This is right, however the very existence of all those billions has been made possible by the most energy dense resource there is: fossil fuel. The de...
I agree that the salient question is not one of theory, but praxis. How, in a world where power seems to be always in the hands of those who control m...
Yes, but it would seem to be necessarily true only by virtue of the fact that if we found something that was indistinguishable from water in every oth...
The problem with this is that it is impossible to believe that equality and liberty can ever be imposed by any authority. The irony is that the Left m...
OK, I think I see where you are coming from now. I don't believe there would be any distinguishing physical characteristics that could be used to dete...
I'm not sure what you are suggesting here, tim. Are you referring to those who are never aroused? If so, I would say they count as asexual. If instead...
Are you suggesting that people sometimes lie, even to themselves, about which sex they are (exclusively or not) attracted to. If so, I'd agree that th...
You seem to be claiming that homosexuality (and by implication heterosexuality) is indefinable. If that were so, then sex (as in male and female) woul...
Exactly! The fact that something may be able to be changed does not entail that it should be changed, so it is not a "logical conclusion" at all, but ...
Yes, apparently Spanish Flu killed people of all ages, and according to some accounts most especially those younger than 5 those between 20 and 40 and...
How many people without co-morbidities likely died from the Spanish flu, or die each year from the seasonal flu? What makes you think the situation wi...
Not "theorized" , more of a general observation; I was just highlighting what I think is true of most people; that they are most comfortable with what...
If people are or were oppressed, then it seems obvious that there are or were oppressors. Although people may be oppressed, not necessarily by any par...
I think a lot of what is characterized as racism is at base cultural bias and/or class bias. Our common unreflective disposition is to mistrust, even ...
Thanks, you made some interesting points there and I could find nothing to disagree with. Right, I realize now you meant to write 'nowt' and that it m...
Is this right? What if what is actually possible ( as distinguished form what is merely logically possible) changes in subtle ways that we have no way...
That's all true it seems, but "Harrihood" would seem to be an even broader term that "Harrypotterhood", given that there are many more Harrys than the...
Right, so a proposition is the act of proposing or asserting something, and what is being asserted; the semantic content, which is descriptive, is not...
OK, I think I see what you are concerned about. So, in relation to the sentence: you are thinking that the term 'proposition' is too strong, given tha...
I'm not sure what you mean here. When I make a statement about some aspect of how things are, I am proposing that things are as my statement asserts, ...
The bulk of the semantic content of statements consists in references to concrete objects of experience. Of course the content is given in general ter...
I'm white and I acknowledge that as such I'm priveleged. I am not offended by that acknowledgement; why should I be? Being offended seems to imply som...
You seem to be clutching at straws. If you want to address something I've said without distorting it or changing the subject, then I'm prepared to lis...
I don't see this as a workable analogy. What is "Harrihood"; that is, how could you explain it without reference to Harry Potter and all the events in...
Right, and the proletariat no longer has the same degree of support from a middle-class intelligentsia, arguably because, inter alia, both have become...
I wouldn't say propositions are " a separate class of entity". More modestly I would say that a proposition is the semantic content of some sentences ...
Right, and that's just what I mean by "substantive" (as opposed to imaginary) existence. Not sure what you mean by "in this universe", though. If 'thi...
The problem with what you say here is that the proletariat are not in the minority. Democracy just is the idea of majority rule, and the proletariat a...
If you make a guess as to what someone will say, and claim that it will be true or false, then you have imagined a proposition which contains objectiv...
Yes, of course, obviously the meaning of words, what they refer to, is established by convention, by praxis. How else? You're misunderstanding; I am n...
I do agree with this quote from Marx, but not all of us are called to vigorous action in this regard. If we are involved with ideas and engage with ot...
:up: I adhere to a correspondence account (not theory, mind) of truth. I see Tarski's T-sentence as a minimalist presentation of the logic of correspo...
Of course some people are able to at least genuinely care about their progeny. If everyone has progeny and everyone cares about them and everyone has ...
Firstly you can't reasonably claim that what someone is about to say is false because you don't know what they are going to say, that is there is as y...
It seems to me that people generally do think in terms of flourishing when they think morally. That is not to say that they apply the criterion of flo...
I agree with that. "This sentence is false" becomes problematic only if we reason that it follows that it must be true that it is false, or in other w...
You appear to be a platonist, in that you seem to be asserting the substantive existence of possibilities. There are two kinds of possibilities as I s...
A sentence is just a string of words; how could a string of words be true or false? I think it is more in keeping with what is commonly meant to say t...
I have little knowledge of syntactic and arithmetic theory, so I would appreciate it if you could explain how self-reference is built into them. I hav...
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