So with additional information, he would not have the power to wipe out N Korea in one strike by the end of his first term and would only start the bo...
Well we have a bit of a reprieve. Today I learned it will take Boeing a year to retool for the project, so only the prototypes are available until jan...
Hi Jake, I actually worked in VR technology for some time. In the end the company folded, and we did have alot of discussion about it. The fact is, a ...
So what? He only wants to win the next election. Wartime presidents never lose an election. I dont think the logical process needs to go any further t...
Exactly. What the world needs to do is stop looking at Trump from everyone else's point of view and think how we look to him. N Korea isnt a real thre...
the problem as I see it is that Trump has already bypassed congress and the international community on making these devices, and demonstrated he can p...
The mistake you are making is to believe that theology must be rational. In fact the opposite is true. The more irrational something is, the more the ...
You got the question right. This is a particularly appropriate day to consider it. In the USA, the democrats are splitting up after they had a majorit...
I dont understand exactly, but what I learned since Elizabeth Warren decided to run for election, I am not going to be able to read social media at al...
I only know one state supreme court judge, so I cannot answer that. I can say, having share the empirical reasoning behind the natural rights in the c...
To the OP: One thing you have to decide is which historical version of Jesus you want to provide the answer. St. Thomas is quite clear on the answer r...
Ah, I remember you. I think I will leave again, like others have already, tired of their ears being filled by braying vultures. You may have the world...
Oh. well, to clarify my point, I personally want to say one thing. I am fed up with people mouthing off at how they are mistreated on any and every po...
That isnt true either. Black communities love to make fun of white people by talking about, for example, invented people who dont exist, when actually...
Again, it is a common technique in black communities to deliberately lie about descriptions which is known to others. As an overly simple example, the...
Actually no, I stand by my prior statement. All that is necessary is for a sufficient number of the descriptive properties to be identified as referri...
Well I regret I must agree with andrewk. As you are interested in externals only, the belief doesnt matter. All that matters is that the two identify ...
Maybe I can help explain, the idea is that each person has already established a different cluster of descriptions for the subject in question, in thi...
he creates a new scenario in which events subsequently can be considered as directly influenced by him, for good or bad he doesnt care, he just wants ...
Besides the transcendental you prefer to discount, there are states which are considered eternal but are not bound by time at one end or the other, or...
What trump does is called 'post truth reasoning' which means, he asserts something, then he waits for facts which substantiate his assertion, then he ...
Maybe so. Ive thought alot about it this last 40 years, far more than I should really, and so I'd hazard to add some thoughts for your amusement. If I...
Unfortunately my tutor at oxford has retired and she was too polite ever to write down the criticism. What she pointed out, which I think was a good o...
Specifically, kripke initiated the idea of dubbing. The problem with it from Davidson's point of view was that purely referential theories of naming h...
I totally agree, but I reach the conclusion this is a good argument for Davidson's 'dubbing.' In your example, the person is dubbed with the propertie...
I would concur on the problem of ignorance. My example. Recently I published a blog article on the risk of civil war in thailand, which focuses on the...
thats actually the entire problem of averages in one sentence, because before man-generated co2 since the atmosphere was first cooled down by plants c...
Yes, it is the motivation by desire on which that the eastern branches of thought focus. Here is a rather extensive depiction of the relations in succ...
in some cases, such as taoist and zen thought, the mistake is acting with intent at all. In Taoism it is because the world in which we live is so chao...
I dont think most people understand their own desires, and so are not actually capable of acting in a direct manner, but that could rightfully conside...
The problem as I see it, having tried to advance education in the past, is that people are really no longer interested in teaching truth. Skills are t...
Currently the USA military spending is so enormous, we could instead tell every single active soldier just to hand out $5,000/hour to anyone they want...
That's because people commonly think what they believe true shouldn't be contradicted by fact. Philosophers should be able to consider their beliefs a...
that's exactly how I feel about myself 99% of the time. I feel like all the thinking I have was actually inserted into me by other people. Some have t...
No discussion of Bernays, especially with reference to Nazism, should be absent of Hitler's own statement about effective propaganda: While Bernays di...
While I agree with you in principle, I think it is the other way around. In the USA, lower-class culture teaches children that intelligent and educate...
It's interesting you raise the point in parallel, I had just answered this in a comment currently at the end of https://thephilosophyforum.com/discuss...
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