Eh, people voted for the dogwhistle parties, Brexit leave campaign was full of racist dogwhistles, not so surprising really. There's a coalition betwe...
There's still the question of the content of names. Clark Kent and Superman despite being co-referring can suggest different courses of action. Even i...
To be honest @"unenlightened", @"Maw" and @"andrewk" have made me a lot more suspicious of his behaviour. I had him pegged as a benign, educated versi...
Rather than trying to undermine relativity using classical or folk-theoretic intuitions about motion, space and time, isn't it more honest to update t...
The majority of humans have little to no climate footprint, rather than the unconstrained growth of people, the more important category of analysis fo...
You read what I wrote very literally, 'human' can easily be replaced with 'experiencer' in what I wrote without damaging the meaning. But in answer; i...
Subject and object are in a weird hinterland between the everyday use of language and philosophical constructions. Subjective things are typically ali...
I mean, I don't want to downplay how inauspicious the remarks are, but I don't think Scruton is actually as prejudiced as the connotations suggest. A ...
The connotations of those things aren't particularly good, I agree. And yes, I also agree that it is quite unfortunate that he said those things and a...
Having an antisemitic friend doesn't make you an antisemite, though I do agree that it is weak evidence (not in a derogatory sense, it is still eviden...
The topic and Scruton's remarks could be used for the purpose you're suggesting, since skilful dog whistling does usually look like that. Though in th...
I think you have to give space for people to have that kind of discussion, if someone does actually have suspicions of Muslims or developing prejudice...
I posted in the mod board about it, I'd prefer he stayed banned. I'm the only one on duty at the minute though, so had to act. You were doing good wor...
I'd rather just close the thread. If you don't see why this is the kind of statement that mods have to curtail I'm afraid you probably won't be able t...
I don't know what else to say. Write well and respectfully, and don't ruin the opportunity you have to discuss things with Mr Phil just because you ca...
Of course, write what you like, with the provision that you will be moderated as every other member would. Note - I am not saying that you cannot crit...
Yes, there was more nuance to his intentions, but not enough finesse or nuance in his words. If he said something like "The idolisation of a prophet w...
I responded to you in the original thread before I saw this, please post your responses here rather than in thread. You can contest the decision all y...
It was deleted because it was incredibly inflammatory. You wrote something which could easily be read as claiming that all Muslims would be paedophile...
You know how much of our 'European heritage' derives from ancient Islamic culture right? We're the inheritors of the Islamic Golden Age just as much a...
III. Application to Space. Riemann takes his previous discussion and tries to relate it to physical space. Specifically, how does being able to see sh...
Street, what do you think is outside of Luke's conception of 'everyday language' that he's not accounted for? And how does this excess relate to how y...
For those of you wondering how all this math might apply in practice, I've got a worked example showing how the surface of a cylinder is actually flat...
Scruton's always interesting because he engages in cultural critique from a conservative perspective without being reductive or otherwise batshit insa...
General rule: If you have concerns about another member it's a lot more polite to PM a mod about it than bring it all out in public. Especially consid...
There are a list of topics that draw people to philosophy, god/atheism, ethical problems like the trolley problem, solipsism. Even if you're personall...
Report anything you deem report worthy, we make the executive decision (we get an automatic prompt when there's stuff reported we've not made a ruling...
As S. said. Personal view of it: Some cases of spam are really easy to classify, some are just benign but largely inarticulate and irrelevant posts, s...
If you and someone don't get along on here it's usually best to ignore them. Thanks. I had a look at the discussion between you and @"S", just looks l...
List of staff, including who is online, the little face in the top right corner of our poster icons indicates that we are staff. @"jamalrob" is the ow...
I did not mean to suggest otherwise, to the bolded statement. Wittgenstein's analysis of language in the PI always has a certain context (behavioural,...
Also consider 'removing the spectacles' as a non-logical operation, that is, it doesn't follow the internal structure of the domain of concepts obtain...
I think 104: should be read in the context of 101->103, and the broader context of Wittgenstein's critique of idealised approaches to language. I thin...
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