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Another way forward might be to find an instability within the enframing concept that sees humans within nature, or as always already inhuman. Human m...
January 24, 2020 at 20:13
Think it's hairy->airy which sounds like aerie which is a place where birds are kept. Presumably a joke about how British people are terrible at speak...
January 24, 2020 at 20:06
Falsifiable hypotheses are refutable by experiments.
January 24, 2020 at 18:15
I understand a natural right as way people morally ought to be treated based solely on their nature. For people, natural rights are to be derived sole...
January 24, 2020 at 10:36
What do logic and topology have to say about each other? Specifically; if a logic has a model is there a correspondence between a topological space on...
January 23, 2020 at 23:47
The Heyting algebras are for intuitionist logic (of some sort). I wrote that previously. Hope you feel better soon.
January 23, 2020 at 10:46
I would agree that we have obligations to each other in absence of the law, though. And would further stipulate that something being legal is not the ...
January 22, 2020 at 20:27
The axiom of extensionality defined what it means for two sets to be equal. They were equal if they contained the same things. An analogy - shopping l...
January 22, 2020 at 19:49
More precisely; people have no rights except for the ones afforded to them by social systems. If you want to know what a person is entitled to in a so...
January 22, 2020 at 18:03
Bleh, constructing the connection from the set theoretic side is extremely indirect. I think there're three components. (1) Showing that the open sets...
January 22, 2020 at 16:14
Indeed! The owners of the Dakota Access Pipeline were well within their rights to beat the shit out of protestors and Native American land residents o...
January 22, 2020 at 15:13
Why do I have to give an account of political legitimacy? I've never been arguing that states or markets are inherently moral institutions, I've been ...
January 22, 2020 at 12:53
Yeah, that makes sense. I think @"Virgo Avalytikh"'s presentation suggests they agree with this premise.
January 22, 2020 at 04:59
If agency is only applicable to humans, and legal responsibility is only applicable to entities with agency, then agency is only applicable to humans....
January 22, 2020 at 04:45
I was hoping you'd be able to tell me, as it seems defining what a topology is in terms of the logic is precisely where the missing intuition is. I as...
January 22, 2020 at 04:14
If we continued with the propositional classical logic in my example, and we have an interpretation from \times_K Q (the symbol set product-ed with it...
January 22, 2020 at 00:56
Been following along, maybe this helps. I guess if we took \Omega=\{0,1\}, equipped it with the topology T=\{\emptyset, \{0\},\{1\},\{0,1\} \}, with t...
January 21, 2020 at 18:05
But of course! I can hardly write parables at you and not expect some facetiousness in return. :smile: This is what we are arguing about. Whether we s...
January 21, 2020 at 11:30
Awww ok then. I was hoping that we might have a parable off. I'm going to assume that you see tax as coercive. Coercive because a government takes stu...
January 20, 2020 at 16:05
And the child of an Aryan and a Jew? It rather is, it's about what we're attributing causal power; stuff that drives distinctions; to.
January 20, 2020 at 02:18
What're the circumstances of birth that make them distinguished?
January 20, 2020 at 02:15
Will ask you a similar question: what makes an Aryan an Aryan and a Jew a Jew?
January 20, 2020 at 02:11
An Aryan and a Jew have a baby, is it an Aryan or a Jew? How do you decide?
January 20, 2020 at 02:08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVmj8dDx9yY Here you go. Will make it clearer.
January 20, 2020 at 01:52
Nah. Did you watch part 2 of that video I linked? Races are "buckets" of people. Let's take "the Aryan race" and "the Jews". The character of a bucket...
January 20, 2020 at 01:48
I don't think Derrida actually said anything about randomness? There's a very old reading group on the forum for "Voice and Phenomenon" which goes int...
January 19, 2020 at 19:58
Made a post describing how "chaos" is actually a property of a system here. Other I made in that discussion talk about the role random variables (whic...
January 19, 2020 at 19:49
Deleted the post since I wanted to explain why I wrote the parable, I thought it would be clear. It's the evening and I decided to write down a parabl...
January 19, 2020 at 19:29
We just burned all the books that talk about how private property became a thing. How it violates a previous state of unrestricted (or far less restri...
January 19, 2020 at 19:03
And lo, the prophet spake: "Let it be known that the human will, of sovereign import and power, seeks accord with its other as they are alike in essen...
January 19, 2020 at 18:48
It would be hard to say that free markets exist when the state has always been involved, no? You're positing "markets" as some imaginary arrangement w...
January 19, 2020 at 18:26
Phenotype - observable characteristics of organism. Humans - organisms. Racism - uses observable characteristics of humans. Racism - requires specific...
January 19, 2020 at 16:13
What you have said functions when aggregate behaviours like negotiations, which are interactions of individuals that output states ("should we all do ...
January 19, 2020 at 15:24
My intentions are simply to point out that historically, states (and other social institutions) and markets interface strongly. A lot of what social f...
January 19, 2020 at 13:09
In the complete absence of a state, I don't think currency would function as it does. The social construction of legal tender requires an institution ...
January 18, 2020 at 20:07
Well, your characterisation of a market is quite limited there. You stipulate under what conditions a market is free, without considering what a marke...
January 18, 2020 at 16:23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teyvcs2S4mI Gonna leave this here. Edit: lots of the meat is in part 2.
January 18, 2020 at 14:58
@"Virgo Avalytikh" General question: what kind of markets do you think can exist without governments, and why? The same analysis would hold for firms....
January 18, 2020 at 14:05
A heuristic I'd follow is about domain expertise. If someone establishes that they are to be trusted about some topic, that need not be transferred to...
January 18, 2020 at 05:29
Better now?
January 18, 2020 at 00:36
The first step is to introduce the relevant symbols for ZFC. It inherits the language and inference rules for first order logic, but it needs to be au...
January 17, 2020 at 21:56
I think that's the general picture involved with it, yeah. When you fix a starting point (of assumptions), you fix what is necessary for it (what can'...
January 17, 2020 at 20:10
This speaks about being certain of that which can be stated, not which can be done. I agree entirely here, but still think it is appropriate to associ...
January 17, 2020 at 18:59
This is a statement that you flip the omelette, not a description of how you flipped the omelette. A description, maybe. But the description is never ...
January 17, 2020 at 18:38
Is it appropriate to formalise an adjective in that way? As separate from the proposition it applies to? If G is "you are gentle" and M is "you murder...
January 17, 2020 at 17:19
(A) If someone's a given sex when and only when they have most of the sexual characteristics associated with that sex, then we can't change sexes thro...
January 17, 2020 at 16:28
It's a general trend that income inequality and social immobility are linearly related. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/The_Great_...
January 16, 2020 at 20:12
You claimed that some statements don't need justification. Several posts down the road you presented a flawed definition of a theory of justification ...
January 15, 2020 at 17:20
No, not an expert. I don't need to be an expert to point out an obvious misconstrual of that type of position. If you would provide me with references...
January 15, 2020 at 17:00
Has lots of flavours. None I'm aware of which substitute in: persons for systems of belief which are held, negotiated and challenged socially. If you ...
January 15, 2020 at 16:49