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exist?

What is this a picture of?

So this sort of thing must be a real bitch for you... https://media.tenor.com/images/c19c94d607aa6d644b0df65250fe8222/tenor.gif

Notice the "for you"? That's there because one chooses what to believe, and hence what to doubt. Here again is the oft ignored distinction between wha...

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Forever... Not all forevers are temporal. A line does not require time. Have you never seen a number line? https://whatsinabrain.files.wordpress.com/2...

There's an inference error here. Organisms are ordered. Order is described in logical terms. Logic is part of language. Bacteria do not make use of lo...

That's wrong, for starters. A fact is a true statement. What's all that stuff about creation doing there? Philosophy isn't just stuff you make up.

Curious how when beliefs are mentioned, some folk go for the big stuff - Meh. That's mostly irrelevant to the argument. You wanted to light the room Y...

Physics without the maths is nothing.

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It's a mistake to think of philosophy as a doctrine, and hence a mistake to expect it to be certain. Philosophy is an activity.

But that's what you did.

Not too shabby, Petrichor. I'd add that while this sounds profound, it isn't. For example, I take it that you are not here advocating solipsism, nor t...

Following https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/413682 There might be some more interesting modal considerations here. If Peter did have f...

Well, first off grammar is connected to the world. So even when it is just a matter of grammar, it can tell us about stuff. Second, and for example, "...

Nuh. Paul doesn't ask silly questions. He's an engineer.

The trouble is if one re-defines sets so as to rule out sets of sets, they cease to be useful for defining integers in terms of sets of sets.

A muddle. SO we have Peter, Paul, and Petunia. And they have, in order, first person experience A, first person experience, and first person experienc...

Well, a set is an unordered collection of individuals. The unordered collections of individuals that do not contain themselves is an unordered collect...

Really? I guess it must be because God doesn't like me. Is that your reply to everyone who disagrees with this stuff you have made up?

Yep.

Hm. It requires a sequence, sure. But a sequence is not the same as time. Consider a Koch Snowflake, which has a finite area yet an infinite perimeter...

Why? Then the soul is not just one's emotions, but also one's choices. Hence you will need to enlarge your definition. Ah. So your real interest here ...

Saying it again does not make it true.

No, it doesn't.

Never.

Curious. A throw away line, doubtless. However 'mercans seem to feel obligated to make such assertions, and this despite all evidence being to the con...

Again, the minutia of the incident are unavailable to us. What we have is that two white guys chased and shot a black guy, and yet they were not going...

Are you attempting some sort of defence?

If that's all that is learned here, it will have been a lost opportunity.

'cause if he had turned and run the other way, it would all have been alright... So it's all his fault. I can't make out what the point you are making...

You see, lookin' in from over here, I'm just a bit perplexed as to why they had guns at all. That's why I'm thinking there must be some deeper stuff g...

Yep. We can ponder about what leads to their excremental nature. I'm thinking that's what @"frank" was looking for in his OP. How come these turdish f...

Do you doubt that racism was involved?

Senator Briggs has it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgf-oqgm0Oo https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/nitv-news/article/2019/05/01/briggs-skewers-white-privi...

And for whom would such an excuse work? Who is the audience for such a claim? And why would they think such behaviour reasonable?

Ah. I hadn't considered it an excuse.

That and a video of a fella in the building. But fuck all that minutia. Two white guys chased and shoot a black guy, and it was covered up. There's yo...

But cannot articulate it, it seems.

Yep. The most important thing in this thread is that we decide if, or if not, these poor foolish bastards were vigilantes.

Perhaps. But 'mercans behave in different ways to folk from other, even superficially similar, countries. I think the myth of the self-made individual...

Whatever. But you are the expert on definitions.

Moreover, why did the vigilante have a shotgun? What is it that they are so scared of?

Watch this space... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJqfNroFp8U

That's not the question in the OP. That question went to asking how many cases there are that are simply not bought to wider attention. Hence the link...

You don't seriously doubt that racism was involved.

Not my call. There's a long discussion of the need for much better rapport between indigenous communities and health workers. It's an intractable issu...

Not so much. We don't have the same gun culture. You can't just wander around with a rifle down here. But moreover, folk don't feel such a need. We're...