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I know that this isn't universal across philosophers, either contemporary or historically, but the core subject that I view philosophy being about is ...

Because we don’t know how long this total shutdown of society in response to the pandemic will last.

United States. And you’re right that we should get that support. It remains to be seen if we will. Shockingly, even Republicans seem to be considering...

Are you saying that it is completely impossible to even attempt to do what philosophy purports to be about, or just that there is no concerted effort ...

We live in a digital age. People don't have to get together in person to produce entertainment. Sure, some forms of entertainment are produced that wa...

That was the whole point of my anecdote. In my broad interests across many topics, I wanted to investigate the most core or central topics, the ones t...

I haven't been reading this thread because until last night I've been completely unaffected by coronavirus and trying not to worry about it because I'...

If philosophy is just a folk tradition, presumably that's only talking about western philosophy stemming from Thales et al. Does that mean there is no...

I assume you read the OP, so I don't know what more you want.

I think I agree.

Not really. At least, I can’t imagine a scenario where someone who thinks that doesn’t act like it’s true, unless for some contrived reason like he’s ...

An understanding of what sorts of things can be true and what makes them so is a kind of philosophy. I agree that five year olds often have a pretty g...

Not at all. I'm denying that we can know for certain, especially prior to any philosophizing, which statements are the true ones and which are the fal...

How do you know what statements are undeniably true? Isn’t that a philosophical question? Seems kind of circular to then base your means of discerning...

Yes. In English, “America” refers to the United States. North America and South America are not parts of “America”, but parts of “the Americas”. In Sp...

Agreed:

Excluding them from what? I’m not excluding them from beliefs, I’m limiting beliefs to just them. I think you misread me.

I’d say all thoughts to the effect that something exists or not constitute beliefs. There are also thoughts that are not about what does or doesn’t ex...

That’s not how it works.

That is the big question that all philosophical questions are in service of. I wrote 80,000 words on that that I’m not gonna retype here. Yes.

I did not misquote you.

No, the original point was that things suck now. Pointing out how they used to suck more is besides that point. I’m not disputing that they used to su...

No, this is the crux of the whole issue. To believe to the contrary of something is also to not believe in the thing, but to suspend belief entirely i...

Saying that things are bad now isn’t saying they weren’t worse (even in the same regards) before. The abusive structures of capitalism are just soften...

What is it to think something is true than to be of a state of mind such that you are inclined to act like it is true? This question isn’t clear, but ...

Philosophy is the search for wisdom, which is the ability to discern superior from inferior answers to questions. A good philosophy is thus one that p...

To believe something is just to think it’s true, nothing more. You could believe for no good reason (a “blind guess”), or you could believe for reason...

I am, because they mean the same thing. To believe something is just to think that it is true, nothing more.

It's not a proof, just an explanation. Nope, I say you can not-believe in both God and Not God. You can't "believe both something and its contradictio...

The law of the excluded middle demands that G or not-G, but when we have a function B(G), the law of the excluded middle permits B(G), B(not-G), not-B...

I'm getting so tired of writing thousands of words about subsets and multidimensional spectra that I decided to just draw a picture instead and see if...

A subset of atheism, called "strong atheism".

:up: :victory: :cool:

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/wrong_superhero.png (Fun fact: I once wrote a ...

Among the news results showing up in that search I linked last night were CNN and MSNBC, so yes. And to confirm, this news-specific search that doesn'...

I was referencing his testimony on the Iran-Contra affair, wherein he repeated many, many times "That I don't recall" or "I don't recall" to almost al...

"This isn't an argument. It's just contradiction. I came here for a good argument. An argument isn't just contradiction. An argument is a connected se...

If you mean the same thing I think you mean (Lewis's trilemma of "lord, liar, or lunatic"), I'm not making any claims here about Jesus in particular, ...

That depends entirely on whether Biden voters would do likewise. If Bernie and Biden voters are equally likely to vote for whoever gets the Democratic...

I see why Bernie losing nationwide is bad, I just don't see why California taking care to count as many people's votes as possible is bad for Californ...

Because we try to maximize the number of people whose votes get counted, so we let people vote by mail, and count them all so long as they put them in...

I feel like you think I'm saying there's nothing to be upset about or something. I am upset about Biden's ascent, but it seems like you're extra upset...

Reagan had dementia? Now that I don't recall. Oh dear.

Primary elections aren't winner-take-all by state the way the general election is. Delegates are appointed proportional to the actual vote count, so c...

I don't follow what it is you're not buying. Who is saying all the votes have to be tallied up before what? I mean, eventually they do need to be tall...

I feel like I'm missing out on some news item that this is in response to, because last I saw Bernie has consistently been reported to win the clear m...

Those are good points. I guess I was thinking of it as belonging there because that's the facet of education that I've focused on in my own essays, bu...

Thanks for the feedback! I'm glad it was mostly understandable. :) I did define fideism when I first used it in the book, back in the chapter Against ...

Yeah this really needed an "other" option. I live in a solid blue state so I usually vote 3rd party (usually Green) because to do otherwise would be t...