Look what I just came across: Debunking Relativity Exposing the Superstitions in Science Srinivasa Rao Gonuguntla I wonder if Gonuguntla ever use GPS ...
Well, how do we get to know about anything that isn't already part of ourselves, one way or other? Perception is interaction. Dreams are not (at least...
When tautology is another expression of identity, it doesn't seem like a tautology as such. As per Gassendi, really all that's determined (deductively...
Couldn't a similar argument (to Mary's Room) be made for roughly any new phenomenological experience (qualia)? Self-reference warning: mind comprehend...
My 2 cents on this fine Sunday. 1) I assume there are plenty things I've never perceived, many more than what I have perceived for sure. Novelties. I ...
In general, knowledge is only partially dependent on would-be knowers. While going by the traditional definition, the "justified" "belief" part is our...
Right @"TimeLine", to you the bare existence of those experiences is certain, albeit perhaps not quite what they are (quiddity). I guess that's not fa...
Well, the scriptural gods have meddled plenty in human affairs. On that account it's not like they don't interfere. Actually, some of the interference...
In Defence of Post-Truth Steve Fuller Mar 2017 Name-drops: Aquinas, Bacon, King James I, Newton, Kant, Nietzsche, Hans Vaihinger, Popper, Frank Ramsey...
, no, a black hole tends towards a spheroid when using the Schwarzschild radius. If it's not a "perfect sphere", then it's just some other shape, that...
Not so. Relativity was/is falsifiable, but has since been verified on several occasions. It is used in GPS today. Black holes are predictions of relat...
That seems to be how people feel about Trump these days. Maybe, maybe not. (Maybe Trump is just biased towards confirming whatever suits him, maybe he...
MIT claims to have found a “language universal” that ties all languages together A language universal would bring evidence to Chomsky's controversial ...
I posted the above elsewhere, and now here for your target practise and/or bananas as per Baloo. Should perhaps have been posted in the Logic & Philos...
I incidentally came across this recent conversation where politics and science met: Bill Nye And Bernie Sanders Discuss Climate Change (Full) (youtube...
(y) So, 1930 hours GMT, presumably 2017-03-03. Unless you've tricked us by "next Friday" always being from the present here-now (indexical)? Just maki...
Someone suggested that my original formulation may imply both real and fictional, which (in the use here) contradicts. So, I tried this alternative: 1...
Whatever we/you think and echo-chambers postulate, has little bearing on the comets/asteroids. In age of misinformation, Denial exposes dangers of a f...
Right, it's just another ontological argument. 1 defines and names Ariel — what's meant by Ariel here — quiddity (definitions are often demanded in ar...
Just pointing out the subtle difference here. :) OK OK, I concede. (Logicing, reification, predicate ontologization, ...) Unless there are any defende...
She does exist, though, at least. (Check link in opening post.) Surely real is grrreater than fictional. For example, it means she can also assert her...
Challenging anti-Ariellean sentiments, pending refutation. Goes way back, to 1078 I think, hence why I posted it in this group. Take it with a smile. ...
I think multiverse hypotheses categorize roughly as defining what something is ? now let’s found out that it is (or not) though the hypotheses may hav...
Say, for The Black Death, the that was the malady/suffering, or what we'd call symptoms (regardless of any micro-organisms per se). The Flagellants ha...
This was a note I'd typed in elsewhere, but wanted to run it by the grumpy forum'ers (yes you) for trial-by-fire. :D Perhaps not so much for the histo...
There's a difference between moving from the starting point to the end point, and reciting all the distances moved along the way. Especially if every ...
NASA is defiantly communicating climate change science despite Trump’s doubts (Jason Samenow; The Washington Post; Feb 2017) Isn't it kind of odd that...
I once tried to round up some of the usual arguments: Pros: retribution (or "justice") an eye for an eye, punishment fits the crime deterrence (except...
How the Anti-Vaxxers Are Winning Peter J Hotez The New York Times Feb 2017 I guess they won't be putting refugees from certain Middle Eastern countrie...
To contrast the opening post: I'm guessing (but please correct me if I'm wrong) that the most common intellectual reasons for atheism, are that, in th...
Something not spatiotemporal would be kind of inert, though. Couldn't interact, couldn't be subject to causation, or be an effect (in part or whole), ...
I don't think substance dualism really "solves" the mind-body problems, or the explanatory gap, as such. Well, apart from simply asserting that the hy...
I’d say “mind” (as the umbrella term) is spatiotemporal. Observations: mind: comes and goes, starts and ends, un/consciousness (anesthetic) — temporal...
Isn't it fairly obvious that Trump is an (almost Machiavellian) opportunist? *shrug* ¨\_(O)_/¯ His campaign set up a magnet for dissidents and anti-es...
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