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Well they're a subset. But it should be clear what I mean, no? I asked for a relevant difference. So I don't think the answers you did give amounted t...

True, I am not really interested in what you think on this topic, or rather it's sufficiently clear to me from what you wrote. I am interested in your...

Sorry, not interested in teacher / student roleplaying here. If you like you can engage with the rest of my previous questions.

None of your previous answers indicated any relevant difference to me. But I'd rather drop this and ask you to answer my other question than go down a...

What's the difference, other than you giving it a different name? No, but you explicitly argued in terms of the consequences of certain legislation. W...

You were criticizing @"Baden" for simply "assuming" a cost-benefit analysis is the correct approach. While using something very similar as your own ap...

Right. So you're saying that you only thought of benefits, and therefore it's not a cost-benefit analysis? But other people still need to justify why ...

You expressed more than just your preference for a given world though. You gave that preference as the reason why you don't want any speech acts to be...

I am aware that this is your view You're starting that you consider a certain state of affairs to be more desirable than another. This implies you jud...

If I remember correctly, your initial argument on why all speech should be legal was about teaching people to make their own decisions and ignore the ...

Wouldn't it be up to you to provide evidence of this supposed "card-stacking"?

But this is only true if you separate the person from their substrate, that is, if you hold that there are brain-states that do not represent the pers...

The question is, what would being "absolved of the grasp of determinism" even mean? I think everyone will agree that making choices is usually a combi...

This is very nicely put. It pretty much encompasses the reason why I think juxtaposing freedom and determinism is a mistake.

Suddenly, his words matter again.

But it's not inserting an answer. It's taking the experimental result at face value. Supposing there are unknown causal factors at work is inserting a...

This sentiment seems at the heart of a lot of support for Trump, but I just can't wrap my head around it. Basically it seems to imply there are not ac...

It's worth noting that the 4th estate also includes Fox News and Breitbart, who are hardly engaged propaganda against Trump. I wonder why you dodge al...

Isn't the president tasked - not just ethically - to represent the nation?

So, pulling out of the Paris climate accord? The Iran deal? Putting a climate change denier at the head of the EPA? Giving his relatives government po...

"Ontologically", the way Terrapin tends to use it, means really, actually the case. So ontological randomness really is random, and does not just appe...

@"Terrapin Station", as far as I understand him, has the position that there are two ways an event can obtain: it's either ontologically determined or...

That's not even close to the actual definitions of life being proposed by biologists. What is the evidence of that? Literally in the exact same manner...

That only works if we presume ontological randomness exists though, right? Because otherwise physical facts determine all outcomes precisely.

Yes, that makes sense. There certainly is a kind of hysteria around every new Trump outrage. One that Trump, or more likely people in his circle, are ...

Now who is playing word police here? Someone misused the word "discuss", oh dear. You seem pretty fixated on the media. Is any of this about Trump or ...

Actually I think it's fair to say that a moral relativist rejects abstract moral truths. But I think there are situational abstract moral truths. Kant...

There is a difference in my mind between situational and relativist ethics. Ethics are necessarily situational, because they deal with decisions you m...

It's probably because many people don't actually have a clear idea on what the god is that they are (not) believing in. Peoples ideas on gods float ar...

It's not necessarily unreasonable, but it's unnecessarily confusing to use "fault" and "cause" interchangeably when those words have different meaning...

But aren't relative ethics a problem for stances opposing phenomena like racism or misogyny?

How are things partially our fault if there is no free will?

Perhaps you'd like to have a talk with my wife about that. She seems to forget I am her ruler. Western views are everywhere around the world. They're ...

I don't think this is correct as a descriptive statement of sociology, though I can see it's moral appeal. The primary demand of all people at all tim...

Isn't the answer simply to treat religion and culture like any other sincerely held belief? I think one should always approach people and their views,...

The problem I have with your approach to value, in general, is that value is always value to somebody. There is no "object" involved here, no cosmic t...

Cash represents value. If cash established value, there would not have been value before cash, but there clearly was. Humans establish value, and valu...

I am still wondering why it would matter that the choice first happens subconsciously, given that it still originates in the same brain.

And I guess that's why your post started with "All his critics have..." and then referred to "every criticism". But sure, you were only talking about ...

What establishes this metric as objective, and how do we calculate net yield without using subjective value judgements? What are you thinking of when ...

Which implies that Trump's critics are only concerned with his words, not his actions. You then made this implication explicit by continuing: “Trump s...

Transform the economy from consumerism to a more sustainable, mostly circular system. Step up efforts to crack critical (for long term survival) techn...

Much of space is troubled by nothing worse than a vacuum. All that is required to get there is scaling up the things we can already do. It probably ca...

You claimed it was all about words. I proved you wrong. Now you're changing the topic.

I fail to see how what the last administration did is relevant. You are moving the goalposts.

To wit, metaphysics attempts to answer the question "physics - what is it?".

Courts deal with that problem every day. It is possible to determine whether or not someone is telling the truth, the question is how reliable that de...

And yet we somehow sent men to the moon in the 60s. I am not talking about a generation ship. I am talking about orbital habitats. Because I say it's ...

Certainly an interesting take on the subject. Though I wonder if that isn't a case of gambler's fallacy.

Sure. No-one criticized the policies Trump did implement at the southern border for example. Or the way he did replace all kinds of important agency p...