Of course, I am sure that there is a state-run university that will pay him good money for spreading his highly ideological views. The ruling elite in...
The video shows exactly what is wrong with his views. It takes over thirty pages of annotated first-order logic to prove just one single, knowledge cl...
Why do some belief communities reproduce while other ones do not? I think that the question is rather interesting. If you believe the wrong things, yo...
Yeah, they do not believe it, and they have lots of kids. Everybody who believes it, does not. So, let's conclude that not believing it, is a prerequi...
Societies who in all practical terms are no longer making children are at a distinct disadvantage in spreading the very ideas that cause their problem...
Well, after negotiating with the Taliban for over a year in Doha, Qatar -- the deal was finally going to be announced this week -- the Donald still ma...
Long-term survival is the overriding concern here. Few people would deny that the religious communities are at a very visible advantage on that matter...
Well, from what you are saying, it is not clear who exactly is the "fanatic", and a "major troll", and so on. You would benefit from reading Nassim Ni...
I've run into the following search result, somewhere at the top: The Best Philosophy Books. I haven't read many of the books listed in that page, but ...
It's complicated. If there is nobody is waiting for me to finish some work, I know from experience that I will abandon ship within one month, because ...
The Creator of the real, physical world cannot be existentially contained in it. So, it is not a question of about the real, physical world. The quest...
Well, yes, the ontology of logic and of mathematics are up in the air, and will probably remain so for the foreseeable future. I was only referring to...
Yes, agreed. It is a formal language along with transformation/rewrite/inference rules. The EBNF grammar of a particular language of logic does not ca...
The true understanding of neuroscience must be considered limited to the problems that they can really solve. Neuroscience can obviously solve some pr...
I am pointing out the issue of the addressability of the question. You seem to have pre-1936 views on this matter. Unlike what you seem to believe, di...
Well, everything you are saying, is simply not decidable, unless you manage to point out a purely mechanical procedure that calculates your conclusion...
So, do you believe that Alan Turing's and Alonzo Church's answer to David Hilbert's question is not reasonable? On what grounds would you then believe...
Where is the purely mechanical procedure that would answer your question? You see, a machine must be able to come to the same conclusion as you do. So...
Well, I am only pointing to the history of "smartass" questions in mathematics. After adding a rule to fix Bertrand Russell's "smartass" question, sim...
I have found another example, and actually a quite interesting one, from the cryptography subdomain at stack exchange: What is a “witness” in zero kno...
There is a rational element and a transcendental element. Quite a few people cannot assess the soundness of the rational element. So, they mostly igno...
Logic is a formal language. There is a mismatch in power between what we can say (formal language) and what we can solve (system). The solution in the...
The simplest solution is to forbid the political invention of new laws. That also automatically solves the problem of new, foreign-import laws that th...
In quite a few Islamic-majority countries, they do not even make such new foreign-import law, simply, because it is against Islamic law to do that, an...
To an important extent, it is. For example, the legislature in those countries often comes under pressure from the so-called western democracies to ad...
I just found an example, but in a different context: Most Countries Have Environmental Regulations. Very Few Actually Abide by Them. A new U.N. report...
In practical terms, it often depends on the composition of the population. Politically-invented law always applies to the unbelievers who believe in t...
Maybe in some places they can. There are a lot of places, though, where that does not work. You need a very gullible population for that to be possibl...
Of course, I do not believe that politicians are allowed to invent new laws. Is it even in my interest to believe a thing like that? We were talking a...
Islamic law does not allow for liberally inventing new extensions. Read the page on Sharia. The consensus of religious scholars will never defend the ...
Well, if you look at the alternative, you will detect gullibility that is much worse. What to think of people who believe that politicians are allowed...
Not in Islam. Mohammed, may he rest in peace, was the last prophet. No, what a prophet says, needs to appeal to an otherwise unknown mental faculty. I...
I will raise a counter argument of syntactic, formalist nature, by juggling with definitions. You see, according to the Dunning-Kruger research into i...
Miracles are indeed a bit controversial. In the Islamic narrative, the prophet was often asked by unbelievers to perform miracles to give them evidenc...
The first issue is always the decidability of the question. A good, historical example of an undecidable question is Russell's paradox: Does the set o...
No, it is an objection involving the limitations of knowledge itself. With all knowledge necessarily constrained within the boundaries established by ...
TLDR; It is a problem of logic as a tool. You see, logic is not omnipotent. On the contrary, first-order logic is notoriously full of issues. You can ...
Well, first there is the understanding that the "=" symbol pretty much never means "identical". The symbol is much more permissive than that. It usual...
I've found a machine-verifiable version of the Banach-Tarski proof for the Coq proof assistant. It looks endless. I first thought that this is because...
Atomizing individualism is a social disease that is rather unrelated to economic issues. If you want a functioning kinship structure, you will need so...
Well, I do not speak from personal experience, as I resolutely resigned from the ongoing experiment in the so-called "western democracies" over a deca...
What I wrote, was not in relation to the alphabet soup but to a new strand of articles that have appeared such as this example, "27 Percent of Califor...
Being rich can be a side effect of being a good manipulator, proficient at producing believable deceptions. Still, not all rich people have gained the...
Agreed, but that is exactly what is not possible. These other, unknown mental faculties are out of reach of any ability to inquire them rationally. Fu...
It is the axiomatic epistemic domain which works like that. The question then becomes: Why do you accept the axioms of an axiomatic theory? In my opin...
I see arbitrary in this context as "further unjustified". For example, I do not trust what a literary critic says about why Charles Dickens wrote a pa...
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