Thomas https://philosophy.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/The%20Absurd%20-%20Thomas%20Nagel.pdf I really liked this piece when I first read it, but I s...
Sure, that's exactly what al-Gharbi and others have done. I don't think it is just some "unavoidable problem of urbanization," that the oh-so-progress...
I was referring to the migrants who are often fleeing civil wars, state collapse, or major depressions in other countries, not the West. That is, offe...
Yes, this line has been pedalled by folks like Charles Murray for the better part of a half century now. Any day now the sci-fi technology will finall...
:up: Exactly. Trump is extremely incompetent and is hiring an entire clown car of other incompetents, so I imagine he will face another mid-term disas...
I don't think these analyses actually tend to differ that much, they just focus on different things. Your classical neoliberal advocates, along with y...
The immaculate conception is a (relatively quite recent) Catholic doctrine that stems from their particular understanding of Original Sin. So, while "...
Well, I considered sharing this quote from D.C. Schindler in the thread on Christians who don't believe in Christ (aside from as a good role model and...
Anyhow, liberal parties world wide have a wider "male problem," that cuts across other demographic categories. This seems to be a particularly pernici...
I think the Democratic Party would find this essentially impossible. First, because the primary system in the US, where candidates are selected by rel...
Depends on what you mean by "make an economy thrive." Liberal urban enclaves in the US certainly thrive in terms of aggregate GDP figures. In terms of...
Well, on one view critiques of philosophy along the lines that it is "useless," might be taken as a complement. It is among the few pursuits that is r...
Well, I suppose it's sort of like asking: "can I be a 'Marxist' while rejecting dialectical materialism and the workers' ownership of the means of pro...
I've been to a lot of Evangelical churches over the years (Baptist and non-denominational), regularly attending some. Also some Methodist and Presbyte...
Your post seems to be assuming something like representationalism, then knocking it down to prove an "anti-metaphysical" position. This sort of argume...
Certainly that's one example, although I am mostly aware of the via negativa in terms of apophatic theology. I would say the entire Thomistic idea of ...
I read this awhile back. Good book. Thought it just sort of begged the question when it came to "what constitutes computation/information?" by assumin...
Demagogues might often use xenophobic rhetoric to take advantage of the fact that the West's migration policies are deeply unpopular, even among many ...
I wasn't comparing the US and the Taliban, I was pointing out that the US did attempt to set up a liberal democracy in Afghanistan, as well as a domes...
Like the US and its allies did for 20 years? The US public isn't even willing to support Ukrainians, who are actually willing to fight for their freed...
Mike Duncan, who did the History of Rome and Revolutions podcast and put out a few popular histories, had a very good analogy back when he was coverin...
Yes, but his party had full control of government and didn't even hold a vote on migration. To vastly oversimplify, Big Business wants migrant labor. ...
Trump ran on immigration last time and he had the House, Senate, and Court for 24 months and they didn't even a single vote on migration, not even tok...
A fair point, but I actually thought this pointed in the other direction. Trump won after Brexit, with the Fac Five all winning or most winning right ...
The philosopher/fiction writer has a pretty interesting short story/essay on neural implants that let you control your own mood and emotions, "Crashsp...
Suppose we have: A ? ~A A Therefore, B In a logic with a relevance condition such that not everything follows from a falsehood. And suppose our logic ...
Yes, that's a common view today. Analogy is a difficulty for logic. The move towards the univocity of being in the late medieval nominalist period (im...
I mean, I don't think you can turn it into an argument that doesn't sound very stupid at any rate. My thoughts were just that an argument isn't consid...
I mentioned it several posts back, but it seems possible to have an invalid argument with necessarily false premises. You could construct a syllogism ...
You are correct. I was speaking to our intuition about: "This sentence is false." If it is true it is false, yet we say also because it is apparent th...
An example where we might want to argue that both premises are true might be instructive. Suppose A = "This sentence is false." We might suppose that ...
Blame the analytics. Before that demon lord Ockham showed up we had perfectly intelligible gems like: By way of the usual translations, the central ar...
If we exclude necessarily false premises can we still demonstrate explosion? Or does keeping contradictory premises out of valid arguments remove expl...
I haven't given it much thought but I am pretty sure this holds for strict implication as well. If: "if p is true then q is necessarily true (true in ...
See: "implications are disjunctions." https://discrete.openmathbooks.org/dmoi3/sec_propositional.html#:~:text=Implications%20are%20Disjunctions.&text=...
Sure, tautologies might be semantic, e.g. "bachelor's are unmarried men," or "triangles are three-sided." Yet aren't these really just expressing that...
Aren't truth and form mixed together in any tautology or contradiction? We wouldn't want to exclude those though, right? It seems you could do without...
I wish I had students this interested when I was still teaching economics. I hate to recommend Hegel, because even the relevant work here, The Philoso...
Yes, I think that's fair to say. We particularly care about this sort of thing in the sciences, the large focus on "correlation versus causation" for ...
I think that is likely often true, but it also seems possible in some cases to construct a syllogism that addresses the "why" (as well as syllogisms t...
In natural language, predication is often not totally univocal, but is also not totally equivocal. There is a vagueness problem. For example, we might...
I mean sure, if you want to collapse "moving quickly on feet" and "operates" into a single term. You could cover other equivocations of "run" as well ...
I am not sure about this one. The person is not arguing that A is actually ~A. Presumably, they believe real piety exists, just that this person doesn...
Well, while I think Srap has a good point about our being able to live without A?~A in most situations, I think it is important that statements like "...
Probably unfortunately relevant to we Americans' immanent election (and the last one, and 2000... a pattern emerges). However, I think this would be a...
It may seem bizarre that a valid argument could have at least one premise that is necessarily false at first glance, but I think it is fairly intuitiv...
But the Reformation didn't reinforce hierarchies of authority. It often led to their apocalyptic breakdown, e.g. the siege of Munster. The "adaptive e...
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