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so who’s the next Linerl leader. They got nothin’.

I also smiled when I saw @"javra" refer to that article. It's good work, and surprisingly sympathetic to what in the end is a bad idea. I'mm quite hap...

As do I. But you take things a step too far - as is your want. That we look for, or expect to find, a reason simply does not imply that there MUST be ...

Bell's theorem, and the overwhelming experimental evidence since, strongly support the view that there are no local hidden variables. That is, the beh...

Well no, it isn't. Is this supposed to be an appeal to authority? PSR is not a principle of logic. Nor is it the case that in order for reason to take...

Here’s a simple question: why must everything have an explanation? Why can’t some things simply be the case?

were you to say that things might have a reason, I would agree. But that is not what is being claimed.

you do not have to answer me. And when you do not have an answer, that is probably a good idea.

To be sure, you are quite welcome to look for or make up a reason for any particular you like. Go for it. It’s just hot air. So in a trivial sense, fo...

you’ve simply restated that everything must have a reason. So your entire argument is that everything has a reason because everything has a reason. Me...

no one has provided a reason to think that everything has a reason…. Show me to be mistaken. Set out why every whatever must have a reason. After all,...

We might quite happily ask for and even look for a reason, all the while there not being any. There is simply no guarantee that there must be a reason...

Why? The movement of an electron to the right instead of to the left is inexplicable, and yet the world has not ended, explanations have not collapsed...

, the supposed principle of sufficient reason is not a principle of logic.

Again, your claim is that whatever occurs, there must be a reason, even if we don't know what that reason is, and don't have any evidence or justifica...

again, it’s not that there are no justifications, but that they are not necessary. It’s perfectly Acceptable that somethings are just the case. A very...

No, I don't. That's the point. Justification ends wherever we want. If you need a stronger account of that, see the various discussions concerning hin...

Seems to be just that. The belief that there must be a reason for each thing is wishful thinking on your part. At least part of 's point is the opacit...

Yep.

Is it realy necessary to point out the difference between "There might be a reason" and "There must be a reason"? PSR says the latter. That's another ...

Neither. Rather it's the two main parties who have become more neutral than ever... folk want politicians who will act, which is something the Lib/Nat...

If every possibility is compatible with PSR, then PSR is methodologically useless. Kinda the point. WHat you are saying is that whatever occurs, there...

‘things happen for a reason’ might be comforting, but need not be accurate. Hence the various issues with causation, noted previously. What we have is...

The debate was pretty much a non-event. 44 Albo/35 Dutton/21 undecided. Annabel Crab asked if that 21% "were undecided, or possibly watching something...

Too many issues... See 6.37. Looks contrary to causal determinism to me. Natural laws describe, rather than explain - don't you agree? Sure, there are...

Seems to be explained in the context. Natural laws are not logical laws.

An electron passes through a double slit. It moves to the right. It might have moved to the left. There is no sufficient reason that explains it havin...

So first debate coming up - on Sky, ffsake. , presumably, will not be watching. Nor will I, because fuck Sky.

There's too much confusion in that OP and the subsequent thread to make much of interest. That you think of "defending" the PSR is curious. At the ver...

Again, sure. This sort of thing is already in 'meaning as use" motif. I'm not aware of his having addressed Tarski directly, and certainly Davidson's ...

Spot on!

Sure you do. But of course that means you can't say what that more is. And yet you seem to claim to. The "more" is something like what we do, includin...

This ought be the central point. The way to avoid the "mystical and the murky" is to remain silent about what cannot be said. But that won't happen.

I don't see anything here resembling an argument for sufficient reason. Perhaps some things just are the case, unexplained and unexplainable. The supp...

Yep. Note especially Truth is propositional, hence actions are propositional - which is to say no more than that we can talk about what we do. Why wou...

yep. And being a hing proposition is a role taken on in the course of setting up a language game. While playing the game it cannot be doubted. And som...

Do you have a conclusion? What you are saying makes no difference to the hundreds of thousands of head of cattle that are presently drowning in Queens...

Cool. Now that change in climate was fast - a half-million years or so. The present change in climate is more like instant.

No. I couldn't make sense of Russell's post - the confusion is legion - but nothing to do with you. Your confusion towards propositions is apparent. I...

It's a bit wet up north. An area in Queensland, the size of France and Germany together, is presently flooded. The second "once-in-a-century" flood in...

There could be 1.2 billion climate refugees by 2050. I wish you were right. You're not. Heat and health Risk of heat-related deaths has ‘increased rap...

Shock revelation! Apparently there are WOMEN working in the public service in Canberra!! Who knew?? Certainly not Dutton.

I've not been able to follow that post.

Trump is more Pompey than Augustus. He's showing the right how to undermine the judiciary and legislature. I doubt Vance has the wherewithal to take t...

So what you are calling for is an imbalance in the world's economy, such that a smaller population in the "West" has a larger part of the production.....

Here's another analysis, of the sort perhaps not being seen in the US. New modelling reveals full impact of Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs – with th...

Yep. We are being told what is the case, and perhaps not asking what ought be the case.

Yes, all that. But why shouldn't half of the world's population produce half of the stuff and get half of the profits?

So what. Why wouldn't you expect half of the world's population to produce half of the stuff and get half of the profits?

There's a certain madness lurking here. You answered my post. Therefore you read it, understood it and responded. Or can you coherently doubt that you...