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And yet outside the USA, they are ubiquitous. Some reasonable sophisticated communities have found ways to live with the tension other than a naïve ad...

Another example for consideration. We accept, I hope, that a sign saying "Whites only" on a bus is unacceptable. Another example, from On ‘Whites Only...

So we ought consider the act constituting the locution separately to the act consequential to the locution? The first is protected, the second, not so...

I fixed an ambiguity in the post. I think we are in agreement. And now the discussion becomes the usual parochial hectoring, as predicted.

So he Kirk upset people, and they don't like it, so he shouldn't be allowed to make further comment...?

Apparently the ABC is recieivng hundreds of compalins for cancelling Jimmy Kimmel Live!

so which was the soup? Squash soup sounds very plain. Like stone soup.

ok.

Squash, as in pumpkin?

Ok. You said "making and searching for meaning is what we do, it’s not our purpose". That appears to imply exclusively that either it's something we d...

Hu? Something to do with wearing sunglasses?

Ok.

Seeing stuff as either objective or subjective might be the source of the problem. Look at the issue instead in terms of whether it is something we de...

No. But it has to be true. This was my first reply to you in the present conversation:

All good. Self-awareness requires awareness of others, such that they develop together, that you and I are aware differently. I'm not convinced that W...

I'm told that empathy is now an unpopular term. It's application has become quite selective. The opinion piece cited considered more than Kimmel. It's...

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Well, Downunder is pretty much a client state of the US, so it's no joy for us to watch their democracy fail. And no, the irony of the timing of this ...

Logic. But I'm thinking of Davidson here, too - interpretation and the principle of charity fit in with your comments regarding empathy... Belief only...

Oh, I see. Ok. You might appreciate this.

Me? Not I. I drew attention to the fact that the US is an outlier, in not having legislation criminalising hate speech.

So physics presents us with mathematical models of how the early universe might have been, used to interpret the experimental results. These interpret...

That's the conflict, isn't it - it's used "outside of polemical discourse", as the UN example shows, but from the sensitivities expressed by some here...

There's a pattern... Trump vows to jail anyone who says he’s against free speech Australia's ABC was barred from A UK press conference with Trump afte...

I've given a few extended and considered replies, referencing various external sources and pointing to various arguments., See how your reply is about...

On one influential argument, unfettered free speech is no more than the privilege of the wealthy to say what they please at the expense of the many; s...

...much the sort of thing about which I complained... Oh well.

Again, I'd suggest that here truth is foundational, and knowledge derivative. From "We know that A" we can conclude that A is true, but only because t...

For a large class of sentences, the truth of the sentence is decided by how things are, not by how the community thinks they are.

Odd, that without evidence, or even argument, folk accept the theory that "hate speech" was specifically invented as a political weapon to silence con...

And yet there it is, being used by the United Nations. Likely the UN decided to use the term "hate" precisely because they need to motivate action and...

So your claim is that some hate speech is not hateful? Or at least that some language that is labeled hate speech may not meet, say, the UN definition...

It took me a few seconds to find the UN document. Who is it that "will not say what they mean"?

An attempt to analyse truth in terms of knowledge using a definition of knowledge in terms of truth will of course be circular. The problem I think yo...

United Nations Strategy And Plan Of Action On Hate Speech So Chamberlain's declaration of war would be hate speech if it declared war on Germany becau...

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Well, yes, You seem to be expecting something from the JTB account that it does not provide. It's not a theory of truth.

Ok.

Well, yes.

The cat, as a stand-in for Wigner's friend, is presumably aware that it is not dead. SO is the wave function collapsed or not? Either consciousness is...

No. We do have knowledge - we know things. It doesn't tell us if they are true or not, so much as if they are known or not. Above, it told us that Jim...

Q1a. Yes. Q1b. Yes. Q1c.Yes - follows from Q1a: if you believe it, you believe it to be true. But if we are considering Jim's case, not your own, then...

Not an excuse, but perhaps an explanation. Fredrestery is for the disempowered, narcissists, and striplings. Most folk grow out of it in adolescence a...

Given that we believe the sentence, we believe that it is true. Do you mean more than that? It's not enough, for the sentence to be known, that we bel...

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Do you see this as something with which might disagree, or which is incompatible with what has been said? Not at all. How can they be tools if they do...

JTB sets out criteria for a sentence to count as knowledge. It is not a method for determining the truth of some sentence. That the sentence is true i...

Which of course raises the issue of why they are important, and whether they ought be.

Something along those lines was also at play in Asimov's Foundation series. It strikes me as wishful thinking or a useful narrative device rather than...