You make some very interesting points I missed: And of course they might not. Sometimes there are runaway processes and you end up with Easter Island....
If I may... Step 1 to understanding @"apokrisis" is to swap the idea of "causes" for the idea of "prevents". Whatever has happened is not what was cau...
So what's the story on this? How much do we actually know? The two explanations that spring to mind are both bad: (1) he was hired in an attempt to co...
He also turned over at least fifteen boxes of material to the Archives in the first go round. Why did he do that if they were all personal records? Th...
There's still Congress, of course, but it's true there is some tension here, insofar as most of the executive branch was created by legislation, and t...
If anyone would think the President has the sort of unchecked authority you think he has, it would be Bill Barr, and evidently he does not think so. R...
We'll see. Presumably the federal grand jury and Smith see the law somewhat differently, or they would not have bothered indicting him. I'm not sure w...
Do you want to take another swing at this? It sounds like you said predicating F of x says nothing about x because you can only predicate F of x if x ...
The boundary between an organism and its environment is surely salient though, and an organism works hard to preserve that boundary. A house, by compa...
I'm pretty sure I remember an interview in which Hodding Carter suggested that classification is often abused. I think the example he gave was the Car...
And if I understand correctly, the Espionage Act predates our modern system of classification, and so applies even to unclassified documents if they c...
That's fine. It's not what I wanted to talk about anyway. But leaving the example aside, which was meant to function almost as an analogy, the point r...
Does he? It's as simple as him saying "this is mine" and all the rules about handling and disclosure are out the window? I find that implausible, but ...
I'll have more time to look at your response tonight. A couple quick notes: The fundamental problem is that your stake changes depending on which outc...
Let's stick with that example for a moment. What difference would our physiology make if objects didn't absorb and reflect and radiate certain wavelen...
So the "owner" of the model is constructed by the model's very functioning -- it's not some pre-existing thing that then adds to itself a model by whi...
Has happened, sure, but I was genuinely surprised when I looked at Wikipedia how many associations have really gotten in the weeds with this issue, an...
Two questions, in all seriousness: (1) Is your low opinion of the FBI and the DOJ independent of their performance in matters related to Trump? If you...
Since you're still a committed Thirder, here's what bothers me: (1) When a coin is tossed it has only two proper outcomes. (No leaners, no edges, and ...
Before crowning some trans activists as secret monarchs of the world, it might be worth glancing over Wikipedia's article about the issue in sports. T...
But there's something else, and it's right there in your quote. (Is that Kant?) What we know about the somethings the existence of which we infer from...
That's convincing as it stands, certainly, but could you say something about D'Amasio? I've only just started the book, but the summary is that not ev...
Here's one more ridiculous comparison to clarify the difference between Where am I? and What am I? (if it's even relevant to Sleeping Beauty): the Cho...
Two Envelopes seems to encourage abuse of the principle of indifference in exactly this way. Maybe it's just something like this: rationality requires...
Yeah there's some similarity to Bostrum's thing. In Stanford terms, you could say that thirders are identifying the self with the role they are playin...
I'm still mulling it over despite myself, but I think there's something to this. Rather than getting back into the nitty-gritty, I'm thinking about th...
What evidence would that be? We don't observe what we don't observe, so ... As far as I can tell this is not something we believe on evidence at all, ...
Is it a matter of opinion? Hume agonizes over this; he can find no good reason to think objects persist, and yet he finds that he does believe so. It'...
I understand that. Where we began was existence: So your intention was to say that the existence of the rock is an attribute of it that is not depende...
Ah. That's rather different. This all began with you defending the mind-independence of objects by saying that you could readily imagine an object tha...
I think that just kicks the can down the road. I don't know why talk about "us" and the similarity of "our perceptions" should be countenanced when ta...
Except you seem to have forgotten that we were talking about unobserved rocks. If you want to describe such a thing as having a "propensity" to produc...
But why choose the word "rocks" if you're not attributing to it any rock properties? Why not "balloons" or "elegies"? Is it like this: You start with ...
Hmmm. Given how we talk about distance, you're either using words the conventional way when you compare the distance from the earth to the sun and the...
How about a (I hope) non-mathematical example: stars and planets, for instance, are both celestial bodies, and they behave similarly as massive object...
(1) Measurements that have not been done have not been done. (2) Distances are created not discovered. Certainly yes, if you start from (2), you can d...
Not obvious how you would even justify the "they" here... So the upshot is that when you conceive of these unobserved rocks, you conceive of something...
I think it's stronger than that: I think you're imagining it as you or at least a creature a lot like you would see it, the attributes perceptible by ...
Yeah, but I'm not sure we can just switch from visualizing to something vague like "conceiving" and declare the problem solved. I think it was Hume wh...
Sure. I'm not really disagreeing with you. --- I'm just noting that our minds only work the way they work. But you're a better Kantian than I, so I'm ...
Is this another way of saying that it's not measured until it's measured? Or does "indeterminate" carry some meaning here unrelated to measurement? Wi...
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