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I still think the Ukrainians will win, and resoundingly so. They are free men fighting an army of slaves, and the weapon imbalance is progressively ev...

In his History of Russia and its Empire, Michel Heller states that "Nothing changes faster than the past". He was speaking of historiography: of the w...

Something like that, yes. If you make a funny face now, and no one sees you, and you don't even see yourself in the mirror or film yourself, the face ...

The way I see it, Fitch is a joke of a paradox, and it debunks absolutely nothing. Just like the idea that one cannot eat an uneaten chicken is a joke...

Likewise, it isn't possible to eat a chicken and to have it remain uneaten, even though there are some chicken that remain uneaten. Therefore, some ch...

I mean the second interpretation of course, in both cases. They are both equally trivial, equivalent to: you can't have your cake and eat it too. That...

It does, it's the exact same logic. The original version says one cannot know an unknown truth. The chicken version of Fitch says one cannot eat an un...

Watch me: ?x(Px ? ?Kx) For all things, if that thing is a proposition then it is possible to know that thing. ?x(Px ? ¬Kx) There is at least one thing...

The exact same critique can be made about Fitch, but for some reason you fail to see it.

My "chicken paradox" follows the exact same structure as the "Fitch paradox" and should thus rightly be called the "chicken transposition of the Fitch...

Yes, but for the exact same reason than you can't eat an uneaten chicken. Fitch says that one cannot know an unknown truth, because as soon as one kno...

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Interesting. That would be a version of historical determinism, ie what Popper called historicism. The idea that men don't do history.

You realize I'm pulling your leg, right?

I am using the accepted rules of inference, not the unaccepted ones.

Chicken-edibility principle ?c(c ? ?Ec) (if a chicken exists, it can be eaten) Non-omnigallinavorous principle ?c(c ? ¬Ec) (there exist chicken that a...

Specifically, it says that an uneaten chicken cannot be eaten without ceasing to be an uneaten chicken, so we cannot logically speaking eat an uneaten...

Similarly, it can be shown that, contrary to popular belief, not all chicken can be eaten. Take a live, not yet eaten chicken. Can one eat it one day?...

I don't think so but then, what do I know?

But back then, they wouldn't say "we believe that the sun orbits the earth". They would rather have said: "we know that the sun orbits the earth". And...

I'm sorry, I confused you with another poster.

No, you are not, but you live within the sphere of influence of the Kremlin and as such, you may not be at liberty to criticize them much.

That's just not true.

Oh really? You have an example?

I call liars people who lie frequently, not people who disagree with me. You can disagree with me, that's a-okay, but don't pee on my leg and tell me ...

Since we don't have access to the registry of things that are, how is one to ascertain that "P is known", as opposed to "persons A, B and C believe th...

That sounds like what Streetlight was saying, right before TPF pulled his plug... So keep insulting other posters; eventually it'll get you banned and...

I'll take that as a "don't know / won't tell" answer. It's still an answer -- it says a lot about you.

What if one person knows the proposition as true and another knows it as false? Is it 'known' then? Fitch is easily solved by noting that knowledge ev...

And what is the response to the question of what sort of evidence you would accept of Russia's territorial ambitions?

Four civilian deaths in Russian territory in the hardest bombardment there since the beginning of the conflict The city center of Belgorod, near the U...

Has someone explained what they mean by "knowing a proposition" yet? Does it mean just being aware of the proposition, or knowing it to be true? If th...

What would according to you @"Benkei" and @"Tzeentch" constitute evidence of territorial ambition? If the Russians were to advance all the way to Pari...

Taking care of the Russian threat for a generation is well worth the price.

Why would they do that?

Says who? All this talk about future threats is nice but there is a very immediate threat right now in Russia...

This wrong footed policy has been contradicted by facts. $40 bl for Ukraine ain't no pivot. Also, it wasn't the question I asked (twice). I guess ques...

Okay but do you think the US should 'pivot to China', like @"Tzeentch" is saying?

The Himalayas skirmishes are of very low intensity, though near continuous. They could potentially blow off into a full scale war because both India a...

There's no reason to 'pivot' anywhere. The US is perfectly capable of chewing gum and walk at the same time. They have the means to deal with several ...

If China poses no immediate security threat, if they are not going to invade anyone militarily, why 'pivot to China'? You are saying they are becoming...

Long gone history is irrelevant. This particular regime has not been waging wars let right and center. They have been prudent. The idea of US focussin...

Well, in this case, 'pivoting to China' would be useless gesticulation.

This scenatio seems too pessimistic to me. China has historically been a peaceful nation, and they will if anything be deterred from invading Taiwan (...

From your realist perspective, this would be a smart strategy to follow, don't you think? Draw Russia into a costly conflict, and bleed it.

It seems to me though, that the knowability principle ought to apply equally to 'unknown truths' and 'unknown falsehoods'. A false proposition is the ...

A proposition can be true within a certain period of time and false outside of that period. For instance the proposition: 'Now summer is back' is true...

Apparently Ukraine is not in the Russian Federation's sphere of influence either.

You are only confused to the extent that you want to be confused. I won't cry foul if Russia expands its diplomatic and military alliances, the way NA...

Thanks for the laugh; that was a ridiculous straw man. You don't know what my position is because you don't care about it. And you are so easily confu...