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Some top Google results: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/noaa-n/climate/climate_weather.html https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/weather-vs-climate Some...
October 12, 2020 at 19:11
Like vectorizing a raster image. I have very similar thoughts about that that I plan to write more about for an upcoming thread about epistemology.
October 12, 2020 at 16:11
Thanks, that’s very encouraging to hear!
October 12, 2020 at 16:09
Weather and climate again. It’s very hard to tell exactly what the weather will be like on a particular day even one month away, but I can guarantee y...
October 12, 2020 at 15:59
https://news.yahoo.com/taking-page-authoritarians-trump-turns-151748832.html Apparently Trump wants the State Department to release full unredacted ve...
October 12, 2020 at 04:10
Or do not admit of things that are either beyond all possibility of anyone’s experience, or else contrary to experience. All claims about God are eith...
October 12, 2020 at 01:45
I think that the meaning of words is a posteriori, and analytic, but that necessity tracks with a priority, not with analyticity. Given the a posterio...
October 11, 2020 at 23:27
I feel like I should add that my use of the four temperaments above is not so much as character types, as they are moods. I found myself cycling throu...
October 11, 2020 at 17:52
That may be the etymology of the word but you know that’s not its meaning in this context. In this context it means the capital-owners, in contrast to...
October 11, 2020 at 17:37
"Normality" is relative. In one sense, things have never been "normal". In another sense (the one I take Punshhh to be using here), "normal" is just t...
October 11, 2020 at 06:29
So apparently QAnon has been largely spread by the senior VP of technology at Citigroup. At least he got fired for it.
October 11, 2020 at 06:22
I accidentally re-created the four temperaments in my own self-analysis, which inclines me to think that there is some conceptual use to them. Here's ...
October 11, 2020 at 05:25
The bourgeoisie ARE the elites.
October 11, 2020 at 01:22
Yeah pretty much, though I think the underlying reality is agnostic to QM interpretation, as they work out to equivalent results: from an a given obse...
October 10, 2020 at 22:08
The human hasn't done the observation yet, so the human isn't entangled with the electron / hasn't collapsed its waveform / hasn't split into multiple...
October 10, 2020 at 19:52
Yup. :up:
October 10, 2020 at 18:55
Yeah, the left-or-right thing isn’t meant to apply to the twins, it’s just a clearer example of the butterfly effect. A tiny insignificance change can...
October 10, 2020 at 17:39
Moods are just an example of a subtle non-rational brain process that can go on to influence your life in the future. They’re not at all integral to t...
October 10, 2020 at 17:06
:up: :clap:
October 10, 2020 at 07:22
I don't pretend that my rejection of solipsism is very much more than "let's not", albeit with pragmatic reasons why it's more useful to "not". Earlie...
October 10, 2020 at 07:19
There is no difference between those on my account. The existence is the cup is consists entirely of the potential of certain experiences. That potent...
October 10, 2020 at 07:08
Not directly. But they're dependent on previous beliefs, which are dependent on previous experiences, which are dependent on previous choices, which a...
October 10, 2020 at 07:05
You have heard him speak, right? He can barely get through a single sentence without fucking it up one way or another. I'm not saying that his idiocy ...
October 10, 2020 at 06:03
All there is is experienceability. I don't know why it's so difficulty to communicate this difference, between something being the kind of stuff that ...
October 10, 2020 at 05:48
Probably not in that direct a fashion. But your response to the ideas of atheism or theism would depend heavily on your other life experiences, which ...
October 10, 2020 at 05:46
You seem to be thinking of the brain as though it were a gas, with its processes predictably correlating with the things that you list (temperature, h...
October 10, 2020 at 05:01
Libertarianism in the United States is generally associated with the right. There are some left-libertarians, like me, but we’re either a minority or ...
October 10, 2020 at 03:07
They don’t usually call it such because they’re usually pre-Kantian, but basically all representative realism is transcendental realism in Kantian ter...
October 10, 2020 at 03:04
He is generally considered one. Pretty much all domestic terrorists in the US have been.
October 10, 2020 at 02:40
Nope, my view is that statements must be falsifiable. That’s exactly why I reject all claims of unobservable things: they could not be falsified. And ...
October 10, 2020 at 01:53
Yes, of course. It's only massless particles that are lightlike, and so have an existence that (from their frame of reference) consists entirely of th...
October 10, 2020 at 00:31
To be completely fair, Trump was asking "what do you want me to call them? Who do you want me to..." and Biden suggested "Proud Boys". It is hard to m...
October 09, 2020 at 23:55
Phenomena are things that are experienced, by definition, so those are the same thing. And I’m saying there’s nothing more to those phenomena than the...
October 09, 2020 at 20:27
I think you’re still not understanding the technical meaning of “chaos” being employed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory
October 09, 2020 at 19:10
For a very quick example, ontology has an impact on the possibility of the existence of God which has an impact on people’s ethical views and thereby ...
October 09, 2020 at 19:06
“Observation” in a quantum mechanical sense happens even in a universe full of nothing but gas. Our human observation is just a complicated form of th...
October 09, 2020 at 08:26
I thought Quine's holism seemed obvious when I first heard about it, but then I was already a falsificationist by that time, and from a falsificationi...
October 09, 2020 at 07:21
I'm not sure if you're questioning the "physical systems" part or the "chaotic" part. I'll admit that I'm not absolutely certain on the "chaotic" part...
October 09, 2020 at 07:05
You seem to be arguing here for a critical rationalism, which I also support. But that's an epistemological position (which particular beliefs are jus...
October 09, 2020 at 07:00
Brains are chaotic physical systems, which means they are extremely sensitive to initial conditions, and rapidly diverge in their future behavior base...
October 09, 2020 at 05:54
How is language something beyond experience, or behavior? It’s something we do to each other, and experience each other doing — as well as something w...
October 09, 2020 at 04:12
The stuff about the Higgs etc is really an addendum to the overall thesis, though I do think it's one of the more interesting things in there. The ove...
October 09, 2020 at 03:19
I don’t know, you’d have to ask a representative realist how they account from that. I think their view doesn’t make sense, that’s why I disagree with...
October 08, 2020 at 19:17
I’m not completely sure I understand your question, but if this helps answer: it’s a kind of direct realism wherein subjective experiences are just sm...
October 08, 2020 at 19:01
And one of only two such states with Democratic governors.
October 08, 2020 at 17:11
And then immediately backpedals... ish: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-kills-stimulus-talks-tweets-no-deal-until-after-i-n1242312
October 07, 2020 at 20:45
It is possible that oneself is the world, sure; that self and world are the same thing. But then you just have solipsism, which is trivial: even if th...
October 07, 2020 at 17:20
I did a similar thread to this a while back with a bunch of more specific questions: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/7036/whats-your-philoso...
October 07, 2020 at 17:09
If it is known that there are some elephants that look, walk, and quack like ducks...
October 07, 2020 at 06:50
On what topic?
October 07, 2020 at 06:48