People didn't define the Earth as flat. The definitions of "Earth" and "flat" were what they are now; they just incorrectly predicated flatness of Ear...
Perhaps, but given our current knowledge it's considered the most effective treatment for gender dysphoria. Gender Dysphoria in Adults: An Overview an...
If you accept that some trans people "pass" (which I assume you mean that their appearance does not indicate that they have had gender reassignment) t...
Sorry, deleted my reply because I was wrong. Checked up an article on Raëlism and saw that they really do believe in an endless chain of advanced alie...
People use the terms in different ways. Some refer to it as the lack of belief that there is a God or gods (weak atheism) and some refer to it as the ...
I think the debate could have started better if each poster had a pre-prepared opening statement to explain their respective positions. 3017amen did t...
https://www.muhealth.org/our-stories/how-do-we-know-covid-19-vaccine-wont-have-long-term-side-effects We know in the short term it can cause sickness,...
McGahn Affirmed That Trump Tried to Oust Mueller, Transcript Shows Who would have thought that Trump would lie and try to have others lie to cover up ...
Violating principles which are believed by society to be moral principles could lead to social exclusion, but simply violating moral principles wouldn...
It may be that there is no such thing as causation, or that causation is inexplicable, or that there is an as-of-yet unknown means to explain causatio...
No, I don't think his skepticism is self-refuting. His argument seems to be that 1) we only ever observe X following from Y and that 2) it is invalid ...
Carrying on from my previous comments about not understanding the meaning of moral claims, what still needs to be explained for this to be a fully-fun...
I've said as much a long time ago. If it could be proved that moral realism is correct and that the proposition "it is wrong to murder children" is fa...
I asked what it means to be woke. You said that to be woke is to be self-righteous and believe that those with different views are dicks. But unless y...
It's not self-righteous if they're right. If they're right then the people who believe otherwise are wrong, and so therefore dicks (given that this te...
More like 4 months. No, 10 months. No, 2 years. No, a litte more than 2 years. No, a little more than a little more than 2 years. No, a little more th...
This seems like an empty claim. Whatever its nature may ultimately be? Is he saying that all things are physical but also that he doesn't know what it...
Not exactly. He said that if X is non-random then X possibly has a telos and possibly doesn't have a telos. In other words, ¬R(X) ? ?T(X) ? ?¬T(X). ?T...
Perhaps I wasn't quite clear, but I wasn't just arguing that I don't know whether or not particular moral claims are true; I was arguing that I don't ...
That's what I said after their first offer. Their second offer included ridding my workload of all the things that made me leave in the first place. B...
Perhaps. I have noticed that for the past few years I've posted more to politics-related discussions than philosophy. I guess after 15 years of being ...
I know what it means, I just don't know what it means for it to be true. I don't believe that it's truth-apt, despite its grammar. It's meaning (in th...
They're the only two way that I know of. And it's because I don't know of any other way that I don't know how to verify or falsify moral claims and so...
I didn't say that only recognisable physical states are relevant. I also talked about deriving from first principles, which is what we do with maths. ...
Yes, I agree. The cat being on the mat is a recognisable physical state, and as such I know the difference between that physical state obtaining (the ...
I didn't. The truth condition is the physical state of the world, and this truth condition is recognisable by the use of our senses. If you tell me th...
A particular kind of physical object standing in a particular kind of spatial relationship to another particular kind of physical object. I can recogn...
I'm not a psychopath. I sympathise and empathise with the feelings of others. I have a negative visceral reaction to the idea of killing. What does th...
I am engaging in philosophical examination of ordinary claims, not rhetorical posturing. If I am to understand what it means for a statement to be tru...
No, I don't know what it means. I know of no criteria by which to determine the truth or falsity of it, and so how can I know what it means for it to ...
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