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I read your objection re: prediction. Please see the post I made just before this one.
March 30, 2021 at 23:21
It's impossible with any sequence of numbers what comes next. The psychological / IQ tests that rely on this are all flawed. What comes after 1, 2, 3,...
March 30, 2021 at 23:19
It.
March 30, 2021 at 23:14
How can you have a tea party without sugar? It's time the Britons threw their own selves over.
March 30, 2021 at 23:13
- religious systems - evangelistic religions - your father - your Father - your torturer at Quantanimo bay - jails and prisons - sadistic nurses and o...
March 30, 2021 at 23:08
My bases for my opinion are that: 1. Your idea of a working medical system is different from mine and vice versa; and 2. I can't but help feeling that...
March 30, 2021 at 23:00
It's easy. Some of your priorities are fulfilled to expectation, some are not. The bloke is asking you how your expected priorities compare to the act...
March 30, 2021 at 04:07
So I don't agree to this. The healthcare system works in almost all countries. There is no system -- healthcare or other -- that is completely void of...
March 30, 2021 at 03:56
Any sequence of numbers can be described as a sequence of a polynomial function. Not only by one precise, exact and fitting polynomial function, but a...
March 30, 2021 at 03:52
We have a similar system here in Canada. And all, or most Canadians think that if we lost the NHL, we'd be much poorer for it.
March 29, 2021 at 16:47
I live in a small town. 400 thousand denizens or so. There are not enough doctors here. The doctors stay in the megapolis 130 miles away. Consequently...
March 29, 2021 at 16:45
There is no test for randomness. That's why they say god thorws dice. Nobody can generate random numbers, not because it's impossible, but because it ...
March 29, 2021 at 16:36
Okay. The labour-value theory is actually the labour-price theory. Price of a product can't be lower than its inherent cost, which is determined fully...
March 29, 2021 at 16:32
That's funny what I just wrote to Sir2U. Because we are immortalized, if not for all eternity, then for a time, which is presumably much longer than o...
March 29, 2021 at 09:35
which two did I find here? Let me quote from B-52 (an 80s band): "Planet Claire, Planet Claire, No-one ever dies here No-one has a head" We are all pr...
March 29, 2021 at 09:31
True, but it's not quite as bad when you can hang it on some other philosopher. It is actually frighteningly rare that any one particular philosopher ...
March 28, 2021 at 17:17
I think we are converging on a common understanding. Science does not fall victim to the Munchhausen effect, because: 1. Only those things fall victim...
March 28, 2021 at 15:41
So... you knew Julius Caesar personally? And who was Miltiades? I mean, the REAL Miltiades?
March 28, 2021 at 15:31
Hehe. I did not think of it that way, but I guess that's what that is.
March 28, 2021 at 15:26
Thank you, Amalac. May I make just one tiny change in the second definition, to inlcude that pragmatic sense also involves a chain of reasoning? For i...
March 28, 2021 at 02:49
In modern times it was Martin Luther who first had the insight.
March 28, 2021 at 02:41
The three things you say that you don't understand in my previous post neatly cancels out the post by you that I don't understand. This could be viewe...
March 28, 2021 at 02:40
"True in a kitchen faucet sense" is also the opposite to "true in a pragmatic sense." In other words, you gave no guidance how to understand "true in ...
March 28, 2021 at 02:37
(1) I don't know that it is possible for X to exist without knowing anything about X. The above is the negation of my assertion, (2) "I know that it i...
March 28, 2021 at 02:29
If science employed rational justification beyond what is enough for its own purpose, then it would fall victim to the Munchausen effect. But science ...
March 28, 2021 at 01:26
Again: Science won't explain to you whether god created the world or not. This may, for you, take some significance away from science, but there is en...
March 28, 2021 at 01:24
I don't know the definition of scientific instrumentalism or what you mean by "true in an epistemological sense", but maybe you got it now. Science ob...
March 28, 2021 at 01:18
With a little luck, the first man (or woman) on the street you meet is a seven-times Field Prize award winner.
March 28, 2021 at 01:10
The perfect math problem is complicated enough to challenge us, but easy enough so we can find its solution. The reward is an inner satisfaction. Nobo...
March 28, 2021 at 01:08
I am not sure what it means to be a philosopher. Once I found out what it means to love, and what women (and/or men, or gender bias-free beings, or tr...
March 28, 2021 at 01:04
I've come here to find true love, a pot of gold, and the elixir of eternal youth. Well, guess what. I'm still here. Two out of three ain't bad, but I'...
March 28, 2021 at 01:01
When that problem arises, we decide to believe that other rocks will fall, but as soon as we find a rock that does not fall, we shall revise our belie...
March 28, 2021 at 00:58
I think your counter argument is that if there is nothing known of a thing, then it is silly to say it exists or not. That may be true, that it is sil...
March 28, 2021 at 00:53
The assertion that X exists is nonsense in the absence of any data. But it is also silly to insist that it is impossible for X to exist, even if there...
March 28, 2021 at 00:48
The story of love and the human condition. I would present not in my own words, but in Bob Dylan's "Tangled Up In Blue". Or maybe in the words and sou...
March 28, 2021 at 00:33
I think the main use of pornography is its facility to generate an ambience of autoerotica. So what would be a miss use of it? Using it as a basis of ...
March 27, 2021 at 13:46
Most fiction does not happen in reality. To show that porn is bad because of that, first you must show that fiction is bad. I think.
March 27, 2021 at 13:41
Ah. So what attribute or qualilty did I ascribe to god? None. I only ascribed qualities to god on the provisio if the bible were true. But I don't acc...
March 27, 2021 at 13:30
it is their problem, they just don't know it. Much like you are denying it, although you know about it, that there is a problem for Christians, and it...
March 27, 2021 at 13:24
Do what?
March 27, 2021 at 13:15
obviously the problem is that of the Christians. They are damned any way. So if you think that's not a problem, then you got a problem.
March 27, 2021 at 13:12
It is easy to prove that the bible is not god's reveleation. If it were, it would not contain self-contradicting features. And there are plenty in the...
March 27, 2021 at 13:04
This is a problem for those who want to advocate that god exists for sure. And an even bigger problem for those who want to convince others that their...
March 27, 2021 at 12:57
My dear 180: we already agreed, from the looks of it, that existence is not a quality or an attribute. You somehow mistook the qualifier: "possible" f...
March 27, 2021 at 12:46
You're pinning "intentention" on my post as the process of creation of consciousness. That is unfair, although it makes no difference whatsoever. You ...
March 27, 2021 at 02:36
And that is not true, either. Your opinion in this matter is respected, but it does not make any difference in our eagerness to listen to this Pierce.
March 27, 2021 at 02:27
You are raising the point that existence is a quality or attribute. There is a debate on that. A huge debate. I am on the opinion (feel free to disagr...
March 27, 2021 at 02:25
Thank you. That was actually grand of you. And I am not being facetious.
March 26, 2021 at 19:23
Okay, let's see if I can get through to you another way. Show me the scientific article, published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, that precise...
March 26, 2021 at 19:20
They may say that, but they offer no PROOF, please get that into your head.
March 26, 2021 at 19:18