Wayfarer

That is an exceedingly callous thing to say. You shouldn’t underestimate how hard it is to leave a salaried position in a large company. It’s easy to ...

You’re now entering the realm of parody.

It’s in the Constitution - as the scholar I quoted says ‘the House shall have the whole power of impeachment’. The Constitution says nothing about ref...

I’ll never admit that. Also don’t assume the senate will acquit.

This is from the legal scholar who the Republicans called for the hearings. Explain to us where he says Trump has not been impeached.

You exemplify the Republican duplicity with exquisite eloquence.

I think it's a direct consequence of early modern science in the aftermath of the 'scientific revolution'. (Thomas Nagel, Mind and Cosmos pp. 35-36) T...

What can be said to one who is all-knowing?

Yes, and they all report that Trump was impeached by the House. Feldman’s argument to the contrary was described by one of his peers thus: Just typica...

‘Impeachment isn’t complete’ - no contest. But Trump has been impeached by the House. Even if he is ultimately acquitted, as Clinton was, he still wil...

The suggestion that Trump has not really been impeached because the articles haven’t been sent to the Senate is just another of the lies being told by...

Right. Which is to say that it has no definite identity. Which is another way of calling into question its actual existence. Which in turn has a lot t...

Do you have news media in your part of the world? It would seem not, from your comments. //ps// you only have to google Trump Impeached by House. //

Whether or not they're 'normative', they are at the very least natural principles. They're 'laws' in the sense of 'natural laws', which is the term us...

As Churchill grimly remarked, 'democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.'

There's no rule that every discussion on this forum is confined to philosophy, current affairs is also a subject of discussion. You will note there's ...

What if it's not 'a different notion of identity', but that it's not an identity at all. There are not two things which are identical. It is said that...

And the reason that the articles have not been forwarded, is because Schumer and McConnell haven't been able to agree on the rules. McConnell has basi...

This is not true. He has been impeached, the Senate trial then decides whether he should be removed from office. But the passing of the articles of im...

As for sub-atomic particles - do they have any identity, if they don’t even have a position? I mean, electrons and photons notoriously manifest as wav...

Output. That which humans use to develop insight.

Do you know about the Bohr-Einstein debates, and the Copenhagen interpretation of physics? That Einstein was a staunch scientific realist, and that He...

OH YES HE HAS. The articles of impeachment have been passed, by record margins, and he is, and forever will have been, impeached, regardless of what h...

A=A. Always, invariably, in all circumstances.

Excellent idea, and timely.

‘Insults to truth’. Trump awarded honorary doctorate.

Trump's like a guy in a chess tournament who makes illegal moves. The referee steps in - and Trump has him fired. Then he declares that the rules of t...

It's called 'Fox News'.

Yes but you're drawing a long bow. And you're appearing to rationalise Trump's egregious bullshitting, which is a red rag to a bull for me and a lot o...

Your posts consistently attempt to present vast subjects in history of ideas in a few sparsely-worded sentences. I think overall they're failing for t...

I'm afraid your thesis lost me at the outset. Simply put, Trump's 'war on truth' is simply that he lies, or tells half-truths, untruths, and distortio...

Hey I agree. (And you're a terrific writer, by the way.) But that is much more characteristic of what in German is called 'Geisteswissenschaft', trans...

And ‘specifying what it consists of’ was precisely the task of classical metaphysics. That is why I made mention of metaphysics and its decline in a p...

There are plenty of examples. Of course, ancient philosophy was in some ways much more naturally religious, so their reasoning takes into account idea...

Well - we are having a family wedding today, 60km north of Sydney. Yesterday, the getting everyone and their luggage into cars day, the temperature hi...

NEITHER. The capacity for reason evolves, but what can be discovered through reason is something else altogether. The traditional account of the ratio...

TRUMP ON BUSH: 'He lied. He got us into the war with lies'. And for that he should have been impeached. I really hope this gets maximum airtime the ne...

And as for that study - familiar with the expression ‘drawing a long bow’? :smile:

Sure, point taken. It is one of my hot-button issues (and I've made a retro-edit). But I believe there is an ontological discontinuity between h. sapi...

The real coup is the overthrow of the rule of facts, and so the rule of law. Trump’s culpability in the matters at issue is beyond reasonable doubt. T...

Incidentally, speaking of lies, the entire GOP argument against the impeachment is lies. Notice that none of them actually tackles the substance of th...

This is nonsense. The motivation for it is to provide humans with an excuse not to recognise what the endowment of reason amounts to. It arises from a...

You've been parrotting GOP lies the whole time. I think you're a disinformation agent.

Actually, the meaning of 'essential' is 'of the essence' which is the defining character of what makes something what it is; 'essence' is 'is-ness'. T...

It's a very interesting question. I do see the reason that the use of the word 'supremacy' is contested in this context, due to its association with '...

I started reading Trump’s rant letter to Pelosi, but the first two paragraphs entirely comprised falsehoods and lies, and so I thought it not worth th...

Trump’s repeated assertion that the whistleblower who reported his conversation with Ukrainian President Zelensky ‘got it entirely wrong’ is Politifac...

If Trump is acquitted by the supine Republican lackeys, then the USA will in effect be governed by an un-convicted felon

The etymology of noumenon is actually from nous, which is nowadays translated as 'mind'. But 'nous' and 'noetic' have many connotations which are not ...