Very good question. In North America, the law is selectively enforced, according to the caprice of the police forces. This is completely untenable, in...
Law is a tool of society. Mostly created by the ruling party (kings, pharaohs, etc. until democracy, when the People, via their representatives, creat...
A philosopher who uses the physics evidence in his philosophy, must understand the concepts. A physicist as you described, has all these tools, but he...
Well, actually, the programmers' understatement is not. Programming, when approached properly, can be broken down to bite-size (not computer byte, but...
In the Hungarian culture, overstatements are more popular. "He cries (complains) like an employee in a Turkish bath", "Don't ask" (to "how are you?") ...
Oops. Fallacy of equivocation. Banno meant by "justification" "outside proof; proof that is not inherent in the proposition." (Banno, please correct m...
You may call me a hair-splitter, but how do you know we won't understand the answer to the hard question, once we found it? We may NEVER find it, but ...
Some elementary questions may be forever remain unanswered by those who reject mysterianism. But those who accept mysterianism, there are no mysteries...
that in order to understand what someone is telling you, it is necessary for you to assume the person is being truthful, then imagine what could be tr...
It (Miller's law) instructs us to suspend judgment about what someone is saying so that we can first understand them without imbuing their message wit...
Good is not a noun. It is an adjective. So it can be meaningful only in conjunction of its modifying a noun. Good sex is good for the individual's qua...
You mean, Ukraine wants to become a free Western democracy, and Russian troops are standing on the border, and someone is saying, "The moment you esta...
Anyone could have written the same post as you, Javi, about USA being Putin, and Iraq being Ukraine, when the USA invaded Iraq. Twice. Who stood up fo...
Well, the newspaper said, something to the effect, "what are the major symptoms." if they news paper said, "people could not name the symptoms repeate...
Cop out. A major symptom is a symptom that is dominant or more numerous than others. They all can't be major symptoms, but we agree that for what we a...
So which of those is/ are the major one/ones? The question is asked inherently wrongly. I am not denying that there are or can be visible simptoms. Bu...
News item, that you and the other respondents to this thread missed: THERE ARE NO MAJOR SYMPTOMS TO THIS DISEASE. Most people are symptompless, who ge...
I think the undefinability of the concept "good" does not exlcude the validity of its use, and especially not in the use of defining morality. It is t...
On the other hand, politicians are over-achieving narcissists, CEOs are over-achieving billionaires, exploited workers are over-achieving losers, writ...
Are politicians really magicians in disguise? I am not sure, but I also suspect that party clowns are failed politicians and philosophers are failed p...
Utopias, visionarism, futurism, and even presentism and looking at the past are all riddled with the fallacy of reducing the concept of humanity by st...
I am not sure if the songs have behaviour modification properties. But if people listen to these songs, and see the same beauty in them that I see -- ...
I beg your pardon. Both of my comments bear serious pertinence. I admit there was a lot of poetry also included in the first post of mine in this thre...
Modern Estate Law penning has come up with a wonderful clause to be included in Last Wills: "Should anyone contest this will, he or she will be immedi...
Decide for yourselves (human population) how to reduce the total population number on the globe to 100 000 000 souls in two generations and carry thro...
Why do we need justification for beliefs? That's why they are beliefs. They are unjustified knowledge. If you want justified knowledge, that's a bit i...
Thank you, Fishfry. Now we need another quote that it can be continued with absolutely any next number and fitted to any of an infinite number of non-...
Yes, what today is the Czech Republic, was the industrial hub of the Monarchy. Yes, they made the car Tatra. They made another car, forgot the name, e...
This is a philosophy website, with general freedom of styles. I hardly ever answer questions, unless it's information-seeking. If you want me to provi...
You are angry for no reason. I stated that doctors don't know everything, and I stated how they handle situations when they don't know the answer to a...
Reason. Stands to reason. It would be just as easy for you to research this on Google as for me. I know that I have made the claim, so it should be ba...
I agree with this. However, education can only be carried so far. In my old country the emphasis is on scientific education, right in grade school, an...
I hope you are not talking about me, as this does not apply to me. But I did notice that those who don't follow doctors' advice are not prone to going...
With the same token, forests are better for humans too. We go out, trekking, walking, enjoying the air, the ambience, the beauty of the wonder... shoo...
There are no hunters in the house, either... and the domesticated pigs are not witnessing or experiencing their brethren or themselves being torn to p...
I go with Dingo Jones, inasmuch as "hate" and "hatred" have been diluted heavily for meaning. Lots of equivocation is possible, and the circumstances ...
Sometimes the answer or the treatment or cure is not found, by a practitioner, and also by the patient, because it does not exist in present day knowl...
You know nothing about socialist countries of the twentieth century, other than your state-fed arbitrary propaganda. I am not denying that those state...
The official and ARBITRARY definition for random numbers given in texts of probability math is the numbers that come up on subsequent rolls of a fair ...
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