Banno

It looks like you are trying to avoid the issue of this thread by pointing to another.

Why?

You have not understood what he did.

You realise that this is not an argument?

And my reply is simply that the differences you are talking about are minuscule, and irrelevant to the observations. You are talking about seconds, at...

Thank you for bringing Russell's essay to my attention.

Let's do the experiment. Do you accept the accuracy of the following? https://www.projectpluto.com/jevent.htm#oct Io is the innermost moon, I.

Idealism is a test of critical thinking set by professors to sort out the wheat from the chaff. This forum is populated mostly by undergrads or less, ...

Again, I'm left with the impression that you really have not understood the calculations and observations involved in this experiment. The maximum del...

So you have no opinion?

And what do you say, Rock? You expressed your own preference. Can you justify it?

It's not the eclipse duration that is the issue; it's the time between eclipses.

It's like watching a pendulum on Jupiter. The time at which an eclipse is seen varies from the predicted time at different time of the year. The diffe...

Of course the Marshall Plan was an imperialist enterprise. It wasn't the best thing that could have happened, but it was the best thing the US had don...

Working class women would take home work; so their labour did not appear in such statistics. Edit: The discussion came from here: https://thephilosoph...

Hm. Go back a hundred years and women worked as much as men, often from home. The notion that women should stay home and look after the kids is more r...

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What? You are agreeing with me? Where's the fun in that?

You are looking at per capita. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)

Who is missing from this list? http://www.un.org/en/ga/contributions/honourroll.shtml

I loved that we buried our parliament house in a hole in the ground so that our kids could fly kites and roll down the grass over it. The fence shows ...

As do you.

GDP (PPP) measures what that money can actually buy. But that green bit in your picture - what's that? How much in arrears are the payments from the U...

Third to China and the EU, GDP (PPP); The Marshal Plan is over, but one belt, one road has just started. The USA can do its own dirty work.

The local Liberals are a leaderless rabble, reliant on a plebiscite to decide their policies.

I understand the relation between state and family the other way around. The labour of women - grandmothers - in extended families was cheap and exper...

:D Puts me in mind of Tolkien's "The tale grew in the telling"...

My error. I understand that it was originally going to read "the pursuit of property". Things could have been worse. indeed.

Whatever the detail, the fear of collectivism is pivotal to the USA rejecting universal health care, and symptomatic of the mythology of the individua...

It's interesting that the rebuilt Europe went with social justice policies that where never taken on by the USA - universal health care being the most...

So is identity politics a symptom or a cause?

I don't care that much. Where's the Reader's Digest version?

I agree that it has taken years; the Marshall Plan strikes me as a highpoint positive contribution, a plan that made both economic and moral sense. Pe...

So you are saying you really are all fucked? That no one has any balls, that leadership is dead? Perhaps you are right.

So why was he let in?

Enough talk. The facts are there before you. Time to act.

Again, see https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/107699 there is a picture of life that sees it as merely experiencing the world; hence In...

What you can't do without circularity is define each word in terms of other words. But it does not follow that our words do not inform us about realit...

What is concrete about the term wrench? It is not the name of an individual; nor is it universally the name of one class of thing; nor are there no ex...

Then what is it that is possessed, apart from certain behaviours? What sort of thing is a concept, apart from what shows in behaviour?

That's simply reifying ape behaviour into a concept. What is a concept of food, apart from the consumption habits of the ape?

One might look at it that way, but it strikes me as dubious. But I think it more interesting to look at it in terms of showing and saying. Show that o...

Indeed; but it needs to be good research. The Himba experiment needs bettering. SO for my money this is not a garden path worth our time; leave it to ...

My point? @"Hanover" seems to think that an ape that uses a wrench to fix a leaking pipe knows what a wrench is. I'm just urging caution. In the real ...

When you learned what a wrench is, was there more involved than learning the link between a name and a thing? Were you shown how t use it? I'm guessin...

Further, I don't think my first criticism of the op has been addressed: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/107699 The supposed incommen...

Are you so sure? The wrench is also drop forged, purchased at Bunnings, and slightly bent.

Indeed; that is the point at issue.

SO two responses: 1. Fatalism, as in the OP. 2. Making suffering itself a good. Neither are convincing.

How does dying encourage growth?