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I heard a new campaign slogan for Trump: Vote for Trump! He's competent enough to stand trial.

I think you can convict Trump by just playing the call to Raffensperger, but I won't be on the jury. None of this changes the facts of the case. But i...

That she hired him for non-professional reasons. "Mike Roman, a former Trump campaign official and co-defendant in the Georgia election-interference c...

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I don't think you can avoid the class system. Someone is going to have to do brain surgery, oncology, anesthesia, etc. and if they only make the same ...

Basically, Trump was found to be hoarding classified documents, and while everyone was pointing fingers at him, classified documents were found at Bid...

It gets worse: "Mr. Biden’s recorded conversations with Zwonitzer from 2017 are often painfully slow, with Mr. Biden struggling to remember events and...

"We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, we...

Yes. Khmer Rouge, Stalinist Russia, CSA, Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, DPRK.

BREAKING Special counsel says there is evidence Biden 'willfully retained and disclosed classified materials' but will not be charged https://www.nbcn...

It doesn't look promising. It was a long shot to begin with. The Court is going to look for any reason to stay out of that mess.

I thought that too, except "Sherlock Holmes" refers to something that seems to go beyond something that's just "instantiated in a brain". I mean, when...

Let's use Sherlock Holmes as an example. Does Sherlock Holmes exist as an idea? What does it refer to then?

You're talking about fictional things: ghosts, Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, God, etc. Fictional things exist as ideas, otherwise, we wouldn't be able to ...

Ghost can refer to an idea, which is a physical thing.

But a noun is always a person, place, thing, or idea. Those are all physical things, in the materialist ontology. If a word is correctly being used as...

I would agree with that, except when we hear the old X-Files tagline "The truth is out there" we all know what it means, and we all treat "truth" in t...

What about "truth", though? Doesn't truth have to be a physical thing? It's certainly not a verb.

They're clever. They know their facts. I just think it's an obvious dead end. I notice that in the 2009 Philpapers survey, non-physicalism regarding t...

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If Israel had the intent to destroy Palestinians, in whole or in part, the population of Palestine would not have doubled the past thirty years. Compa...

So the ball loses "is someone's property" and gains "was someone's property".

Is "truth" a physical thing? Is "belonging to" a physical thing? They have to be, right? So, we have two physical things: "ball" and "belongs to so-an...

Ah, so not a genocide, but a kind of holocaust. The same objection applies: while there's a holocaust going on, Palestine's population triples in 40 y...

I think that's a big problem for materialism. I think Lionino is right, which is why I was using "fact". But "true sentence" works just as well. The m...

I think so. At time T, a book is said to contain true sentences. At T1, all brains disappear. Also at T1, no physical change happened to the book. But...

OK, so replace all instances of "fact" in my examples with "true sentence". The encyclopedia is full of true sentences, even if all brains disappear, ...

That seems a little wordy. Why wouldn't they just say that a science textbook has a lot of facts about the world? I bounced it off ChatGpt: "For examp...

They're going to have to say that a science textbook is full of facts! How can it not be?

For my examples, fact = "true sentence" works fine. So, do facts still exist in a universe where all brains disappear?

How does Palestine's population grow during a decade's-long genocide? https://www.statista.com/chart/20645/palestine-and-israel-population-growth/ "Pa...

"The physicalist who says that there are facts in a brainless universe is just saying that the world exists and has certain features even if there's n...

So the physicalist has to claim that in a mindless -sorry!- brainless universe, facts still exist. That, to me, seems absurd, but the physicalist can ...

They don't want to go anywhere near this thing. Maybe one or two do, but not four. What is there left to say, really? We have presidents, not kings. T...

I can always count on you to go for the ad hominem. A lot of materialists here do. It's like they're emotionally invested in it or something.

Compared to someone like Christof Koch, I'm a scientific ignoramus. But is that your point? So what? Does that make me wrong? 100 researchers haven't ...

I agree with this. There are some things that are so obviously wrong, they (and the people that support them) can be justifiably dismissed out of hand...

If the physicalist/materialist has to make this move to salvage their ontology, they've lost the game.

https://www.durham.ac.uk/research/current/thought-leadership/2023/10/consciousness-why-a-leading-theory-has-been-branded-pseudoscience I expect more o...

What theory of consciousness do you like?

If there was progress to be made explaining consciousness, science would have made it by now. There are also reductio absurdums at play. Bernardo Kast...

Any supernatural event or miracle could be explained by physicalism in the guise of simulation theory. Maybe if there were messages hidden in Pi from ...

But it's not equally compatible with the hypothesis "The box contains 100 blue balls". For example, OJ's DNA found at the crime scene is compatible wi...

If an Islamic terrorist group like Hamas or Hezbollah acquired a nuclear weapon, what is the probability they would use it against a city in Europe or...

https://www.voanews.com/a/democratic-mayors-renew-pleas-for-federal-help-over-migrant-crisis-/7415519.html

It's the first ever trial of an ex-president and the lead prosecutor has never before prosecuted a felony??? That passes your smell test?

But he's never prosecuted a felony or a RICO case, according to this. https://www.justsecurity.org/91627/the-fulton-county-disqualification-allegation...

Good point. Why do you think she picked Wade then?

That's true. Republicans have subpeoned her. I'm curious what she'll say under oath. Elie Honig has a good piece on all this: https://www.msn.com/en-u...

Can't you get around that by changing the paradox to "Everything I say is a lie"? In that case, the sentence does correspond to a fact- that I am a li...