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If you already have a goal in mind for positing the foundation of all problem solving, then it is not the goal of the foundation. It is your goal. The...

Some accidents are the result of trigger happy police officers. The problem is the warlike mindset of police officers during such raids. They are trai...

Nice then, that at least the fight for racial justice(equal treatment under the law) has the additional benefit of shining a light upon other problems...

No worries. I did not take that personally, just so you know. Rather, I just wanted to be clear about my intentions here. Cheers!

Understood. I've no where near enough knowledge of Plotinus to be of much help here. Just seemed like Spinoza successfully accomplished(contrary to hi...

Not all murder is premeditated. It is all wrongful killing. Killing Taylor was wrongful. Did race play a part in her killing, such that she was killed...

Reminds me of Spinoza's Ethics, aside from the fact the Spinoza aimed at God as the source of all creation(I think) and Plotinus seemed to want to avo...

You're talking about the Taylor event right? Getting murdered for having had a relationship with an unsavory individual in the past is a problem. That...

That is false. Again... Evidence of an individual's thoughts are patterns of their behaviour. Habits of thought directly influence how one acts during...

Changing the subject will not help you here. Nor will a misrepresentation of what I claimed. I did not deny that excessive force cases are investigate...

You'll have to do better than that. No need to read Trump's mind, nor the mind of anyone who has operative racist beliefs governing their actions and ...

What a bullshit line. Please. Support your claims here. Show everyone here the actual number of blacks who died at the hands of police officers. Show ...

All the while not addressing, not carefully considering, not eliminating the injury and harm that a pandemic has had upon millions and millions of Ame...

Solipsism is a philosophical position. All philosophical positions require language use. All language use requires shared meaning. All shared meaning ...

That is a commonly held false belief. Evidence of an individual's thoughts are patterns of their behaviour. Habits of thought directly influence how o...

A very kind review. Kinder than my own upon rereading. I should have further simplified/edited it. However, it seemed to at least skirt around what I ...

Some starting considerations, given where we are... The foundation of problem solving is a name that - if adequate - will somehow pick out what all pr...

Hammers and nails... For fuck's sake. Someone against the paper:Make your case. Someone against analytic philosophy, go elsewhere or again:make your c...

Greetings. Welcome. :smile: Very relevant topic. My favorite. I'd rather see it discussed openly. OP???

Here's the irony... You claimed both, that natural reason demands coherency, and that laypeople can indeed hold contradictory beliefs. So, either lay ...

By personally acting to ensure that the player would be punished for exercising the right to peaceful demonstration, Trump most certainly did deny tho...

:brow: Do you not see the self-contradiction/incoherency?

There's a bit of irony here...

What counts as necessary?

Rational arguments for treating blacks horribly would be good according to that... That argument is rational, and it is good for something to be ratio...

Being rational requires only consistent meaningful language use and valid inference. Rational arguments can lead to things that are clearly not good.

The result of fifty years worth of bad government.

So, this boils down to what exactly counts as being necessary... If A is existentially dependent upon B, then B is necessary for A. There are far far ...

There were a couple different points being made... My basic point(the reason I first posted) was that natural reason does not demand coherency. If tha...

Smith cannot believe both, that he will get the job, and that someone else will get the job.

para-consistent logic

Gettier...

Devaluing another group of people based upon the color of their skin is not in short supply. Your head is currently up the ass of a bonafide racist. C...

I am saying that people hold contradictory beliefs.

It does not. All sorts of people engage in reasoning despite having self-contradictory(incoherent )beliefs. Some refuse to even consider the self-cont...

I would concur.

We can correctly predict.

Biblical and biblically based prophecies and revelations... I believe that there have been and continue to be far too many to even be able take each i...

To some... Those numbers mean nothing to me.

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Caring what others think about us is inevitable. Blindly following(agreeing with/to) the value system underwriting the judgment of others about us is ...

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Misplaced decimal point... Good catch, I wasn't paying attention... 0.66

I do not think that that ratio is trustworthy reliable ground for any conclusion about the quality of the individual's contributions... at all. In a t...

Where have I attacked you personally? The reverse is easily shown, so... Offer one criticism of white privilege that follows from what I've been setti...

That's not true at all. What valid response and/or criticism have you levied that I've not given due attention to?

No. It is for none of those proposed reasons that I suspect you are aiming to muddy the waters and deliberately confuse the issues. Rather, it's becau...

Red kool-aid would still stain clothes even if we did not call it "red". The root of the problem is not language. That misgiving has been addressed mo...

There are those whose aim it is to obfuscate, deny, distort, and refuse to hear the message... so it cannot be sold. I suspect you are one.

The only thing that all chairs have in common is that we call them all "chairs".