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Nah, I think I took what you wrote more seriously than you did. :wink:

Understanding something does not, by itself, give it merit.

You didn't offend me. You just wrote a bunch of nonsense.

So like... don't be racist. But promote individual aggression ("don't leave it to the government") towards China and Russia based off a nebulous threa...

Introducing a new topic by articulating how it links to the current one generally makes for a good post. I'm sure that you've noticed that staying str...

Oh, goodie. I look forward to it then. I did try to meet your want for historical justification for the claim head on. Hopefully something interesting...

Take it you didn't read the rest of the post then.

I think you're bang on that "going online to have an argument about something abstract" is something that men are more socialised to accept, seek out ...

In general, I think you're retrojecting inappropriately a lot when this is allegedly a historical discussion, and not just a way to shit on philosophy...

OK. Natural philosophy should be considered part of the history of philosophy (and as philosophy in that context). Why? (1) Historical argument of its...

The following are historical claims: Natural philosophy was understood at its time as philosophy. At that point the systematic study of nature wasn't ...

Sure! I'd like to see what you've written on it. No, not at all. I hoped that you would read me with more charity. OK, let me rephrase. (1) Natural ph...

Defective as compared to what? Besides the lack of historical justification you're using to make a historical claim, I think you're missing something ...

Now I'm at a loss. So philosophy doesn't get at how things are. This failure doesn't derive from insufficient similarity to the natural sciences or en...

What are you imagining as an effective inquiry? The kind of thinking that ended up in the steam engine? And this comparison holds because doctrines in...

I copypasted the stuff into the coronavirus thread

I think the WHO are global patriots who just wanted to save the global economy by knowingly taking measures that spread the virus too much. :roll:

@"Joseph Ting" (copy pasting your threads into the coronavirus thread) (Thread 1) The COVID 19 pandemic piqued my interrogation of the balance of staf...

Wow, Nos is really totally insane. Conspiracy theory nonsense, none of those links suggest anything like he thinks they do.

Oh dear. Silly me.

I usually don't correct the man for those reasons. I made an exception because of how obvious this was.

Ahh I see. You did the following things: (1) Said that the WHO was spouting Chinese Communist Party propaganda based on a Tweet about a "preliminary r...

This post makes it sound like the WHO has no idea what they're talking about. It's really not true. If you check the link from Ourworld in Data, they'...

We could talk about belief I guess. I think it's got a few meanings: Belief in a statement: belief in a statement is holding it to be true. This is a ...

Prediction: people in the US media will soon start framing the inflated death toll from shit poor US admin response to the coronavirus as inevitable. ...

:up: Good point.

The idea insofar as they concern rounding errors is similar in both cases. For floating points, you have a given number of bits that represent signifi...

It is. I changed to DP because it seemed easier to talk about rounding errors in that context.

It was an example. I edited it with "for example". Thanks.

(I know you know what floating points are, but many readers will not) They took a classical system; the three body problem but with black holes; evolv...

SEP is a gold mine. Free to access peer reviewed philosophy encyclopedia. The hyperlinked text in this post takes you to an article titled "Aristotle'...

It seems you don't live in your own world.

Ask from across the street before approaching, "Would you like help with your groceries?". If yes, "Are you sure? It seems you're in an at risk group ...

In response to a post containing the following words (@"Gregory"): System. Theology. God. Actual. Hierarchy. Creation (with scarequotes around it), Ac...

What do you mean by "I" and "was" and "question"? If you can do this, then the OP unasks itself.

What do you mean by "what", "do", "you", "mean", "by" and "what"?

What do you mean by "mean" in the OP question?

Something absent from the discussion so far is the idea of an ordering. Loosely an ordering is a way of defining when one object is bigger or smaller ...

I think it's more that if you want to predict the position of something based on whatever variables you have, and you perturb the position variables b...

:point:

This is word games. Having the bandwidth and resources to give needed healthcare access to everyone would have made the collapse of our healthcare sys...

Vaccination has the same logic. The same shit that makes people angry at anti-vaccers killing their kids should make us angry at our countries' respon...

Prioritising healthcare allocation when it's so scarce is motivated by the same risk and efficiency principles that should have been guiding governmen...

I don't blame you. Most people lose interest when arguments involve processing spreadsheets.

US: confirmed 8 tested cases of coronavirus first of February. confirmed 11 3 days later. Source: Kaggle's dataset, aggregated from global records. It...

Also this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Cathay_Pacific_Boeing_777-200%3B_B-HNL%40HKG.jpg/600px-Cathay_Pacific_Boeing_777-...

The US administration has known of the great risk of the virus spreading to its shores since at least mid February, received briefing on what the resp...

If you just want to isolate the epidemiological failures from the broader economic ones like funding healthcare and universal healthcare access; the q...

Ah yes! You can see them as the end points of the interval expressions here, should've seen that sooner.

Do you think it's the case that in the limit the corner points become dense in the straight line, despite remaining countable? Edit: it seems either t...