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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...

There are no "Muslim countries". There are only Muslim neighbourhoods and then the overall Ummah, i.e. the global Muslim congregation. Even the Ottoma...

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...

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...

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...

That was before women's re-enslavement by the corporate oligarchy. In fact, by becoming wage slaves, women have become very dependent on corporations,...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

0 = -1 + 1 Hence, nothing (= 0) can become something (= 1), along with something else (= -1) without violating any conservation laws. This phenomenon ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Interesting question, really. Bertrand Russell considered Ludwig Wittgenstein to be a genius. I certainly understand why Russell himself was a genius:...

That puts you in conflict with very basic, standard epistemology. It is certainly possible to criticize the JtB doctrine, like e.g. Gettier successful...

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...

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...

It is much older than that: The more precise date is 369 BCE:

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?

JtB -- knowledge as a Justified (true) Belief -- is a long story. Epistemology in general, i.e. the theory of knowledge, is a long story ...

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...

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...

The mechanism to generate theorems from axioms is the system of logic: assert Syllogism { all Socrates: univ, Man, Mortal: set univ | -- every man is ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

In mathematics these certainties are known for certain inside their universe ("model"), which is never the physical universe but an abstract, Platonic...

To "know" is to "believe" with justification, while justification is fraught with problems. Hence, the better question is: what do you believe for sur...

In "Black Swan, Impact of the highly improbable", Nassim Taleb writes about "mediocristan" versus "extremistan". An example of mediocristan is the ave...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

It is a trivially simple definition. Statism is the practice of government increasingly taking over tasks that originally belonged to non-government. ...

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...

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...

In that case, read "HTML for dummies" alone.

No, that is not how to point out a contradiction. Try again.

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 ...