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I remember Wosret, it wasn't him. I searched the members list and couldn't see any Hulk Hogans. If it helps anyone remember them they were very knowle...

Judging from the way he was typing (last posts that I remember in 'I am an Ecology') csal was having a rough time of it. Hope they're doing better!

I expressed gratitude to some posters for their company over the years and their efforts in educating me; I missed a few I'd like to draw special atte...

I don't think they actually did the homework. My hope was that they would discover their errors as they progressed in their education and then maybe r...

Eh you're right. I'll walk away.

I was trying to remember the name of the person who had Hulk Hogan as their avatar and was a legit philosopher of language, but it didn't come to mind...

The only thing worse than someone being wrong on the internet is someone being wrong about me on the internet.

Though, to be fair, I've definitely tried to browbeat a particularly arrogant undergrad statistician away from their ridiculous ideas with literature ...

As tempting as you make it to see you as an adversary, I won't do it. I'm sorry for responding rudely. No, I think careful interpretation of facts - b...

Conspiratorial thinking doesn't suit you. PF isn't a warring tribe of philosophical allies and enemies, it's a bunch of people who share a hobby doing...

I thought you wanted less obnoxious references for context, not more.

Because that character is a parody of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

See here. ;)

Delusions of grandeur suit you. Cry harder, nerd.

Coming from someone whose posts are typically a horrific composition of poorly researched word salad, insults and emoticons this is a bit rich.

Luckily there are a lot of introductory texts in logic. Logic With Trees is a popular undergraduate one covering propositional and predicate calculus ...

There are differences in 'how do I know what I know?' in philosophical terms and scientific ones. 'is this argument I found in a biology paper valid?'...

I'm not sure I agree with this. "How does DNA work?" has an influence on "What is the true nature of reality?", ontology in the broadest sense is the ...

I agree that sharp distinctions between the two are artificial. But, what kind of things are in scientific thinking but not philosophy and vice versa?

I imagine your bullet points are method, but your post is methodology. Of course, doing things well should teach someone methodological lessons upon r...

I don't think you're being difficult! I think you're treating method as methodology though. Philosophical analysis of how Charles Button came to hypot...

Hm. I think it's worthwhile figuring out what methodological concerns look like in philosophy discussion, and what methodological concerns look like i...

People who say "x fallacy" in response to something you said without explaining why it's 'x fallacy' is annoying. I think my biggest pet peeve is resp...

The interesting part for me, especially about Lewis Carrol's Jabberwocky, isn't that it touches something purely subjective or inner, it's how reliabl...

What do the resident Wittgenstein apologists make of Lewis Carrol?

As in, more thinking time is spent: (1) Designing experiments that benefit from orthogonality and have block structures which act as controls for vari...

If it helps, I've worked in a few scientific research projects and am a statistician, and not once have I been asked to used Kolmogorov's axioms in a ...

It sounds good! Bah. I have so much to read.

From the paper you linked. This kind of reasoning is what I've been trying to use all thread. How do the relativities constrain ontologies of space/ti...

Glad you got it!

In the transition between phenomenological space/time and physical space/time, I think it's quite common - and this is in broad strokes - to make one ...

This is a bit off topic, but I think it's of general interest. The methodological flaws that lead to the replication crises are still operative. Some ...

If this makes you feel any better, when we (statistics students) were taught confirmatory factor analysis at university, we were strongly advised neve...

The question is, is it the belief which is uttered or something which has the same propositional content?

Not in Dungeons and Dragons. Wisdom is intuition, you can roll a wisdom check to assess someone's emotional state from body language, sensing motives ...

I think Dungeons and Dragons represents it the best. Wizards (mathematicians, engineers, scientists etc) are typically high intelligence (IQ) and low ...

I actually started the thread without many ideas of what SR or GR imply about philosophical positions (presentism, A-B-C series etc) regarding space a...

125's quite above average. About 1 in 20. It's easy to forget differences in the kind of intelligence IQ measures if you're in a career like engineeri...

I like Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy for philosophy, Wiki is often surprisingly detailed and can have good references too. For work, I've got a ...

The irony did have a purpose, it was an attempt to get anyone who thought removing voting rights from the disabled, or making them conditional, to thi...

Sure, logically possible. I ain't believing in it though.

Consistently off topic nonsense.

Because this is interesting, let's have some maths for it. The quantity 'proper time' is invariant between inertial reference frames. Assuming 1 dimen...

If something supplanted the verified predictions of SR that nevertheless had such an ordering, I would believe it. But I think that SR does a lot to u...

Great, then the conceptual work is done. It's more justified to believe that SR suggests there can be no unique objective ordering of events than not.

This is a fun way to smuggle in an objective ordering without justification. Why would it be contradictory for an event to happen before its cause as ...

Ok. What differentiates an objective ordering from one in obtaining in a reference frame in special relativity? Logical possibility isn't a particular...

The arbitrariness of the reference frame used for the definition of universal time removes the possibility of interpreting its time variable as a univ...

(P & Q) --> ~R : R --> (P --> ~Q) I've used theorem intro and missed a few steps, if you needed to you could prove the theorems: (A) (P->Q) <-> (~P or...

Changed key question sentence to be more precise: What stops the following from being inferred from special relativity: there is no unique objective o...