BTW, I'd love to give you a clearly stated thesis I feel comfortable defending on this topic. I have been equivocal because I don't have a well-develo...
I think this gets at the "Treadmill Effect," for certain words, whereby if a world is used for a marginalized group, regardless of whether the group f...
Barand's theory is interesting to me, as is the idea of merging epistemology and ontology. I had a similar idea re: a relational ontology, although it...
Just happened to come back to this. I imagine it's because we have defined what computers can do and we also know that relatively simple cellular auto...
Probably true in most cases, but there is a place for strategic ambiguity if it's done right. Heraclitus, Zen Koans, Biblical poetry, Hegel- ambiguity...
Exactly. This is true with the sciences too. If we want to challenge the existing paradigm in any way we need to make more theoretical arguments. If w...
My reticence isn't so much due to the fact that I find speculative history to be wrong-headed or hopeless, but rather that it's almost impossible to a...
Having gotten distracted by the minutiae of justification, I would just offer up that how someone sees the relevance of history in philosophy likely d...
Not really. They've had millions of people leave, which is a drag on the economy, continued missile attacks act as a check on investment, and they are...
https://i.ibb.co/pd8xpz0/1689353356793739.png Not the best translation, "working," in particular should generally be "operating," instead. Verified by...
The decline isn't just in tanks though. The sortie and fire mission rates have plunged too, which are fairly easy to verify from satalites, allowing t...
I don't buy into stuff strictly verificationist epistemology because it's self-defeating and no one actually goes by those standards for most beliefs....
On a different note, could we say that the description of any rational (law-like) possible universe is equivalent with just the begining of a descript...
Agreed. That gets to the unreasonability of denying PSR in many every day contexts. But generally we don't feel the same way about violations of PSR f...
You might consider this point: formal theories of communication and computation are extremely similar and in some cases indiscernible. Computation req...
Sorry if I wasn't clear before. But yeah, that's the basic problem I see. If things start to exist, having not existed at any prior point, then it see...
On the original topic, IIRC Aristotle and Darwin are the two most cited individuals in biology. Why do you think this is the case? They're obviously a...
I don't see how emptiness (an empty set) void, is precluded by logic. But, moreover, I never proposed such an assumption. The question is why uncaused...
Yeah, I got that part. If I accept your definition I accept your conclusion because your conclusion is contained in the definition. I understand why y...
Yeah, this still seems empty. All the work is done by definitions I'm not inclined to accept. I am left at a loss about why it is "illogical," to disa...
Glad to see not everyone is buying into the "wage price spiral," argument. Rising wages are no doubt part of the cause of inflation, particularly for ...
If there can be a "first state" at one point, then there was a system for which no prior states existed. That seems fine. But then the definition of a...
IDK what you definition of state is. I figured you were talking about states in terms of physics, since physics is relevant to the cosmological argume...
You keep using strawmen. If I say, "we can be justified about some historical facts and narratives," you respond with "so, you don't get that people c...
What is the relevance here? (And don't say it's a non-sequitor, I thought we decided about those :rofl: ) I was responding to the claim that good argu...
I fail to see how calling it something different changes the problem. Why should the uncaused and wholly unexplainable manifest in just one convenient...
Agreed. I'd just add that, if we go back to 1, we are still left with the problem of why an uncaused thing happened once, but hasn't happened since. I...
That's a pretty weak strawman. We're not talking about disagreements about scientific theories. What I wrote: I've yet to come across any radically di...
Sure. And denying that we can trust the standard fare of physics textbooks re: the origins of relativity or thermodynamics also comes with a lot of co...
This is sort of funny in the context of language, given that Russell's theory requires propositions to exist as relevant explanatory entities that exi...
lol, you responded at the same time I was editing. Yeah, it's not a good example for the point, since it's affirming the consequent the way many peopl...
I had an idea for a rather dark version of this: Beauty gets cloned with all her memories on a given flip, such that each Monday and Tuesday has a 50%...
Seems fair to me. Although that doesn't seem like a "type" of argument vis-á-vis the history of ideas except in the sense that it falls into the type ...
Sure, time is emergent in that it's the dimension in which change occurs in three dimensional space. Aristotle noted this when rebutting Zeno's Parado...
Presupposing time doesn't seem like an issue for empirical science. After all, we observe time and use it to define all sorts of phenomena. The unfort...
BTW, I'll agree that not all background is useful. I don't think freshmen neuroscience majors should have to learn about Freud, even thought they ofte...
No, this is profoundly misunderstanding what logic alone can do for us. Logic just tells you that, if the premises of an argument are true, then the c...
Pretty much what you pointed out, avoiding "epistemic grandiosity." I think it's an argument for pragmatism, circular epistemology, and fallibilism. D...
It's generally taken that a universal now cannot exist, although this to some extent depends on how one defines their terms. In the context of SR and ...
You might be interested in this similar line of thought: From this, we get the dialectical move where the initial posit, being, sublates (negates, whi...
Sure, you're making an argument. This detraction can be leveled at all forms of argument and so it seems to be trivial. "You're only looking at the en...
I'll have to think about that more. It seems to me that the "end" does not exist until it is actualized. Thus, God's desire is posterior to the existe...
Sure, "rationality" as a whole is an amorphous term. I was thinking more specifically in terms of "is it likely for a universe evolve from state to st...
That's a fair conclusion. I'm not super gungho about this argument outside of being interesting. I actually dislike most philosophy of religion, becau...
I do agree that analytic definitions of the God of classical theism are contradictory, but I wasn't able to follow this reasoning. It seems to me that...
By propensity I mean the propensity interpretation of probability: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/probability-interpret/#ProInt Although the logic...
Knowledge is about something, no? So it's necessarily tied to ontologically. "Correlation does not imply causation," does not imply that causation doe...
Exactly, the first being frequentism and the latter being propensity. There is also subjective/Bayesian probability. Frequentism has problems with all...
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