@"Banno", @"Andrew M" If we're using terms in the same way, I don't think it's surprising that "presence qua presence cannot be spoken", words aren't ...
It seems quite consistent to be in support of some violent insurrections and not in support of others. Neither the violence nor the insurrection parts...
Yes. It is quite ridiculous that a scholar of ethnicity and culture in the UK's opinion on whether racism is implicated in an event is dismissed as de...
The worst part about engaging in good faith with people like yourself is that I actually have to fucking check your sources just in case what you're s...
No one's going into Burns Nights and shutting them down for being white supremacist events promoting a pasty poet are they? Do me a favour will you, g...
Same, but I went into STEM for statistics in the hope of becoming more employable. Not as a mature student though. When you grow up in a place where p...
@"frank" I couldn't find the original video with voter demographic breakdown, but I found one with Mark Blyth making largely the same point. (Edit: if...
:up: Cool article. Do you have any similar references for why Gabriel describes these domains as "fields of sense" - what is it that aligns the charac...
I tried to find it again, couldn't. Sorry! I'll have another look another day. I don't think so? I'm assuming @"counterpunch" is one of those heredita...
Indeed. This is one of the few places on the internet someone will be remain able to have that kind of conversation in good faith. And a willing sucke...
Aye. I think the approach should depend on the context, since @"counterpunch" here has been swearing at me for a while I figured I'd pick up the gaunt...
I honestly can't believe you think that calling Bojo and his incompetent toffs "gammon faced clowns" is racist against white people. They absolutely h...
Didn't even have time to close this between bannings... Banned @"Brett" for using racial slurs against another poster. Considering the rest of the pos...
I don't think you know what "adjusting" means. In a statistical analysis of data - in this case police killings, there are lots of confounding variabl...
Here's something I really don't understand; how have you managed to convince yourself that political correctness is systemic racism against white peop...
What would it take you to change your mind on the following issues: (1) that systemic discrimination exists (2) that a politics (BLM) wanting social p...
This reads like you frame the struggle against systemic discrimination as a separate struggle from class struggle; overwhelmingly those who get the sh...
Belief as a propositional attitude, with proposition substituted for statement. The substitution being justified by truth functional equivalence/subst...
:up: Anwar Shaikh's work found that Marxian (Marx inspired, there's no vector algebra in Capital, and his sectoral model from Vol 3 had mathematical e...
That which is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. Systemic discrimination is absolutely explicit. See this World Health Organ...
When he joined, he was suspected of being Jake due to posting style and post content. He wasn't banned immediately because there wasn't sufficient evi...
:up: If this imaginary audience wants to read a more civilised and in depth discussion of related issues; which includes citations; I invite them to r...
I'd like to say that I generally agree with your pragmatic account of dispositions, and I think we have similar inspirations for holding similar accou...
Points tend to multiply when following them along their lines of connection. To my reckoning, you accused me of being inconsistent when I said I was i...
Do either of you see a tension between "most of our engagements with the world are (prelinguistic)" and "I agree, and those engagements target stateme...
My complaint is that speaking about that which we allegedly cannot speak is a routine function of language. The stuff we allegedly can't speak about i...
I did not mean to suggest the content was "inside" the word, far from it. This is part of what puzzles me about your position, everything's sufficient...
Fair enough. There is a difference between saying and showing. Saying is a kind of showing. What is said will align with a picture of the world only w...
Those aren't my equivocations, they're attempts to flesh out what "can" means in "Every event can be stated"! Since my discussion partners don't seem ...
I think you're trivialising those friendships that I had; we knew each other for between 6 and 11 years, regularly saw each other in person, helped ea...
Yes! I don't think mathematical research would look anything like it does if we had to reference all conventions we're using. What that does do, howev...
I don't think it changes much, but is a mildly good thing that they're torn down. Mild preference for them being torn down. I'd have a stronger prefer...
I'm not offended by statues. I'm simply indifferent to them. My perspective is tearing them down is the best use of them, really. But I also don't exp...
I think "formal mathematics" as the book considers is quite similar to "formal mathematics" as practicing mathematicians consider it. There is an aspe...
No one should have to square themselves with being a hermit in order to avoid using a website. On the whole I don't regret not using it. I'd join agai...
@"Hippyhead" Oh, I don't use them, and I regret it at least once a week. Here are some social things that happened since I stopped using social media:...
Eh, those statues have sat there being a celebration of history for a long time, removing them is a symbolic act to acknowledge the ongoing relevance ...
So I agree that legally it looks like there's no free speech violations, since the platform has power to remove whatever content they like. There is a...
It strikes me that if there are a class of things that are "purported events", that must be "representable in language" and "meet public usage criteri...
:up: I'm not trying to commit myself strongly to the thesis that "for every event E possibly there exists a statement S(E) such that E is the truth ma...
I can get behind global efforts for clean energy production. Whether your magma chamber idea would be able to produce enough energy is a scientific qu...
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