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Absolutely. But you're still thinking about it like a reasonable human being and not an ideologue. If you're on the right and supporting Trump and tal...
July 29, 2020 at 14:10
Yes. But also more. These conservative talking points don't function like actual policy suggestions, they're signifiers that condense and reaffirm a w...
July 29, 2020 at 13:14
I really really wish that was what was engendered by "the nuclear family is under threat", however it absolutely is not.
July 29, 2020 at 13:04
The obvious answer is that Trump is heavily committed towards taking funding from police and military budgets and creating social programs, good quali...
July 29, 2020 at 12:59
Very typical because it's socially necessary. How's anyone expected to juggle kids and all the other responsibilities they have? Especially when you'v...
July 29, 2020 at 12:52
:up: The nuclear family is neither sufficient nor necessary for well adjusted adults.
July 29, 2020 at 12:19
The fragility and insufficiency of the nuclear family as a child raising strategy in the modern world aren't arguments against it because... Single pa...
July 29, 2020 at 11:35
Yees. I am assuming the things accurately described as random are random. Do any of the interpretations you referenced remove the distribution from th...
July 29, 2020 at 11:16
Yes. @"MadWorld1" wants to vote Trump because he will allegedly protect the nuclear family. You never see arguments against the nuclear family, so I t...
July 28, 2020 at 21:14
Not in a traditional nuclear family! People who really defend it have a load of crossed wires in their heads, in my experience anyway. It's all mixed ...
July 28, 2020 at 14:14
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July 28, 2020 at 13:29
@"praxis" @"MadWorld1" If you're gonna flame each other about politics, please make sure you're burning something substantive. Anyway Madworld, why do...
July 28, 2020 at 13:27
(A1) If something is random, it is either epistemically random or aleatorically random. (A2) The position and momentum states of quantum particles are...
July 28, 2020 at 13:16
It's a rather ironic example. Considering that peak rainfall and flood risk is higher than ever, and flood defense updates are needed. I think it's ac...
July 27, 2020 at 20:24
What the British Academy Review answered to the UK's Queen Majesty when she asked them "How did no one know the financial crisis would happen?".
July 27, 2020 at 14:39
This is why hytte are big business. Unfortunately solace as a consumption choice is part of the grand madness. I wish I had suggestions for what to do...
July 26, 2020 at 19:10
That makes flourishing of a different character than any specific moral value or system then, no? It plays the role of condition for the possibility o...
July 26, 2020 at 19:06
The time of plague is also the plague of time.
July 25, 2020 at 21:37
Proximally and for the most part Dasein's comportment falls into the world and its bodying forth is being toward death. Covid announces itself as a de...
July 25, 2020 at 21:16
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July 25, 2020 at 17:26
Why do you approve of market intervention when pappa Trump does it?
July 25, 2020 at 14:57
July 25, 2020 at 14:54
You will probably get more mileage out of arguing against or undermining the is-ought distinction explicitly, rather than trying to convince someone w...
July 24, 2020 at 19:05
Thanks for all your explanation in this thread, really appreciate it.
July 24, 2020 at 18:40
I don't know, it might be both our confirmation biases talking. I look at the kind of evidence you posted in your OP; survivability strategies being s...
July 24, 2020 at 12:59
With the risk of being too abstract; this sounds about right to me. The distinction between the two flavours of abstraction; philosophical and practic...
July 23, 2020 at 18:21
Do you think we understand stuff on a day to day basis without abstractions? Treating something as if it is some composite of our experience and thoug...
July 23, 2020 at 12:39
A true contradiction is one which is true and false. You're not gonna get the same notion of contradiction out if you jettison the relevance of truth ...
July 22, 2020 at 16:22
Indeed, inconsistency trivialises the rules. If you've got 1+1=3 and 1+1=2, that gives you 0=1, and the whole thing loses the meaning it had. If there...
July 22, 2020 at 16:00
It having no models in the usual way requires that truth and falsity work in the usual way, I think. If you wanna dismiss a formal system for being in...
July 22, 2020 at 14:56
Ultimately? I dunno. Trivial truth makes 1+1=3. Trivial truth also makes "truth is trivial is false" true. You know, the usual stuff against trivialis...
July 22, 2020 at 14:36
I think it gets a bit dicey; if you can assume anything that doesn't trivialise proof in a system as part of the system as an axiom, and a system prov...
July 22, 2020 at 14:13
I don't usually write about morality, so my views on it aren't well travelled ground for me. I apologise for messiness. I'm gonna put on my analytic p...
July 22, 2020 at 14:05
You know, no one I've told the story too ever thought about it like that. The thing that I found funny about it was that the other prof didn't doubt t...
July 20, 2020 at 11:47
Eh, if it was someone else I wouldn't've trusted it. The guy lectured in quantum physics and philosophy of quantum physics. I'm sure that it can be do...
July 20, 2020 at 11:44
Welp. There go my aspirations of being the Stalin of Political Correctness. I guess that's another case of the asymmetry of justification; it's much e...
July 19, 2020 at 18:10
Maybe if I put it like this: the situation is worse than it having a non-rational basis, rationality only comes online when called by non-rationality,...
July 19, 2020 at 11:38
I've reconciled that most of my mind is already sacrificed unto the Machine God on the altar of my body. I think of cognition similarly. It can domina...
July 19, 2020 at 11:25
That's pretty much all this is though. Political correctness as a term is not like... premium grade lean steak discourse, is it? The World Spirit didn...
July 18, 2020 at 19:29
I know what people say it is. There's a whole constellation of terms. Political correctness - PC police - social justice warriors - white knights - pr...
July 18, 2020 at 18:33
Which prefabricated and emaciated terminology?
July 18, 2020 at 18:02
My perspective on that is: we do react in some way, and reason is involved somehow. Well, more accurately cognition. The qualitative distinction betwe...
July 18, 2020 at 17:32
Same question to you as to Nos, what do you want to say that you cannot?
July 18, 2020 at 17:04
I don't think your circumlocution is society's fault. What do you want to say that you cannot?
July 18, 2020 at 17:02
Exactly. People who dislike political correctness will say it's not about that. But when you ask them what it's actually about, it's just vague progre...
July 18, 2020 at 16:42
Three questions: Would you agree that when you're saying "genetic is statements", you have in mind a broader category concerning body and mind functio...
July 18, 2020 at 13:37
It's not that bad! There are lots of equivalence relations!
July 18, 2020 at 13:04
Did you see my reply here? Link. I remember a physics prof in university spending maybe 15 minutes scolding me when I said something like "the uncerta...
July 18, 2020 at 12:58
I think it went through a few phases. AFAIK: It was originally a leftist political in joke, about strict discipline in adhering to one's organisation'...
July 17, 2020 at 11:21
Thread in a nutshell Is the fact/value distinction isomorphic to the map/territory distinction when considering descriptions of evaluations of valence...
July 16, 2020 at 16:55