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FIrst, can I distance myself from @"counterpunch", please? Keep us seperate. Social science does well when it adopts what MadFool called the "inbuilt ...

I am glad this was noted.

I'll ride along with that, and go back to the discussion I had with @"frank": I'll maintain that science has until now been overwhelmingly for the bet...

This alone ought be enough for any scientifically literate person to reject Kant.

Your suggestion is that differing areas of discussion - you have listed chemistry, mathematics and religion - are incommensurable? And yet chemistry m...

AT least do yourself the service of responding to what I wrote, rather than making stuff up.

The curious thing is, you already understand truth. You know what it is. You know the Big Book was not much good because it didn't match what you know...

If utilitarian theories of truth do not work for basic statements, then its unlikely they can be made to work for morality.

Along the East Coast of the Great Southern Land puffer fish are a nuisance that eat your bait. And they are Australian, so of course they are deadly. ...

More puffer-fish. Special pleading for non-scientists.

No, not philosophy. As soon as it makes the attempt it becomes nonsense. And if it succeeds it is no longer philosophy.

I would say that what has happened is the problem has been dissipated, but that you mistook the solution for another rendering. ...you say that like i...

Not at all. The Midgley thread is explicitly about the very thing you claim I forgot. It's just that I would insist on doing it well. The stuff that t...

"Bias" means any text that disagrees with the right. They just don't get critique.

It's only consequence is the production of philosophy papers and poor forum threads.

Of course there isn't - the thing-in-itself is a locutionary pretzel, like the little man who wasn't there. It closes itself of from any discussion, n...

Why, I agree with it! Indeed, see the thread I started about his student: Midgley vs Dawkins, Nietzsche, Hobbes, Mackie, Rand, Singer..., who took thi...

:fire:

We caught the puffer-fish of antirealism. So the LHC is set up to examine primary attributes such as solidity, figure, extension, motion. There's a qu...

That's just what he wants you to think...

Well, then, continue; but try not to bite the hand that feeds you.

So... to leave the anarchists you have to play by the anarchist's rules. That makes sense.

Ever noticed how reanimated corpses stomp slowly forward, fixated on strangling the heroine, with no attention being paid to what they did in their li...

Fuck sake, who's agenda do you expect folk to follow?

I will be winning when this thread continues without my intervention. That's when I will know the point has been well-made and is bothersome. I can fi...

You want recognition for what you think are obvious truths, fluently expressed. You assumed folk who were attracted to a site like this would agree wi...

The anecdote about televisions is spot on.

Here's the thing: YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE HERE. Your participation here is not obligatory.

Have you noticed how "@"Jamalrob"" is an anagram for "Amoral J"? The "J" is obviously for "Jesus". He admits to being from Moscow. His favourite quote...

But it's being infiltrated by Quadrant and the Young Liberals.

I did? Odd, 'cause that ain't what I wrote.

...Ah, so we can blame the economists!

You're weird.

Nuh. Knowing stuff is good. Science is about knowing stuff.

You haven't read this thread, have you. Fine.

I'll just go along with Nature and WHO on this one; sensational articles don't help one way or the other.

Seems as you missed the point. Bad policy is leading to global warming. Science is how we know this to be the case

He said we should wear two masks? Shock! Horror! So what? ...looks to be crap to me. But again, even if true, it would show bad management, not bad sc...

What? What's he supposed to have done?

Fauci - not sure I can see your point about his behaviour. He was obligated to do the best he could while working for a lunatic. He didn't walk away. ...

Then it's not science.

We only ever have our beliefs, so we can never have the truth? The conclusion doesn't quite follow; at least some of our beliefs are true.

...and my acute obsession with triggering and being impolite...

That surprises me; I would have thought you would value people being less easily triggered and more polite... I'd also like to see the debating option...

Sure. Isn't Stove's Gem?

What do you think?

Ah, cheers. so it does seem that science might have something to do with population increase.

Is it worth pursuing this? Do you not think science might have been written all in the first person? Why not?

I can't go along with that. The fact is I know for sure I am typing this on my laptop while sitting on my armchair with the cat besides me. Any philos...

I don't see much here with which one might engage.