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So the synthesis of Occam's Razor and Kuhn's structure of scientific revolutions isn't new to you? Or the etymological grounding of analytic a posteri...

Yes. This is a hypothetical to illustrate the point. Take the current population of the United States, which is about 3/4 white, and magically make th...

Yep, that sounds like Ojai alright. :rofl:

I consider myself a pragmatist and instrumentalist and consequently a direct (not “naive”) realist. This diagram has problems.

Ah cool, that’s who I thought. She was an old friend from TaeKwonDo way back in the day, and I helped her get her dye sublimation merchandise business...

Only in matters where multiple people have a legitimate stake, though, and not even always then. 51% of people, all of them white, deciding that nonwh...

I would say that if someone did something that they themselves though was the wrong thing to do, then they did not do it freely, but rather had a laps...

Oh cool, I’m curious which. Feel free to PM me if you don’t want to say publicly. (I think I can guess, if you mean graphic design work). Since you’re...

I found this useful and encouraging information: So it stands to reason that I should wait until the end of June to see if my work will get their old ...

Rousseau? Not an anarchist, but that kind of majoritarian. And direct democracy in the usual sense is normally functionally majoritarian. If 51% of th...

I definitely am in a fortunate position compared to many. What I want is relevant insofar as it informs what I should do. I shouldn’t do things that w...

That’s exactly what I mean by “not majoritarian”: just being the majority vote doesn’t make it right. Just being some minority’s vote doesn’t make it ...

Others have already shared a bunch of good information on anarchism generally, but I thought you might also be interested in my particular view on wha...

Not so. Anarchism is not majoritarian.

I don't really need tiding over, since the enhanced unemployment is paying slightly more than I would even have been making at my normal job -- and al...

This is correct, but being voluntary, intended, willed, is a deterministic matter (of whether your judgement of the merits of alternative courses of a...

False premise. Freely chosen does not entail undetermined. Free choice is a deterministic process; random (undetermined) choice is unfree.

...Bueller? Fdrake thought I should keep doing these, but I’m not sure there’s a point if nobody has anything to say. Would people be more interested ...

I don’t see what connection you are trying to draw between consciousness and free will here, or what question about that connection you are asking. I ...

That looks like propositional logic already.

In that case you also need to compare methods. The USSR and PRC for instance aimed to bring about communism via socialism via state capitalism and nev...

Thanks.

It says at the top of the page: me.

how to make anarchy work, in broad strokes

You were replying to Frank before. I was just pointing out that you reply was about something different than he was talking about.

Sure, but Frank was discussing the bullshit vs normal distinction (supernatural vs natural), not the artificial vs natural one.

Natural vs artificial is not the same thing as natural vs supernatural.

I’m not questioning the success of the physical sciences, but rather highlighting how they spun off from philosophy, became a success of philosophy, a...

Yes.

That is a miscomprehension... of what it would mean for solutions to ethical questions to be objective. It doesn't mean that they are physical things ...

Some aren’t. Others are. All should be to do their jobs correctly.

The exact same can and has been said about relying on the methods of science to tell us what is real.

Whether or not to trust the results of science (and why) is itself a philosophical question, and arguably something only really becomes a science when...

What is this Solaris? From a book or movie or something? All I know is the old OS.

should I just stop posting these?

Humean vs Kantian first bring to my mind their disagreement on the existence of moral facts and moral beliefs. Hume thinks there are only desires, whi...

is there a better thread I should post in to talk about the economics of this crisis more than the medicine? I texted my boss today to let him know i ...

Still missing the point, which is that you aren’t lacking in your description of atheism, but in your description of religion. A religion needs to be ...

The point is that ideology is necessary for religion, but not sufficient for religion, so not everyone who follows some ideology is therefore religiou...

Necessary conditions are not sufficient conditions. I’ve never heard of such things. Link?

Not so. If other kinds of claims can be assigned truth values on some other grounds than empiricism, then they can be manipulated through truth-functi...

So the Paycheck Protection Program ran out of money this morning. My semi-former employer was counting on that to keep his business afloat, and I was ...

This phrase seems to have two possible interpretations: attempts to say things about what kinds of things are not able to be said, vs attempts to say ...

I think I would say that non-descriptive sentences still have a sense, but not in the sense of “sense” that W means.

It seems to me that much of what W says, or at least the gist of it, is correct when limited specifically to descriptive propositions, words being use...

Zeno’s paradoxes only prove that calculus hadn’t been invented yet.

When you "demonstrate to him that he had given no meaning to certain signs in his propositions", you presumably do so using language. That does not se...

Certainly the Gnostic Christians themselves say that, otherwise they wouldn't stay Gnostic Christians. Everyone thinks they are of the correct opinion...

Atheism is not a religion. Religion is not just any moral system or any philosophical system. It’s any epistemic institution that appeals to faith.

Yeah that link is just wrong.