Kenosha Kid

Good title. Didn't wanna see it but with a title that good.. Having watched two debates in which the first affirmative did little or nothing to affirm...

The trophy for fastest slide into accusations of Nazism when faced with differing points of view just getting your name etched on it, be with you in a...

Insofar as it translates from linear things like radii to radial things like circle circumferences, pi is pretty important to us, but it's just anothe...

Yeah, we've moved on even from structuralism even.

By definition they _aren't_ idiosyncratic. Yes, but more than this: we define demarcations of categories individually. Homogeneity of environment, ped...

Is this really an unsolved mystery in philosophy? I know most philosophers reject postmodernism on grounds of taste, but structuralism is less controv...

Butting in, A in this context isn't a universal. It's a category we learn, in this case are taught. We all likely make the mistake of thinking it a un...

Yeah sure, celestial teapots and whatnot. Not falsifiable and, as such, as equally likely as an infinity of unfalsifiable ideas thought of and not tho...

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There may well be, but I don't think these would lend themselves well to theological explanation. The usual candidates are morality and self, both of ...

They seem comparatively stupid and comparatively angry. This suggests we value commerce over knowledge, and I think that'll depend on the person. As a...

We seem to be living in an era defined by angry stupid people. They don't seem all that happy to me.

Gould's 'non-overlapping magisteria' idea, a sort of epistemological separation of church and state. I think this is what theists try to do -- God-of-...

Tbf that's true of philosophy :joke: It's all just-so stories; science has the appeal of telling stories about future events in a disprovable way (con...

I'd just say that's false. That which is stated with justification etc. The irony is that believing any of your actions are based on a justification s...

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But each page is made of the same kind of stuff. There's no ontological distinction between maps of Italy and maps of France. Every mental map, howeve...

You've seen an actual map, right? Is it a different kind of stuff than paper and ink combined? Or a cartographer rather, yes. Good analogy. We make ac...

That's not the point. The point is to try, and let the observers make their conclusions. Bullshit!

For the other side to try and convince you otherwise. That's a debate.

French food was always overrated :P I was in Venice recently and tourism has made it not a great place at all. I love Rome but honestly first time I'd...

I was actually just thinking how much I'd like to see 180 debating something serious with someone serious. Two magic-stuff-is-real debates with people...

That sounds like you're assigning a motive...

Sorry you've probably told me that and I've forgotten. I love Italy but it's madness!

Have you been to Italy? ;)

No one was prepared for a denial of the advent of medicine. Curveball!

I think most things should remain in doubt. I feel 99.999999999999% confident that no intelligent deity created mankind or the universe (but 100% conf...

doesn't logically follow from In fact, the opposite follows: if you understand the limitations of reason, you have good reason to doubt.

I think the recent activity in this thread should be the model of Sundays final. Even I would watch it if everyone kept moving the goalposts.

It's a clause in a Playboy bunny's contract

I agree.

P.S. I also agree with you, so it's not just a pity like.

There you go.

Top reading skills there, fella.

Hello. Was, not is. Sold my soul for a bag of gold and sick guitar skills. I haven't followed the thread, sorry, and responding to the OP 19 pages in ...

"usually", not "you, silly".

Not being brainwashed as a child, usually.

How many people have reported them to the mods. :scream: It used to be post count. When it reset to zero I assumed it was an error but now I don't kno...

They're used to make empirical predictions. How much more factual do you want? Well then why pick on virtual particles? That's all of science. If you ...

I kind of feel bad for him. He took a lot of crap in good spirit. Problem was, it was all deserved. One of those posters you just couldn't reason with...

There is nothing someone with a stupid argument expends more energy on than avoiding defending it. At least it shows you know it's a stupid argument.

My "it's not as simple as that" reply would be that everyone who answers that question is a product, one way or another, of the society they were born...

Or predict future empirical observations, such as the decay chains of the Higgs boson involving W bosons (which are virtual particles).

Are you deaf? I'm rocking a hangover, dummy. Although a mojito maybe... It'd be an odd way to go if it were. Do you know how much the financial sector...

I'm all about sacrifice and teamwork. I'll lay off the vodka martinis as encouragement for you to ease off on the wild BS. My liver and your argumenta...

No, hungover. It necessarily alternates.

Who are you even railing at? On the bus home from work this evening, the guy in front and to the left of me, who was sat alone, stood up and pulled hi...

The Kanban board is just depressing...

Tbf an infrastructural collapse would be somewhat more impactful. I agree, it wouldn't likely wipe out every human. We're omnivores: even if the bees ...