Michael

What inconsistent beliefs?

Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven - Matthew 16:19

But I can apply the same reasoning here. Smith's belief is not that Jones has ten coins in his pocket. Rather, Smith has two beliefs: Jones has ten pi...

It is if you believe that f is true. For example, if I believe that it is Sunday and if I believe that it being Sunday entails that the Post Office is...

TGW didn't need to read between any lines. He was told what the issue was and was asked to stop. He refused and continued. If you're interested, here ...

That's 'cause the people who are appointed as moderators are of impeccable character.

I give you a day.

They're free to opt-in. Only the Church of England is forbidden. Religious institutions, yes. Non-religious register offices, no.

I just explained it?

So the UK law regarding gay marriage is fine? The Church of England is forbidden from performing same-sex marriage and all other religious institution...

Poor wording on my parts, perhaps. What I meant to say is that if the truth condition of some statement X is Y and if we were to recognise that Y obta...

That's not what he's doing at all. From this summary, "any truth-apt statement has to meet the condition that its truth-value can be specified in term...

Thanks, done.

This is confusing. Trump is very pro-business. Most of his executive orders seem to be aimed at reducing regulations, and he has plans to reduce corpo...

That's the part I dispute. A moral nihilist would reject moral autonomy, given that they reject moral facts, but can accept that we have free will. As...

And Trump hasn't done anything comparable (or worse)? So if some celebrity offered people a blowjob to vote for Trump then that's a reason not to supp...

How is he forced to watch other people have sex? "The very word 'Christianity' is a misunderstanding--at bottom there was only one Christian, and he d...

That's because you're a conservative and so don't have a sense of humour, duh!

Apparently she hated that slogan but her since-fired advisors kept pushing for it. Running through the wheat fields though, that comedy's all on her.

Only meant to say that the other guy lied about being the only UK conservative comedian. Not saying Jim's funny. 'cause obviously he ain't. He's a con...

Huh. Apparently there's only one British comedian who's a declared Conservative voter: Geoff Norcott. Never heard of him, so he's probably rubbish. Ed...

So it doesn't follow from 2, 3, and 5? You're just asserting that observation shows this to be the case?

How does 6 follow from 2, 3, and 5?

There's a difference between being skeptical and refusing to believe that they're right (claiming them wrong) because their conclusions are contrary t...

What is it with Republicans and experts? Next you're going to be a climate change denier.

And if 5% of blacks are in Minnesota and 5% are in DC then due to the random sampling it is likely that 5% of the blacks in the sample are from Minnes...

Yes. If 10% of the population are black and 5% lesbian and 50% religious then a random sample size of 1,500 is likely to also have 10% black, 5% lesbi...

I don't need to think about it. The expert statisticians are the ones who actually have the training and knowledge to determine these things. I'm show...

Yes, and if we take 1,500 random Americans then that would be representative of Americans.

I linked you to an article on the subject. That's the explanation.

No, because a sample size of 2 is terrible. A sample size of 1,500 people chosen at random from all black people in Arizona would be representative of...

The whole point of a random sample is that it tends to represent diversity. You clearly don't understand statistics.

Which assumptions are wrong? That it wasn't a representative sample? On what grounds do you justify such an assertion?

He isn't. It gives a 2.53% margin of error with a CI of 95%. That's pretty good. In fact, due to the nature of diminishing returns, increasing the sam...

I'm aware of that. That's why I did say of a representative sample. Obviously if you just poll 1,500 from a group of 10,000 rich white Christian Repub...

It's explicitly about polling people.

Actually, you're right. The math I saw may have been a little wrong. It's actually 2.53%. See here. Population size doesn't really matter, except when...

People tend to double-down on their commitments rather than admit to being wrong. They're so invested that they're incapable of changing their mind. P...

Like I said, nonsense. I like literal. It's literally better than anything else. Actually asking people for their opinions is always better than just ...

This is just nonsense.

1,500 people (if representative) in a survey gives you a 2.58% margin of error at a 95% confidence interval.

The About page says this: So, no, not yet. Have to wait on that one.

What's your idea of a "proper gentleman"?

This has his approval at 38% and impeachment at 40%.

British Imperialism was an exception, as the British are exceptional.

Again with the non sequitur. It doesn't matter if Trump has big crowds or if they were larger than Hillary's, because that doesn't refute Cavacava's c...

I was being facetious. I was trying to point out how ridiculous your comment was. Trying to suggest that Cavacava is wrong in saying that most people ...

Which group is bigger? The group that go to Trump rallies, or the group that don't? I rest Cavacava's case. Gallup isn't a fake poll. A lot of the pol...

Because the issue of free will is concerned about causal responsibility, not necessarily moral responsibility. As a simple example, one can be a Carte...

Moral nihilists can believe in free will, so I don't think that this new question works.