Maybe truth will replace post-truth after all. :) Poll: Trump reaches majority disapproval in eight days (Jennifer Calfas; TheHill; 2017-01-29) https:...
Some key points of the recent initiative of the Trump administration: suspension of the US Refugee Admissions Programme for 120 days an indefinite ban...
From memory, something like 8/10 ISIS victims have been Muslims. More? There's been refugees fleeing the onslaught with small children, walking the hi...
Let me just be a bit dramatic for a moment. :) On a lighter (and funnier) note: "INAUGURATION DAY" — A Bad Lip Reading of Donald Trump's Inauguration ...
"There's nutn' in the fridge" just means out of food. Like empty. Your thoughts when unconscious, the sound of clapping with one hand, ... The word "n...
forums.philosophyforums.com sure seems like a ghost town now. (Think I may have joined in 2008 or thereabouts.) For-profit or otherwise, regular maint...
Differently expressed objection: Craig implicitly extends causation beyond the universe, and thus have to justify this before applying the 1st premise...
Craig does not delineate the "whatever" (wild-card) in the 1st premise thus, but it seems you do. I'm guessing Craig would hang causation on his deity...
Compare the kalam/cosmological argument: 1. whatever begins to exist has a cause of its existence 2. the universe began to exist 3. therefore the univ...
Too quiet here. Some time ago (must be over a year) I typed "Yet another mind-body hypothesis" in. Not really sure if it's appropriate as an article h...
For p = this statement is false to be considered, isn't there an implicit assumption that p is true? Due to the self-reference (this statement), it is...
Cool. Though, where no one is obliged to automatically listen to subject matter experts, neither are anyone entitled to automatically dismiss them. Me...
The tragedy of the commons is a fairly fundamental result of non-regulation. Seems like a good reason for cooperation. A thoroughly "back to nature" m...
I voted "Other" because I honestly don't know. What might improve upon things...? Educating and informing, generally available, and throwing misinform...
On the topic: Richard Rorty and the Origins of Post-Truth ANA SANDOIU The Partially Examined Life Dec 2016 Anyway, if we suppose that a major meteor i...
Spatiality is not conserved as it were, there's literally more of it by the minute, apparently "coming from nothing" if you will. How does the metaphy...
Folks, the rampant spread of misinformation, anti-science, and paranoid conspiracy theories is disgusting. A Secret Has Been Uncovered: Cancer Is Not ...
Something similar shows up in all kinds of places. Say, hydrogen and oxygen atoms (the parts) can combine to water molecules (the whole). In turn, ato...
Going by evidence, I think it can be shown that moral realism versus moral relativism is a false dichotomy. Evidently we tend to dislike harm and like...
It seems "the whole" has additional structure (and interaction) that the collection of "the parts" does not. I suppose some emergence may be a result ...
There was never really a time when there wasn't anything. (Well, otherwise there would have been time at least, if that makes any sense.) OK, once upo...
I for one agree, @"Bitter Crank", a specific, practical course of action is situation dependent. I also agree with @"Stosh", to some extent, that you ...
Right, @"andrewk", the greater good defense. Say, like, the during the time the neighbor on the left walks away, and the neighbor on the right interve...
Thanks for the info @"mcdoodle"; hadn't actually checked the site further, it was just casually given to me by friend that lives in London, UK. I'm no...
Anyway, the opening post is a rendition of the problem of evil (sort of). Capable, knowing, willing. A hypothetical neighbor "above", was less benevol...
@"Stosh", oddly enough, it's almost as if you agree with the assessment in the opening post...? :) Call it a thought experiment (with a stacked deck),...
@"Terrapin Station", you might be able to argue that inaction is entirely excusable, if you will. That said, do you disagree that the neighbor on the ...
@"Terrapin Station", part of the argument is that inaction is no excuse, at least not morally. The two quotes, and the trolley problem of old, allude ...
(*psst*, Whenever I come across someone elsewhere that seems genuinely cool — including people I disagree with mind you — then I point them over here,...
I suppose, then, as far as assertions go, there's a mutually exclusive choice between 1 and a,b: 1. Among possible worlds some are without sentience. ...
@"Terrapin Station", I just meant that obviously you can deny 1 as follows: a. definition: G is necessary b. definition: G is necessarily sentient c. ...
Right, yet that's just a definitional petitio principii. By assertion a world without sentience is impossible because G is absent therefrom, because G...
Good point (I suppose, unless the solipsist consider themselves God). Perhaps subjective idealism, à la Berkeley or something similar, is a better exa...
Well, defining sentience in terms of something else is perhaps somewhat futile. I'm thinking it's part of mind, where mind is an umbrella term for sel...
Sure, but that's a tad bit presumptuous, implausibly strong, unjustified, especially in comparison to any number of alternatives. Consider a rather si...
At a glance, I see a couple objections: outright reject modal logic solipsism, panpsychism (or some other special idealism) It's trivial to come up wi...
Yep, remember this. Not the concert in person, but the rest. The sentiment of "fuck you, you, and you.". Damn, how boring and mellow I've become. http...
Sinner, where ya gonna run to? Regardless of the superstitious nonsense, Simone gives an impressive musical (and felt) performance. The only "power" i...
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