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And denial is long.
June 23, 2023 at 01:32
Other. :chin: Cite an example of a "civilization" which was not unbalanced.
June 23, 2023 at 00:59
And yet, besides a disapproving squeak, you cannot point out my error/s. :roll:
June 23, 2023 at 00:54
An adult human with XY chromosomes. Yang (re: taijitu). Unbalanced, tends to break before bending (contrary to / complementary of Yin which tends to b...
June 23, 2023 at 00:49
Blame millennia of folk psychology (e.g. Scholastic psychologism). Not "nonsense", just (adaptive?) phenomenal noise in mammalian cognitive systems. I...
June 23, 2023 at 00:34
In: UFOs  — view comment
Addendum to the post excerpted above: a SciAm opinion piece by Martin Rees & Mario Livio ... https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/most-aliens-ma...
June 23, 2023 at 00:10
:up: :up: In an era of deliberate, wide-spread voter suppression by GOP legistlatures, it would be far less of an empty, symbolic gesture to celebrate...
June 22, 2023 at 18:04
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June 22, 2023 at 17:23
That ain't news, B. For decades now national politricks in the US has been as legitimate as professional wrestling. :mask:
June 22, 2023 at 07:35
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June 22, 2023 at 04:45
Since the 1920s, uptight religious folks have called Blues (& sometimes Jazz) music "the Devil's music". Decades later, Rock-n-Roll mainstreamed the B...
June 22, 2023 at 00:22
Well, it's not altogether clear even that human thoughts "have intentionality" ... :chin:
June 21, 2023 at 21:37
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June 21, 2023 at 18:04
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June 21, 2023 at 15:01
Back in the day, I couldn't find a copy of A Materialist Theory of Mind, but I'd eventually learned much from Armstrong's A Combinatorial Theory of Po...
June 21, 2023 at 07:30
IMO, the most equitable solution would be to provide three public, multi-occupant, wheelchair-accessible restrooms designated for Men, Women & Unisex....
June 21, 2023 at 06:49
:up: At most (being charitable), the "argument from reason" only narrowly applies to reductive physicalism, otherwise a broader conclusion presupposes...
June 21, 2023 at 06:34
In 2021, the holiday was signed into law by newly elected President Biden in order to pander and/or keep a campaign promise to Black Americans who'd v...
June 21, 2023 at 06:03
Sleepy Joe's family: • Hunter Biden e.g. 2013 energy industry (China) & 2014 "Burisma" (Ukraine) – more than $10 million (investigated by DoJ special ...
June 21, 2023 at 00:00
The only name of the still-living that surprises me on this list is Keith Richards. :death: :flower:
June 19, 2023 at 16:02
June 17, 2023 at 06:48
Well, we're not talking about the same thing.
June 17, 2023 at 03:54
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June 16, 2023 at 22:29
:up: 'One suffers much more from one's attitude towards suffering than from the mere fact that one can / does suffer.' That is what I meant – paraphra...
June 16, 2023 at 22:27
Aristotle's First Philosophy (i.e. classical metaphysics) is my point of departure and, in that light, I disagree with your assessment and your (mis)r...
June 16, 2023 at 22:17
In other words, we're talking either about hypothetical explanations for physical systems¹ or about categorical interpretations² of those explanations...
June 16, 2023 at 19:39
"They" all are. Though I'm not a fan of B5, I nonetheless tip my glass to Mr. Straczynski's creative struggle against Mammon.
June 16, 2023 at 14:10
Damn, man, I'm kinda jealous. :cool:
June 16, 2023 at 01:04
I agree. "Time travel" & "parallel universe" stories in "scifi" almost always have idiot plots. Anyway, I'd prefer a very faithful, high production an...
June 15, 2023 at 22:40
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June 15, 2023 at 20:33
FYI: trailer release for new B5 animated movie ... https://thewertzone.blogspot.com/2023/06/babylon-5-animated-movie-gets-trailer.html?m=1
June 15, 2023 at 20:31
31 CHARGES OF VIOLATING THE ESPIONAGE.ACT. I'm so glad the former "leader" of "the deep state", his co-conspirators & flunkies are finally being PROSE...
June 15, 2023 at 17:59
:party: :yum:
June 15, 2023 at 17:05
:sweat: :up: Belated Happy 59th!
June 15, 2023 at 12:43
:sweat: https://twitter.com/ReallyAmerican1/status/1669008051959889920 Crappy Birthday, Traitor-1.
June 15, 2023 at 02:17
@"NOS4A2" https://twitter.com/ReallyAmerican1/status/1669008051959889920 Crappy Birthday, Traitor-1.
June 15, 2023 at 02:17
:clap: :up: :fire: You don't seem to tire of casting pearls ... Good. :smirk: :sweat: Amen, brother! Yes, von Bertalanffy is significantly confusing c...
June 14, 2023 at 19:33
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June 14, 2023 at 18:56
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June 14, 2023 at 07:51
In honor of Cormac McCarthy, d. 2023 (today) • Outer Dark • Blood Meridian • No Country For Old Men • The Road • The Passenger • Stella Maris
June 14, 2023 at 06:58
The online reviews summarizing Jerrold Katz's platonist critiques of "naturalism", "empiricism", "pragmatism", "conceptualism", "nominalism" & "antire...
June 14, 2023 at 06:54
Your questions don't make sense because pre-reflective cognition (re: "infancy") doesn't formulate self-reflective beliefs ("I" "who" "what" "where" ....
June 14, 2023 at 04:27
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June 14, 2023 at 04:03
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June 14, 2023 at 03:56
I suspect Cioran would agree ...
June 13, 2023 at 21:13
June 13, 2023 at 21:07
The last of My Three Writers – S. Beckett, d. 1989 & T. Morrison, d. 2019 – has shuffled off this mortal coil today: Cormac McCarthy 1933-2023 :death:...
June 13, 2023 at 21:02
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/814767 Of the 1 out of 50 who don't plead guilty, more than 4 out of 5 criminal defendants are convi...
June 13, 2023 at 19:20
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June 13, 2023 at 18:57