I think this is unnecessarily pedantic. In one person’s reference frame the event is in the present (or past), and in the other person’s reference fra...
A statement such as "a fleet of spaceships has just left the Andromeda Galaxy en route to Earth" is either true or false, even though we don't, and ca...
But the relativity of simultaneity isn't just about one person seeing something before another person; it's about that thing actually happening for on...
I don't really understand your question. I certainly accept that special relativity, and its various implications such as the Andromeda Paradox, are c...
You think the distinction between "there is intelligent life in the Andromeda Galaxy" being truth-apt and it not being truth-apt is a meaningless dist...
Is that just because we don't know what is happening, or is it because there's nothing happening? A realist would presumably say that something is hap...
There’s some math here that might explain it: https://medium.com/mathadam/the-andromeda-paradox-b4bb30a0e372 Given the distance to the Andromeda galax...
No? It's just saying that they conclude that at some point in the past, it was true for one of them that the ships had set off and false for the other...
As it says they don’t know that it’s the case, but the reasoning suggests that it is the case for one of them. It’s better to understand it as saying ...
The rock and the flare arrive at the same time. From our perspective they took 1,000,000 years. A ship followed them at 99% the speed of light. From o...
What if the experiment ends after the Monday interview if heads, with the lab shut down and Sleeping Beauty sent home? Heads and Tuesday is as irrelev...
This doesn't seem to be saying anything. Why use the word "God" at all? Why not just say that there was some inanimate, formless chaos that happened (...
Maybe that's true of the person who hung the sign (assuming they have a basic understanding of biology), but our use of the words "man" and "woman" an...
I'll throw in one last consideration. I posted a variation of the experiment here. There are three beauties; Michael, Jane, and Jill. They are put to ...
What does this mean? Are you saying that the words "existence" and "God" are synonyms? As a fluent English speaker I'd have to disagree. At the very l...
Copied from something I posted in a previous discussion: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-lgbt-survey-idUSKBN13X0BK https://www.hsph.harvard.edu...
What about those who’ve physically transitioned? Should an XX person with an artificial penis and testicles use the XX locker room? Should an XY perso...
Because of length contraction the faster you go the shorter the distance between two points. So something that is 1 light year away to us is less than...
Because that might be unconstitutional. Article II states "No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of ...
Trump rejected lawyers’ efforts to avoid classified documents indictment Such a moron. His own lawyers tell him that he needs to give them back and he...
He took things that were neither presidential records nor personal records; documents with classification markings related to national defence. You ca...
Also that court ruling only says that "there is nothing under the statute that the Court can compel the Archivist to do." It continues by saying: So i...
The above also references the court case you referenced before @"NOS4A2", which has this to say: Given that there is no record of Trump categorising s...
Frivolous Trump Argument No. 1: Classified Intelligence Reports Compiled by Government Agencies Are ‘Personal Records’ under the Presidential Records ...
They weren't personal records. The Presidential Records Act doesn't given the President authority to declare that agency records are his personal reco...
I'm saying that it can be illegal for him to retain it when subpoenaed to return it even if it is, and remains, declassified. You mistakenly believe t...
What are you talking about? A document being declassified can still be subject to the provisions of legislation. Your claim that if Trump declassified...
They can: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-classified-national-security-information And in Trump's case, even if ...
Even if manually declassified they may still contain information covered by additional restrictions that would require continued withholding of inform...
There is a difference. See here: A document being declassified doesn't mean that it is legal for any person to possess it. A declassified document can...
The ruling is only that: Nothing in this says that Trump can avoid being charged under the Espionage Act for retaining documents related to national d...
Yes, I believe so. Classification levels are an additional restriction, beyond what else might be restricted by law, and aren't a replacement. So some...
It’s not the same because she isn’t given a randomly selected waking after 52 weeks. She’s given either one waking or two, determined by a coin toss. ...
I think it's also worth paying particular attention to the way Elga phrased the problem and the solution: The Tuesday interview is actually irrelevant...
It sort of addresses this in a footnote: The problem (and Elga's solution) have nothing to do with how to "verify" one's credence. It simply asks what...
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