Michael

I'm hoping for a hung parliament.

Are they exact match searches? Or would a search for "anti realism" be counted towards "realism"?

You're comparing a sample size of 22 to a sample size of 1,077.

No. How did you read that from what I said?

If I say "the First Amendment should be abolished" then I'm displaying a robust sense of free speech and showing myself to be against the First Amendm...

I'm not saying that a suggestion of arrest amounts to a violation of the First Amendment. I'm saying that a suggestion of arrest amounts to Trump show...

It's not the leakers he asked to be prosecuted. It's the journalists who published the info.

What about urging Comey to jail journalists who published leaked classified info?

Twitter users, blocked by Trump, cry censorship This seems like complete bullshit. Unless there's more to the First Amendment than the "Congress shall...

You set the bar too low. Doesn't even count as being wealthy.

And one of the most cited scholars in history.

Who'd have thought that Trump and Chomsky appeal to the same people?

That you can say whatever you want is not that you will never be punished for what you say.

"This is the Shoutbox, I can say whatever I want."

I don't have a mom. I have a mum.

Egypt is 88% Muslim. You'd never visit. Although I guess you might go to Burundi...

b is divisible by a if and only if there exists an integer k such that b = ak Is there an integer k that satisfies the equation 0 = 2k? Yes; 0. So 0 i...

Well, you do say things like "I bathe daily in the Nile, defacating, scrubbing, washing my clothes and dishes, all in one sitting. Cleanses my mind, b...

Ah, went right over my head.

Sorry, don't understand what you're saying.

Everything. Tut tut.

If born-men can identify as women then why can't born-English identify as native American? Queue a variation of the Life of Brian speech. ;)

We are all biased, but I'm sure we can make accurate judgements nonetheless. Which is exactly why being the victim of collateral damage doesn't entail...

I'm commenting on your earlier retort that "the typical way we evaluate matters is to find an unbiased, unaffected person to do the evaluating" in res...

I didn't say that morality is relative. I said that you're not unbiased.

You're not being unbiased when you judge your way of life to be superior to another way of life, or when you consider it acceptable for some far-away ...

I reckon you'd feel differently (and so would argue differently) if Israel bombed your neighbourhood, killing your family, with the intent to kill som...

You said that logic counts as science. Therefore, if one has a logical explanation for something then one has a scientific explanation for that thing....

Then the theist is free to use the cosmological argument and others like it to support their conclusion that there is a God.

All the people and groups in that seem to be connected to the Socialist Workers Party, who are far-left Trotskyists. I don't think it reasonable to tr...

I don't think this holds. There's no scientific explanation for why the Sun's corona is hotter than its surface, but we have reasons to believe that i...

I think it's fine to criticise a religion (in the sense of criticizing its religious texts). I just don't think it's fine to discriminate against and ...

I think that's explained in the same way that leftist rhetoric seeks to protect women more so than men, blacks more so than whites, and homosexuals mo...

No, sorry, it was a response to Agustino asking why the left has a problem with us bombing terrorists. For the most part (I think), it's not bombing t...

I'm not arguing for a moral equivalency. I'm not saying that they're equally bad. I'm saying that they're both bad, and that it's wrong to excuse the ...

I don't know what you're trying to say here. I'm simply condemning the fact that we've killed thousands of innocent civilians.

I would say most would condemn. But, of course, there are terrible people like Eric Lifeson on both sides of the politic spectrum, but to then use tha...

And that's still not the point. The point is that our actions have led to the death of 3,800 civilians, which is a terrible thing. Turning around and ...

Of course. But that doesn't make 3,800 civilian deaths somehow acceptable. Just because one thing is worse than another doesn't mean that only the wor...

It's not us bombing terrorists that's the problem (except to the extent that it provokes them to attack us in retaliation). It's us bombing innocent c...

There is no alliance between the left and radical Islamic terrorism.

Why would that sicken you? I'm lovely.

I didn't say it wasn't a conclusion. I'm saying that "overweight" doesn't mean "judged to have an unhealthy amount of fat". And so by the same token, ...

So am I. When I say "you're fat", I am forming an opinion, estimate, notion, or conclusion about your body weight. But when I say "you're fat" I'm not...

And when I say "you're fat" I'm making a judgement, but "fat" doesn't mean "judged to be overweight"; it just means "overweight".

I don't know why, but I'd argue that we have them; "true" and "false". For the most part, it seems that when people say "X is true" they mean to say t...

You'll have to ask Terrapin. He's the realist who argues that facts are objective and obtain independently of people (except facts about people, of co...

I'm not making a judgement about any particular proposition or any particular state of affairs. I'm saying that we can have a term "X" that is defined...

Because rather than say "this proposition refers to a state of affairs that doesn't actually obtain" we can say "this proposition is X". It's simple u...

So we have the word "false" that refers both to a proposition that refers to a state of affairs that is judged to not obtain and to a proposition that...