Kenosha Kid

The thought experiment sought to prove nothing. It was meant as an illustration. Ill-advisedly, perhaps, given that it is generally impossible to dete...

An amendment, by definition, is an alteration of the principles your country was founded upon. I do agree that religions and ideologies can be put und...

Philosophy has always provided this benefit to science: natural philosophy, empiricism, Popper, Latour, ontology, phenomenology, ethics, and countless...

Antifa seek to stifle neo-Nazi and white supremacist views. I suppose to an extent the US is founded on the latter, but that's not something to be pro...

Uh huh. Well if you want to demonstrate rather than insist on it, be my guest. But since it's not relevant, don't expect a rapt audience.

That was my counterargument, yes.

And I'm telling you: the mechanics of a thought experiment are irrelevant to the thought experiment. That's what makes it a thought experiment.

I said it has no basis in a naturalistic moral framework. You can make an ethic of what you like: It is wrong to eat sherbet on a Wednesday; Three-leg...

That is irrelevant to analogy.

Even without error, it equates to true in computational logic and to false in propositional logic. That was his point. A being null or undefined or no...

Italy didn't have the kind of internal racial tension that Germany had, but it does not follow that Italian fascism was not racist. They had extremely...

It's basic probability theory. Imagine 10 differently coloured balls in a bag, You select one at random. What is the probability it is the blue ball? ...

I think you misunderstand what unenlightened was saying. In propositional logic, A = A + 1 is always equal to false, '=' being the equality operator. ...

It's either controversial or it's not. You can't have an opinion about what consensus is. Anyway, science is empirical, whether you think so or not.

The question is why is there something rather than nothing, not why is the something apparently quantum mechanical and not otherwise. But I do take yo...

A group of people, unafraid to fight back if attacked, go about trying to remove the violence of fascists and you're happy to misrepresent them. I val...

Then your argument is bunkum, since those guys scrubbing Swastikas off walls..? They're called Antifa. Or sometimes community service workers. Your lo...

Science is a particular methodology of empiricist natural philosophy.

Who knew that scrubbing Swastikas off walls was the same as scrawling Swastikas on walls? Right-wing logic is demented.

Yes, I scratched my head at the seeming contradiction between the uncountability of the irrationals and the definition of the Dedekin cut, but of cour...

50%, surely? Otherwise you couldn't have a unique Dedekind cut for each real.

Begs the question why you offered it. Perhaps you can muster a better one?

I think both your and 's points have value so maybe there's a synthesis available. You are right that there are far more configurations of things than...

The assumption that he meant A to have some numerical value appears reasonable. Null pointer errors aren't very relevant to the discussion.

Just in case this wasn't picked up, this is not right. If the programming language is such that = is the assignment operator, which I think is what yo...

Right, none of which has anything to do with quantum mechanics. One can ponder exotic edge cases of unrelated identical twins, but these are questions...

Sure, like the theory that Bose-Einstein condensation allows for multiple universes to emerge together as highly correlated multi-excitations of the i...

Okay then, can you give an example? Text books are subject to the same rigour as papers. Popular science articles such as in New Scientist or Scientif...

Nice OP, Garth. I largely agree, at least up until the application to philosophy. I started a thread on 'natural morality' many months ago which touch...

Your post suggests that science is rather loosey-goosey in its use of language and its concepts, that it doesn't really know what it's talking about c...

All the bit I quoted, which is the point of quoting bits.

This seems to be the opposite of consensus, and my experience, which is generally that science is rather concise in its language and demands specialis...

Ah. Thanks for clarifying that it was just more bullshit.

My partner's just read Mary Trump's book on little Donald. Sounds like his dad really knew how to build a monster.

Can you demonstrate this? Or did you just think, like Trump, that if you say it everyone ought to believe it?

:rofl:

INTERESTING UPDATE This concerns a paper from last year that only came to my attention today. The paper is here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...

I... I'm gonna fight you. :P Have an excellent Christmas, my friend!

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Actually God synthesized Covid to kill off the old as punishment for Brexit. I liked your joke, don't worry about it.

It's a lot more than that! Human morality concerns biological and cultural adaptations to allow humans to live together in social groups and allow soc...

Merry Christmas!

I think if someone's writing is dense with specialist language, it's probably hiding a thin argument. That said, a) posts have to be fairly concise, b...

That's precisely the point: it would be impossible for a species to evolve a social drive toward antinatalism, therefore it is not part of our social ...

Quite. One can look beyond naturalism to culture, but what kind of culture would obliterate itself? Answer: a very, very small, very, very short-lived...

My family had a sort of weird religious background. No one was devout. My maternal grandmother was raised an Irish Catholic, my grandfather a Protesta...

Yes, I'm implying that your list of reasons why incels are cels is incomplete. Okay, calling them ugly is high philosophy, but suggesting their entitl...

That's called strong atheism. There is also weak atheism, atheism by default if you like.

It means that I had no notion of to replace with something else. Same as everybody.

It's worth adding that "right now" isn't really an instant. The data we're processing at any given time covers an extended period of time. Even withou...