Hah, yes. Putin is no longer Putin as he himself is now a fully paid up member of the cult of Putin. The dynamic is so similar to that of Trump. Anoth...
This talks past the issue at stake. Is metaphysics a method of inquiry aimed at some goal, or is it merely a history of intellectual accidents? You ca...
Yep. The danger is that Putin is locked into his own spiral of escalation. And such trajectories are exponential. Each step grows bigger and riskier. ...
Yep. How do we explain the Big Bang? My one liner is that the universe can exist because it is falling into its own heat sink. We can view the Big Ban...
Ultimately they have to be because they must be of the nature to reconstruct the world or context that is giving them their shape. So it is a cybernet...
A context limits what is possible. So it is an apophatic cause. It causes by suppressing what might otherwise be the case. Global constraints embody b...
What was I saying other than that dichotomous distinctions are fundamental? For vagueness, the possibility of dialectical logic already spells the beg...
:grin: Exactly. The most reduced notion of a global telos that we could arrive at which would produce an entropically closed system. So it is teleolog...
Sure. The self is a social construction. It is the collective view. It is centred on individuals in interaction until they arrive at some functional h...
This is a reductionist manoeuvre aimed to put the self at the centre of the world. The mechanical view of nature arose by kicking final cause out of t...
Ain’t logic the foundation of maths? Along with counting? So yes. I’m never one to police academic boundaries in a reductionist fashion. I see only th...
Good grief. Keeping up with the galloping advance of science is like trying to hang on to a rocket. You can say physics has run into a wall now that i...
So you agree with Kofman and I agree with Kofman. Amusing. Note that I summarised his view as that Putin’s political war aims were incompetent because...
Plans that work because you’ve correctly prepared. I entered this conversation at the point where there was a lot of excuses being made for Putin’s in...
A lot of blah, blah, blah. Then a careful silence on your wild misrepresentation of Kofman’s analysis. You cleared the threshold for incompetent argum...
I would also say that I’ve tried to query your approach often enough in the past to find it is just a simplistic conflationist argument. Information a...
Thanks for posting that Kofman interview which flatly contradicts your talking points. That you could hear it as saying the opposite makes me quite wo...
This being so, why does it matter whether you are camp West or camp Eurasia? Cheering for a team is a natural human reaction, but why not evaluate the...
Excellent question. If maths doesn’t take its semantics with it, then yes, it isn’t equiped with its own interpretive machinery. You seem to be back i...
Not so, especially with QM where what is being metaphysically interpreted are mathematically expressed statements. Some things just can’t be put into ...
Yep. Pragmatism is essentially AP. It aims at univocal truth claims by employing logic. But Peirce enlarged that logic (as well as laying foundations ...
Yep. But surely that is because what it has in common is the skill we call critical thinking. So it is inquiry’s general best method. And that allows ...
What, valid in the sense that the model and the world both exist and are in an empirical relation? So we are in the land of epistemology and not ontol...
I just said the opposite. The problem is that there are so many jargons already. So don’t confuse folk by redescribing the same things yet again. Inve...
What does it mean to “go metaphysical”. The word is being used a lot, but do we all have the same understanding of it? Drawing a hard line between dom...
Interesting account of why Hostomel went so wrong. Imagine being a paratrooper and only discovering you are being dropped into a war zone as you are c...
You talk past my point about counterfactuals. Metaphysical claims are empty if they are "not even wrong" as theories. But if they claim something meas...
I think if you are the guy who half invented quantum mechanics – Schrodinger – and you called it negative entropy to make the infodynamic connection e...
The multiplicity of first person views is what underwrites the unity of the third person point of view. But then we know how your plain language lumpe...
That ceased to be a viable claim in 1966. de Vault, D. & Chance, B. Studies of phosynthesis using a pulsed laser. i. Temperature dependence of cytochr...
I couldn’t follow your reasoning there. A competent feint would be as convincing as possible while consuming as little men and material as possible. N...
I wasn’t talking about anonymous keyboard warriors of course. I meant credible public sources. The two ain’t exactly mutually exclusive. Indeed they a...
Who says that? Everyone agrees about the surprising degree of Russian incompetence, but who says that is the reason not to negotiate. It would seem th...
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