Banno

Manifest Destiny

's examples of Chinese interference are trivial in comparison with those of the US over the last fifty years.

The topic of this thread is the nature of Chinese democracy. The article in the OP is an obvious puff-piece, but a starting point. @"ltlee1"'s partici...

Ceding Texas would be good for both the US and Mexico. America complaining about Chinese interference in other nations is deeply disingenuous. It's as...

Keep in mind the subjectification of China by Britain and the United States. It weighs heavily on Chinese foreign policy.

To be fair, it was thought to be part of China, by the Chinese, for a rather long time. It was the Tibetans who differed. How would you react if the M...

One assumes the Chinese have an understanding of The Art of War. The deft annexation of the South China Sea was exemplary. The war has been won before...

That last comment concerning bats was unnecessarily offensive. Indeed, your replies here reinforce my growing view that you are incapable of seeing a ...

That was not my intent. But it seems at the least that "Democracy" must mean somehting quite different in China than in Australia.

@"tlee1", I'd be interested in your opinion of Chinese views of democracy. Specifically I'd be interested in your views on the imperative for social h...

Sure, all understood. Correct me if I am wrong, but I understood that the Nationalist Government ruled as a one-party state - the Kuomintang never fac...

I invite anyone who cares to do a search for the word "action" on the proceeding pages. They will see that Bart did not use the word "action" until af...

Yep. I should have known better than to enter into a discussion with you. No, Bart, you did't say that. At no place, in anything you have said here, D...

Well, yes. It's part of Davidson's account, which I have read moderately closely. So, see, for example, https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/o...

That's dreadfully confused. A normative reason is given as the reason for an action, not for a belief.

@"ltlee1" I found this: https://www.tbsnews.net/world/china-more-democratic-america-say-people-98686 It might be what you are referring to. Given how ...

@"ltlee1" The point of this thread, so far as there is one, is my amusement that a Chines writer - Dennis Meng - would attempt to argue in an English ...

Interesting that you should raise this. Here's a link to the Wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index#cite_note-index2020-13 My cou...

Oh, indeed, and I did not claim otherwise. I asked "When is a democracy not a democracy?" You replied: Now I took this to be a reply, such that you ar...

You've just joined the forum specifically to address this thread? How interesting. Ok, so you implied here that a good democracy was one in which folk...

You OK?

The Moon is not a fact. That the Moon orbits the Earth is a fact. That "The Moon orbits the Earth" is true is also a fact. Oddly, that the moon orbits...

No; Fucking Liberals. Edit: It's not liberal philosophy that is to blame here. Liberal philosophy could have quite happily followed the science and va...

Good point. I could have worded that better. That we can talk about Pegasus is taken for granted in setting up a discussion about Pegasus. What I have...

A dual fuck up; failing to mount an effective vaccination program at the Federal level and failing to lock down at the state level. Both the result of...

Eating chicken. Anything you want.

Well, can you give an example of a better reason?

Nuh. Melbourne got it right. It's getting away from Berejiklian. She fucked up.

Why, thank you. As part of @"jamalrob"'s secret police, I have to change my identity periodically.

:grin: The best reason there is.

More or less, I agree. Especially the bit about "there's no problem about the existence of fictional objects".

You mean like Germans in 1938?

A few minutes before you posted I wrote a piece making exactly that error, but realised my mistake just before pressing "Post"...

So we go back and go over it again, slowly and carefully... I'll drag this over from elsewhere... The existence of Pegasus is take as granted in setti...

It's a mistake I've committed more than once. It's the same error that sits behind the ontological arguments for god - treating the existence of indiv...

But a "normative reason to believe" is just another way of saying "justification" So for a belief to be justified is for it to be justified. You're no...

Well, "Banno says so" is an excellent justification.

Me. But you don't have to believe me.

On one account, one needs to justify one's beliefs if one is to be said to "know" them. Excuse my joke.

Yeah, I can't see anything useful in your comment. That is, I can't make out what it is you are claiming about reference and existence.

Here be dragons. Notice that existential generalisation takes Q(a) and concludes that there are things which have the property Q. You want to take Q(a...

You'd make a dreadful Doctor. Patient: "Dr Dingo, I have a terrible pain in my gut" DIngo: "Can you justify that? Present your evidence, or I will not...

Lets first get clear that the long quote is from Russell's Logical Atomism and the aphorism is the first line of Wittgenstein's Tractatus. Presumably ...

Well, no. A fact is what we say, when what we say is true. If it ain't true, it ain't a fact.

See the "?"? Santa has a red hat, therefore Santa exists. But Santa does not exist. How do you reconcile this? Isn't it that in the first case the dom...

The what now?

Did someone claim it did?

See my profile picture. It's a common name Dow Nunder...

...a secret location in Moscow.

Think on this for a bit. How do we tell that someone cannot tell how long a time has passed? Only by having some independent way of measuring how much...