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Simply that he looks like other human beings. We’ve come across enough individual human beings, including ourselves, to develop a general idea of what...

Another human being.

I’m wondering if that is the case. Why else would a nominalist outlook lead him to view it as a “dreary outlook”? Or “the most blinding of all systems...

They dodged it. You’ve dodged it. But it’s simple. One cannot control another’s motor cortex with words. What’s impractical and logically weird about ...

Thank you, that’s a good analysis. According to Pierce, Locke, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Mill, and Leibniz were all nominalist as well. Despite all these pr...

Thanks for all the writing, it was a good and interesting read.

No, they’re completely immoral and unethical acts.

The “fire in a crowded theater” analogy was used by Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes to jail those who were protesting the draft of American soldiers into ...

Have you never seen anyone “jump the gun”? If someone leaves before “go” is yelled, is that a consequence of that little speech? No. Running is the co...

Oddly enough Berkeley is considered a nominalist. For nominalism abstract terms and generalities are useful fictions, namely, “names” (hence the word ...

Easily. Acts are not the consequences of speech. I’ve argued this point numerous times, to no avail.

Ideas are often considered abstract objects. People sometimes lay the blame for the state of the world at the feet of some philosopher and his philoso...

Then why in your opinion would Pierce describe nominalism as “the dreary outlook upon a world in which all that can be loved, or admired, or understoo...

Axios has leaked the Robert Hur audio, the interview tapes of Biden trying to explain away how he had stolen classified documents over the course of h...

There appears to be some headway. Who will pooh-pooh it first? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GrVHoqEW4AA58wT?format=jpg&name=small

More business in the Middle East confirmed. https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/liveblog/2025/5/14/donald-trump-live-president-to-lift-syria-sanctions-...

“Joe Biden's physical deterioration was so severe in 2023 and 2024 that advisers privately discussed the possibility he'd need to use a wheelchair if ...

Big, consequential stories last week that the anti-Trump refuse to mention. Trump brokered cease-fire in India/Pakistan. Last known American hostage i...

Stagflation, eh? Inflation hit the lowest levels in 4 years last month. Is that a consequence of Whitehouse policies?

The anti-Trump brigade says Trump "blinked" on China (the use of the same word among a sect indicates a social contagion), and siding with The Party, ...

While much is made about America’s eventual descent into authoritarianism, fascism, or whatever, the UK is already there saving a seat. I’m curious wh...

It looks like the Trump team has facilitated ceasefire negotiations between Pakistan and India. The comments of all involved are available on X, but w...

That’s hilarious, especially since Congress has been late with their budget resolution for 30 of the past 49 fiscal years. So it looks like we have an...

I do believe in biology. Brain states and mind? Not so much, though I do not begrudge their application in common use. I’m fully aware that humans rec...

It’s an adjective.

Are none of these of your own unique biology, as it exists through space and time?

What substances or objects can you move with your speech? What phases of matter can you affect with your voice, your words, or any other symbolic comm...

Try to point to your genes and experiences. What else in the universe besides yourself are you pointing at?

We are our genes. We are our experiences. So if genes and experiences determine our choices, then we determine our choices. Nutrients and environments...

I do not think there is any good censorship just as I do not think there is any good prohibition on drinking water or falling in love. Speaking or oth...

Weimar Germany had very advanced speech laws and the Nazis were censored on many occasions. Numerous Nazi and other publications were shut down. Hitle...

I don’t believe that, nor do I know why anyone would. There is a chain of command, and an expectation that subordinates follow their superior’s orders...

No, I do not think you ought to be punished in this instance because you made no obligation to John and did not help him with the planning or executio...

I think they’re guilty of doing what you described, but for different reasons. Speaking or instructing is not the criminal act and the reasons those a...

What other half would that be? One is mentally incapacitated, the other is not. All soundwaves are stimuli. Soundwaves stimulate the ear drum, and tha...

Ukraine and US sign minerals deal. It’s crazy how quickly things are happening in the last few months where the entire world, with all its effete mora...

I’m not speaking about law. Law is often wrong. It’s punishable by death to practice sorcery in Saudi Arabia, for example. There are entire literature...

There you go using another synonym. You’re incapable of showing cause and effect, hiding behind figurative language. Spur, a spiked metal implement wo...

The argument, which you dodged, is below the etymologies and alternative words. Avoiding the issue is not a counter argument; it’s a fallacy.

The term “incite” comes from Latin, “incitare”, meaning “to put into rapid motion”. It’s a member of a class of words that has a literal beginning, ex...

Pretty funny. Man arrested in theft of DHS chief Kristi Noem's purse is in the U.S. illegally, official says https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national...

Very true. It’s enough to know what another thinks, and then one can at least make an informed decision about whether to deal with them or not.

Yeah, but I think it’s a fine line between censorship and self-defense. To me, I don’t think it’s censorship qua censorship to fight back against a ce...

“Israel had planned to strike Iranian nuclear sites as soon as next month but was waved off by President Trump in recent weeks in favor of negotiating...

Believe it or not, the Weimar Republic had very advanced hate speech laws, and the Nazis were routinely suppressed and banned, many of them jailed. In...

Fair point and good objection. I think Popper was largely talking about reactionary violence, where they “answer arguments by the use of their fists o...

Well said. Yes, there’s value to knowing what people really think even when it’s wrong, ugly, ill-mannered or offensive. I would even argue it would b...

I am against taxes for the same reason I’m against theft, exploitation, and slavery. Taxes is on par with slavery because the tax man is taking the fr...

Advertising works. I don’t think advertising is a waste of money. How else can someone know what you’re trying to sell, or that you exist if you don’t...

That’s not quite the case. Many puritans purchased land off the natives, in spite of the government fiat. Even Joh Winthrop said the natives had natur...