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I used the term "moral police" because I was afraid the @"ArguingWAristotleTiff" would spit-up if I said it was due to american Republican's fetish wi...

I don't think there is a "worldview", "an overarching account", rather there are many narratives that intersect, combine, diminish, accentuate, are mo...

It plys their sense of guilt...Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for instance.

I like to follow awards such as the Pulitzer, the Nobel Prize and other awards to appreciate (or not) what other people think is good, however I also ...

I was a little surprised by the difference in awards he received and what Dylan received, $15K vs $900K I guess highlighting the difference between a ...

"It is a mark of an educated mind to entertain the ideas of others, without taking them on for you own." Maybe, I think Plato would say this is the wa...

Maybe you can provide a reference. I know in the "Apology", Plato reports Socrates saying: "At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he to this small...

I guess not.

Perhaps time in the definition is an attempt to apply a formal law to our empirical experience of the world. The LNC is a formal rule, but in the empi...

LOL yep

The existence of this object was only discovered 24 hours prior to its passing the Earth, which is cringworthy.

Comforting news :gasp: An asteroid similar in size to one that exploded more than 100 years ago in Russia's Tunguska region in Siberia gave Earth a cl...

Kendrick Lamar won the Pulitzer Prize in music for his album “Damn” on Monday afternoon. He is the first nonclassical or jazz artist to win the award.

Languages evolve, even bird songs evolve according to a study of more than 30 years of Savannah sparrows recordings, the birds are singing distinctly ...

How we know what we know is epistemic (the starting point as Descartes showed), it must precede (in time) what we know, our ontology, but once we have...

What is "real", and is "reality" which must be for us, the same as the "real". How we know what we know must precede what we know, even if what we kno...

“This legally questionable action risks escalating further … an already devastating conflict." “Theresa May should have sought parliamentary approval,...

May and Trump both have low approval ratings and there is nothing like decisive military action which fans the nationalistic flames to help improve th...

"Bombs won't save lives or bring about peace." Jeremy Corbyn

Yes, he is very much a mixed bag but others are coming out to question him such as Sam Harris. I have not watched their debate yet, not really interes...

I think it is BS and I don't usually agree with this guy.

I think desire (except erotic) is based on a lack and what we desire has to be some combination of reason and pleasure which is perhaps a description ...

Who need a hero? (Hero) You need a hero, look in the mirror, there go your hero Who on the front lines at ground zero? (Hero) https://youtu.be/K5xERXE...

I think that there has to be some sort of kind of progression, a semiotic which I don't think is caught in the conception of a spectrum. We all start ...

Kant denied the rationalistic arguments for the existence of God, he did not deny God. He denied the possibility of religious knowledge in order to sa...

Muller's office apparently came up with information during its investigation that as you state does not relate to his investigation but since he is re...

The warrants were handled by the office of US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey Berman, a recent Trump appointee. Berman is als...

The following is from my 1805 edition of Samuel Johnson's "Dictionary of the English Language" 1) To bring into being--Gianville 2) To convert money i...

Trump's personal attorney Cohen, office, hotel room and his home were raided by the FBI today. The US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of N...

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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DaSGWiUVQAAe5bS.jpg The phone number rings at the office of the EPA.

K, conventional agreement about what is the case determines what is the case because others can verify what is the case for themselves and agree with ...

But isn't this how we claim objective validity, the ability of another to verify my judgement, to replicate my results?

See your Moondog & Elington and raise you Two Cellos! https://youtu.be/eVH1Y15omgE Intense that!

I raise you https://youtu.be/gb-B3lsgEfA

https://youtu.be/aLnZ1NQm2uk

I can and on occasion do confirm what I sense by discussing it with others who either agree or disagree, and typically we come to some sort of agreeme...

Objectivity in the sense of judgment based on observable phenomena and uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices

(Critique B621)

Puigdemont freed, Germany refuses Rajoy's gov's extradition request.

One reason I have gone to the phenomenal is its objective certainty. While we may be certainly wrong in what we perceive, we can't un-sense it, it may...

As I read it, your question seems to move from what is the case to what ought to be the case.

I suggest that the phenomenal is real and that the reductions or abstractions we derived from the manifest are virtually ideal. What we have learned d...

I defer to your interpretation, I have not read BoR in a long time and I have never studied it in detail.

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Yes, I think so. The rider of the White Horse in Book of Revelations is Christ according to "Irenaeus, an influential Christian theologian of the 2nd ...

You might enjoy reading a brief article on the iconic renderings of St. George slaying the Dragon. The article was written by Dr. Samantha Riches is a...

K, then entailment in a logical sense?

It might be pertinent to note (don't want to surprise you latter, I already did that with someone else...ha, ha) that I am sorta Panpsychist, While I ...

Our self, the I our virtual organism is constructed through our experiences in the world where the other is of dominant importance, as Rimbaud put it ...