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The OP clarified that later: In business.
October 29, 2021 at 14:18
A friend of mine compiled this series of nQ-s. Enjoy. It is not philosophy; it is fiction. Mind Your Ps and Qs "IQ, EQ, IDQ,... I really do like the i...
October 29, 2021 at 14:15
Old money. Neither EQ nor IQ. If you are not totally dumb, but own assets over ten million dollars, you are guaranteed to be a CEO and such-like. They...
October 29, 2021 at 14:11
Nobody can show you anything about a statement you made which statement is syntactically not English.
October 29, 2021 at 13:55
Wow. Three people, three different ways of opining what creates motivation to generate wealth. Baker: power. Tom: restlessness out of fear of inaction...
October 27, 2021 at 11:44
Kudos to you for recognizing fragile self-esteem in men, and more bravos for observing the positive correlation. I can't tell what man has fragile sel...
October 25, 2021 at 04:41
Again, you cherry-picked the definition out of the complete definitions of the two. You claim there is hardly any if any difference between "argument"...
October 25, 2021 at 04:11
Overlays: two or more surfaces or layers of reasoning, imagination or description of observed systems, which are independent from each other, and both...
October 25, 2021 at 03:43
Thank you for your thoughtful answer, Fooloso4. I learned more than what I bargained for in your answer. What I learned is that a philosopher may have...
October 24, 2021 at 19:15
Both negative and positive human traits (in the Stoic sense) developed equally for they aided survival. I can not argue against that. I did not say, b...
October 24, 2021 at 18:43
Plato's Metaphysics? I thought the idea was first thought of and the expression coined by Aristotle. How can someone refer to something that was inven...
October 24, 2021 at 18:35
No leopard, lion or giraffe can be jealous, greedy, vengeful, and argumentative. We, humans, have those traits. I put to you that our "negative" (in t...
October 24, 2021 at 18:23
I included in my reasoning that a lot more people are wishing to immigrate to the United States than wishing to emigrate from there. There are other i...
October 24, 2021 at 18:17
That said, my previous post: I am not trying to convince anyone that they should stop trying to live Stoically. Go ahead, this is not a crime, sin, or...
October 23, 2021 at 23:37
This is true. But I venture to say that to train someone in capitalistic, consumer-oriented, individualist, greedy, egotist, narcissistic behaviour ta...
October 23, 2021 at 23:35
You discount the fact that randomness has had a much longer time (four billion years on this planet) to effect change than man has had with his intell...
October 23, 2021 at 11:24
Shawn, you expressed my biggest concern about Stoicism: It can't be mastered. It can't be done. It can't be practiced. That does not diminish its attr...
October 23, 2021 at 11:00
This constitutes the difference between inner peace and inner calm. However, you did not say which is which. It would be helpful if you were a clearer...
October 23, 2021 at 10:57
Admission tests to law school and graduate school. Pure IQ tests, to decide who gets in and who does not.
October 23, 2021 at 06:10
IQ is a measure of a quality. Other qualities exist, which may enhance or diminish what success one with a high IQ may achieve. On the other hand, eve...
October 23, 2021 at 04:23
This is true, and it's also true that we need not to see things we don't see. Once the teacher is ready, the student appears. The fight for survival, ...
October 19, 2021 at 02:31
Try to live your life NOT manipulating anything. Then come back and write a report on that. Whether we know or not what we are interacting with, has n...
October 19, 2021 at 02:26
In my view, and I am the first to admit that this is not the only way to look at what philosophy is, is that philosophy is pre-science. Philosophy is ...
October 10, 2021 at 02:44
I explained it three times, I think. One gets tired of pointing out the same mistake. If you don't get my reasoning, and stick to your guns, it does n...
October 03, 2021 at 12:31
... but you claim in your parallel structure of the original argument, that the Grass is NOT green. That you can only claim because you drop the assum...
October 03, 2021 at 09:17
This is what I meant. You drop an assumption that can't be dropped. If you don't drop the same assumption, then you can't arrive at 9 and at 10. Hence...
October 03, 2021 at 09:08
7 is invalid reasoning, because you drop off an assumption that can't be dropped. You use the effect of this "drop" in the argument later. However, th...
October 01, 2021 at 21:33
Funny. This can only be proven by an example. And if I know the example, then it is impossible to use that example. On the other hand, without proof i...
October 01, 2021 at 21:27
Why not start with everything, and eliminate by a process of elimination all that is not sense, and proceed from there.
October 01, 2021 at 16:25
simplification of 7 is unallowable (Incorrect, wrong)
October 01, 2021 at 16:15
Incorrect assumption. Some truths are beyond the knowability by humans, by way of complexity or escaping detection.
October 01, 2021 at 16:13
The god theory includes that god is omnipotent. Therefore he can do anything. Not anything he wants to do; but anything. He does not have to do everyt...
September 26, 2021 at 20:53
There are other and sufficiently good explanations to man's outstanding intellect beside the god theory. But if you want to believe the god theory, no...
September 26, 2021 at 20:48
I counted precisely 17 things that can't be described in the English language. Here they are, with ordinal numbers designating their spots: 1. 2. 3. 4...
September 26, 2021 at 20:42
Thank god you are not one of them, Dimosthenis9.
September 26, 2021 at 20:36
That's science, too. Social science. Moral guidance and social cohesion are good survival tactics for societies. That's why people at universities con...
September 26, 2021 at 02:13
Don't lie. You never tasted grapes. You are mixing it up with shit.
August 10, 2021 at 02:20
I especially liked the ending when you shot your dickwad. Awesome, man. You are what it takes to puke my heart out.
August 10, 2021 at 02:15
You and TheMadFool have everything backwards. And you believe that that is how it is. That's how strong your faith is.
August 10, 2021 at 01:57
No, sir, the natural phenomena and their laws are described by humans using mathematics. The natural phenomena do NOT follow mathematical laws. Mathem...
August 10, 2021 at 01:55
You are your own lord, you do what you wish. If you are not a theist then I'm a discarded cigarette still burning. There is no reason to go off topic....
August 10, 2021 at 01:51
Sorry, EP, but we can't say that. Instead, we can say this: If the universe contains beauty we can say that a God as we imagine him, knows and values ...
August 10, 2021 at 01:42
Why can't we have our cake, and eat it too? 1. We could have a "short story" section, for ongoing posting, without competition 2. We could, concurrent...
August 09, 2021 at 14:34
Who told you this bobimeiser? The universe has no mathematical nature. Man's interpretation and description of the universe uses mathematics. The univ...
August 09, 2021 at 14:27
This is a good point. Do you know your god's attributes because of the evidence? No, you don't. The evidence does not let you trace back to the creato...
August 09, 2021 at 14:22
I refuse to stay quite! Who do you think you are to tell me that. (Indignantly refuses to believe the spell-checker, as it may be a device to check fo...
August 08, 2021 at 21:36
We are so strong as athletes, that we can lift the very armchair we sit on.
August 08, 2021 at 21:32
I more-or-less agree, except that if someone is described that he did something wrong (morally or socially) because of mental disease, we tend to forg...
August 08, 2021 at 21:28
While (incomprehensible philosophical jargon) is incomprehensible, you're right, it is not grounds for woo-of-the-gaps. That is true, and nobody could...
August 08, 2021 at 21:24
In America you get lynched whether you are a racist, or a race. I think Simone gets positive reviews because fighting mental illness, breast cancer, a...
August 08, 2021 at 21:10