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Only superficially so. It is a truism that any observation takes place within a certain theoretical framework. So what? The data is still collected, a...

See what I did here? I contextualized the fact within its theoretical, historical, and geographical milieux. In doing so, it was made more of a fact, ...

This is one of the best things you ever said. Fat is intrinsic to good theory. Who wants lean and meagre theories? As for the rules of chess as we kno...

Les Passantes (the Passers-by) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wKTt8Tdeb5Y Sorry, can't translate this, it'd be too hard. A poem by Antoine Pol sung by ...

Oh "the Left" is the problem now... For fuck sake, do you guys ever try to make sense?

These free wheelers consume resources which could be put to better use.

Of course, I was just venting.

Can I have what you're smoking?

I wish we could just let the terminal cretins live or die on their own term, triage them out of healthcare somehow. Save resources for the rest of us....

You are easily confused.

From the other thread (thanks @"Wayfarer"): The Unbelievable Grimness of HermanCainAward, the Subreddit That Catalogs Anti-Vaxxer COVID Deaths

Get your shot.

Nothing to do with the government. It's the whole health sector we are talking about. And not during a pandemic. Sowing doubt for no good reason in si...

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Just finished it. SPOILERS AHEAD :smile: The two last sentences are a gem: When Rome was in danger, it was the cackling of the sacred geese that saved...

If it is totally inconsequential to the problem at hand, why did you bring up "holding the government into account"? The fact of the mater is that tru...

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You can do that and still take your shot.

Good question. The short answer is both. The story of how Zaïre / DRC became a failed state is best told in "Dancing in the Glory of Monsters", by Jas...

That's not what I am trying to do. As I explained, I am trying NOT TO UNDERMINE trust. I'm not trying to actively shore it up, but I don't want to con...

Science doesn't tell you what you ought to do. It just tells you what is. I'm just doing my bit, considering the moral duty, in a time of crisis, to s...

Yes I did translate it. Translating poems is always a treason though. As the Italians say: traduttore traditore. As you know I am not a native speaker...

Neither did you, and yet I am quite certain that you understand the value of having a public policy and of trying to enforce it. I am also quite certa...

Superb.... ......Have you come here to play Jesus To the lepers in your head?......

Thanks. I love this poem very much, makes me cry every time I read it. I hope the English reads well.

Rain on Palestine by Salah Stétié (English translation: O5; original poem below) It's raining rain on Palestine Rain without rain, rain of fire For Ma...

Yes. And your Presley quote is apt: modern philosophers may be playing the disenchanted, but artists are not.

The possibility of a good wife Is it wrong to have chicken?

A bit of a dramatic way to put it... Duhem-Quine is but a rehash of Francis Bacon's "we need to put nature to the question". As Collingwood observes, ...

There are better reasons to follow public policy than to follow "science", which never tells you what to do next anyway so you couldn't follow it even...

Maybe. The PoMo genie is out of the bottle though, and it will be hard to put it back in and convince folks to believe the doxa. I think fear is one o...

We need to start a chess club..

Witty. Given that Morphy died in 1884 and Alekhine was born in 1892, I take this as one of these "dialogues in hell" which philosophers of old have ac...

You won't pay attention.

Oh shoot, Banno does not think so, and he knows best.

Riemann and Lobachevsky.

I suppose you got your polio, measles, tetanus and other vaccinations up to date, right? If that's the case, you are not really an anti-vaxxer, just a...

One of the things that has changed is we don't force our experts to drink hemlock once we find them wrong.

Difficult question. I've debated 9/11 truthers and climate deniers for months online and got nothing to show for it. Zilch. Nada. My sister-in-law bel...

That.

What is really weird is to debate a dude who would rather die than be seen agreeing with you... It is also a waste of time.

A point of form: that I haven't address points that you haven't made yet should come as ni surprise. Make your points first, and then I will try and a...

And thus, science cannot possibly succeed... What a joke!

For one thing, he knows it. For another, the real guilty party knows it. The police most of times would have planted the evidence and would know it. T...

@"Janus" I trust this clarifies then, judging from your sudden silence.

Voilà. I have attempted to deal with it by pointing out that in this example, you imagine a certain state of affairs and declare it such, as true. Eg ...

I can't, because I "both crave and fear certainty". :-) That was soooo poetic!

I can also agree that "a fact is a true statement." And you are right that the term is sometimes used this way in English. My point is simply that thi...

Banno is on his own orbit here... He doesn't even know if you and I crave or fear certainty, but he's gona accuse us of both regardless. What a joke!

Or redundant and useless. If there exists a word, 'fact', it must be because this word brings a nuance not brought by other words... In language, ther...