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It's not a question of our not having found a way for them to interact; it's rather deeper than that. If dualism holds, then mind and body are such th...

One has to scroll so far between his posts and replies to his post. On the bright side, his rants mean that the my threads are nice and long.

I have long been in agreement with this argument. Descartes was aware of the problem: If mind and body are entirely incommensurate, how can mind make ...

Not at all. The economics is insane. The government decided Cambodia was a nice place to resettle refugees, and sent nine of them over. One stayed, th...

Australia's policy on refugees who arrive by boat. You made reference to it, indirectly. In many ways it is worse than the US bans, because it has bee...

Australia's shameful policy has been in place for years. Welcome to our world.

I don't see how modality fits here. But since we agree that personhood rather than rationality is the deciding factor, it's probably not worth followi...

It's a topic I have been considering for a few months - working my way carefully through Martha Nussbaum's Frontiers of Justice. She juxtaposes this v...

There is a poignant incoherence in supposing both that it is only rationality that makes humans morally worthy, while maintaining that a foetus is als...

Interesting. I wonder if the purchasers are reading it.

True or alternate fact?

Back on topic, consider the following which Madeleine K. Albright placed on her Facebook page this morning. (My bolding). So here's my question: given...

Thanks for again showing why you are not worth entering into discussions with.

I've seen that you are a scared fascist and hypocritical christian. I have not seen that there is something interesting to be had from further convers...

Which pretty much brings us back to what I recall was my first reply to you: Why should I care what you think?

So you try to engage in a discussion by doing exactly what was pointed out as uninviting.

Not a promising reply. Do you want to discuss philosophy or score points? Nowadays i don;t have time to post as often as I once did, and so am at a cl...

Are you worth talking to? Your views have been shown to be incoherent, yet you persist. And persist. And persist. Your motivation is fear, your politi...

...but thought he came down from the mountain.

This thread began as an epistemological analysis of the term 'post truth'. The article I linked elsewhere about narcissistic personality disorder goes...

The Open Society, as it was called by Popper, just before it began to close.

How does he keep such a straight face?

Too obscure?

Seems so.

Sure, "...is true" and '...is a fact" are synonymous. SO 'facts are always true' is synonymous with 'truths are always true'.

And Caves, from which emerge copies of Plato. Which raises the question, where do other philosophers come from? Descartes from an oven, I suppose; fre...

...as opposed to a swamp, from which emerge copies of Davidson, Quine and others.

He's interesting because of the breadth of his knowledge; I'm less impressed by it's depth. Claiming the Gandhi was more violent that Hitler, because ...

From the article you posted: 'There is something terribly wrong with playing this game of ironically making fun of Trump. You know, in medicine they c...

We.

"The election of President Donald Trump has proven that numerous Christians are more worried about power, influence, and control than the gospel messa...

Coping with narcissistic personality disorder in the White House A good read. Time to bite my tongue and just take out the popcorn? Just sit back and ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVUhW5wg0lc

Think I might throw stones while Un kicks you. At least until you admit that there are stones being thrown.

An oxymoron.

An odd thing to say, if you deny the distinction between beliefs and facts. A lie occurs when someone knows what is true, and yet makes a statement th...

You are still confusing truth and belief. she is wrong.

"The cat is on the mat". There, done. So your claim seems to hinge on the impossibility of a commonplace.

Why would you think that?

If you want. Not at all sure how this helps, though.

Oooo! Recursion! How exciting!

All you have done here is misuse the word fact. A fact is what is the case regardless of your belief, not because of it.

Is there such a thing in English? Should we take a descriptive or proscriptive approach? I vote descriptive.

OK. So we agree so far?

So you are claiming that all philosophers use the word in the same way?

Presumably, the cat.

There is only one philosophical use?

My point is that the answer to the question in the OP is that the question itself is grammatically erroneous; with the corollary that facts are not th...

First, one use of "fact" is as a synonym for "statement". You are doing this when you say:. Another use of 'fact' is as a state of affairs. You cannot...

What can be equivocated are statements.