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['Member']Joined: June 15, 2019 at 08:54Last active: March 09, 2020 at 13:4815 discussions1308 comments

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Sounds like analysis paralysis: The fact that you have to survive anyway and that you could as well excel at doing so. We have to believe something. I...
March 08, 2020 at 15:36
There are no "Muslim countries". There are only Muslim neighbourhoods and then the overall Ummah, i.e. the global Muslim congregation. Even the Ottoma...
March 08, 2020 at 10:25
Well, I find the subject controversial. Luther's trial has ripped western Christianity apart. I still don't know what to think about it. In defence of...
March 08, 2020 at 04:57
Not necessarily. Judaism has religious advisories too, but I am not really much familiar with them. I suspect that the Rabbinic approach would be form...
March 08, 2020 at 03:51
Yes, because in that particular downturn the government still managed to keep afloat. In fact, the government will keep afloat as long as the currency...
March 07, 2020 at 17:33
That was before women's re-enslavement by the corporate oligarchy. In fact, by becoming wage slaves, women have become very dependent on corporations,...
March 07, 2020 at 16:34
That is the hardest part of being an entrepreneur or anybody else pursuing his own thing. It is preferable to take feedback only from people with skin...
March 07, 2020 at 04:24
Of course. Human behaviour is generally not even testable ... You believe what you want! ha aha aah ha ha! ;-) Then don't ! ;-) Me? ;-) I have not loo...
March 07, 2020 at 02:52
Religious people are not angry at atheists. Religion is a matter of self-discipline only. There is no requirement for you to have any self-discipline ...
March 07, 2020 at 02:26
Large numbers of people do not work from 9-5. I personally only did it for relatively short period in my life. Actually, no. Even then it was flexible...
March 07, 2020 at 01:43
I am actually not familiar with the details of how Syria works. Many countries have implemented a Statist approach to education resulting in the wides...
March 06, 2020 at 17:01
In fact, killing another person is never deemed wrong in absolute terms. Just like wild dogs or hyenas, human traditionally hunt in gangs or packs. Th...
March 06, 2020 at 14:23
O' Reilly calls atheists angry because they sue schools for having kids sing a Christmas Carol. Now, this practice would also piss off Jews and Muslim...
March 06, 2020 at 14:00
The basic assumptions of any discipline rest on faith. For example, there is no justification for the scientific method, as it is not justified from u...
March 06, 2020 at 13:39
That depends on how you define philosophy. The definition of science is easy, peasy: science is the collection of propositions that you can justify us...
March 06, 2020 at 11:29
0 = -1 + 1 Hence, nothing (= 0) can become something (= 1), along with something else (= -1) without violating any conservation laws. This phenomenon ...
March 05, 2020 at 13:03
When you look at logic sentence such as: Man in Mortal and (Socrates in Man) implies Socrates in Mortal You can see that the conclusion is a syntactic...
March 05, 2020 at 00:50
It is possible to verify syllogisms from their premises, i.e. axioms, by using a tool like the Coq proof assistant: assert Syllogism { all Socrates: u...
March 04, 2020 at 16:56
The world of documented knowledge has ended up with at least three standard knowledge-justification methods that all hark back to the JtB doctrine (th...
March 04, 2020 at 14:22
A remark that I need to make on McTaggart's work, is very similar to what Karl Popper wrote in his seminal publication, Science as falsification: Eins...
March 04, 2020 at 13:49
That does not diminish in any way that calling the JtB doctrine "bullshit", makes you arrogant and ignorant. Furthermore, JtB is not my doctrine. Ther...
March 04, 2020 at 13:19
Interesting question, really. Bertrand Russell considered Ludwig Wittgenstein to be a genius. I certainly understand why Russell himself was a genius:...
March 04, 2020 at 13:14
That puts you in conflict with very basic, standard epistemology. It is certainly possible to criticize the JtB doctrine, like e.g. Gettier successful...
March 04, 2020 at 12:57
The reason why you are so arrogant, is the same as ever: runaway ignorance. Maybe you first want to read up on the theory of justification: You do not...
