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Applying a truth-value to every element in a domain, as an invariant and valid operation toward producing a result; there you go using a self-evident ...

God's mind contains everything and is omniscient (also proven by the duality between ontology and epistemology, and God's omnipresence), which means G...

:up: and if we follow the explanatory burden, we find that it implies the existence of a shared reality, or medium, in which the rules of p or not-p a...

Yes, but it adds the explanatory burden of new universes being created with every superposition collapse. An alternative that doesn't necessitate the ...

Paradoxes appear when one rejects the self-justifying nature of logic. Regardless of how someone tries to "resolve" the apparent illogical nature of a...

What you claim my statement is, is not what a non sequitur is, nor is my statement what you describe it to be. I said if you think one is false, then ...

Western countries are continuing their trend in decoupling CO2 emissions from economic growth. This is in spite of, not because of, the policies that ...

you haven't pointed out any non sequitur in anything I wrote. If you think either "there's nothing outside of everything" or "anything that interacts ...

Cantor's theorem must give way here, because it is not based on a self-referential model of logic. Logic has to be self-containing (self-justifying on...

Imagination has to be real, since it has a self-evident connection to whatever you might call reality. What isn't real is nonsense imagined within ima...

Anything which physically interacts, or interacts in any way, with our world, is real enough to interact with it, and so must be contained within real...

All content of imagination influences reality because at the very least it delays the point at which you imagine something that you manage to create s...

"YOU" is the participant in the dialogue who does not say that there is something outside of everything. That is "SOMEONE", the interlocutor who you'r...

Yes, this supports the point. Imagination is within reality.

I think you're getting the lines mixed up.

Huh. Yeah, it is, thanks. I hadn't spotted it even though I often point out equivocation fallacies! Just not of the same format. Usually I've got my e...

It depends on how you're defining it. A computer simulation? Run by a CPU? No. We aren't a program, you can prove that to yourself by observing that y...

I think I worked this problem out. What you can call preferences are actually 3 things together: the perception of the object that is preferred / disl...

My favorite is when people criticise what they see as censorship or authoritarian as fascism. Typically, it's conservative boomers reacting to deplatf...

In a biological sense, fitness = beauty.

This is data on cities and states - that's not the same as the relationship between the violence of a group of people and their rate of getting killed...

And the reason for that, as I was trying to say, is for the same reason that men are killed 7 times more than women DESPITE populations of men and wom...

This is the first time I've heard this. I believed everyone understood why many more men die during police encounters than women, it seems I was wrong...

There's nothing here that contradicts anything I've said. I'm pointing out the exact same thing using percentages instead of per capita figures. Liter...

Try answering the question. Your argument is that likelihood to be killed by police should be determined by population size. Population share of men: ...

What makes you and Vox writers think that population size is important? Do you think that's also why 95% of police victims are male? Because the popul...

This is the Chinese Room problem by Jeffrey Searle. Syntax is not semantics. Machines can compute syntax (that's what "computing" is) but they don't h...

... and I'll add to that by stating that the insistence that this is a racial issue is entirely counter-productive to finding a solution. Insisting ag...

There is no good evidence that there's a trend of systemic racism in terms of police brutality. For a nice summary see Tucker Carlson, unlike 99% of m...

If x is not x, then all logical reasoning is undermined. It would be impossible to argue any conclusion from any premise. "Is" and "is not" are exhaus...

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wrong way around. The former is simply a system of symbols assigned onto perceptions... assigned by the latter, consciousness.

I mean just think of how dumb it is to lead a charade of outrage by pointing specifically at European leaders and scream at them "you've deprived me o...

My main problem with her and her movement is they point the finger of blame and criticism primarily at nations which 1) have low carbon emissions as a...

I'm not sure there's an explanans to this explanandum. If x is not x, then it's a contradiction. X is x because I perceive it to be.

Yeah, did you read the several places that heritability of intelligence for adults lies between 60% and 80%? Why are you cherrypicking what it says ab...

At 12 years. In adulthood it is about 80%.

Science assumes the uniformity of nature in order to prove it. That's what Hume identified in the problem of induction and why science is flawed.

I think that people do make some of their choices on logic. Most of what people do is noncognitivism, error theory, mixing different ethical systems t...

I have difficulty telling the difference between remain MPs who accept the vote and those who simply want to stop Brexit and bin the vote. Parliament ...

Completely wrong. It predicts lifespan, lifetime earnings, hesd circumference, success in many school subjects, the sizes of numerous brain gyri and t...

I am referring Gregory Clark's research.

My argument is that social influences are less than genetic factors. Wouldn't sex at birth be a genetic influence? I have difficulty seeing how attain...

You're assuming the conclusion of your own argument. The information I've linked to outright refutes this. Also, with a spot of Googling you can see t...

point? I can say "wealthy families" instead, does that make it clearer?

I won't be able to reply in detail soon, but until then, material by Gregory Clark (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c2Ugb4VKH8) is central to showing...

I think I should refine my stance on whether or not there is equality of opportunity. I think your comment makes a good point. By equality of opportun...

Some sources: "Median Household Income in the Past 12 Months (in 2016 inflation-adjusted dollars)". American Community Survey. United States Census Bu...

There isn't anything here that proves that opportunity isn't roughly the same for all people in America today. Studies (from the UK at least) show tha...

Could you let me know what it's called? What means does it use to prove that? I've seen that Europeans never truly assimilated into America: that is t...