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Good question. I engaged with 9/11 truthers once. Edit: not to say you shouldn't speak out when you have the energy to do so. I found you did very wel...

That's one post. Keep counting. I have already. Not to your personal satisfaction of course but that would be impossible.

Some of us know more than some others about immunology, or climate, but when we speak we are not always listened to. And for this reason, there are no...

Not openly, no. Nobody can openly deny that, even those who actually disagree. Although someone a bit contrarian could disagree with the need to say i...

That's not my point, which is rather that one cannot expect every one to agree on an issue nor even to have an opinion on it, so there is no epistemic...

Yes. One could say that Mary's knowledge of red was purely theoretical and second-hand, not pre-theoretical, ie not 'experiencial' or practical or fir...

What are you trying to say, Isaac? That nobody ever lies? That we never lie to ourselves? That trust ought to never break down between people? That it...

Fair enough, that was overly dramatic. I meant forcing, warming it up.

You know something everybody approves of? End of conversation, I suppose.

It is dooming the climate, rather, and that's a proven fact.

I suspect you know what you are doing. This is why I call it bad faith. Err... evidently you are, by saying it is pointless to call for good faith.

Sorry I failed to reach the quality of argument contained in your "nope". I do what I can do to protect myself. What you do is your problem, not mine....

LOL Hahaha. I.e. pretty much what everybody else is saying, including me. So where is this big disagreement now? It vanishes as soon as you use a litt...

It's a rebuttal to your argument that negative growth is not viable.

My point is that forever lasting growth is not viable. It's a pipe dream.

Didn't you harp forever about pharmaceuticals and politicians being all corrupt? Didn't you pretend to equate a finding about the presence of certain ...

That is incorrect, and I can prove it.

Certainly, there are limits to what the environment can provide. You cannot eternally increase production.

You know it does not apply to me, or rather, you know that I do not usually behave this way.

Is eternal economic growth viable?

A few pointers and indicators about people arguing in bad faith: 1. No data is good enough for them, except theirs. They are likely to disregard entir...

Fair enough. The token-type distinction is overblown anyway.

That happens but is not necessary or obvious. There are many discussions here or elsewhere between people in good faith. Seek them and you will find t...

I would say we have a responsibility to argue in good faith, to try and understand others rather than pretend ignorance or misunderstanding, and to re...

And sure, everybody is in bad faith now and then about something, we're only human. But do we need then to keep harping to no end in bad faith? Measur...

This whole discussion seems to miss the central point of bad faith. One can make honest mistakes and then when presented with a series of facts contra...

You can't see beliefs on a CT scan. So there can't be any neurological evidence for the belief that "It is neurologically impossible to believe someth...

Assuming that Mary is an adult female and that she has got a functional uterus, at a minimum she sees the color red every 28 days. Some thought experi...

Don't worry, you'll know where it is as soon as I start smashing your hand with that hammer.

For those interested in how the abilities of counting or estimating magnitude pan out in other species than our own, Octolab has a series of fun exper...

How could you possibly know that? You've checked all the beliefs in all the world?

Just saying, if you want a token of pain, just give me your hand and a hammer. I can easily combine those two things in a manner that will produce a t...

I think we ARE sure. It's just more convenient to ignore evil, less disturbing. More confortable to think he's just another moron than to accept the d...

One needs to be smart to be 'machaivellian'. There is no doubt in my mind that Trump is evil ,but he is also a cretin. And he likes being a cretin, an...

Isn't that obvious?

I can understand your motivations without necessarily sharing them. It's not that hard.

Not at all. It's just a matter of what people value in life. You for instance think that the risk you are taking by not being vaccinated is quite smal...

Not frantically, no. It's just a question I am playing with. Cui bono?

You becoming clinically insane is one topic which I won't touch anymore as it is personal. The history of Maggi and the French antisemites is about so...

Are you asking for being tortured?

It was on a different topic.

I am currently reading La France Goy by Donner. It's the edifying story of how a few people (re-)invented, stroke and unleashed French antisemitism at...

He is not arguing, he is simply pointing out that your mental health is on a slippery slope. If you don't shake off your political paranoia soon, if y...

To the OP, the adjective 'continental' is dead, as it should be.

Sorry but I won't order food from you. It would take two or three days to get the order.

To me the interesting bit is: what are you trying to achieve with your writing? Popper was trying to solve problems and teach their proposed resolutio...

I'm here to please.

That's a good one!

According to the principle of explosion, if you accept one contradiction in a logical system, you accept them all.

If memory serves it's in the first few pages of the Open Society and its Enemies.