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Other humans. The good ones. Not the ones in the White House.
November 02, 2025 at 03:11
And? I don't "distinguish epistemics from epistemology", so you are wrong? You want your cake and to eat it, by supposing that belief and thought are ...
November 01, 2025 at 22:29
Goodness, some logic. Bet it doesn't help.
November 01, 2025 at 22:03
There'd be a naive objection along the lines that all Russell had done is avoid the issue by re-defining "future"; that the sentence "In the future, p...
November 01, 2025 at 21:54
In: Ennea  — view comment
Existential crises as a reaction to trauma? A bit tangential, perhaps. While that might explain the motive, it doesn't resolve the incoherence. Indeed...
November 01, 2025 at 21:47
In: Ennea  — view comment
Sounds strained. This post exists. We might proceed from that, without the constipation. My apologies, Dogbert. There is a rash of really poor idealis...
November 01, 2025 at 21:30
Forty days and forty nights ain't going to even wet his hooves.
November 01, 2025 at 21:26
In: Ennea  — view comment
Come on, ; if we can have the highest mountain, we can have the beingest being...
November 01, 2025 at 21:23
The next section shows the structural similarity between Prior's objection and Pp ? FPp That some sentence was true in past implies that in the future...
November 01, 2025 at 21:21
Smoke doesn't repeatedly and insistently answer back with the same mistake. :meh:
November 01, 2025 at 21:12
Downunder, our agrarian National Party just dropped its net zero emissions policy, while record-breaking storms dropped 9cm hail on some of the riches...
November 01, 2025 at 21:04
Fragile masculinity, on some accounts. The need for control overwhelms rationality. In all truth some perhaps cannot see what is problematic in this v...
November 01, 2025 at 20:59
Shutterstock. The King of the Mountain Cometh.
November 01, 2025 at 20:49
They are? A believe is, one way or another, held to be true. But not all thoughts are held to be true. We can certainly entertain thoughts that are no...
November 01, 2025 at 20:47
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November 01, 2025 at 20:36
With the trans folk or the ones doing the anti-trans posting? As @"Tom Storm" pointed out, Bob Ross is clearly here to justify his authoritarian, cons...
November 01, 2025 at 20:34
In: Ennea  — view comment
Yep. Existence is taken as granted, not demonstrated. There's something extraordinarily compromised about a view that seeks to demonstrate "existence"...
November 01, 2025 at 20:25
I and others have tried to show that you have adopted a muddled approach to the topic. You appear not to have been able to see the problem with your a...
November 01, 2025 at 20:15
I'm not very happy with your account. But if you will not explain, so be it.
November 01, 2025 at 05:31
Then my conclusion is that I've show that your argument is invalid.
November 01, 2025 at 05:22
Yes. It's how you seem to have set up your argument. Have you a valid variant?
November 01, 2025 at 05:15
So it was all to do with a lack of imagination in regard to sex acts.
October 31, 2025 at 23:25
Hopefully we can translate the structure of the proof into knitting, line by line. "Suppose ? is a satisfiable set of R-preserved sentences and \delta...
October 31, 2025 at 23:23
Russell moves from the specific cases so far examined to the general case. Start with a formal language L, containing a sentence ?. All the language c...
October 31, 2025 at 22:53
Cheers, Bob.
October 31, 2025 at 22:09
It's not that we can't "give a definition" so much as that definitions do not do what you think they do. Others have carried the point. I'm sorry you ...
October 31, 2025 at 20:41
So you seem to have something like 'You cannot skip eating, or you will die.' Fundamental Purpose = Service Target (One's Own Group) × Final State the...
October 31, 2025 at 20:38
What's that, then? I don't see other mention of it.
October 31, 2025 at 11:19
But statement A does not tell us what we ought do. It only sets out the consequence of a certain action. In order to reach the conclusion "You ought n...
October 31, 2025 at 10:22
I'm not so sure. For instance, Martha Nussbaum's response to rigid Aristotelian essentialism would be critical, despite her drawing heavily on Aristot...
October 31, 2025 at 00:35
Here again is that presumptive pseudo-Aristotelianism, rife in the forums at present. It smuggles in a theological conclusion under the guise of metap...
October 31, 2025 at 00:16
You began this discussion by giving your conclusion. There's the bad faith that continues in your new posts. There's the misapplication of Gadamer. En...
October 31, 2025 at 00:08
Here's what can be done by way of answering your demand for a definition: Here's why it's relevant to the thread:
October 30, 2025 at 23:59
You have to say that. You have to re-assert your arbitrarily chosen essence, your self- reinforcing monologue. You do the same thing here: points to t...
October 30, 2025 at 23:47
You provide the evidence: In this, you presume the consequence of the dialogue. My point is that your ‘fusion of horizons’ isn’t faithful to Gadamer’s...
October 30, 2025 at 23:41
You've doubled down on the invulnerability of theology. That response reinforces my fear that you are dealing in bad faith. Show that your faith in Ch...
October 30, 2025 at 22:51
It's not AI; but these days, your conclusion is justified. It's "Arm", steam-bent oak, by Clark Bardsley Design, from Auckland, New Zealand. Nice work...
October 30, 2025 at 22:13
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October 30, 2025 at 21:57
The barriers to entailment here concern logical implication. ?, ?, ?, ? and that sort of thing. We can make use of Bayesian methods. But tomorrow migh...
October 30, 2025 at 21:28
You are actively playing in to the role of victim. Definitions
October 30, 2025 at 21:17
Cheers. Don't credit me; it's Wittgenstein, via Anscombe. Compliment would be better.
October 30, 2025 at 21:12
No. I've said that the arguments for your variant are ratshit.
October 30, 2025 at 21:08
We can stipulate whatever definitions we want. And provided we keep in mind that they are stipulations, that's fine. But what I would do is set out fo...
October 30, 2025 at 21:07
No one should be under the illusion that Bob or Leon will change their minds as a result of the discussion here. Our posts are a performance, to an au...
October 30, 2025 at 21:05
Yes, I have. You expect me to provide you with essences of sex and gender, failing to see that this very question is dependent on your essentialist fr...
October 30, 2025 at 20:56
The difference is in the direction of fit. In science we change what we say to match the way things are. In ethics we change how things are to match w...
October 30, 2025 at 20:33
It was behind my old thread, Demarcating theology, or, what not to post to Philosophy of Religion. But you might well start a secular version... In so...
October 30, 2025 at 20:29
Just to be clear, if this were my forum, I'd have removed this thread and blocked Bob and Leon. But this is not my forum. And I have no desire for it ...
October 30, 2025 at 20:23
That wasn't clear from what I have already said? Meaning is found in use, so there is always some ambiguity. But here we can be pretty explicit. An ex...
October 30, 2025 at 20:12
That does not match my understanding. Latin culture worship the phallus, denigrating the passive participant in intercourse. It wasn't being homosexua...
October 30, 2025 at 19:55