Silly is ad hominem name calling and not an argument. It only suggests that you lack familiarity with the subject, therefore you intend to tackle the ...
Two. One to mix the martinis and one to call the super. You keep saying this but I don't get it. As long as their naval base is secure what else would...
I'm confused. Wouldn't that dualism be denied by any science that you can name? In which case consciousness would be left either a monist instrumental...
There is no need for that. While negotiating on the Belarus border, Russia is intensifying attacks elsewhere. They can send in wave after wave of troo...
I suspect that Russia is sustaining much heavier losses than might be assumed or reported. But heavy losses in personnel has not deterred the Russians...
When experts are required for a project then adding less skilled workers will get the job done faster but it will increase waste and decrease overall ...
You're saying this without having considered possible consequences. Suppose we declare March 15, the Ides of March, All Tyrants' day. What then? Who o...
So-called historical reasoning is a fallacy, quite typical of Marxist-Leninist thought. It takes history to be an objective criterion for political ju...
And what geopolitical alternative would you prefer? We Americans are not happy with the mushrooming war memorials in our cities either. Scary times co...
Yes, Putin is trying to rebuild the lost glorious national power that Stalin won after the war. If he really cared about the future of Russia he would...
Tables are tables by convention. We verbally agree that instances of table exist, then I'll accept your word unconditionally about your table. But the...
Everyone will. Or they can accept your absolute credibility as an eyewitness. And that would be true for every other alleged table in the world. Unfor...
I'll have to take your word for it, won't I? So will everyone else. But is that necessary? Is that existentially more evidential than having at a foot...
Intellectuals gave us Machiavelli and Marx, and Lenin has shown how to wield those ideas as weapons. If the CIA wants to create public opinion then it...
To survive we only need enough partial knowledge to guess right about the next step, if we are wrong we pay the price. To do philosophy, it matters. W...
Being limited by having only eyeballs to see the material world, such as it may be independently of our existence, says nothing whatsoever about the r...
Russia has plenty of oil and gas to sell to anyone who pays. Isn't the US objection really about the many billions of euros that are flowing back up t...
Maybe not Austria, but the Hungarian rightist government still thinks it should be granted its 'greater' pre-WWI borders. This is the gut feeling Puti...
You would have to read a critical but fair history of modern astronomy to get a picture of how the current theories evolved against the background of ...
You're not alone! The Big Bang was quickly embraced from the beginning because it gave a scientific and at the same time a theologically satisfying ex...
Sounds to me, by torus you mean a geometric model. Would you consider the magnetic fields of planets, stars as torus? Black holes like the ones in the...
Interesting thoughts. I don't know if the analogy of apples to physical particles helps here. Apples as objects can be grounded in the certainty of co...
But you didn't make any point at all. I wish you would. Lack of social distancing is the superspreader, and that's regardless of any variant of COVID ...
That's a misleading quote. All students at Cornell are supposed to be fully vaccinated, otherwise they aren't supposed to be there. Breakthrough cases...
I used to visualize thinking as a two step process of low-level quantum combinations and selection from complex mental structures which is then follow...
Admittedly I am confused. Context can be a very big place. In my post I suggested three approaches, one dogmatic which applies to all situations regar...
This is only an argument against classical dogmatism as opposed to a scientific approach arising from experience. If I lost my car keys after dark Dew...
That smooths over the discussion at the expense of putting off sober exploration of significant philosophical issues. Most science is concerned with t...
That's not how it works. If you don't already know what that object really is then you can only see an unidentified object in its place. This is the c...
I suggest that in spite of the a/k/a the two terms are not equivalent. Naive refers to what we see and experience without any philosophy at all. Direc...
Isn't that equivalent to trying to explain away the physically central subjective role of all possible observation? I.e., the observer is not at the c...
By cause, do you mean the relative effectiveness of nature as heredity as against nurture as experience and learning being influential on the developm...
You have changed the question from a personal trait to possession of a third kind. Wealth comes from other people. That brings in the environment, bot...
Cool. "This concept embodies the standard tenets of quantum theory and implements in a precise way a notion of relative locality. The usual string bac...
In one of the more abstract courses in college math, the prof presented much material in rapid succession with many of the proofs peppered with "it is...
There is a bug in your reply. I take it that you agree with me (and Plato) that the assessment of any sort of knowledge based on psychological intuiti...
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