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From anyone whose nation became independent by enacting the phrase "Give me liberty or give me death!", admonishments against all violence ring hollow...

"He who smelt it dealt it"

:up: I have the futile hope that through repeated exposure to research @"Chester" will learn to be less gullible.

The UK's Electoral Commission on the extent of UK voter fraud and postal votes: And the link you provided consists entirely of anecdotes. It answers n...

You know what you champions of personal responsibility and self determination can do? You can make sure that your public speech is well reasoned, well...

I'm done now.

Twitter fact checked Trump. Trump was misleading. That's it. That happens on the forum every day, All you're doing now is trying to get me to go down ...

Does this really need explaining? If someone points out that what I'm saying is false, and provides a factual source that contradicts me, it's fine. I...

You know you're caught in a contradiction, so all you're doing now is trying to reframe all the exchange we've had in terms of you being freedom lovin...

Absolutely.

Just what happened to Trump.

Holy shit the double think is real.

Yes you do, you want the company to change its behaviour to not express themselves in the way they see fit. You want them to manage their business in ...

You're condemning Twitter's freedom of speech, this is wrong. You want to limit it.

The owners of a service should be able to shape it as they see fit. You've used this in argument, passionately, many many times. You are not consisten...

@"Isaac" I rewrote some of the original post to be, I hope, clearer.

This is that long post. The aim of it is to try and move towards the source of disagreement between forum direct realists (represented by @"jamalrob",...

:up: Didn't miss the point at all.

This post is mostly an attempt to get us closer to disagreeing about the same thing. It isn't the one I said I'd write for Michael here, which will ta...

@"jamalrob" What do you see the opposition between direct and indirect realism as? I offered this as @"Michael"'s: And Michael broadly agreed.

Aight, I'll try and write a post in those terms then.

Would you say this characterises direct realism: (Direct realism) The properties of perceptual content of a perceptual event are identical with those ...

Perhaps what the salient parts of the disagreement are depend on what camp you're in? A difference that looks different from both sides.

I can agree with that. What do you think I should disagree with in it?

The red I see is not by itself a property of the apple. Granted. Nevertheless; the red I see is not independent of the properties of the apple. The pr...

I can't answer for direct realism generally. But I would say that an indirect instance of active perception would have its percept as an output of the...

Let's look at two claims. (A) Perception is an active relationship between a body and its environment. (B) Perception results from an active relations...

Widespread agreement forms the basis upon which we make appeals to distinguish true claims from false ones.

Regarding sources which do research being more reliable truth tellers: Three factors: A source which expends effort to find out what is true can be tr...

This isn't a particularly systematic reply. I don't know how to address the problem in general, so it's scattered thoughts with a common theme. Everyo...

If you wanna read what Marx has to say about human nature, the term he uses is "species-being". Wiki has a page on it here. There's also some remarks ...

I imagine that people on the left generally question attributing features of social systems to human nature to begin with. Let's grant that there is a...

I think you give way too much charity in interpreting a president whose public statements include: "When Mexico sends it people, they're not sending t...

@"NOS4A2" @"StreetlightX" If you're going to flame each other, make sure it has decent content to back it up.

I was thinking a bit about the idea of basic competence and an appeal to authority. Mostly about establishing the failure of an appeal to authority. T...

The extension of a property is the collection of objects which satisfies the property. "is an object on my table" has extension "my laptop, a half lit...

I'm tempted to go back and quote all of the mental gymnastics you used to defend Trump regarding the Ukraine thing, so that we can do the thing where ...

So these two threads of the discussion strike me as two sides of the same thing. I don't know what they're two sides of, but I'm very convinced they'r...

Hmmm. I suppose that's possible. I'd guess it's a matter of degree, and of expectations of basic competence. I'd say that knowing HIV causes AIDS is a...

Someone's authority is contextual/domain specific. Even within discipline. That there are treatments that have been shown to be effective for some dis...

The thing about the interlocutor knowing they're wrong; I think that applies mostly when two people have implicitly accepted the same background rules...

Great post.

I hope you get well soon.

A health organisation that believes that HIV doesn't cause AIDS and is demonstrably politically partisan is a less reliable provider of health news. I...

Happens in arguments all the time. We get hung up on flaws in our opponent's position and for some reason heuristically treat that as confirmation of ...

I saw this in the Daily Mirror the other day: Hooligans STARVING after season tickets CANCELLED. I didn't really see it. But it's the kind of thing th...

My bet is that there will be another independence referendum in the near future. And that it will be very close, but edge on leave. Scotland is very v...

I either have an egg in my house, or I have some chocolate fondant in my house. The principle of indifference gives both 50% odds. I actually have nei...

How much collective bargaining from workers can do is in a reciprocal relationship with the relative power of capital and labour. I think the relative...

You know, I completely forgot that happened, God damn, thank you for the reminder.