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https://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/1610121228-20210108.png I do actually agree with this in principle. If I had unlimited time and energy I would love...

What, polls? Someone else accused the forum of having a bias. I didn’t think that looked true, but I though, “let’s just check” and did a poll to see.

I intend for people to answer based on the framework that they themselves think in, but I must confess that I put “somewhat” libertarian and egalitari...

That must be excluding illiquid assets like home equity, right?

I wonder how many of them are people who think that they are poor blue collar workers and have no idea how rich they are. I see a lot of “rednecks” in...

I haven't been paying attention enough to tell how much of a racist you actually are or aren't, just skimming some comments that accuse you of it, but...

Please tell me this is sarcasm.

You're arguing against a strawman there. You're free to think that equality is impossible without authority, but you're not accurately describing the ...

Broad or general, yes, that is the point. I think so too. They definitionally do not. If everyone is on the same level, nobody is above of below anyon...

I guess we'll see where people fall on this complex of different issues in the results of my new poll thread: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussio...

Please also share your thoughts on the relationship between these different axes. Are liberty and equality (so likewise authority and hierarchy) two s...

This forum contains plenty of pro-capitalists, who are part of the right. There are lots of religious social conservatives too, who are also part of t...

It seems like the only two plausible outcomes are that Republicans let their party be completely consumed by insane Trumpers, or else the party splits...

Thanks!

Scientists are usually careful not to claim that there's definitely nothing before the Big Bang, and the cutting edge theory of eternal inflation hold...

@"Wayfarer" Is that the old articles of impeachment or a new one? Got a link?

I'm sorry about reality's well-known liberal bias. Feel free to hide from reality in a right-wing echo chamber if you really prefer.

They are similar but I think not the same. Idealism says that what you perceive is what is real. Constructivism, as I understand it, is more like onto...

Alice: "What is mereology the study of?" Bob: "Oh you know, things and stuff."

I can't say for sure whether or not it was actually true (I have my doubts), but to be the best at something that most humans are historically pretty ...

We need a freethinking system of public education, but that in turn requires that we have an enlightened discursive community to support it.

Edit: Michael beat me to it by seconds. I don't actually know the specifics, but from all the news I've been seeing there seems to be a clear consensu...

Was she not participating in an armed mob unlawfully storming the Capitol building? I don't know if she herself was armed or personally threatening vi...

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Don't most terrorists think that they're doing the things they do for just and righteous political causes? Why would this unfortunate woman's belief l...

That’s sex.

This is why I propose not using an “internalist account of gender”, but rather acknowledging something differently from gender entirely, which has bee...

I've been saying this about the right in general for a long time. Pretty much everything they ever accuse anyone on the left of is something they them...

That’s good to know, thanks. In light of that I think most uses of “the public language argument” that I’ve seen have been in error, since they usuall...

I would be interested if you wanted to start a thread talking about the philosophy of social constructs more generally, since it's an area I'm lacking...

But unspoken thoughts in the form of inner dialogue constitute conditions in which language can be had in a way that is not properly public. Consider ...

"Modal logic" isn't just alethic modal logic, the logic of necessity and possibility. Alethic modalities are just one kind of modality. There are diff...

If people look at that person and think "that's a woman", and they treat that person as they would treat a woman (however that is), then that person h...

There's nothing weird about the diamond operator meaning possibility, in an alethic modal logical, wherein box means necessity. What's weird is if you...

Welcome! Coincidentally my very first discussion here was also on this exact same topic. Summary of my thoughts from there: there are (at least) two d...

I have, many times. Do you have a particular part in mind? On a broad level, it mixes "is" with "ought" in a way that doesn't normally fly. For a narr...

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Deontic logic is a type of modal logic. The usual type is called alethic; there's also temporal, doxastic, and probably other kinds. The formal struct...

In deontic logic the diamond operator means “permissible”, not “possible”, just like the box operator means “obligatory” rather than “necessary”. So i...

The laws of natural sciences are made up too. It’s being useful that makes them anything other than arbitrary. They are useful as descriptions of the ...

I wasn't sure if I had heard of this Lin Wood person, so I just googled them, and the top result was: Pro-Trump Lawyer Lin Wood Said He 'Might Actuall...

:100: The concrete world is an abstract object: it's just the one that we're a part of. Because you can make abstract objects from collections of othe...

About a decade ago I resolved to focus on continuous resolve rather than saving it all up for one big high-pressure event at the start of each year. I...

I don’t see how your “marketism” stands apart as its own thing, especially if you lump Rand and Marx both together under it. Market evaluation is a fu...

With regard to the influence of education here, that is why I think that it is important to have public educators going out and contesting falsehoods ...

It is pragmatically irrelevant whether the new “reality” you find yourself in is “really real” or not. Proceed as though it is real in either case. If...

The real villain here is McConnell, not Trump. The Democratic house quickly agreed to Trump’s demands to increase the stimulus check, but of course th...

Taking those course offerings off the table completely would be bad. But not offering loans to people who are unlikely to be able to pay them back is ...

It occurred to me tonight that while you cannot access the data in a null pointer, you can still evaluate the attempt to access it as true or false. I...

The flip side is that while suffering comes from unfulfilled desires, enjoyment comes from fulfilled desires – not merely the absence of unfulfilled d...