Michael

I think there's a fundamental problem with saying that a logical necessity is logically possible. I can't quite put my finger on what that problem is,...

How can a necessary thing exist in one possible world but not the actual world? I can't quite put my finger on the actual logical misstep. There's som...

That's not what Moore was doing though. "Here is a hand" was one of the premises he tried to use to prove that there is an external world.

We can replace "God" with anything that has "necessary" as a property, and so use the argument to argue for any number of different things, e.g. the (...

This doesn't seem to address my objection, which is that when we imagine God we imagine it to exist, and so to argue that if God doesn't exist then we...

Trump on Russia probe: ‘You fight back, oh, it’s obstruction’ Did he just admit to obstructing justice?

So you're suggesting that we ought posit eternalism just because it makes it easier to address issues regarding truth? Others, perhaps @"Janus", don't...

I haven't claimed otherwise.

You can't show me now. And nothing that's happening unseen right now makes the statement true. And yet it is (apparently) true nonetheless. Unless you...

He's talking about claims about the past or the future. You often say that you can show someone that a statement is true, but you can't show that a st...

Well that's not true. Fear of breaking the law is a pretty good motivator.

Eastern Europe is all the same place; discount Russia.

Blame Romania. They didn't come here until they were 20.

You have to wear their outfit and do the dance.

Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum), The Cheeky Girls.

Yes, my mistake. For a moment I thought of the LEM as stating that a statement is either true or false, when it's actually stating that either a state...

Also any multi-valued logic, e.g. that used by SQL.

There's probably a search function for that.

Remember that time I forgot that moses threatened to kill me?

If by "remember" you mean "able to use the search function"... ;)

Yeah, I think the issue was with the cumulative score showing for each member. Creates a sort of "I'm better than you" hierarchy. The poll we did actu...

There was never downvoting.

To better explain this: 1. We imagine this thing G1 2. If G1 doesn't exist then some real G2 is greater But what's the difference between imagining G1...

How else am I to get a raise? I think I should at least get double.

I'm 29. But thanks for the kind words all the same.

The negation of "no statement is both true and false" isn't "all statements are both true and false". If at least one statement is both true and false...

There are hate speech laws in the UK. Up until 2014 it included "insults". Currently it only covers "threats" and "abuse".

Besides, Trump wanted DACA to be signed into law. https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/905228667336499200?lang=en

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/congress-barrels-into-shutdown-without-protecting-military-pay/article/2646584 Blame McConnell, not the Democrats. A...

I'm not being obtuse. You're just reading claims into my posts that I'm not making. All I am saying is that it is incorrect to claim that because what...

I haven't said that.

I haven't claimed it is.

This was my original post: All I am trying to say is that "it's true" isn't a defense against the accusation of violence.

How am I being inconsistent? I'm simply saying that "it's true" isn't a good defence against the accusation that what you're saying is violent. I have...

If they harm someone, then it is. The rest of your post wasn't relevant to my criticism, which is that "it's true" isn't a satisfactory defense agains...

If you hover over the discussion title when on the main page the tooltip will be the category.

FYI, this is in the Debate Proposals category. @"creativesoul" is asking if anyone would like to argue against him in a formal debate (which, incident...

Married with children? Hell no. Funny show, though.

But that's not the example I used. My example proves I'm right. So nyah!

If there's a rule that says "you can't park here", does it then mean that you can park anywhere else?

If we're being strict logicians, this doesn't work. If it is unacceptable to have sex with someone under 12 over whom you have authority, then it is a...

A peculiar saying, as exceptions disprove the rule.

Also when I have an excuse to belittle you. Mocking Hanover and barely-legal teens are my life.

16, unless one of them is in a position of authority over the other, in which case it's 18.

Here.

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Imagine they're worth $1,000,000 in 10 years. The 10-year graph will look a lot like your earlier chart. Probably the same if you look at the graph in...

I don't. Something can be unintentionally insulting. When I said that "it's certainly something people say to bully" I was simply pointing out that "i...

You need to get a good lawyer to weasel your way around that. Maybe @"Ciceronianus the White"?

Psychological violence isn't a novel term. Besides, if you're focusing too much on the specific word "violence" and not allowing for similar words lik...