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Because they believe they can sell the item for a higher price. It is the scarcity or abundance of goods that cause the rise or drop in price, but onl...

Of course it is individual sellers who decide to raise their prices. But they do not do this in a vacuum. They will raise prices only if the items the...

It's just the upward pressure on price that strong demand and low supply brings about. Individuals will charge what they are aware, or at least what t...

As I understand it inflation results when there is an overabundance of money and a scarcity of necessary and/or desirable items.

At this stage it appears to have more like a 30-40 times greater fatality rate than seasonal flu, and that's not to factor in its much greater infecti...

I'm a bit under the pump at the moment, but I intend to expand on this when I find the time to do so adequately. :smile:

Reminds me of, and likely maps onto, the common distinction between knowing-that and knowing-how, combined with the further distinction I have long dr...

Don't be an idiot. "Racism" is a term used to denote cultural chauvinism. The biological notion of 'race' is totally irrelevant in that context.

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You might find something here: https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/search/authors/bernard%20lonergan or here: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/search.php?req=...

Nice Lonergan quote! Mathematics is the bridge between phenomenal experience and metaphysical ideas; this is because metaphysics is impossible without...

No, as I said, any boundary using any criteria may be used. I'm not saying some criteria are not more useful for some study purposes.

Any boundary is arbitrary. Using the arbitrary boundaries known as "Europe" or "Asia" and citing the relevant statistics is as valid as using any othe...

And their hosts I suppose? Now that would be Evil!

Metaphysics is usually taken to consist in thinking about what is the nature of reality, being, time, space, objects, causation and so on. Broadly spe...

Science is based on phenomenology rather than metaphysics. Science deals with phenomena; in other words, science studies things as they appear to us. ...

:up: :up: :up: :up: A many faceted thing!

Some worthy suggestions here :

You're an idiot if you think degraded ecosystems could benefit humankind other than in the most superficial, short-term ways.

Yep, that's what it amounts to! That's why I so hate consequentialist ethics.

:strong: "I ham that I ham"?

Well, that's just fuckin' sadly stoopid. :rofl: :sad: :roll:

The question is without context and hence is just a word game. Cosmological questions are scientific, and thus contextual, questions and are therefore...

Questions (and answers) are not separable from semantics.

Forget about modal realism; there couldn't have been nothing simply because nothing cannot be; it's a contradiction in terms. Or in modal language, a ...

Quantification, and hence mathematics, is foundational to science. Mathematics is also considered to be a science in its own right, but it does not se...

:100: Thanks Andrew, that seems to be one of the most sensible articles about how Covid-19 should be handled that I have seen.

Perhaps, perhaps not. All the statistic shows is that for that day the US had nearly as many new cases as Italy. It does seem likely, though! :sad:

What did you mean by this then?:

That was a time of burgeoning resources; this is a time of diminishing resources and vastly greater population. Here is a link to a site that may help...

If people don't go to work, how will production continue at anything like the normal level? Best for business how? Apparently you believe in unlimited...

You realize that pumping money into the system will cause inflation, especially if there is a shortage of goods in the system? I'm not saying governme...

Sure, many governments and banks will need to introduce similar strategies. But how long could it be sustained? Also, will it only be those who simply...

So, what if people are out of work and have not enough to pay rent/ mortgages?

And you know that how?

There probably simply won't be enough resources.

"Something else wrong"? With the economy??? Noooo!!! :rofl:

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Didn't you mean "fuckwit"?

Yeah, your fellow leftist devil agrees... :naughty: ...what a great bit of entertainment.. :lol: :roll:

It's not "simple biology", but rather cognitive revision. If a body discovers that there is no need to fear a situation that on the face of seemed thr...

I'm not going to respond to someone taking words out of their arse and putting them in my mouth. Take your shrill hysteria somewhere else, fuckwit.

Yes, this is right, but I wonder if the economy will be able to sustain itself intact for extended periods where no one is working. It's going to have...

Stress is not a voluntary response, if that is what you want to suggest by emphasizing a distinction between the terms "effect" and "response", but a ...

You tell me; with the appropriate quotations, and I'll respond. I'm not going to respond to words you are trying to put into my mouth. My position has...

The body becomes stressed, due to environmental (in the broadest sense) effects. Obviously cognition is involved.

Bidet attachments are available for standard western-style toilets.

Everything we take for granted is dependent on the prosperity that comes with cheap energy; a finite resource. The present corporate economy is the gr...

Yep. :vomit: