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Or it could seem like an argument... no trick at all.

Point taken. Good one at that. :wink:

Much ambiguity in the language of "influencing an election"...

Steele was no longer an agent? I thought the law was against receiving something of value from some specified foreign entity. If Steele needed to be a...

Cause and effect does not necessarily negate one's ability to choose what sorts of influence one wants.

If anything monogamy is unnatural. If being moral equate to being natural, then... That would have a lot of unacceptable consequences.

Didn't Clinton hire a foreign national? :yikes:

It seems that this hinges upon the notion of being transparent to ourselves. On my view, one always knows whether or not they believe what they say. T...

That's close, but not quite the argument... Lying to another is deliberately misrepresenting one's own thought and belief to another. Lying to oneself...

Her argumentative 'style' is akin to my own... criterion... criterion... criterion...

The possible political consequences to her are negative. She says early on that that is the reason she's arguing against this particular notion of gen...

Being wrong is not equivalent to lying. Being wrong about oneself is not equivalent to lying to oneself. The notion of 'self'-deception is nonsense. I...

This is presupposing exactly what needs argued for. Care to address the arguments I've given for how and why one cannot deceive oneself and one cannot...

Surely. I'm confident that neither 'self-deception' nor 'lying to oneself' is the best way to describe these situations though. I mentioned one earlie...

One's beliefs change over time. This can certainly result in having contradictory beliefs that weren't there before. We don't think about all our beli...

That's normal. If one holds contradictory belief, they usually do not face one another in one's thought. That usually takes an other. Always actually,...

We can believe contradictory things. We cannot acknowledge that they are and believe that they are not in the same breath.

All thought and belief consist of correlations drawn between 'objects' of physiological sensory perception and/or oneself. The 'feeling' of irritation...

Ignoring the self-contradiction is not believing there is none. It's neglecting to address it, or believing it's unimportant.

What is it like to be a woman/man? Do all women feel the same way about themselves? Men? Do they all share the same beliefs? Looks like the entire ent...

It does not follow from the fact that we've been wrong about some things that we've been wrong about everything. Your argument here demands that to be...

If it was foul it was not a home run. If it was a home run it was not foul. Not interestes in gamesmanship. I've shown you the error in your thinking.

If you know that they are in conflict, then you cannot believe that they are not. The mind is divided. However, it is still one mind. It is divided in...

I've already argued for why commitment alone is inadequate. This is incorrect. Truth/falsity is in the notion of lying. It's just that the lie(what's ...

Thought I'd make it easier... One cannot be tricked into believing something if they know both how they're being tricked, and that they're being trick...

It's been explained and argued for several times over. I'm sure if you really want to know why I hold that view, you'll go back and see for yourself.

All thought and belief is meaningful and presupposes truth. Mind consists in part at least(entirely on my view) of thought and belief(mental correlati...

There's something to be gleaned, I think, by looking at the list of top Trump folk who have not been interviewed. Trump, Jr, Erik, Bianca, Kushner, et...

Devon Nunez is the chair of the House oversight committee. He took evidence from the campaign investigation to the candidate whose campaign was being ...

Taking another stab in a different vein... So, there's two basic notions to consider with self-deception. The first is what is the or a 'self'. The se...

I suppose it's possible that one continue offering the same lie about themselves to others so often that they themselves begin to believe the lie. Uni...

Gettier gets believing a disjunction wrong. That's all his second case amounts to, nothing more. His first case is an example of his changing the trut...

On the nature of abetting... Yeah, pretty good.

That's a great piece! Brilliantly worded analogy.

Yeah, I'm all good for leaving politics out of the particular points raised. I just found it interesting... your word choice, I mean.

Positivists would've called Hitler's notion of Arian heritage nonsensical.

Would it need to be on a national scale out in the public domain in order to be taking place under a different guise? The knowledge for eugenics has n...

Hmmm... That's an interesting take. Of course I'm reminded of conventional American politics. I'm not sure that I'd call what Senator Mitch McConnell ...

Were they? If so, they weren't very good ones. :lol:

Eugenics isn't dead brother/sister... not by a long shot!

Nice. I see that as well. I'm thinking in general terms about the best interest of citizens. In particular, I'm thinking about when it comes to confli...

By the way, I hate the fact that Trump talks in terms of "America first".

Fascism is often equated with nationalism and both are frowned upon. I am a nationalist. That is, I am one who strongly believes that a nation's top p...

Honestly, I think trump is a symptom of much bigger problems. Other symptoms include the recent attacks on workers' rights, equating money to freedom ...

Indeed! Here in the States, the aim is to 'validate' all people's thought, belief, and feelings as a first step in helping them deal with whatever it ...

So what does it take for her to deceive herself? You saying so, or something that has nothing at all to do with you? I say, if the notion of self-dece...

If the ball was foul, then Joe never hit a home run to begin with... And that remains true for eternity as well, assuming it was to start with.

...Joe hit a homerun...

At time t1....

If by "truths" you mean true statements, then if they are properly indexed they will always be true, assuming that they are when formed.