March 04, 2020 at 00:30
Well, you would first have to be familiar with the discussion that has been going on for at least since 369 BCE. Socrates was certainly asking all the...
March 03, 2020 at 22:54
It is much older than that: The more precise date is 369 BCE:
March 03, 2020 at 15:40
Imagine that you were born in a box, with no windows, and that you never came out of it. What would you be able to know about who made that box?
March 03, 2020 at 14:49
JtB -- knowledge as a Justified (true) Belief -- is a long story. Epistemology in general, i.e. the theory of knowledge, is a long story ...
March 03, 2020 at 14:26
It is not his wealth that did it. It is his position. Even a simple nightclub bouncer has that power. He can let people in or refuse them entry. You w...
March 03, 2020 at 00:45
Ha aha ah ;-) That is the "who hurt you?" argument. Youtube is full of funny videos on that subject! I will ask my wife. Maybe she agrees! ;-) The qua...
March 02, 2020 at 23:51
The mechanism to generate theorems from axioms is the system of logic: assert Syllogism { all Socrates: univ, Man, Mortal: set univ | -- every man is ...
March 02, 2020 at 23:09
Well no, it may even land you in jail. I do not think that aspiring actresses necessarily care much about that. If she is not attached, and not a virg...
March 02, 2020 at 13:55
I used to live in the West. I grew up there. It is true that other societies make more sense to me. The less a society is westernized, the better I te...
March 02, 2020 at 12:18
I think that, in the West, men increasingly distrust women and do not believe a word they say. Men have learned to safely assume that everything she s...
March 02, 2020 at 04:39
As far as I am concerned, it matters for the question of what happens after this life. If the elusive Theory of Everything (ToE) cannot prove/predict ...
March 02, 2020 at 04:26
Well, they are not really "free". The government still has to pay for them. At first glance, that is not the individual's problem, but sooner or later...
March 01, 2020 at 23:20
In mathematics these certainties are known for certain inside their universe ("model"), which is never the physical universe but an abstract, Platonic...
March 01, 2020 at 14:49
To "know" is to "believe" with justification, while justification is fraught with problems. Hence, the better question is: what do you believe for sur...
March 01, 2020 at 09:39
In "Black Swan, Impact of the highly improbable", Nassim Taleb writes about "mediocristan" versus "extremistan". An example of mediocristan is the ave...
February 29, 2020 at 19:37
The difference between you and me, is that I know that I have no specialized knowledge in this area, while you are clearly too arrogant to understand ...
February 29, 2020 at 16:45
I agree that mathematics rests on a set of speculative and arbitrary core beliefs, a set of axioms, which are even deemed to be circular. It is not po...
February 29, 2020 at 02:22
Ha, no, there are no miracles in Islam itself, i.e. performed by the prophet of Islam, may he rest in peace. However, Islam refuses to comment negativ...
February 29, 2020 at 02:12
In my impression, the principle of karma in Buddhism works pretty much like you describe. It is considered to be some kind of accounting system across...
February 29, 2020 at 01:32
No, it does. A formal system is a list of axioms. Such formal system is always augmented with a choice of logic system, which is by default first-orde...
February 29, 2020 at 00:11
It is a trivially simple definition. Statism is the practice of government increasingly taking over tasks that originally belonged to non-government. ...
February 28, 2020 at 23:54
No, no. You need to learn how to quote literally. You cannot claim "you say" while not quoting what I have said. That is just a liberal-arts fraud. Th...
February 28, 2020 at 20:46
Look, the academia are stuck in a highly inefficient way of transmitting information while charging an arm and a leg in the process. Now, this subject...
February 28, 2020 at 20:44
In that case, read "HTML for dummies" alone.
February 28, 2020 at 20:25
No, that is not how to point out a contradiction. Try again.
February 28, 2020 at 20:16
It looks like worthless dead-tree material. I don't do that. There is no longer a need to cut trees in order to publish information. There is also no ...
February 28, 2020 at 20:15