They are not totally synonymous except in a certain context as I already pointed out. They overlap when it comes to propositional claims. You've point...
What I was referring to was not rational assent. Many people accept the reality of anthropogenically induced, or at least enhanced, climate change. Wh...
That doesn't matter because even though we can't know (observe as you put it) the situation vis a vis Leonardo's sex life or lack of it, if he was nei...
I don't understand why you have chosen to address something I haven't actually claimed; that it is a fact that 1+1=2, rather than admitting that we di...
It hasn't been a hot topic since then, even though there have been some references made to it. From your posts it seems you are skeptical about it you...
If you mean climate scientists, the more pertinent question would be as to when they have been wrong. Other than that I don't know who you would be re...
Since I moved onto 15 acres I have considered farming animals, but I don't really have the stomach for it. The best I can do is keep a few chooks for ...
Not sure what you mean by "good civilizations" as opposed to "mere civilizations". If you have in mind our present state of "uber-civilization", this ...
I don't think it's predominately greed that is the problem at all. Most of us are not that greedy; what we are is addicted to our present prosperous, ...
The problem is that would take a drastic reduction of human population. By one estimation earth cannot sustain a human population of more than 200,000...
That interesting! I hadn't heard of that. From Wiki: The site's original excavator, German archaeologist Klaus Schmidt, described it as the "world's f...
It's also what you arrive at when you add -1 and 3, -2 and 4, half plus half plus half plus half and so on, but I agree it is the most basic and concr...
It's not my ignorance; no one knows what Leonardo's sexual orientation was. I believe there is a fact of the matter, though, whereas you don't; so we ...
If only 3% of the population have so far been infected and out of that 3% around 2% (the vulnerable) have died then how could it possibly be the case ...
That's funny...and yet not; now I'm conflicted. :groan: :yikes: :scream: I love dogs, have two myself, and try to impose my will on them as little as ...
I haven't said that vaccinated people can't transmit, though; I said that they are far less likely to transmit. If you are without co-morbidities and ...
According to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ there have been a total of 231,809,797 cases of infection, which is about 3 percent of the cur...
You're ignoring the emergency status of the situation. In any case lifestyle choices are motivated by desires and aversions, pleasures and addictions;...
There are countless quantities that sum to 2, so '1+1=2' cannot be the definition of 2. You might say it is the primary instance of 2, or something li...
I tried to read that article, but it makes no sense to me at all. Can you explain in plain English why it should follow from the fact that there are u...
Isn't that what I just said? You are not addressing the point; that you can state a fact without any observation to back it up. If Leonardo was gay, t...
I don't understand the thrust of your question. If you read over my posts in this thread you should be able to glean some insight into my fairly pedes...
If you were vaccinated you would be even less likely to get infected and transmit the virus. Every little bit helps. You haven't given any good reason...
That's not true. You can make a true statement about whether or not Leonardo was really gay. You can say "Leonardo was gay" and " Leonardo was not gay...
Yes, I was thinking that if only observations are facts then anything in the human past which has not been documented cannot be a fact of history. Wha...
Faith has nothing to do with it. There must have been uncountable commonplace historical events about which we know nothing. There must be vast number...
It was "now and into the near future". If no lockdowns and other measures had been in place and no vaccines, there would likely have been a much great...
I think questions of liability are moot in this emergency situation; unless of course it could be proven that there had been negligence or fraud by va...
"No further steps at all" is not from the section I was quoting, and is a different point. My point stands; if the effort had not been put in the deat...
That's a silly question; if I were to give you an example it could not but be of an observed fact. We know there are facts yet to be discovered and fa...
We derive what we take to be facts via, inter alia, observation, but it doesn't follow from that that there are no unobserved facts. I'm still not cle...
You're failing to take into account the fact that the figure would likely be much higher if "social, economic and political effort" hadn't been "put t...
:up: Words may not directly affect the world itself, as they were thought to be able to do in traditional magick, but they certainly affect the ways w...
Do you disagree with vaccination as the only workable strategy out of this situation? Do you agree that the vaccines are safe and effective? Do you ag...
I guess it kind of does, but like all tautologies it's empty and doesn't seem to deserve the status of fact. Like saying it's a fact that all bachelor...
No, it's a formula. It's a fact that people use it to determine the circumference of circles, though. Does it represent a fact? If it is a fact that t...
It is a fact that when people play chess the bishop is always moved diagonally, and this fact is not a result of observation (unless you mean 'observi...
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