Wikipedia has a whole article on different varieties of them and the academic research (or lack thereof) backing them up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
I've usually hovered at close to 1. Currently I'm at about 1.03 (3.1K/3K). Usually it's slightly above 1 like that. I've often wondered what that rati...
This question seems to presume that we are already in the business of punishing people for doing things without asking for permission first. Licensure...
In a sense, one could say that when a coyote dies, that matter stops doing whatever it was that constituted being a coyote. The matter still exists, i...
In my system of logic, the “over there” would be conveyed through a modal operator “at()”: it would basically be analyzed as “at there, for a non-zero...
This is a generalization that can express a lot more than either ? or ?. It can select an arbitrary quantity: you can punch in an exact number of thin...
I wonder sometimes if those at the top of the hierarchy really do believe in climate change, and believe that it's already too late, and are just dete...
By "legacy" I mean whatever impact you leave behind on the world. If you can do something good with your life, but doing that will make it shorter, I ...
God could be incapable of his own pain but understand what pain for others is and think it bad. Theists tend not to be relativists, though. Especially...
That would suggest that God’s POV on morality is completely alien to ours, or conversely (since presumably God’s POV is right), that we have absolutel...
If one believes there is no actual life after death, and everyone dies eventually, then all that survives anyone is their legacy, so dying sooner rath...
I think this is a good argument against epiphenomenalism, but I imagine the epiphenomenalist would say in response that epiphenomena correspond to phy...
For my part, after I outgrew my social ineptitude and learned how to be a popular person with lots of friends and dating all the time etc, I soon lear...
Thinking about how to explain this more clearly helped me come up with a... well, a clearer way of explaining it, which is very useful for me for my p...
Sorry, I don't mean to be dismissive of the I Ching generally -- although I don't put any stock in it, but it's interesting, and dismissing it wasn't ...
The binary representation of I Ching hexagram 63, “chi chi” or “after completion”, symbolizing a state of totality, is 101010, which is also the binar...
It’s basically a matter of one’s power to contract (or not) being inalienable. Nobody has the power to agree to agree (or not) to any change of rights...
The true voluntariety of these agreements is something that socialists generally dispute, as there generally is not a reasonable alternative for many ...
It's a comment on living in the present vs worrying about the future. Most of my life I had no fear of death, and was also a generally happy person; d...
I'm not asking mathematicians to change anything at all. I'm just suggesting we interpret the ontological import of the things they write differently....
That use is not contrary to what I’m saying at all. In fact it’s a great illustration of the alternative reading of the “existential” operator I’m sug...
It’s only the very end of this that I have any objection to: reading the DeMorgan dual of universal quantification as asserting that there is (or exis...
Interesting read. Unlike the Meinongian, or the Quinean interpretation of him at least, I don’t support the use of an existential predicate. Rather, I...
I’m not talking about the empty set issue or anything like that. I fully support the standard modern relations between “some”, “all”, and “none”. It i...
The “only” is because not every proposition is in the business of saying what does or doesn’t exist. “There ought to be some apples in this box” doesn...
I agree completely. Retributive "justice" is injustice. Agreed. Do you agree that evicting someone from their home for failure to pay someone else is ...
Precisely. I've always found the "it's not a choice" line of argument in defense of homosexuality to be kind of ceding the more important point to the...
Thinking that there is an element of choice to sexual orientation doesn’t entail acceptance of conversion therapy. There are lots of things that are c...
Maybe you take "legitimizes" more deeply than I do. I agree that non-violence is always preferable where possible. But you seem to agree that it is so...
I would call that more fallibilism than relativism, the difference being that a fallibilist concedes that there is something to be wrong about, and sa...
Some of what you said about was a little hard for me to follow, but in general I think you’re on the right track. Matter being equivalent energy is a ...
Taking things from people is violent, sure, but it's that "belongings" that does all the important work here. Alice comes along and takes something fr...
Anarchism is a form of socialism (the original form, actually), so I already answered that for the most part. The difference between anarchism and sta...
Nobody could mistake you for an anarchist, and that’s the problem. Anarchists support violence (if at all) only in defense against the imposition of p...
Usenet was accessible via email (or via dedicated clients, which made browsing it a little easier), and I remember that UK/Australian/etc internet usa...
Are you reminiscing about the days of usenet, pre-Eternal September, pre-web? Those were the days. I was a young early adopter of the internet just sl...
These scare quotes prompted me to think: perhaps a fruitful approach would be to ask him what exactly is it that makes his money HIS (or anybody’s any...
In classical logic, the latter two options are not possible, and also are equivalent: not(P or not-P) = (P and not-P) = FALSE In paraconsistent logics...
(In Hohfeldian terms, a liberty is something that you are not prohibited from doing. It is the negation of the obligation of a negation, and so it is ...
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