 28, 2025 at 21:41
That is indeed a fine and attractive explanation for past regularities, and "as a rule" I myself have found that heads and tails come up about equally...
September 28, 2025 at 21:32
Abandon (the pretence of) rationality, all ye who enter here.
September 28, 2025 at 21:20
That is what we are doing - having a discussion. You have taken the bet, and I have rejected the bet and we have laid out our reasons. Now I hope you ...
September 28, 2025 at 20:04
My rationality or yours?
September 28, 2025 at 18:24
So rationality doesn't work as a decision guide.
September 28, 2025 at 17:22
I have already explained why it would not have been rational, viz. that your offering the bet in circumstances where you had expertise that I lacked, ...
September 28, 2025 at 08:02
I'll just leave it there, and see if it appeals to anyone else. I think you didn't understand Hume's problem in the first place, so an argument that a...
September 27, 2025 at 20:32
I won't take your bet, because I'm a stranger and you're local and you might know that the ferry just docked and we're due a contingent of Rhode Islan...
September 27, 2025 at 19:35
The problem is that it is not rational, in the sense that no amount of past evidence can constrain the future in any way, logically. And you just sayi...
September 27, 2025 at 18:43
Is it? Do you doubt it on any of those grounds? Want to put some money on it? :wink: This is Wittgenstein's suggestion. There might be reasons such as...
September 27, 2025 at 18:18
Generally speaking, one carves in stone, and casts in metal. This is the logic of bitter experience. Volcanic plugs are cast in stone, but they tend t...
September 27, 2025 at 12:22
You don't see the value of the distinction between rational and irrational? Or memory and imagination? :gasp:
September 27, 2025 at 11:04
Huh? Your statistical claim makes no sense, but anyway statistics cannot answer Hume, whose argument comes down to 'you can't logically derive a propo...
September 26, 2025 at 19:29
The nearest thing to an answer to Hume comes from Wittgenstein, along the lines that doubt too stands in need of justification. Whatever can be known ...
September 26, 2025 at 18:39
I think it is our business to distinguish sense from nonsense. I do not think it can be done without touching on nonsense. I suspect the line between ...
September 26, 2025 at 18:12
Here's something to make you glad you live in the fucked up US, God-forsaken Europe, or the La-la land of the UK. This is the real Big Brother. https:...
September 26, 2025 at 18:01
Well thank you for the reluctant charity. I certainly don't claim to be the incarnation of love, and my use of quotation rather than simple declaratio...
September 26, 2025 at 10:11
Herewith the lurking dichotomous bum biting alternative: Love makes the world go round, which nobody can deny who is born of two parents.
September 25, 2025 at 19:59
It's very hard to stop smoking and very easy to relapse when your wife wants you to quit (the voice of experience). It is way, way, easier if you your...
September 25, 2025 at 15:52
I guess the corruption and incompetence soaks in to the underground too. Or to put it a bit more sociologically, nazi Germany had another culture, and...
September 25, 2025 at 15:11
Another Ukrainian comedian. Obscenity Warning! Not for delicate flowers! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojBM2e4hsjg
September 24, 2025 at 14:51
To be precise, I am of Scottish extraction, English by birth and resident in Wales. But furthermore, no one is ever merely 'Welsh', but invariably 've...
September 23, 2025 at 08:39