It goes deeper than that. A painting of a pipe will never be a pipe. There is an epistemic jump, a radical alterity between a thing and its representa...
When you write some text, do you generally mean what you write? Since you are writing to me, isn't the word 'you' in the sentence above, supposed to m...
In that sense of the word 'objective', yes, but note that this type of objectivity is arrived at through an intersubjective process of shared observat...
Nope. That would be like paint trying to represent nonpaint, which is evidently possible and in fact done all the time. It's called figurative paintin...
That's a logical contradiction. Truth is generally defined as an accurate representation of some state of affairs. How can one get a representation --...
No, just saying you tend to assume a bit too much about what I know, based on too little. A mere philosophical disagreement is insufficient ground to ...
Irrelevant to the issue of conscription. If the majority is fine with conscription, what human right is being trampled, pray tell? Are there human rig...
I found someone to love I found someone Quelqu'un pour rire Quelqu'un pour parler Quelqu'un pour se battre Quelqu'un pour se fâcher Quelqu'un pour viv...
It is pretty obvious that a majority of Ukrainians are in favor of the current resistance. A poll in March indicated that 3/4 of men and a majority of...
Russia did more than one bad thing. In Ukraine alone there are hundreds of cases. And remember Aleppo, and Grozny. They murder journalists and politic...
As a matter of fact, I have a much better understanding of science, its methods, history and current status than you seem to believe, on the rather fl...
Hostomel and Bucha bear witness that there is a huge difference between the two. Not really, no. It is rather, in this case at least, to defend an ind...
They said the same thing about the universal gravitation theory of Isaac Newton. Until it was superseded by a better theory: Einstein's. What makes yo...
I am aware of this theory. That there exist laws of nature is debated. But we know for sure that certain human beings historically did put together th...
Except your experiment is set up, designed by a human being, the theoretical framework underpinning the experiment (eg here QM) is human too, and the ...
Because it would be built and programmed by a human scientist to emulate a human scientist. Why would it NOT do what it is built to do, ie emulate a h...
You would do well to take your distance with lower IQ, hit-and-miss posters, such as Isaac. He is only misleading you, here as well as elsewhere. For ...
It's a case for the US and EU to support the Ukrainian war effort, for as long as they need it. Of course I would plead for a rapid end to the sanctio...
Not really, because this comment was made in the context of a discussion with @"Tzeentch" about NATO and the EU, to whom it pertains. This comment of ...
Fastest growing US cities risk becoming unlivable from climate crisis Some of the cities enjoying population boom are among those gripped by a ferocio...
I would think that the worse a government can do is kill a whole lot of people. Like waging a war of aggression, or committing a genocide, or anihilat...
The Russian aggression of Ukraine is literally mentioned in the OP. How could it be irrelevant to it? Because the OP speaks about that too. You should...
I think you are telling yourself fairy tales, perhaps because you are too afraid to face the truth. At current melt rate the northern hemisphere won't...
I have come to the (easy) conclusion that you are here to disinform people. Personally i see CC disinformation spreading as a crime against humanity. ...
Oh, that's easy. Here: I never said it was. You are trying to misunderstand me. The link is that governments often resort conscription once another na...
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