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Why would random fluctuations in the wave function collapse into precisely the effects we experience as classical mechanics? Prima facie, the way the ...
October 05, 2020 at 21:17
The GOP as a decent chance of holding on to the senate, despite trailing the democrats by more than 5 points nationally. There don't seem to be any si...
October 05, 2020 at 20:28
Putting on my tinfoil hat, it's another stunt to distract us all from the GOP working to make sure 2020 will be the last free election in America.
October 05, 2020 at 19:21
I am not trying to demonstrate non-determinism. In fact my argument is that it's essentially impossible to do so. All absudities we can come up with r...
October 05, 2020 at 19:11
What would it even mean for a culture to collapse? Disappearance of it's ideas, it's rituals, it's language? None of that seems to be happening. To be...
October 05, 2020 at 19:05
I get what you're saying, a single, fixed deviation isn't the same as constantly changing results. But effects on the micro scale do exhibit constantl...
October 05, 2020 at 14:28
This actually happens all the time. An outcome is predicted, the experiment is done, and the outcome is not what has been predicted. It's the basic sc...
October 05, 2020 at 13:18
This seems to indicate that "determinism/indeterminism" isn't actually a property of the universe at all, but something else. When we think about "the...
October 05, 2020 at 11:55
The reason would obviously be that it's justice.
August 26, 2020 at 17:43
It seems increasingly likely that, after 4 more years of Trump, there will not be another election that deserves the name. Not, mind you, because I th...
August 22, 2020 at 17:15
Marx of course believed (or at least seemed to believe) that he didn't need to imagine possible outcomes or rank their probability. According to Marx,...
August 22, 2020 at 17:08
Also because Marxism is the polar opposite of a post-modern view. For Marx, history itself had an objective purpose that could be known. But one good ...
August 22, 2020 at 17:01
So, what does he say, in your interpretation? What's the connection between setting your house in order and criticizing the world? Peterson's style is...
August 22, 2020 at 13:28
Common sense usually is neither common nor sense. Apart from that, there is two problems: For one this is an impossible standard. Everyone has problem...
August 22, 2020 at 10:29
I kinda get the opposite impression: That he argues that individuals should care about themselves and not try to change the world around them. That th...
August 22, 2020 at 09:30
This "wedge" between fact and interpretation seems to be at the heart of a lot of philosophy in the post-enlightenment era. It could perhaps be said t...
August 19, 2020 at 17:39
How reasonable this is depends a lot on what you mean by "exist". It's fairly obviously the case that our current best empirical theories about the ph...
August 19, 2020 at 17:21
Looks like someone expedited the plan.
August 15, 2020 at 15:12
The problem is less with your logic (I pointed out some problems with your reasoning in my previous post) and more with the whole "powerlevel" thing. ...
August 15, 2020 at 06:40
Yeah but "it's horrible" is not the saying the same as "it's feels horrible to me". That's my point: We treat the outcome of any deliberation on moral...
August 13, 2020 at 08:22
Based on what I know about the history of early humanity and the development of human children it seems likely that some form of limited personal prop...
August 12, 2020 at 18:12
The most obvious flaw, broadly speaking, is that the argument is an exercise in creating information ex-nihilo, which is to say it operates on the ass...
August 12, 2020 at 16:32
Perhaps the scenario could be rephrased thus: Assuming there is an objective truth "out there", which is not accessible to most people, but is accessi...
August 12, 2020 at 13:53
That much I understand. But, in the case where you are faced with a moral dilemma, don't you then run into a performative contradiction? In order to s...
August 12, 2020 at 13:44
That's an advanced position though. You first have to understand the objective as a realm completely beyond access, realize that therefore everything ...
August 11, 2020 at 19:40
I think this is, in a way, backwards. Space describes the relations between physical objects. Fundamental particles don't necessarily "occupy" space s...
July 20, 2020 at 20:29
Well, you said that this was an attribute God has, so God is a creator. He might be other things, but if he is all things, we're back to square one.
July 20, 2020 at 18:14
That seems to be asking whether or not the mind is material. There are lots of differen positions on that. Is there any specific reason you're asking?
July 20, 2020 at 18:13
Ok, but there is an implicit assumption here: That "God" is the creator, and not some other player in the world. That's not something you got from obs...
July 19, 2020 at 16:34
How is that an attribute?
July 19, 2020 at 10:01
Well, my argument is that we managed to go from "intuitive empiricism" but controversial and variously flawed natural philosophies to scientific empir...
July 19, 2020 at 10:00
For example?
July 19, 2020 at 08:43
Well but this just begs the question: what attributes of good do we "see", in whatever way you propose we can, in reality?
July 18, 2020 at 08:05
I don't see how they do, nor do I understand what you mean by your question.
July 17, 2020 at 18:41
Most people reach moral conclusions intuitively, the same way that most people use something related to the empiricism intuitively. Otherwise, it'd be...
July 17, 2020 at 18:02
Synthetic a priori judgements don't imply a god.
July 17, 2020 at 16:58
There is also widespread agreement that killing babies for fun is wrong. I'd wager even less people disagree with that than disagree with experience a...
July 17, 2020 at 16:37
I am not sure that that distinction works. If we look at the history of natural philosophy, we see that people had all kinds of ideas about reality th...
July 17, 2020 at 05:12
But does the concept of objective meaning make sense? I understand the distinction you make, but "meaning" is not an ordinary property. For a thing to...
July 15, 2020 at 20:43
Well, but then what does it mean to say "life may have meaning, it just cannot be known"? If the meaning cannot be established objectively, that leave...
July 15, 2020 at 20:24
I think the answer depends on whether you the claim "nothing can be known with certainty" is different from a regular negative claim like "I don't kno...
July 15, 2020 at 19:10
Russia is certainly in favour of whatever damage and discord can be caused, but too many of the powers that be in the US would have to be enlisted by ...
July 15, 2020 at 17:42
My conspiracy theory is that it's all part of Steve Bannons plan to destroy the institutions of the American political system in order to replace it w...
July 14, 2020 at 20:39
Yes, I think we're in agreement this far. The system should be set up as well as possible. Usually, the way this is done is to ensure first that every...
July 14, 2020 at 07:49
Totally not what I said. Yes, actually. A lot of things can go wrong either way, but I trust the self-regulation of the judiciary more than I trust th...
July 13, 2020 at 22:00
Is that a serious question? I have eyes and a working brain, that's how I know. Anyways It's the threat of politically motivated interference that doe...
July 13, 2020 at 19:33
That's pretty odd usage of words. People don't usually refer to automobiles as "machines that produce metaphysical transportation". Really what you're...
July 13, 2020 at 18:55
Not in a political case. A single miscarriage of justice is tragic for those involved, but not a threat to the rule of law. Politically motivated exec...
July 13, 2020 at 18:02
Ok, that I understand. A difficult question. The term "evolution" is thrown around a lot, and it's not always clear what is meant. If we mean an essen...
July 13, 2020 at 17:56
@"Michael" @"DingoJones" @"Relativist" It might be worth pointing out that discussing Stone's conviction and some vague notion of "fair treatment" is ...
July 13, 2020 at 17:28