Ok...so, will you be revising your view in light of this demonstrated inconsistency? I'm afraid I still don't understand. Even ignoring your massive o...
So, when Islam is a motivating factor of terrorism (or any other untoward act), then it locates the claim in "nowhere land" to blame Islam rather than...
Presumably this response would apply to those who blame terrorism on, say, Western imperialism or depressed economic conditions? Do those claims likew...
I've myself wondered if a robust theory of truth such as the correspondence theory can adequately incorporate counterfactual statements into their sta...
Just to be clear on terminology here, "Islamism" specifically refers to a militant (sometimes violent) brand of Islam; thus opposition to Islamism can...
A little-remembered moment from the GW Bush presidency was that, shortly after getting into office, he ordered the military to restart R&D into "Star ...
Because no person can be held culpable for their not existing. You seek to accuse women of "snuffing out a life" by means of a certain action. As I de...
Speaking for myself, I've never said that Islam is inherently more violent (in terms of its scripture, say; though, as others have pointed out, its pr...
Plenty of commentators do assert this, though. Reza Aslan has made a cottage industry of such claims, for instance. I agree: historically almost no re...
Because of course, "the West" is monolithic, as much as "the Islamic world," right? People in Sweden hold the exact same values as those in Poland, wh...
This is a prime example of the sort of asymmetry of reasoning which is often applied in such cases: if a person (or group or culture, etc) performs so...
You could ask them. You said: The point is that presumably everyone (or nearly so) who is pro-choice doesn't believe that abortion constitutes murder,...
As your post has arguably contributed less to this thread than any recent comment, perhaps you are the primary contributor to the problem which is the...
Some thinkers sympathetic to reductionism, e.g. E.O. Wilson in his Consilience, believe that the divisions between the natural sciences (and perhaps e...
There seems a non-sequitur here. I will condense your hypothetical question and answer ("No") into one statement, which you believe implies the subseq...
Some of the posts in this thread seem to suffer from a confusion as to what exactly is being asked in the OP (perhaps the OP was not spelled out in su...
Wosret, as this post immediately followed mine and contains a question, I think it may be directed to me, but, if so, I am unsure what you're asking. ...
Indeed. As Sam Harris has said, it may increasingly be the case that the only people who are willing to honestly confront the problem of radical Islam...
Great shot. That is perfectly illustrative of humans' proclivity to see faces, even where there clearly are none. Given how avidly and readily we do s...
If by "synthesized," Sheldrake is referring to a man-made crystal, one hardly need appeal to morphic resonance to explain why it may take longer to sy...
I concur with the point you're making here (shocking, I know). I believe it's misguided to define "pseudoscience" solely or primarily by its subject m...
Interesting quote. You may be aware that a family of theistic arguments (generally, the argument from reason) make the claim which Peirce here rejects...
BC can speak for himself, but I took him to be saying that corporate law was amoral, in that it deals with certain transactional issues which don't re...
Kids have to learn about cunnilingus sometime. I'm more worried about them potentially learning about something truly gross, deviant, and immoral like...
I wish I could say that South Park or someone made this up, but Saudi Arabia's supposed "first beauty pageant," involved...goats. It's almost as if se...
Wasn't it Plato who railed against the apathy and indolence of youth in his time, and about how they were insufficiently excited by geometry? And that...
The UK has sissified male "royalty." The USA has real men, like "the Rock" Dwayne Johnson and John Wayne, just to name two who have "Wayne" or "John" ...
The nomination procedure for federal courts isn't great, and there is much partisanship both in the process and in the workings of SCOTUS (the fact th...
Ah. Your COPD comment came shortly on the heels of one of my posts, and so I mistakenly thought it was in response to something I'd said (post hoc, er...
I don't believe Trump would be impeached. For one thing, he's not done anything impeachable, and even if he did, his own party is unlikely to throw hi...
One can also make objective claims about minds, on which the entire science of psychology is based. As you said above, science can study causal proces...
I perhaps could have made this point clearer, but I didn't quote him as saying "only." I quoted the tweet in which he said he'd accept the results "if...
I don't think one needs to be cynical. These are the facts (1) He declined to affirm that he'd accept the results of the election. (2) He tweeted that...
This is non-responsive. As I pointed out, by your criteria, science cannot study anything at all, as it is in the business of only elucidating mechani...
I don't know of any other way of reasonably interpreting his statement in light of his other statements. As I said, he likewise declined to affirm tha...
This one: https://twitter.com/i/moments/789147905173102592?lang=en Of course not. He was saying he would accept the results only if he wins. He didn't...
Again a non-sequitur. Your claim boils down to: it is not within the domain of science to define X, therefore science cannot study X. At the very leas...
And? You made the non-sequitur claim that, because defining personhood is best left to philosophy, that therefore science can't study claims pertainin...
Even outside of the context of the debate, Trump said he would accept the results of the election if he won. That is a direct challenge to the very pr...
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