T_Clark

I was picking out math because it is probably the most social value-free subject. When I was talking about commonality, I wasn't just talking about fa...

Philosophers can't agree on anything, especially about philosophy and especially those of us on the forum. I doubt you'll find many philosophers today...

She was 147 years old. Of course she was going to die. But she thought her career as a SC justice was more important than maintaining balance. If she ...

I've been predicting that Trump would fade away ever since November of 2020. We've all seen how that worked out. Early in 2016 he was given a 5% chanc...

Blow it off with a smirk if you want, but I can tell you with some certainty that if Hillary Clinton hadn't blown the 2016 election, there would be a ...

Yes. This is what I meant.

Why would you possibly bring anything political or social into a math textbook. 8 x 4 = 32 is definitely what I would call a commonality. If the train...

The population of Scotland is less than the population of the state of Massachusetts, where I live. Given that, it makes a better test case for your r...

You said there is no difference between the parties. I disagreed and noted that if Congress had been Democratic when the most recent SC judges were ap...

It was a non-sequitur because a constitutional amendment has nothing to do with the discussion you and I were having. We were talking about the recent...

What they can know about and what they should learn in school are not the same thing. In school, especially elementary school, it makes sense to me th...

That's quite a non-sequitur.

I wasn't saying you are bitter or a crank. I was saying your politics is nearer his than mine. It doesn't matter whether or not I'm convinced. It matt...

Dobbs would not have happened if the Senate was Democratic during the last half of Obama's second term or while Trump was president.

We're both pretty liberal. I think you're a bit more on the @"Bitter Crank" branch of the party though. I'll go back to my original argument. It doesn...

The Roe vs. Wade decision had 36 sheets of paper. The Dobbs decision had 213.

Alas

Here's a link if you want to use it: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/download/2705/YGID%20small.png https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussio...

I'm pretty sure it wouldn't work. If you started out with 100 individual, independent representatives, they would start to make coalitions around spec...

That explains a lot.

And I've decided that it isn't. Not that it matters what they or I have decided.

Turns out the world is anti-natalist.

I wouldn't be unhappy as a parent if the elementary grades focused on basics without a lot of controversial issues being discussed. Younger children n...

Politics is always ugly and I think you'll always get bad people grasping for power. Here in New England many municipalities have direct democracy - t...

What you describe is not experimental philosophy, it is science - psychology or maybe sociology. I think when science broke off from philosophy, it to...

Sure, but I wanted to be positive.

There are a lot of books out there, and a limited amount of library shelf space. So decisions have to be made about what to put in and what to leave o...

When it gets closer to publication, let us know.

Congratulations to him. What does he write?

Apropos of recent discussions about rationality - "Question Rationality" - this post is rational but stupid wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia2...

Which brings us, as all things do for me, to the Tao. As Lao Tzu wrote, "The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao." He also wrote "Naming is ...

This makes sense to me. Poetry doesn't explain, it paints pictures.

There's a joke here somewhere: Blah, blah, blah, blah, Herschel Walker, blah, blah, blah.

Lots of data and lots of maps. I love maps.

Yes, behaviorism is mostly discredited at this point. When I was a psych major back in the 1970s, I did do some rat conditioning experiments. I don't ...

Isn't that view in conflict with the understanding that animals act more on instinct than humans do? Maybe not. Maybe we could say that animals act mo...

This is an interesting graphic I cut out from "Real Clear Politics," a good, if conservative, website on US politics. It shows each House of Represent...

According to NBC news, the Democrats have won the Senate seat in Nevada and now have a 50 to 49 seat lead. That's all they need to control the Senate....

This is a common misconception. Bertrand Russell founded PF in 1927. Paul Russell, Bertrand's grandson and Jamal's uncle, tried to claim credit. I'm j...

So as not to clutter up TiredThinker's thread, I'll post my list of the most important philosophical milestones in the past 100 years in the Shoutbox....

The answer to all the questions is "none of the above."

I think you're right.

Yes, it's fine. But you and I are focusing on different things. I'm looking only at rationality and you're taking a broader perspective. Nothing wrong...

If I need money to finance a drug habit or to take a trip to Las Vegas and I rob a store to get it, that is not necessarily irrational. It's illegal a...

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Great quote. Thanks. I'll look up "Reconstruction in Philosophy."

Sure. I was talking to A4H more than to you. It's nice here in the middle. I always think of lines from Carl Dennis' poem "Aunt Celia 1961," which I'v...

Banal and exceptional are not the only two choices. I aim at satisfying. Simplifying your desires is easier to achieve than increasing your exceptiona...

When I was working, I had to make decisions all the time. Most of them were small with limited consequences, but some were important. As I noted befor...

I can't go too deep on this. I don't know enough. Stephen Pinker is talking about language. He says there is a drive for children to learn it. It's no...