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I know.
April 02, 2018 at 09:21
Open IE, press ALT, then go to Tools > Manage add-ons. On the left there might be a "Spelling Correction" option. Click it and make sure "Enable spell...
April 02, 2018 at 00:15
That's your problem.
April 02, 2018 at 00:07
What browser are you using?
April 02, 2018 at 00:06
"Me and Vlad, drinking smoothies on the veranda. DELICIOUS!".
March 31, 2018 at 23:47
Donald Trump quits Twitter because he's 'too busy putting America first'
March 31, 2018 at 23:38
Just worthless.
March 30, 2018 at 21:37
It's a browser feature, not a feature of the forum, so I assume whatever browser you use on your phone doesn't have a spellchecker.
March 30, 2018 at 19:28
Vox https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/vox/ Discover the Networks (David Horowitz) https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/discover-the-networks/
March 30, 2018 at 18:34
Sure. And there are violent extremists who take themselves to be in support of Christianity. But it doesn't then follow that Christianity or the BLM m...
March 29, 2018 at 17:53
This was my original argument: Assume a lottery of n tickets. P1. Ticket 1 won't win P2. Ticket 2 won't win P3. Ticket 3 won't win ... Pn. Ticket n wo...
March 29, 2018 at 17:35
Such as? The FBI report that @"Thorongil" referred to only has mention of 6 individuals engaged in "Black Identity Extremism" since 2014, and doesn't ...
March 29, 2018 at 16:32
And that's the non sequitur. That you might react to "right wing lunatic" isn't evidence that others may regard you as a right wing lunatic. The disti...
March 29, 2018 at 16:20
I'm not sure how this relates to my point, though.
March 29, 2018 at 16:08
OK, but I don't know what that has to do with my comment. And I was just pointing out that that part of your defence of your opinion is a non sequitur...
March 29, 2018 at 16:04
Then what makes the ID example different to the lottery ticket example? We're justified in believing that the ID isn't fake because the probability th...
March 29, 2018 at 15:45
Then what of my example of someone showing me their ID? If it tells me that they're 18, am I justified in believing that they're 18? Unlike your examp...
March 29, 2018 at 15:37
This doesn't seem right. If I say something disparaging about "right-wing lunatics" on this forum then you might interpret this as a veiled attack on ...
March 29, 2018 at 15:23
What does "murderous equity doctrine" even mean?
March 29, 2018 at 15:15
Of course. We'd have banned you long before that.
March 29, 2018 at 13:37
Quality over quantity.
March 29, 2018 at 13:36
The argument is: P1. Ticket 1 won't win P2. Ticket 2 won't win P3. Ticket 3 won't win P4. There are 3 tickets C. No ticket will win (Except with more ...
March 29, 2018 at 13:18
That wasn't my argument, though. My argument was that if P1 won't win and if P2 won't win and if P3 won't win ... and if Pn won't win then no ticket w...
March 29, 2018 at 11:27
I disagree with your claim that justification requires certainty, as we discussed earlier. If someone shows me some ID and if the ID shows them to be ...
March 29, 2018 at 08:09
It does. If for each ticket "this ticket won't win" is true then no ticket will win.
March 29, 2018 at 06:39
Assuming a lottery of n tickets, the premises are: P1. Ticket 1 won't win P2. Ticket 2 won't win P3. Ticket 3 won't win ... Pn. Ticket n won't win Fro...
March 28, 2018 at 20:43
It's true that you're not justified in believing that the entire sample of tickets loses, and I think that shows that justification isn't necessarily ...
March 28, 2018 at 18:05
Yes, sorry. Let's say that 100 people have each picked out a ball. Given the high odds, I am justified in believing that Person 1 doesn't have the bla...
March 28, 2018 at 16:13
What about when multiple premises are concerned? I am justified in believing a, I am justified in believing b, and c follows from a and b. Am I justif...
March 28, 2018 at 10:02
P is "Jones will get the job and has 10 coins in his pocket" and Q is "the person who gets the job has 10 coins in his pocket". If P is true then Q is...
March 28, 2018 at 09:25
Your example doesn't seem at all like a Gettier case. In Gettier cases, the general form is: 1. P is justified 2. P entails Q 3. Q is true 4. P is fal...
March 28, 2018 at 08:48
That's an increase of 17.14%. I'm no statistician, but I'm pretty sure describing the % change in terms of the absolute difference between two figures...
March 27, 2018 at 08:42
Here's an interesting graph that shows how the Earth's temperature has changed over time.
March 27, 2018 at 08:34
Not if Trump is just going to lie about loving me as he did to her.
March 23, 2018 at 11:28
What happened to parts 4 and 5 of Channel 4's exposé of CA? Seems all mention of them have been removed from their website. The conspiracy theorist in...
March 23, 2018 at 10:37
Also, Trump considered ousting Kelly and serving as his own chief of staff.
March 23, 2018 at 10:32
Like John Bolton, which is the problem Saphsin raised.
March 23, 2018 at 10:31
Pretty sure these things are decided by the commander in chief, i.e. the President. If he orders a strike then it has to be carried out, correct?
March 23, 2018 at 10:04
In my first post I admitted that how to go about rectifying – if possible – existing contracts is a quandary. My point was that at the very least we s...
March 23, 2018 at 09:11
It does make a difference. The ethical concern isn't simply with paying one person more than another for the same job but with paying one person more ...
March 22, 2018 at 23:15
This is a red herring. In the case of there being a gender pay gap, the decision to pay me less (or you more) isn't arbitrary. The decision was made o...
March 22, 2018 at 18:55
Your arguments ignore the central issue, which is that I was offered a contract with a lower wage because I'm a woman. Discrimination based on sex is ...
March 22, 2018 at 18:47
Users' comments (i.e. here) and discussions should be paginated. Just having "More comments" to go forward a page is annoying,
March 22, 2018 at 16:34
It isn't reasonable for me to hold that belief, but it's still reasonable for him to hold that belief. A belief is justified if it would be reasonable...
March 22, 2018 at 16:27
We've had good discussions here, too. I've just had to painstakingly split the comments off elsewhere.
March 22, 2018 at 13:52
I like to slack at work (case in point; this). I just don't like Slack.
March 22, 2018 at 13:52
I sometimes use it for work. I prefer email.
March 22, 2018 at 13:49
If the truth is exposed to us but not to him then his belief is still justified. Given the evidence available him, it is reasonable for him to believe...
March 22, 2018 at 13:46
But seriously, if you're reading the Grand Design to get a history lesson on philosophy then you're doing it wrong.
March 22, 2018 at 13:02
Last night I was reading the Bible. I could not read more than 1 page, and after that, I threw the book out the window. When it started saying things ...
March 22, 2018 at 13:01