Right. But you cannot make the possibility believable? Then I won't believe it. But i have made a suggestion of how it might be believable - it just r...
You would have to make that believable to me. Your declaration does not do it without some understandable detail. Perhaps it is a world in which human...
Yes. I cannot make sense of I understand that an anti-natalist thinks otherwise, but I just think they are confused. Such a world would at least have ...
I would suggest that this is a gross misunderstanding of personal identity. Identical twins are not the same person, and if someone undergoes gene the...
Something. Or nothing. I cannot help you beyond pointing out that moral beliefs are efficacious, and some are life affirming and others life denying. ...
Yes. Our belief is efficacious., whether it is true or false. the question is though what is its effect if it is true, and what is its effect if it is...
Yes, I assumed you were saying that, but can you provide an argument for it? It seems rather unlikely. We agree that our moral beliefs have real conse...
Ah right, I missed that. Then I think the question is ineffective. People live according to their beliefs. If everyone believed the world was flat, no...
1. In a world without morality, folk would kill babies if they wanted to and not if they didn't want to. There would be no law against it or moral opp...
I checked my last two links and they work for me, so I think it must be your end cos I don't have any special access to anything... They must be reall...
What follows (P.75) is an extended analogy that has unfortunately been taken literally in the UK and the US, in the case of university colleges, and o...
That is such an honest, humble, and illuminating speech. Now I want to read his work some more. Mrs un writes to save her life, and writes from an unk...
This is a nice quiet corner where we can put the world to rights without being interrupted by the world and his brother. Sound judgement? It requires ...
Can you not see the same shape in this description as in my first Bateson quote about the lying Cretan? Two mutually undermining claims tied together ...
Yes it is, but I am not going to argue that right now. But you ought not argue that it is not immoral to lie, because you are undermining your own arg...
It's my anti-antirealism. The reality is that communication happens, and is advantageous, and can only happen in a largely truth-telling community. Th...
I'm not sure if this will be helpful, but Bateson derives a notion of 'category error' from Russell's theory of logical types. Emoticons are very ofte...
Oh dear. This is not a good analysis. If all people are morally equal, then it is an error to divide them into the nefarious and the righteous. That i...
Bella fekete At the bottom of every post, just to the right of the time stamp there is an invisible arrow followed by three dots. when you click the i...
My position on DNA is that it used to work just fine even before that woman discovered it and some blokes stole her idea and got the Nobel prize for i...
Your English is a bit off, but not too badly. Basically a lie can only work in a community that expects truth. Clearly there is no community of 'preda...
I'm not familiar with falling abacus, but mindless computers do process information all the time unobserved... and present the results to us at our co...
Literally not so.There are footprints millions of years old, from dinosaurs that predate humans. The print of the foot is literally preserved in what ...
Yes you express very clearly what I disagree with. Information is not all in my head, but all in Google. Well not actually all in Google either, becau...
The corresponding problem with government is that it cannot distinguish itself from a Mafia. The ordinary decent man has a free choice as to exactly w...
I'm afraid I flatly disagree. The information is there in the sand, literally imprinted as a record of the shape of the foot that trod there. And this...
Perhaps some light could be shed if the question is reversed. What characterises the mindset associated with dishonesty? My first impulse is to notice...
Kant was trying to save rationalism from Hume's sceptical challenges particularly wrt causation. Empiricism as hume developed it starts with something...
But we fools rush in... Ducks on a Pond. But this fool will declare, if anyone cares to attend, that just as marriage is not to be found in a man or a...
A paper for COP OUT 28 that they will not be hearing because the authors cannot be bothered to go. http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2023/Miracle...
Your wish is granted, including that it is legal to make laws and enforce them. The fundamental problem with anarchy is that it fails to forbid govern...
That goes a long way to explaining the curious sensation one has in dialogue with you that one is talking to no one; that text is produced according t...
You are only going to get words and pictures on this site. That much is evident, but my finding it so is not evidence to you, just more barking. Seemi...
If I believed you, I would be rather more quiet. It is only because I do not believe your self-undermining pontifications that I am inclined to produc...
It's not an illusion, it's a picture. It's not chequer square and a vase with a shadow, it's a picture thereof. At no point do you or I actually see o...
The judges' words seem to have some power though. Otherwise @"NOS4A2" wouldn't be criticising them, would he? It really is a most fatuous argument tha...
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