A responsible vote is a vote that maximizes the good that is likely to get done. For yourself, your country, the whole world. This includes doing rese...
Yes, but you’re still building that objective view out of subjective views. Nobody can get outside their own first-person perspective; but we can buil...
Science is based on “subjective” first-person experiences just as much as my ethical system is. We compare and quantify aspects of those experiences i...
Short answer: Same way I judge the reliability of science. Long answer is about 80,000 words if you care to read it. You could start here for just the...
That was far from the first thing I said. The first thing I said was just to answer your question about my relationship to Rand / use of the word "obj...
Based partly on feedback in this (and other) threads, I have completely restructured the essay Against Fideism, now putting the reasons for rejecting ...
Based partly on feedback in this (and other) threads, I have completely restructured the essay Against Nihilism, now putting the reasons for rejecting...
FiveThirtyEight is showing Texas so far (at 39% reporting) leaning toward Bernie, which as I mentioned earlier shifts the predicted outcome toward a B...
I'm looking for more than just one thing here. There's literally a bulleted list of them in the OP. I'm interested primarily the first, but also in th...
As I said, I am not just trying to trace lineages, or even primarily looking for that. The very first thing I ask for is: If someone is not giving a c...
I did say in response to your first response in this thread: I just haven't had time to do that yet this morning. Also you maybe missed an edit I made...
Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can’t explain that. You can’t explain why the tide goes in. The water, the tide... it comes...
Empiricism is the descriptive face of what I more generally call "phenomenalism", not "objectivism". The descriptive face of "objectivism" would be "r...
FiveThirtyEight's interactive Super Tuesday model suggests that if Texas can be won for Bernie and everything else goes as predicted, there might stil...
Not as in the American political party, and not in the sense most Americans think of it, but yes most broadly speaking I am libertarian, a libertarian...
FiveThirtyEight is now showing 63% odds for "no one" (read: Biden), 21% for Biden himself, and 16% for Bernie. I am very saddened by this. Trump victo...
Median household income is around 50k. 100k is around the mean. Personal incomes are about half those household figures since the average household is...
I actually argue that states are functionally no different than religions, as both appeal to faith as in taking someone’s word for it. Why do what the...
Who nevertheless has much lower income yet much much higher savings, hence the question, presuming this hypothetical person lives somewhere less overp...
I think you must think that that means something very different from what I mean, but I have no idea what it is you think it means. It just means "don...
The point is that if you refuse to believe anything until it's sufficiently grounded, but at some point you can just say "this is sufficient enough" a...
The difference is that critical rationalism has built into it that that is the right way to proceed. The justificationist at least nominally says "don...
Not every unending process is an infinite regress. Critical rationalism is more like an infinite progress. The problem with justificationism is that i...
I think this is where you're losing the point. Criticizing your beliefs isn't some kind of final permanent thing. You look to see if there are any pro...
Can a parent make a child want what the parent wants the child to want? Not directly on the spot, of course, but certainly through extensive condition...
Certainty is lacking in secular descriptions of reality too. That's not an excuse to substitute the Bible for science. A secular system of morality as...
I just did, but if you want me to pick you apart line by line: Yes, when you can, and if you don't see anything wrong with a particular belief yet, yo...
You are still applying justificationist reasoning. Think outside that box. The difference between surviving criticism and bring justified from the gro...
Infinite regress. If every belief has to be based on something then that needs to be based on something else that needs to be based on something else ...
Do not try to ground beliefs. That’s impossible. Instead only try to criticize whatever beliefs you should find yourself having. Whatever you can’t ye...
I said “treatment as not in need of reconciliation”. If people are trying to reconcile, then they evidently think that each party having their own opi...
(Sorry this is less than lucid, I'm up way too late). When it comes to the descriptive side of things, what I am going for is exactly the ordinary sci...
Propositions are not words. Propositions are the things that words mean. You can have "propositional content" in your mind without having any words to...
I’m a graphic designer for a living. I like logos for themselves, little graphical encapsulations of things. What are user avatars at all if not that ...
As I already said much earlier in the thread: critical rationalism. Wikipedia about it, and my own essay On Epistemology where I defend it (and a thre...
I'm not trying to promote anything here, I'm just wondering if using an image associated with my philosophy might be more appropriate for my account o...
The usual political science definition of a state is a monopoly on the "legitimate" use of force. I put "legitimate" in scare quotes, even though it u...
Make a science out of what? I see the role of philosophy as grounding sciences, both the usual stack of physical sciences, and also an analogous stack...
I think no beliefs are properly basic, because foundationalism is false; but, even if we were presuming that some beliefs were properly basic, belief ...
Oh absolutely, in any sense of "socialism" used by academics or self-identified socialists, which calls for the elimination of capitalism at least (th...
I just made some small changes to the last few paragraphs to draw focus away from experiential-vs-non-experiential stuff, but instead uninterpreted-vs...
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