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I don't know how burdensome it will be, but I do have a lot of bookmarks to specific comments. Anyways thanks for the response.

The one thing I'm concerned about transitioning to another platform is that this website will just deteriorate over time without maintenance and the w...

If I were to air my main objections, I don't really buy into their vocabulary. It's been noted that liberal advocates routinely fail to broach critiqu...

This comes from my position of jumping right into being a kind of socialist from being relatively apolitical, but my perception of liberalism is that ...

looks fantastic

EDIT: I posted a response to this thread but I got a heart palpitations attack this afternoon and cant continue any discussions. I just need to focus ...

Intellectual work has a fundamental cooperative element to it, where you’re constantly challenged by other people. My guess is his social isolation fr...

Ah this makes me nostalgic. I remember when I was in my early teens and first got into philosophy and didn't know left from right, this looked intrigu...

Well I wish there were better methods for me to cite for it look more official, but academics use these websites to share information and their perspe...

I have no idea how you drew that interpretation from the quoted passage I linked, that talking about the capacity for language acquisition means it’s ...

Shrugs, I tend to believe they went to school for linguistics, as well people I know personally who definitely have went. “A lot of people misundersta...

As there is no consensus yet in what particular sense, thus the distinction between UG & theories of UG as pointed out by different people in the thre...

I don’t have any stake on this so I can only talk second-hand about the subject from personal conversations and reading comments by linguists, but all...

I ended up opening a thread in linguistics sub reddit and after reading all 90+ comments, the gist that I grasp about the subject corresponds with one...

This is going in circles because of this pick and respond at your convenience.

It’s okay, this particular subject is just among the ones where I digress from Chomsky the most. I agree and disagree with him on the wide array of su...

It’s just really odd to say we can’t refer to the word physical because Newton’s contemporaries once associated the word to mean things in the world w...

I didn't watch the video yet and just skimmed through the powerpoints, but his critiques of Nordhaus that most of the video seems to be based on focus...

We can take measures to reduce our own species’ collective suffering. Other animals have been doomed to not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_animal...

I just took a look, thanks Also I've never said anything like this. Rather, I find the way the words "intuitive" & "mechanistic" as used by you to be ...

I looked into it and the Kelvin quote seems to be misattributed and decontextualized. I agree with your larger point though. https://www.quora.com/Whi...

I think psychoanalyzing involves speculating intent, but it looks to me that’s his biased emphasis at least.

I'm not in a position to psychoanalyze him, he came to his position through observation and experience of real difficulties in science. Those are real...

(I finished reading the article thoroughly) I don't see any reason to adopt the vocabulary of what those in the 17th century thought was the criterion...

There are probably people on the opposite side of the spectrum who confuse appearances of things with knowledge of scientific principles. I really lik...

Chomsky sees knowledge of what’s “really there” as grasping the deep principles at the fundamental baseline, what you call intuitive knowledge. Genera...

The threshold for the big questions that Newton imagined were lowered because the state of body of knowledge was not ready for them at the time, so ye...

Our limits to knowledge is figured out on a case by case basis, and even then we may unexpectedly breakthrough an impasse. There’s no way to make deta...

I admit skimming it because I've recognized the various arguments he made articulated elsewhere (I saved the document and will get back to it though) ...

I didn't read that yet, I'll take your recommendation. Note I cited Schrodinger's book not because I hold his worldview, but because I learned from it...

Since it doesn't seem to me that philosophy of mathematics is getting close to converging to a satisfying answer any time soon (I think we are in some...

Yup jamalrob actually did a pretty good piece on this way back

The WikiLeaks leak basically added onto a pile of scandals HRC already had. Since the vote between Trump and HRC was really close, it’s plausible it c...

Awesome answer, props to your experience with this.

Good resources on the topic: http://peacehistory-usfp.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change I would say the fo...

"Everyone knows words can be used wrong. That's trivial and uninteresting. Witt is ultimately concerned about words which are, as it were, 'not even u...

Ramanujan was a mathematical pioneer despite little formal education in mathematics. That was awe-inspiring back then, but a modern-day Ramanujan woul...

I seriously wonder at this point if American liberals are going to mourn Trump if he dies in 10 years.

Do you not juggle different priorities in your life? Is it really so tightly formulaic where you handle everything in one category all at once before ...

The Wikipedia article lays out that reducing suffering is the first priority and priorities to maximize happiness (and other criterion) come after. Th...

Anand Gopal's (author of "The Other Afghan Women" piece posted above) interview here is useful too: https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/biden-s-afghanistan-...

I'm a voracious manga and novel reader so in between that and my other readings, I practically have no time left on the side for video games as I did ...

It wasn't really my point that they were. I just don't think regimes that do really bad things can be just labeled "good" (FDR goes well beyond the in...

FDR supported Mussolini and worked with racist-Southern Democrats to block anti-lynching laws. Can you imagine yourself doing that? I mean if I were t...

My impression is contemporary Continental Philosophy is getting much better at that though.

Sorry for the pause, but do you have anything to recommend by Raymond Tallis?

This thread has a number of people I respect, so I have to come out here and ask what the additional practical benefit comes from talking about modern...

Today's millennials have significantly more progressive political instincts than all the older age brackets, but they're also the least active elector...

Check out Michael Delli Carpini & Scott Keeter or more recently, Donald Kinder & Nathan Kalmoe. Revolutionary is just an escapist buzzword for those w...

"Well that's speculation. It's hard to say. Maybe they want structural changes in the form of Keynesian policies. Maybe they want an end to what's cal...