Given that the victims of the virus are dominated by men who are over 60, there is a very important question that needs to be addressed: Does it pose ...
That' just an ad hom; nothing more. It's poor thinking; an exercise in attempting to deny rationality by pretending it's mere powerplay, as if that we...
So, in the end, we agree? I'm rather fond of "the view from anywhere". It's the change from "I like vanilla" to "Banno likes vanilla". The overall poi...
That's very good. Taking it as the basis for a thread on the Cosmological Argument would lead to a far more interesting discussion than is usually the...
It seems you did not read the article in the OP. It depends what you are teaching. The crucial point is that the person doing the job sees that it is ...
Just to be clear... It was suggested that every event has a cause. I have two counters to this. The first is that particular quantum events do not hav...
Well, here's a misfire; you were talking about my man: And my "No!" was directed at the supposition that he was afraid of death, and hence went quietl...
That ten-minute period between waking up and first coffee is indeed a period of partial consciousness. The confusion that ensues if one finds that he ...
But folk die quietly. They take themselves off to the hospice so as not to be a nuisance, and drift off overnight. They keep the rage inside, for the ...
Oh, that's right. But so many folk take that as implying that we don't know anything... Their argument goes something along the lines of... anything w...
It's true, isn' t it? Why add "absolutely"? That's the problem with philosophy, as Wittgenstein pointed out. It takes something nice and straightforwa...
Night and day are caused by the earth rotating. It's an objective truth. It's true regardless of where you are, or of what you see. It's the view from...
It's because they let the Christians in, isn't it? New Age shite had to follow. SO now we will be philosophising about The blood of Jesus on the one h...
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