T_Clark

What fools these mortals be.

As I noted previously, my understanding of the history of ideas is not as good as yours. As I've said before, I love Stephen J Gould, but non-overlapp...

I tend to make a pretty strict division between philosophy and science. If it depends on empirical epistemological methods, i.e. facts, it's science. ...

My father spent the last 15 years of his 45 year career at a large chemical manufacturing company working on ways to get labor and management to work ...

I don't really have the knowledge to address this much more deeply. I do know that Descartes died in 1650 and Newton was born in 1642, so there was no...

I gave criteria for determining the answers to the OP questions. You seem to think my answers aren't responsive to your questions. I don't see why. I ...

I don't see that. I think the argument could be made it's the other way around, i.e. changes in scientific knowledge lead to change in philosophies. I...

I don't care how much profit companies make. how much executives are paid, or how it is determined as long as workers are paid a decent living wage.

Again, the question was "what should," not "what is."

I don't have the information I need to do that. I'm perfectly happy to let the amount of profit be determined by the market as long as workers are pai...

Yes. I misunderstood.

I don't think we, or at least I, need new philosophical concepts to describe the reality I see all around me. I have the language I need to talk about...

Your question was what should it be, not what is it. You're right, what a reasonable incentive and decent life constitute is open to question. Decent ...

The loans I have taken out have pre-defined interest and end dates. How are things different there?

Perhaps "Abergavenny."

Forgot to answer this. Me.

The guy who puts up the money gets: + + The other 99 get a salary or wage and benefits that allow living a decent life.

In theory and intent, I agree. Alas, sometimes my temper gets away with me. I've gotten better over my years here. I give the forum credit for that.

A useful post. Thanks.

When I read the post about mathjax, I was thinking it should be pinned to the top of the page. This is a good way of handling it.

Ahem...

Seems like the text you quoted is consistent with my position. One part in particular - "Many Worlds Interpretation isn’t useful because it doesn’t co...

Are you saying that pigs will be allowed to be moderators?

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He explained.

Really? Is that what this has come to? Quibbling about word meanings. Let's get back to the vituperation. Ah, yes. That's more like it.

My goodness, I think you might be right.

That makes sense.

Thank you very much for your support!

Hey @"Joshs", I don't think DJ likes you.

I know!! It's terrible!!

Hey @"Jamal"!! Hey @"Baden"!! DingoJones is being mean to me.

You may well be right.

And it is. It reflects badly on those who participate.

If, as is my understanding, there is no way to decide on a correct interpretation of QM empirically, it becomes not fantasy, but metaphysics. Or maybe...

Yes, well... Anyway, congratulations on Georgia's win.

You see where little Sally is really pointing when she says "see dick." I think Moms for Liberty should get it banned from school libraries.

It is a fairly common science fiction storyline. If such a technology were ever to be developed, I imagine it would start very simply with something l...

Agreed. I did not intend to imply that it was an established fact.

Of course not. Of course not. Of course. I would say my characterization applies to the edifice of philosophy as a whole, especially as practiced here...

Everything you've written here could be said of any philosophy.

I have heard of experiments using MRIs to correlate specific brain patterns with specific words. The claim is that this may someday allow reading mind...

Thank you.

Is this your new strategy to get me to shut up - taking my posts seriously?

Not only am I ready, it is, as George McFly said, my density.

When we were in Europe in 2014, my brother and I drove south from Amsterdam, through Belgium, into Germany, then to Alsace, back into Germany and into...

This is a pitiful attempt at humour humor. As for Hanover, he's told so many stories, lies, about himself, he can't remember who he really is. Those g...

Let's do it!!! You go first.

Things I will do when I become a moderator: Ban anyone who mistakes metaphysics for physics Delete any post, except this one, that includes the word "...

@"Baden" says he will close Shoutbox 2 soon, so I'm putting all my really good stuff here so it will be available for posterity. My 2023 New Year's Re...