How is it structurally the same ship? It's new material. Do you just mean that the shape and placement of the material is the same? Well, two differen...
Most of these men aren't the lawmakers who passed the law, and many of these men oppose the law. Seems like a misplaced "revenge". And just skimming t...
Take out the word "objective" and we're not talking about realism anymore. Objective features of the world change, and yet the ship that returns is th...
There’s certainly a sense in which I’m not the same person I was 20 years ago. I’ve grown and changed as a person - new behaviours and attitudes, like...
This "metaphysical definition" is useless then. The ship becomes a new ship every instant, atoms rubbing off in the wind or water, electrons absorbing...
It's not about whether or not we call the ship "Theseus". It's about whether or not "the ship that leaves is the ship that returns" is true, and what ...
Or to bring it back to the topic of truth conditions, "the ship that leaves is the ship that returns" isn't made true by objective features of the wor...
Does it? As I brought up the Ship of Theseus then let's consider that. The ship that leaves is the ship that returns but the material that leaves isn'...
What makes Pluto one thing, and not trillions of different things? What we call "Pluto" is "really" a mass of particles in close proximity. Which of t...
Maybe not. I'm just addressing your accusation that it leads to omniscience. That all truths have been verified is that all verified propositions have...
Your very hypothetical scenario presupposes realism. Your wife is having an affair (unbeknownst to you), and then you find out. Obviously if you presu...
Although I wouldn't as it's superfluous. I'd just say that some proposition either has been verified or hasn't been verified, or that its negative eit...
The verificationist says both because "true" and "verified" mean the same thing to them. No, it's to deny the realist's claim that "true" and "verifie...
Yes, and "true" and "verified" mean the same thing, therefore the statement that all truths have been verified is the statement that all verified prop...
I would just say that verificationism holds that "true" and "verified" mean the same thing, and so the statement "p is true iff it is verified" is the...
As I said to @"khaled" earlier, if Descartes' thought experiment were true and the world we see is an illusion created by some evil demon then even th...
I don't think that quite addresses the anti-realist's position, though. Let's say that we in the UK abolish the monarchy. Does the Queen of England ex...
That appears to be a contradiction. A common understanding of realism is that things are independent of one's perceptions, thoughts, etc. How can my t...
If we commit to something like Wittgenstein's theory of language – that meaning is use – then predicating truth of a statement is just another practic...
If Descartes' thought experiment were true and the world we see is an illusion created by some evil demon then even though something exists regardless...
What are these things on my arm? I can’t see them on Hanover’s arm so there must be something wrong with me. /uploads/resized/files/g6/r1uzbwsjzw03sxs...
The fact that the companies aren’t trying to cover up their own fuckup. The fact that since the introduction of the vaccines the number of deaths, ser...
So you believe that the vaccine is either more dangerous than the disease or ineffective? It’s neither. So this reasoning is fallacious. There’s enoug...
I’d get vaccinated against the common cold if it were possible, even though it’s such a minor illlness. Why would anyone refuse it? The whole “accepta...
Getting vaccinated is such a minor inconvenience that requires no lifestyle changes and which significantly decreases the chances of catching COVID an...
You could write about how 3,000 is 1,8A0 in duodecimal, that duodecimal is objectively superior to decimal, that 1,8A0 isn't a significant number, and...
It also has a proven track record of telling the truth. Modern medicine works. Vaccinations have reduced the number of people dying from measles and C...
Intelligence isn't enough to know the facts about microbes and the immune system. That requires study and experimentation. Are you a trained pathologi...
No, they're not. A great deal of them are based on facts and common sense risk aversion. Whoever told you that vaccines don't work or that germ theory...
But dying from measles and COVID isn't zero. I didn't ignore it. The first thing I said to you is "medical science being wrong in the past isn't reaso...
I'd certainly advise against it. No, because vaccines don't protect you from head trauma. A head- and mouth- guard would be more appropriate. Vaccines...
Why is it a false equivalence? Seatbelts are a preventive measure against trauma in the case of a car crash and vaccines are a preventative measure ag...
Plenty of other people have. I've already linked to this. The fact that people have died from measles is proof that measles is dangerous and the fact ...
Yes, it's your choice. And I'm asking you why you make the choice you do. It isn't very smart to choose to not wear a seatbelt and it isn't very smart...
You claimed that you don't take vaccines because the common cold isn't dangerous and vaccines against them don't work, but there are diseases that are...
Yes, because colds aren't very dangerous. I don't know if anyone has ever died of a common cold. Lots of people have died from measles and COVID, thou...
Then why do you oppose the vaccine? I assume it's because you believe one of these: 1. The vaccine offers no additional protection and so is unnecessa...
I'm concerned about both. But when you balance the health risks of not being vaccinated (sickness, long term problems, even death) and the costs of ge...
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