T_Clark

Everybody else seems to like to change their picture, but I like my crow, so I decided to change my nom de philosophie instead. Here are some names I’...

I don't know.

Sorry. I was answering you as if you are the original poster. My mistake.

There's a technical term for men who can get pregnant - he's called a "woman."

You're just restarting your favorite "woe is me, the world is terrible" discussion. Which is fine, but you always just say the same thing over and ove...

I've read "The Mismeasure of Man." I haven't read "The Bell Curve." I've read a little bit of the discussion about the controversy. My understanding o...

I am a big admirer of Gould and I've read the book. To be clear, it's controversial and Gould has been vilified for what he wrote. Which has always br...

"Charming" is probably not the word I would use. If the intention all along was to start a discussion about racial differences in intelligence, then "...

I don't buy it, but we'll see if anyone else responds.

The problem with research into IQ is that people are mostly interested in using it as justification for drawing conclusions about differences in intel...

Actually, I was thinking. You will find people on the forum who will agree with your assumption. With them, you will be preaching to the choir.

You'll find very few, if any, people on this forum who will buy your assumption, but you're right. I'm not willing to let your faulty assumptions go w...

You didn't respond to Bitter Crank's point. As he said, the only truly effective method of birth control is homosexual sex. Are you in favor of that?

You don't argue no woman who has sex outside of marriage would make a bad mother, you assume it. Perhaps if you provided some evidence, I would take y...

Well, obviously, abstinence is not 100% effective. People make mistakes. They make bad decisions. Whether or not you like it or whether it's moral, pe...

Those that believe in God disagree with you.

I think you and I, if we cared what someone called us, would say we are humanists. The measure of humanity is inside us. Changing subjects somewhat - ...

Cool graphs though.

I don't think your conclusion is correct. In a situation where I don't have experience or specific knowledge about the situation, it makes a lot of se...

I live in Massachusetts. People don't talk much about God in a casual way here. I've spent time in Alabama, where they do. They talk about God the way...

I have this image that comes to me when I deal with this issue. I don't intend this to be taken literally. It's just my way of thinking about it. It's...

Sure, me calling it political truth is probably a misnomer, but it's a purposeful one. I have written in a number of discussions that, to me, truth is...

From what you wrote in the original post: I thought you and I were talking about the same thing. In what way is what you call "practical truth" differ...

A friend of mine who is a therapist recommended "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump - 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President." ...

Oh, Harry. You're so cute. I just want to give you a big hug.

This is great! You're a brilliant philosopher and teacher!! You've written a nasty, snotty post just so we can argue about whether or not it's an ad h...

"Meaning" is a word that refers to human value, which is not a matter of fact or logic. It's a matter of emotion, feeling, preference, morality, human...

Earlier today I wrote the following over in PMcP's Objective/Subjective Trap discussion. It seems relevant:

I have toyed with the idea that the truth is what you can convince people of. I think that's true in the context of truth leading to action, which is ...

Some people, including me, would disagree with calling subjectivity an impairment, even in the context of logical thinking.

I read through the quotes from my previous posts you provided. I don't see anything inconsistent. Also, I'm enjoying this conversation and am satisfie...

Well, I'd like to say I am a superior man, but it's clear I'll never get above average.

As I said, I am listening to "Pragmatism" right now. I thought it might be difficult to really dig in, but I've been surprised how how natural it is.

From "That Mitchell and Webb Look," the funniest television since the Simpsons was funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg2CQqMaU1I

It says "The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao," in third person. It speaks the unspeakable in third person. If you're speaking the unspea...

I'm surprised you say that. You started the Daily Tao thread. What did you think Lao Tzu was talking about? He was not playing games. He meant what he...

P (Tails and Monday) and P (Tails and Tuesday) are the same event. You can't (legitimately) count it's probability twice.

I guess for me, the answer is that it became a heap when we called it one and stopped when we stopped. Clark's Rule 574 - a heap must have at least 5 ...

I don't know if I agree, but I think I know what you are talking about. Doesn't it all come down to how we break the world up? The paradox, if it is o...

I think the Earth/Moon example is a bad one. Twenty years ago there were, objectively, nine planets circling the sun. Now there are eight. Nothing phy...

Can you give an example of a fact in realty that is not a conceptual fact?

It'll get to you first, so give me a heads up when it gets there. I'll put my house on the market.

Here's the additive law of probability: If events A and B are mutually exclusive (disjoint), then P(A or B) = P(A) + P(B) In your case, P (Tails and M...

I guess I did miss it. Can you give me a link to the particular post you're talking about.

"Moon" and "Earth" are concepts. Products of minds. They have no reality independent of language. If there were no consciousness, all there would be i...

I'll go further, if Sam and the rest of us did not exist, earths and moons would also cease to exist.

No. It's not a fact at all. It's a metaphysical position.

Not true. The term is used in at least two different ways. 1) well supported by unbiased evidence, e.g. the reporter was objective or 2) absolute cong...

I'm not trying to be obscure or wishy-washy about what I'm saying. I'll try to be as definitive as I can. There are no objective facts, issues, ideas,...

I have no problem making the objective/subjective distinction at the local level. There is value in knowing that an idea or fact is tied to documented...