Michael

So I look at blue pixels and see red strawberries? Certainly does suggest that we can't reduce the objects of perception to the mind-independent thing...

I don't know if it's correct to say that the illusion exploits a loophole in the definition of "red". But I would say that certain philosophical posit...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C5piDuZUwAEZl00.jpg What colour are the strawberries? https://twitter.com/social_brains/status/836088599418281984/photo/1?...

If you click on your username in the top left corner and then on Mentions on the left you'll find a list of all the times someone has mentioned you. I...

Moderated, and gave correct information in the feature request thread.

Then what about a false arrest?

You mean I'm not going to be getting any money in return for my work as a moderator? And here I was thinking I'd be given a share of the site and thus...

Oh, it'll be for my benefit more than anything. Pretending that it'll be used here just gives me some motivation. ;)

I do have a week off work next week. Staycations are the best kind of holiday. So it's a toss-up between doing web stuff or watching TV...

Better? Highly doubtful. Easier to customise according to our own personal wants? Definitely. Or, you know, get a copy of WSN forums and get Paul back...

Better get working on my own forum software then. I did tell jamalrob when this place was first set up that I planned to build one, but I totally have...

Actually, Kanjorski's claims there were discredited.

I have, in hospital. It's preferred over morphine in the UK. Good stuff.

Don't worry, you were adopted.

I think this is confirmation bias (or whatever the correct term is). When we disagree on moderating decisions we usually do so in the private moderato...

Actually, in that context (i.e. the context of the legend "THIS FILM IS BASED ON TRUE EVENTS"), "truth" obviously isn't a predicate of statements.

I imagine situations of that kind crop up during war. Do we bomb the munitions factory even though civilians are working there? Should we sacrifice a ...

Or pulling the lever to change the tracks so that the trolley kills just one person rather than five. So to repeat a question I asked earlier (not dir...

Should be "come on", not "common".

I'm confused by this. Are you saying that national socialism is better than other forms of socialism because, even though the Nazis killed a greater p...

Agreed.

By command theory do you mean something like divine command theory or prescriptivism? Because as per the breakdown here, the former is a type of subje...

Anti-realism isn't un-realism. This persistent belief that if you're an anti-realist about X then you think that X isn't real is mistaken. I didn't sa...

I don't understand the point of the question. What it means to be an anti-realist about the claims of human psychology (whatever that would be) is not...

They are, but not in the sense that is meant by moral realism. Perhaps a better phrasing would be "impersonal features of the world". It's not. It's w...

This doesn't support moral realism. It just denies error theory and non-cognitivism. Compare with: "It is illegal to sell alcohol to those under 18 ye...

Witches cast 'mass spell' against Donald Trump. What a crazy world we live in.

61 - 4/33. Picked 1 as the answer to every question.

Isn't that what we're already doing, and what @"Baden" did before he decided to delete those posts? You just disagree with the decision he made. But t...

Way to bring down the tone, bert1. :p

Isn't beer one of your five-a-day? No, wait, that's cider.

If you're 18 or over then you can't be in a position of authority over someone under 18.

This seems like you're being unnecessarily pedantic. But fine, I'll use your terminology. There is an infinite series of discrete locations between A ...

So you deny that there's an actual half way point between the start position and the end position?

Of course the points actually exist. There actually is a half way point between the start and the end of a 100m line. There actually is a quarter way ...

It doesn't matter if the movement doesn't actually consist of an infinite series of separate, discrete steps. It still has to pass through an infinite...

There is a half-way point. If one object is 10 metres away from another then the half-way point is 5 metres between them, and this is true even if nob...

It doesn't matter if you don't consider the movement to be in separate, discrete steps. The problem is that it has to pass through discrete points (wh...

As you continuously moved from A to B in one smooth motion you passed the half way point, and did so even if nobody was measuring. What's so problemat...

Priest would have told you to go buy his book. :P

I don't get this. You do pass the half-way point (after 50m). And you do pass the quarter way point (after 25m). And so on, ad infinitum. As above, I ...

Sure there is. If the object is to travel 10 metres then it passes the half-way point after 5 metres. And this is true even if we're not measuring it....

I mean something akin to going from saying "0.001 second" to saying "1 millisecond". We just define new units of time (e.g. "nanosecond", "picosecond"...

Why not? The electron's position is a value in its quantum state. So going from one quantum state to another involves going from one position to anoth...

This is why I find the use of the aforementioned geometric series to address the paradox to be nothing more than trickery. It assumes from the start t...

? Edit: Ha!

I don't know what you mean by this. I'm simply saying that one's sexual orientation is defined as one's gender preference. So saying that someone is a...

No, the sexual orientation would be heterosexual/homosexual/bisexual. Paedophilia would then be one's paraphilia.

I don't think it's a matter of being controversial but just a matter of "sexual orientation" being defined as "a person's sexual identity in relation ...

"Satan has been the best friend the Church has ever had, as he has kept it in business all these years" - Anton LaVey (an actual Satanist, albeit not ...