Oh I know the answer for that one: Because politicians are ghouls sucking up people precious bodily fluids. All of them without exception. They have a...
Excellent formulation, dear departed member. I shall use it as a starting point to expose my refutation of the Fitch's paradox, for what it's worth. (...
This is not the big one. This is the rehearsal for the big one. Given the lessons drawn from the rehearsal, martial law may become necessary once a re...
It was more meant as a logical deconstruction than a psychoanalysis. I am trying to eek out the unsaid assumptions. Yes of course there are such peopl...
I suspect that this statement is just the superficial rationalization of something deeper and darker: a fundamentally individualistic view point, in w...
I use observation as a measure of truth, as I thought I made clear, and as every body else does really. Or do you know anyone who drives his car with ...
That is indeed important in that a document, understood broadly as a video, a photo, a text or a voice recording, or any cultural artifact can be acce...
I agree with that. I won't force anyone to take even an aspirin. But the idea that we should argue these issues with the same detachment than when tal...
Thanks. It's pretty obvious to me that "verificationism" is simply a logical error. Just because you observe white swans doesn't verify that all swans...
That's your mistake right there. I'm a Popperian. Falsification is the thing, not verification. And of course I am a realist like Popper. You have not...
Not really. I am using the example to illustrate what is a fact. Is it a fact that the US air forces have released these vids? Yes. Is the footage gen...
There was an interesting case recently of the complexities involved in interpreting certain facts or documents. The US army released a few videos of p...
Yes, that's a key point. Knowledge is money or power, and all that jazz. So certain facts become more easily available than others. Like there tends t...
A notable feature of facts as I defined them -- as empirical evidence, basically -- is that they often cost real money. The cost of the Juno spacecraf...
:100: For folks who distrust their government very very much, I know of a few places without any serious government. Somalia is one, Afghanistan anoth...
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (December 25, 1745 – June 10, 1799), was a French classical composer, virtuoso violinist, a conductor of th...
You take yourself very seriously, that's for sure, and you're a hero in your own mind, but to me you're just another coward running away from a needle...
You are right: the whiners are basically afraid of the needle. When they were kids, i bet you they were too ashamed to say it, but now as grown-ups th...
The prohibition against eating human flesh only applies to humans. Other species often kill and eat human beings, or eat them after their death, and t...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Jupiter%27s_South_Polar_Region.jpg/883px-Jupiter%27s_South_Polar_Region.jpg A composite imag...
Mmmokay. In a sense, a presupposition is 'theoretical'. Still, there is such a thing as the brute picture taken of a planet, its spectrum analysis and...
So you think object permanence is a theory. A sort of theory about everything that we derive from experience. To me, it seems difficult to verify or f...
What distinction did you describe, exactly? Short version please. Neither. It's an absolute presupposition for astronomy. Supposedly, if we thought th...
Don't assume that this is your usual 'Mary's room' amateur philo discussion. It's a matter of life and death for people. We are supposed to be respons...
That's easy, and already explained: data, empirical evidence, are facts. Theories are not. If facts are theory, explain to me why we need facts (data,...
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