You realise I just replaced contrasting terms in your post with other contrasting terms right? The burden of irrelevance is yours here. Anyway, what w...
I for one support ethnic diversity among terrorists. We're so used to them being just Muslims, and it's about time we had some proper integrated white...
The anti-biotics of the world are truly amazing. But apparently they need bacteria to provide them with something to overcome. So does this argue for ...
If you want to rather arbitrarily attach ambition, striving, resilience and opportunity taking to anyone; give it to the poor saps who should flourish...
I don't like the 'is' either. I think it's misleading. It should be "if an object is bound in a formula on some domain of discourse then we are commit...
Set { {A} ,{B} } has cardinality 2. {A} and {B} are parts of it. Each have cardinality 1, so they don't have cardinality 2. Wholes can have properties...
Eh, we've evolved as social animals; our biology and development are radically social, so're all the (probably) unique higher order mental functions w...
It'd probably be for the best. It's not exegetical or easily related to the exegesis here. I'm fairly sure that a general thread won't get the kind of...
While I'm not as dismissive of your concerns as @"StreetlightX" was here, you need to do a lot more work to link the concepts given exegesis in the th...
I think it's relevant to distinguish socially necessary trust, which is in some sense inviolable for the current functioning of things, and personal t...
A rejoinder to my previous post is that a totalising conception of corporate power is not instrumentally useful in resisting its deleterious effects o...
I don't think we can talk about the decline of trust in public without talking about the political use of fear and the political strategy of anti-poli...
I think you misinterpreted the question. It's actually designed to be in favour of animal rights arguments. The idea behind it is to burden a meat eat...
I can never think of a good answer to this question: What is true of animals but not true of humans that allows us to kill and eat one but not the oth...
I'm convinced that the three ways you outlined in your original post are appropriate. But I think they work in very different ways. It's extremely wei...
That makes more sense. A valid argument means 'true premises implies true conclusion', which means 'not true premises or true conclusion', contradicti...
To anyone reading this, please to not listen to Terrapin, and instead look at this excellent account from a citable resource. Edit: Terrapin was right...
Just to be clear. If you have P & ~P. Then you can instantiate to P. Then you can disjunction introduce to P or Q, then you can disjunctive syllogism ...
Unrestricted explosion is not a feature of relevance logics. I've no idea what you're talking about. The example "apples can't be red => Santa exists'...
We are dealing with arguments that are deductive, or logical entailments between statements. The first thing you have to do is decide if an argument i...
:strong: great. Find the words To perturb The dark unheard A shared absurd From here to there And there to now To wow and hide When fear alights He st...
If the worries were cynically believed their content would not be so arresting. Maybe stoic was the wrong word, though. The worries are situation indi...
Nah man. Deferring and conflict avoidance when appropriate is fine, deferring and conflict avoidance when inappropriate is not fine. Having one strate...
Excessive deference to other people's preferences, or compulsive anxious thought patterns of doing harm, make it much more difficult to enforce reason...
Yes I know, it is frustrating. Basically what I'm saying is that Dasein describes the subjectivity of the everyman in a general situation; it's set up...
Maybe intrusive, but have you actually had personal experience with mental illness? I ask because generally I don't trust mental health advice unless ...
Yes. There is a distinction in Heidegger between propositional/predicative/apophantic as-structures and primordial/hermeneutic as structures. I know w...
I forgot to say, I found an interesting paper recently here. It's quite a comprehensive 4E behavioural theory of consciousness. Though I have a sneaki...
Well of course the objects in themselves are there. And in Heidegger's analysis the present at hand is a degenerate case of the ready to hand. For the...
I think this was more systematically taken up, especially as it is relevant to cognition, by Merleau-Ponty in his reflective/pre-reflective distinctio...
Yes, like with the intermittent Randroids here. So long as you're willing to see that this is confined to media contexts where shaping the audience's ...
Rhetoric shouldn't be designed to capitulate to politics it despises; this literally sends mixed messages and is easy to co-opt - bad rhetoric. On the...
It reminds me of the kerfuffle that's happened with 'predictive policing' in statistical modelling. You make a model of where the crimes are, distribu...
I'm quite pro shame here. If the worst excesses of political opinion are shameful to express in public and in private, it's a much better deterrent th...
This is one reason why long form discussion forums are useful, as it's explicitly a place to 'talk' with the gloves on. The way I look at it is the ri...
Antifa don't punish crimes, this is a false analogy. They're in the business of frustrating the political machinations of far right projects, they're ...
Sorry for two double posts. I'm kind of frothing at my keyboard here. I don't buy that antifa like strategies are only justified when we already have ...
Without better context, this is like saying penicillin needs the existence of bacteria to work as an antibiotic. Which is true, but also really misses...
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