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Let him tell us what those differences are.

Both, because propositions are in fact a class of sentences.

Personally, I don't see much of a difference between MM. Putin and Hitler, prior to the Holocaust, or between the UK in the 40's and Ukraine now, for ...

Sure. I also recommend you get out of your basement for once in your life, and visit a real war zone. Only then might you be able -- with any luck and...

You can't compare apples and oranges. I won't make it simpler than that for you.

So why count only direct bombing casualties vastly undercounted on one hand, and all possible estimated indirect "excess deaths" on the other? If in b...

'Harm' is a much wider concept that 'death'.

Not true, because you are comparing very different variables. One, the OHCHR data, represents a very partial account of civilians (only) casualties fr...

Except the OHCHR warned that their data is not reliable statistic but a count a minima. I explained it to you already but you didn't listen, bent on l...

According to your fake 'statistics', war involves only a minute increase in casualties, almost negligible.

‘We Need to Get Out of Here’: Fear Grips Annexed Crimea After Airbase Attack By Anastasia Tenisheva and James Beardsworth, the Moscow Times Updated: A...

I repeat:

On Tuesday, a slew of videos posted on social media provided clues to what happened at the Saky naval aviation base on Crimea's southern coast. Witnes...

You are confused, as always. If war is 24 times less deadly than a regular peacetime environment, then it is a minor nuisance. If war is a minor nuisa...

Well, if we follow your reasoning, the Russians are in fact helping the Ukrainians survive longer by drawing them into a war, thus avoiding far worse ...

If war is safer than peace, what's your problem with conscription ?

Why not? Also, do add the maimed, the traumatized, the tortured, the raped, and then those suffering from hunger, poverty, or forced migration. People...

From your link:

For those who think war is much better than capitalism, air pollution or one's neighbours, I recommend a little vacation in Dombass. You can do the pa...

What or who would a "realist construal" be?

Crassest post of the day.

I studied biology in some depth at university. It's very rich, and one of the fastest developing sciences, which may explain the limited interest of 2...

The Devil.

Indeed, although I see biosemiotics as only one fashionable province in a vast country. I find embryology amazing, for instance. It's about life emerg...

I would think they have a right to be reunited with the rest of Ireland. NI is an anachronistic remnant of colonialism. @"ssu" is not arguing for a mo...

Good question. My take is that there is an obvious middle ground between electrons and norms (or ideas), which is life. Only certain types of life for...

Doubting the real world is just escapism. It's like dreaming that your parents adopted you, and your real parents are in fact Tigger and Winnie the Po...

I think there are good people and bad people, and all the shades in between where most of us belong. I know it comes across as naïve but I believe we ...

Yes, that's the most that people of good will can do.

Kindly develop, if you will.

Yes. Though I think it may be worse than that in a way. We haven't perfected democracy yet, that is true, but 1) I believe it would be impossible to d...

I like Popper a lot. He speaks freely of ideas, sensations or freedom as real things. He even developed the three worlds ontology to affirm the object...

I'm fine with that, because it does not imply an observer. Presumably, there was once a world -- like soon after the big bang -- without any claim bei...

I love you too, Isaac. Do ask your questions to Putin, whenever you have a chance. "Why do you asshole Russians have conscription?" And, for good meas...

I think the point is not that conscription is possible. As even you managed to realize, this is agreed by all, and therefore not debated at all. In my...

It usually represents a certain part of the world, at a certain scale / level of detail, and focusing on certain particular features. As an aside, a m...

Maps have to represent something... What's the use of a map about nothing?

As I said, the territory is where the map says it is, if the map is any good. It's like Hotel California: you can check out any time you want, but you...

Starting from basic premises, a democratic government ought to find ways to optimise the public good in their country, while implementing the will of ...

In history, this is often the case. However the fact that something happened, if only once, shows that it is possible. Therefore, a self-governing peo...

The take away was already mentioned: a self-governing people can muster, through conscription, a stronger military force than a dictatorship can, ever...

I am not making an historicist argument. Just saying that that's how certain things happened. We owe human rights to the French revolution, and this r...

That's actually true. The Nazis showed the rest of us what a society based on racism and eugenics looks like, and the rest of us thought it was horrib...

Indeed we have only one history, and in it the recourse to general conscription helped saved the French revolution and its human rights from annihilat...

So then, why do you keep asking "where is the territory ?" The territory is where the map says it is, if it's a good map. In map / territory parlance,...

In my mind, the idea implies that smaller is just a different scale than larger, not a more 'fundamental' level. Atoms are not the foundations of real...

Go where?

Are you talking of the thing in itself?

Why would there be a bottom layer? It could be that

A map, in this way of talking, is a view, a representation, done by someone for someone. It is a product of and tool for human activity. So if there i...