This seemed like a decent comment on the article. "Do not attempt what cannot be done" is the civil engineer's mantra. Bridges that relied on division...
The feminist solution was "wages for housework". My mother was extremely smart, but as soon as she married, she had to give up her job in the bank, an...
Absolutely not! I already have an arsehole. (He says non-judgementally.) This may be hard for you to understand, but some of us are not desirous of mo...
Because we all need our daily bread. Why do you think a baker wants money? I have been a baker, and I can assure you that they do not collect money, b...
I'd say you are trying to make the facts fit your theory when they clearly contradict it. Once the self is expanded to include others, you really have...
The fact that folks have to be told to put the mask on themselves first ( and not the child, or vulnerable adult next to them) demonstrates without qu...
As far as I can tell, 'cynicism' in this context is an accusation you are levelling at me, as a way of evading the obvious difficulty of actually foll...
Much whinging! I remember the old forum going down for ages more than a day - the world literally stopped turning, and philosophy has still not recove...
I always refer such discussions to Ogden and Richards. A look at chapter 6 will be most helpful in elucidating the scope and application of 'definitio...
Try a bit of history of philosophy. There was this Triad: God, Man, Nature. They made sense together, because God created Man 'in His image'. This giv...
Herewith, some consideration. The UK is currently agonising over, (or being entertained by) a case of a serving police officer found guilty of the kid...
Hmm. So you're doing that on this thread? Having a conversation with the anti-vaxers? I must have missed it. What I am describing is the condition und...
That's not true, (he says getting out his big stick and beating Issac mercilessly.) Rather, I have no stick, and the truth is not a sword either. I am...
Let's be good: be honest and trustworthy; be kind and helpful; be generous and forgiving. It's very old-fashioned, but there really is no other way. I...
You can distrust your negotiation partner because you have a trusted social world. Start with global social distrust and you will see that you are dep...
Start with a bit more modernity than Aristotle's 5 senses. https://www.press.jhu.edu/news/blog/how-many-senses-do-we-have Reminds me of Pirsig's discu...
I'm suggesting that it is a moral imperative. I'm suggesting that rationality cannot exist without trust. I'm suggesting that we are social beings bef...
Trust is the currency of all social interaction. Trust, in the guise of 'confidence', is the foundation of the economy, and trust is the prerequisite ...
So don't look! Really, this is a bit silly, isn't it? You reject what can be observed in favour of what we would observe if... according to the theory...
The paradigm of chaos theory is the water wave. waves at sea propagate in a predictable and consistent manner, at a constant speed, and the movement o...
I am not convinced that anything to do with Will Smith is meaningful. And this is the difficulty; one is liable to be struck by coincidences even when...
Speaking of tone, the antipodean intonation that turns every sentence into a question perhaps expresses in its origins the roots of the largely uneduc...
When a doctor asks where the pain is they pay attention to the gesture that indicates the location; a flat hands indicates a surface pain, a finger a ...
The religion that worships its chains! There is a persistent illusion that distorts my view of the world, that my pain and pleasure is more significan...
How many years, one has to ask? I seem to remember the old 303 bolt action rifle was replaced by I forget which semi automatic because someone calcula...
There is indeed something remarkably like it. https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/aug/08/rise-of-the-racist-robots-how-ai-is-learning-all-our-...
Apparently, a woman is murdered by a man every 3 days in the UK. I blame the government. Apparently Churchill was responsible for the famine in India ...
It's certainly not whatI'm espousing. I say that life is good and therefore death is good and pain is good, because these things are part of life. I d...
The former. I prefer vanilla, you prefer strawberry. I prefer the pricking of my finger, you prefer the destruction of the world. De gustibus non Disp...
So it's your dreams that create all this trouble in the world? There had to be some reason for it I suppose. Any chance you can learn to dream nice dr...
The physics of the mind would be very abstract and rather empty seeming. I can make one vague suggestion: the physics would be 3 dimensional. There is...
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