Dimension just mean how many coordinates are required to define a point in space; in our physics that really means an event in space as Andrewk points...
To add to what Andrewk says about this, we can have a 2 dimensional space, it's no incoherent. Indeed, since 3 dimensional information can be recorded...
When first encountering relativity and quantum, these sorts of puzzles proliferate. To make a long story short, there is not really any solution to th...
It seems a moot point now (though perhaps 4th times the charm), but explicitly excluding something in a negotiation is generally basis to argue that i...
Thanks for pointing this out, it's the icing on the Brexit crumpet. I have to admit that a second referendum, which I have been arguing as more probab...
Yes, this is more-or-less the position I've been debating with, mostly @Benkei. A more or less standard governing principle is that things can only be...
Yes, I meant to say voted for no "no-deal-Brexit". Yes, I don't see any other interpretation available. The idea that May didn't see losing by the lar...
Yes, the other option is to resolve the issue in parliament. However, the vote was for a "no-deal Brexit" in the context of Brexit still supposedly ha...
Yes, I completely agree with this sentiment. The danger to careers is grave indeed; however, disorderly Brexit would be dangerous for the conservative...
Yes, the referendum option most likely hinged on an extension, which I found likely the EU would give for the purposes of a referendum. I thought a re...
@"Benkei" To continue our previous conversation on this Brexit thread, do you feel a second referendum is still unlikely and in any case a bad option?...
Connecting Nietzsche and specifically Hitler is probably too ambitious if you are starting in you interest for philosophy. As others have mentioned, g...
A lot of "argumentative effort" (we can debate whether it's philosophy or not) goes into justifying the status quo, and this effort gets publicity: ei...
By opinion I meant simply to differentiate with a ruling by the court. But I seem to be behind the times, I wasn't aware a court has made a ruling rec...
Yes, this is the EU's current position. It could change of course, but Benkei and I both agree that it's very unlikely the EU would grant an extension...
I'm not sure if the confusion has been cleared up already, but there are two extensions. Extending the negotiation deadline is a EU decision, i.e. the...
The process to extend the deadline isn't revoking article 50, nor even require any action on the part of the UK. The deadline is an imposition by the ...
I don't see what the contention is here. A referendum would happen if the Parliament voted for it to happen, so would satisfy the current system of de...
Yes, this is also what I'm arguing against. The principle "promises should be kept" is actually quite difficult to apply, even to just add weight amon...
Yes I agree a referendum doesn't seem likely. The plan seems to be to go right to the edge of the "crash out" and so force accepting May's deal; or at...
The tighter federation is a failure of the corporatist forces, not the peace building I am referring to. The goal of the EU constitution was basically...
I think a lot of UK commentators, and certainly more voters, don't quite get these two critical parts. A "good deal for the UK" is an existential thre...
I mentioned three clear options to contrast with the first clear vs unclear referendum. I didn't mean to exclude the potential for even more options. ...
Why would a second referendum be plagued by the same issues? From what I understand the main problem with the first Brexit vote is that the option to ...
Sure, all else being equal, promising to more people adds weight to the promise. However, I was aware that the referendum involved a lot of people and...
Yes, I wasn't clear enough that I was trying to make this point that a referendum every 15 minutes being impractical doesn't mean 2 years is impractic...
This is not simple ethics. Though most would agree that promises have some moral weight to them, one should not make a fraudulent promise or dismiss a...
Yes, we are in agreement here. I listed arguments for "no second referendum" simply to make the difference between the "anti democracy argument" and t...
I'm not. My statement was for any deliberating body; I am a deliberating body when making my own decisions; therefore my principle should hold for mys...
I'm not sure if you read my post, but the argument against this is it isn't practical. Of course, democratic processes such as deferring to representa...
(From my Canadian perspective) my own reading of the whole situation is that the model was Quebec, which had a separatists movement that was partly fu...
I've followed haphazardly the thread, but I think Benkei's main point is that any deliberating body can change it's mind. If I change my mind I am not...
US illegal immigration is a complicated issue. The root causes are first and foremost immigrants needed to drive economic growth by importing births t...
I'm not defending the Russians here. Putin is definitely trying to do everything he can to disrupt the Western system, just as the US did everything t...
I'd like to say a few words on the subject of the OP (though on the subject of "what about America meddling in foreign elections" I have to backup ???...
This is not what happened in the oil shock. Your describing a fairly distributed inflation, where things cost more but you make more so it's the same ...
There's no magic symmetry that somehow changes the value of money to offset internalizing the true cost of fossil fuel burning. The oil shocks of the ...
Just a few things I'd like to drop into this conversation. Hydrogen is simply not a good energy carrier for a few reasons. First, it's not a liquid or...
I'm really not sure they will actually do this. It's very convenient for Republican politicians that the Justices took care of this issue rather than ...
There is only one advantages of life-long appointments in my opinion, especially if the bar is high to get on the bench (not 51 senators as it is now)...
Yes, if you're talking about the Republican base perception that Kavanaugh will change abortion precedent, not whether that precedent will actually ch...
My opinion is that this scenario has essentially zero chance of happening. If you want to believe that Kavanaugh is some noble patriot thinking of the...
When did I say that a republican can't be a judge? I was explaining why it's reasonable for democrats to not vote for Kavanaugh confirmation even if t...
What are you talking about? Kavanaugh's record is extreme partisanship. That's not in dispute. He already got caught stealing democratic info off a go...
I understand your point and I disagree. Had the republicans nominated some book-worm, squeaky clean goody-two-shoes, it would have been smooth sailing...
This is simply not true. If he was calm and collected, people (even those against his nomination) would say he has the demeanor of a supreme court jus...
If we bring the acceptable behaviour bar down to the level of kindergartten, then yes being accused of stealing Billy's marbles WHEN YOU DIDN'T, for s...
I'm also of the opinion that Kavanaugh is gone ... but wouldn't be surprised if they push him through to show republicans "are strong". However, the r...
He didn't even have to go that far. He could have just said "did a lot of partying, drank beer, like beer, had a lot of inside jokes with my friends a...
The Democrats have the right to think he's not the best candidate regardless. It's already been established that Kavanaugh's accessed democrat emails ...
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