I don't get the motivation why complex natural systems would ever want to 'evolve' into anything else if they already survive as they are. This is not...
But that can only be an ideal theoretical possibility because, like the air or the clouds, the populace is not actually a permanent existent entity. I...
Yes. Israel as all other states is a fact not an opinion. Justification for facts is empty verbiage. The people of Israel are likewise a fact but they...
And indiscriminate bombing has always been the reply to terrorism everywhere because there is no other effective answer. The answer to bombing is eith...
And so is Gaza. According to reasoned third-party judgment, the terrorists and the IDF are both proceeding according to the above discussed ideals of ...
On the surface of the Earth, imagine drawing squares centered on the North Pole with increasing length sides until the sides coincide with the circle ...
You are saying all this on your own assumption of ethnic separation as the basis for peace. If this was in your own country would you want that for yo...
According to reliable unreachable sources the rocket was made of paper mache designed to disappear by itself on impact and filled with attack propagan...
The doppler sound indicates a passing projectile, incoming then outgoing. The time delay, if the locations of the target and video were known would gi...
I am sympathetic to your views on mass hysteria but not on the psychology of terrorists. In this I think both your take and the PT article are fundame...
Psychology Today is a fake science journal written by journalists whose opinions are as whimsical as the requests of their editors. Where are their re...
Prigozhin possibly had a deal with Putin which included a concession to stay out of Russian politics and foreign affairs. If he did, then he violated ...
I think that point and others similar are reasons for doubt. Up to about 10 years ago I was uncommitted on global warming but the evidence kept piling...
Sorry. I should have split the sentences and started a new heading. Even better, make a separate post for a philosophical rant. Saying anything about ...
That is all irrelevant to your argument. To show that there is or there is no global warming you have to find data that is global not local, cover at ...
Reading your very helpful suggestions and some of what I can find here, in general there can be many reasons for the string of coups in Africa but non...
The record hottest day in California was in Death Valley. The coldest in Alaska was -80 at Prospect Creek. Regardless of the authority of the source, ...
More than 20 were killed and hundreds were wounded when government forces attempted to retake the Maidan Don't you see a difference between a genuine ...
Back then we experienced with our unbelieving eyes the first dog in space, the exploration of the planets, and man leaving footprints on the Moon. Yet...
During the July 30 march in Niamey, organized by a movement against the French army's Operation Barkhane, demonstrators chanted pro-Russian, anti-Fren...
I can't help thinking that Russia and China are somehow responsible for stirring up this mess. When economic conditions worsen then people all of the ...
I agree that logic is not limited to this or that logic. The most restricted logic I can think of is Parmenides' of the purely formal unique part-less...
Sorry about the slow response, I got COVID after my politicians assured me that there was no such thing anymore. You are describing what is happening ...
...and where it originally came from. Which still leaves the question, is unscientific infinitesimal probability a sufficient ultimate scientific answ...
The Rietdijk–Putnam preceded Penrose and is seen more as a philosophical argument in the literature. Frankly, reading wiki and the SEP articles on Tim...
the edge of the visible universe is receding from us faster than the speed of light. Although individual galaxies are much slower than light their app...
In addition to the problematic objects, there is also the question of what to do with the uniqueness of observers. What the Andromeda Paradox implies ...
But not at the same time and in the same respect. Physical universes are purely formal mathematical entities. Change the math and you change the world...
He could pardon himself on day one, then the trumped up supreme court majority would rule on a challenge a year or two later. In the meanwhile, who kn...
Isn't that true of all mathematical physics? The confusion is semantic. The philosophical technical terms 'real' and 'exist' as used here in a naive d...
According to Leiter's survey, these are the best general philosophy journals as of 2022. browsing through just the recent titles, how many of these le...
Which will come out of loyal donations for his defense that will exceed his costs many times over. If anything, this window dressing of prosecution fo...
Thank you for these enlightening and entertaining posts. In maths, science, and engineering, just as in undergraduate philosophy, basic agreement to a...
Only if they interact. Otherwise neither exists to the other. The point is to look at what it means to 'exist' objectively, publicly, subject independ...
In other news, newly discovered asteroid 2023DW is on a collision course with Earth due to arrive on Feb 14, 2046. It is about 50 meters across, rough...
It's Hard to be Green https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/side_image/public/thumbnails/image/gp_comparison.png?itok=hSHtozez Green pea gal...
You're taking that out of its context. It was only meant to help unravel an attempt at a correct subjectivist philosophy. Not only psychology but also...
Don't you see a problem with that? Physical definitions don't have to have any meaning either in conversational or in a philosophical sentence. Even i...
Plato himself made the 'man is the measure' doctrine sufficiently clear in the Theaetetus. “just as each thing appears to me, so too it is for me, and...
Comments