Michael

I dunno. Ever read So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish? Wonko the Sane builds an Asylum around the world. Maybe this cupboard is a cupboard around th...

Banno would disagree. A red cup is a cup, and so a Rob Zombie is a Zombie.

I believe he was referring to Rob Zombie.

So was I. I was paraphrasing Captain Barbarossa from the Pirates of the Caribbean. ;)

The guidelines are more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules.

Sorry, but I don't really see how disjunctivism helps here. How does a theory on perception address Gettier's original two examples? They've got nothi...

As mosesquine he sent me this PM: So banned for sending death threats (as well as repeated insults prior to this). All his other accounts were banned ...

Neither do I. O.J. killed it.

Disenfranchisement, too.

It does. 1. "Copper" contains six letters, and is not a metal. 2. Copper is a metal, and contains no letters. 3. "Michael" contains seven letters, and...

That I wrote the words "I am Michael" is not that I'm saying that I'm a word. It's absurd to think I am. You continue to conflate use and mention. Her...

No I didn't. Just as when I write "I am an English web developer who dabbles in philosophy" I'm not saying that I'm a sentence. You're talking nonsens...

I am Michael. I am not a word. Therefore, Michael is not a word. "Michael" is a 7-letter word. I am not a 7-letter word. Therefore, I am not "Michael"...

It makes sense if you understand the distinction between use and mention. So if it doesn't make sense to you then you don't understand the distinction...

You conflate use and mention. Red is a colour, not a word, and "red" is a word, not a colour.

Is that you quine/mosesquine?

Well, "correspondence" is a 14-letter word whereas correspondence is a close similarity, connection, or equivalence between two or more things (or com...

But it does have real men.

No, it's a shitty rugby knock-off. ;)

What about my belief that Ian Huntley was guilty of the Soham murders? I only believe that because he was found guilty at a trial. I suppose it is ind...

What I meant was that him being found guilty at a trial can be a non-hype and non-partisanship reason for us to believe that he's guilty.

He was found guilty at the civil trial.

Well, Pablo Fenjves wrote it. He said it was based on discussions with O.J., whereas O.J.'s manager said that O.J. was just paid $600,000 to go along ...

Really need a small version or need a really small version?

If it helps, he only said "don't really", not "really don't".

Do "it is true that snow is white" and "'snow is white' is true" mean the same thing?

Are you referring to this Vermont story? There's an editor's note at the top: "An earlier version of this story incorrectly said that Russian hackers ...

I'm loving the look of the new Doctor. I hope they keep it and it wasn't just for the trailer.

Did you even read what I wrote? I'll repeat it for you: Even though our attempts to describe the meaning of "meaning" may be circular, this isn't how ...

How is it a paradox? Even though our attempts to describe the meaning of "meaning" may be circular, this isn't how we first learn a language. Definiti...

Sublime on Windows, Coda on Mac.

What the statement is about isn't what matters. The Harry Potter story is about going to a school for wizards, and the painting is about an angel visi...

$sum = 0; for ($i = 1; $i < 1000; ++$i) { if (0 == $i % 3 || 0 == $i % 5) { $sum += $i; } } echo $sum; 233,168.

Harry Potter and "Harry Potter" are not the same. A painting of an angel isn't a painting of paint. There's clearly a semantic or intentional differen...

We have MathJax. $$\int_{a}^{b} x^2 dx$$

Metaphysical nihilism. On the weaker side it only posits that there is a possible where nothing exists, and on the stronger side it posits that nothin...

That's not the dichotomy I'm addressing. The problematic dichotomy is "either God (a supreme being who punishes those who don't believe in him with et...

Again, irrelevant. Your wager is a false dichotomy, as I've shown. As a rationale for believing in God, it fails.

So? That doesn't address the problem at all. You're saying that it's rational to believe in God because if he exists then he'll punish you if you don'...

This is just pedantic. The crux is that there may exist a psychopomp who punishes those who believe in him – or any other God or gods – with eternal h...

I've given one: God punishes those who believe in him with eternal suffering in hell. "Negative" propositions can be re-phrased into "positive" propos...

Have you looked into enactivism? It's an interesting theory that seems to bridge realism and idealism. It suggests that a statement like "the keys are...

But the claim is that the fact that the tree fell is a fact that depends on there being a witness. So the antecedent in your statement ("if a tree fal...

The question is "can a tree fall in a forest without witnesses?", not "if a tree falls in a forest without witnesses, does it fall?" The latter is jus...

As @"Cavacava" pointed out, this is just a trivial deduction, and doesn't address the issue at hand. The question is whether or not the antecedent can...

Well, you could believe that the Earth was created 6,000 years ago, and that the rocks were created with a ratio of carbon-12 to carbon-14 such that t...

Mueller's investigation and Congress are two different things, so I'm not sure what you mean by talking about one thing taking precedence over another...

So I have to assume both that "TheMadFool is an only child" and "TheMadFool has at least one sibling" are false? That would be a contradiction. What i...

And your favourite?

I'd say Brainfuck, just 'cause of the name.