5.56mm is occasionally used as a DMR as a compromise, because it allows the DM to use the same ammunition as the rest of a squad. But DMRs are overwhe...
You'd think professional assassins would know not to use 5.56mm with its garbage rainbow ballistics and would spring for 7.62mm, .30-06, or the fancy ...
I am not sure what the ultimate relevance for moral realism will amount to in any case. If obligations are just rules in some game we "play," why is i...
I think issues like the cat are simply mistranslations and over simplifications. The statement should be something like: The cat is sitting across the...
I imagine the long term effects are more likely to be in the form of Trump being more vindictive and focused on retribution against his political enem...
Grazed on the ear. I can think of no worse contrast than Biden's campaign trying to talk up his "decent functioning," at his "big boy press conference...
The conservation part was the only reason I remembered it TBH. Or one that isn't horrifically complex. I actually think that is what gets people more ...
A = There are vampires. B = Vampires are dead. Not-B = Vampires are living. As you can clearly judge, this truth table works with Ts straight across t...
That's a cute one. It seems to trade off the ambiguity of translating statements into logic. Obviously when we say someone's testimony is "unreliable"...
This is Kreeft and Dougherty's argument for the superiority of Aristotlean logic for many common uses (evaluating writing, rhetoric, scientific argume...
The way you would usually use it in any sort natural language statement would be to say: "Look, A implies both B and not-B, so clearly A cannot be tru...
Material implication is often written in natural language as: If A, then B Or A implies B But they aren't perfect translations because all sorts of sh...
Yes indeed. I do think the problem of diagnosing bad faith "from the outside," is related to the fact that no determinant end lies behind action thoug...
Well this is tricky. Plato, Aristotle, or Augustine are aware that Scythians and Egyptians call things by different names, that people can make up new...
Reminds me of the famous quip in Chesterton's Orthodoxy: There are materialist realists. Some people posit that the are only a few universals, e.g. va...
The "facticity" of our being can't spring up uncaused, e.g. our being French, or 22 years old, etc. This would be quite a thing to try to argue. Nor c...
Of course he doesn't, that would be silly. His point is posterior to those things. It's the Good above all that he insists floats totally free. But th...
By realizing Sartre is simply wrong. Human beings have an essence, a nature. To ignore this is simply to be ruled by something that lies outside one's...
Can anyone think up a real world example where you would point out that A implies both B and not-B except for saying something along the lines of: "A ...
I don't get this one. When I look outside my house I experience seeing my car for "biological reasons," but this doesn't undermine my claim that my ca...
No, and diversity doesn't "bother me." I said it doesn't make sense to try to define "mental life" and "freedom" in terms of particular neurological t...
I don't know how easy it is to separate these. Locke for instance is probably motivated in his rejection of innate ideas and the Cambridge Platonists ...
Right, but you seem to suggest that the "sound person" never gets outside this condition? But then it seems that if the "sound people" claim that they...
A number of your core points agree with my understanding. The Good is ultimately that towards which all rational natures strive, so there aren't so mu...
I know what a "sound argument" is in classical logic, I'm unsure what a "sound person" is. I would assume it's something like "being ruled by the rati...
Certainly, there are isomorphisms between leading theories of consciousness, but there are nonetheless many and it's not common to see conferences wit...
It seems easy to talk about ends, "biological function," constraints, or equilibrium in a way that doesn't require an agent. This is how a teleology o...
Why would trying to know what is good but failing to do so teach you how to act good? If what you learn in your inquiries suggest you should do that p...
If 0.9999 = 1 than it seems that 0.000...0001 should be equal to 0. But now I think we'll all agree that as you divide a number by smaller and smaller...
I mean, they claim to show these things. I think Hume is mostly engaged in elaborate question begging on this topic, and Kant's critical philosophy it...
I am at a loss for how the passage you cite is supposed to support your claim. In context, the passage you cite is Socrates discussing his initial fas...
I'd agree with trying to pair it down. In particular, I would try to get to the mystery of the cigarettes quicker. The mystery and intrigue can help p...
I feel like this is perhaps the area of philosophy most rife with confusion. How exactly would "undetermined" actions be free? If a choice is "determi...
This seems to bring up some important questions: How does one know if one is being good if one doesn't know what is good or in what goodness consists?...
I'm not sure how helpful this is if the question is the adequacy of Aristotle's moral philosophy. The Ethics and Politics make it fairly clear what is...
Modern liberal democracy sublated and incorporated into itself core elements of socialism and nationalism. All modern democracies have incorporated co...
A main point is that the focus on "peak experiences," tends to actually exclude a great deal of the people who we think of as "mystics" from the defin...
My favorite book on this is William Harmless' Mystics. Harmless has a real gift for letting ancient and medieval writers speak in their own voice thro...
Been slow on this but I will get around to parts two and three, which I've already finished. But I just read a suggestive quote in St. Maximus: Note t...
Aristotle allows that bad fortune can make people miserable. This is actually an argument in favor of the virtues, and ultimately for the life of cont...
This would be the state of vice—which involves the enjoyment and pursuit vice and ignorance vis-á-vis true virtue. Incontinence is the state where a p...
The explanatory gap is a problem for contemporary science and the way it has defined what a proper explanations must look like. I do not think it's a ...
"Happiness" is the common translation for the Greek term eudaimonia used by Aristotle. It's not a great translation. Eudaimonia could also be translat...
To return on topic, I think objections 1 and 2 ultimately stem from the modern tendency to only view theoretical reason or "objective knowledge" as fu...
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