Michael

And presumably there's no such thing as an illusion of a ghost? Yet people claim to have seen and believe in ghosts. So at the very least you must acc...

Unless one were to know what things would seem like were there an external world and what things would seem like were there not an external world then...

It’s not clear to me what you mean by meaning being existentially contingent upon something else. Are you saying that we can only conceive of a thing ...

I didn't say it was a formal fallacy. But as you noted yourself, you begged the question, which is a fallacy.

Which makes it fallacious. Do you have an argument to support p4?

Which I believe is the solution to the paradox. God can create the stone but doesn't.

What stone?

How does this follow?

Two big discussions. The second is the shout box that we hide in the corner just to be spiteful.

It's not. I just merged it into your God discussion as I felt it a more appropriate place.

That’s a mirror, Sap.

I do have pretty incredible hair.

What should they have done? Not had Kavanaugh and Ford testify before the Senate in an open hearing? Confirm him regardless and then call for an inves...

Allowed? Unless you want to live in some Big Brother society there's nothing that can stop someone from publicly accusing another of wrongdoing.

Sure, but there's nothing anyone can do about that. Once the accusations come in, the public are going to think what they think. So I'm not sure what ...

Not being confirmed to the Supreme Court isn't destroying someone's life. I haven't been following the cases at all, but I wonder what evidence there ...

And according to this, “Maryland does not have mandatory reporting laws for domestic violence or sexual assault” except in cases of child abuse (and i...

The law that says it’s a crime to not report a crime. Here’s an example: 18 U.S. Code § 4 - Misprision of felony However, it was ruled in United State...

@"aserwin" Can you point me to the relevant federal and/or Maryland law please?

Probably because you took a light dose of LSD. I on the other hand took a large dose of alcohol on Friday night and spent all of yesterday throwing up...

I’m naive.

I suspect that the Republicans are against the investigation because they're worried that he might be guilty or that it will reflect badly on them in ...

So because Feinstein tried to use it to her advantage Dr Ford isn't owed the investigation she's requested? I don't think law enforcement works that w...

John Kennedy has a PPE degree.

http://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/571285/ I don’t know if it’s conservative issue.

There’s also an upcoming court case that is concerned with double jeopardy and federal pardons (i.e can you subsequently be charged with the equivalen...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-MFsRfPoys

Yeah, which is terrible.

It's funny-not-funny that you called it a "trial".

Apparently Kavanaugh ruled in 2016 that polygraph tests are a useful law enforcement tool to assess the credibility of witnesses.

Despite the Negative Press Covfefe

Exactly, which is why this is proof that Trump colluded with the Russians.

A sworn affidavit. Risks perjury and losing her security clearance if she’s found to be lying.

Changing the definition of a term doesn't change anything about the debate. It just means that instead of being able to call myself an agnostic theist...

You've set up a vicious circle. You're trying to justify your redefinition of "agnosticism" as a means to solve the contradiction in calling oneself a...

This is where you're going wrong. "Agnostic atheist" isn't a contradiction (using the ordinary definitions of "agnostic" and "atheist").

They don't. The agnostic position is a position even if we redefine the word "agnostic" out of existence as you have tried to do. But what problem doe...

The meaning of a word isn't a viewpoint that needs to be argued.

That's not agnosticism. Agnosticism, as explained by William L. Rowe, is "the view that human reason is incapable of providing sufficient rational gro...

He could nominate Merrick Garland. He's owed a hearing. Well, yeah. You don't get to pull a stunt like that and just expect no repercussions. What's t...

I'd say it's OP dodginess factor / Moderator caffeine intake. Less coffee = more cranky = less patience.

It's no accident that sexual assaults are under-reported. There are plenty of reasons for why victims don't come forward. But finding out that your as...

There's at least three women accusing him of sexual assault. Avanetti has stated that he knows of multiple witnesses. His old roommate has also said t...

There's a difference between some anonymous person making a claim on the internet and someone publicly requesting an FBI investigation and agreeing to...

See the email he wrote to the Senate: https://mobile.twitter.com/MichaelAvenatti/status/1044032678951960576

What do you mean by this?

I wonder why this is. Maybe I'm oblivious to it, but there doesn't seem to be such partisanship here in the UK. When an MP is accused of wrongdoing I ...

Here's an interesting poll: I wonder what explains this.

I would say that homonyms are different words, so a word is a sign and not a signifier. But then do we have a word (other than "signifier") that refer...

Are "bow" (the weapon) and "bow" (the knot) the same word or different words? If different then what makes them different? The meaning. The sounds we ...