Michael

Perhaps, depending on your interpretation. And what does "decapitations exist in the abstract" even mean? I can understand it in the sense of "it is p...

Imagine saying "John would die were he to be decapitated, therefore his death exists." It's obviously ridiculous if interpreted in a realist sense. So...

That water would boil were it to reach 100 degrees celsius isn't that some universal/abstract object exists. Such a view is a realist misinterpretatio...

To repeat the kind of question I asked frank before, is there a difference between saying that the boiling point is real and saying that things really...

This story was indeed written by ChatGPT. I asked it to "write a 200 word story about a man who uses an AI to write a story to win a competition". All...

Good point

They're called "discussions" now, not "threads". Get with the times old man.

It means I volunteer to be the winner.

I'll do it :up:

But Hume was a nominalist?

I'm trying to point out the ambiguity in your question. The Platonist might say that height is real iff height is a mind-independent abstract object. ...

OK, then is there a difference between spin being real and a top really being able to spin?

But philosophy is fiction.

Physical. It's one of the 4 fundamental forces. There's no evidence or prima facie need for anything more, and so as per Occam's razor I can dismiss a...

I'm not entirely sure what it means to exist, but according to Platonism the existence of abstract objects is independent of the physical and the ment...

We can talk about the distance between two points without having to accept that the distance exists, just as we can talk about Mordor and unicorns wit...

Then your argument above either equivocates or begs the question. You're saying that the temperature at which something boils exists. But this is mean...

The boiling point of water is the temperature at which water boils The temperature at which water boils is 100 degrees celsius 100 degrees celsius is ...

The temperature at which water boils is 100 degrees celsius. Is 100 degrees celsius a property?

That's the question I asked of you. Is there a difference between asking if spin is real and asking if things really spin? If there isn't a difference...

Is the temperature at which something boils a property?

What logical problems? I don’t need to accept the mind-independent existence of some abstract property of spin to accept that tops (and other things) ...

Even if that were true it doesn’t follow that universals and abstract objects exist in the realist sense. They might play a useful role in language, b...

Which surely is a sufficient account. Tops spinning is a real, concrete thing that can be seen and measured. Tops really do spin (sometimes). What nee...

Do they deny that it’s appropriate to say that tops spin?

Is there a difference between asking if spin is real and asking if things really spin? Is an answer to one also an answer to the other?

Certainly will help junior developers.

Request: Write a class in PHP to generate a strong salted hash of a user's password Response: Here is an example of a simple PHP class that can be use...

You're always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all toge...

My favourite pigs are in blankets. https://www.politico.eu/cdn-cgi/image/width=1200,height=630,fit=crop,quality=80,onerror=redirect/wp-content/uploads...

S believes many related things: 1. S believes that Michael was not born in Germany because he was born in France 2. S believes that Michael was born i...

Both. Someone who believes the latter also believes the former. They are not mutually exclusive. As I have said, you need to show that someone who bel...

You haven't shown that someone who believes “Michael wasn’t born in Germany because he was born in France” doesn't also believe “Michael wasn’t born i...

The fact that “Michael wasn’t born in Germany because he was born in France” isn’t equivalent to “Michael wasn’t born in Germany” doesn’t mean that so...

People believe more than one thing. Beliefs about one thing entail beliefs about another. I believe that Joe Biden is President. I believe that only o...

If I believe A and B then I believe A and I believe B. Your argument seems to be that if I believe a conjunction then I don't believe each of its part...

S's belief that I was not born in Germany is true because I was born in England.

A entails B iff "if A then B" is true. "If A then B" can be true even if A is false. For example, "if I was born in France then I was not born in Germ...

Fiat currencies are legal tender. We get paid in it, we pay our taxes in it, and I can go to the shops and buy milk with it. It's mostly stable, with ...

All cryptocurrency is a big hype period. It's all a confidence scam. It has no actual value. What makes one cryptocurrency worth what it is, or worth ...

Down 9% on the dollar from this time last year. Bitcoin is down 72% on the dollar from this time last year. /uploads/resized/files/v0/c5o4gvt3hevv7ryx...

When it's legal tender, backed by the government, it's not a confidence scam. I'd stick with pound sterling.

I have a stocks & shares ISA. From 31st Oct 2020 to 30th April 2022 it went up 23.65%.

What to Expect From Crypto in a Recession Cryptocurrencies are far more volatile than normal stock, and unlike normal stock have no real underlying va...

Why not just use a normal investment rather than the cryptocurrency scam? Apparently the standard index funds have an annual return of around 10%.

The only things I own are a mattress and a David Hasselhoff calendar.

Ugh, I think I finally have covid. I might starve to death as everything tastes awful. :groan:

Apparently the loser had to keep James Cordon so there was a gentleman's agreement to draw, that way he can be left out in the middle of the Atlantic.

Because being sober around one's mother in law is worse than a drunk racist uncle. It's all about priorities.

That's fine. Nobody wants the racist uncle at the table anyway.