I never said all historical arguments can be justified in this way, and certainly not that they're all good. You can use any method to make bad argume...
There's plenty of reasons to go into the history of ideas. Off the top of my head: It's a good way to rebut appeals to contemporary authority or appea...
You don't need to presuppose time, or strictly four dimensions. I mentioned Floridi's maximally portable ontology thinking of just this objection, but...
Yes, because there is a connection. Take the normal argument for Fine Tuning. If the constants of our universe and its initial entropy are such that t...
I really don't see how that follows. If the universe develops teleologically why does that entail that God is guided by the same goals? I don't even s...
ProPublica has had pretty good coverage of wage theft and labor issues in general. Their finding that US employers steal more money from employees eac...
Absolutely. That's why the pivot is to just think in terms of all the possible coherent systems. There isn't one set of immutable axioms but rather a ...
Exactly. However, the problem of whether or not consciousness can actually be fit into such a physicalist model, which is something such models need t...
Sure, computation has been operationally defined since Turing's "On Computable Numbers With an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem," and Church's ...
Quite a few pancomputationalists also seem to embrace ontic structural realism, that the universe is the mathematical structure describing it, so I'm ...
I feel like Platonism is so heavily ingrained in mathematics that even those trying to run from it can find themselves simply lapsing into it from ano...
I meant to respond to this when the thread first came out because I am working on a different sort of argument from reason. I do not think this argume...
Wagner is just one of the "private militaries" that exist within Russia. There are actually a large number of "volunteer," forces that are not integra...
Maybe. Or maybe he did receive support? The air assets brought against Wagner were not considerable, rotary wing craft held at low levels. It would be...
The coup was always stoppable if it was just Wagner (and a fraction of Wagner at that). It's just that it was quite unclear if it was stoppable before...
Right, I didn't mean RQM has direct relevance to this particular issue; IMO that is explained quite well by the arguments laid out in the quotes in my...
There is an argument to be made that you cannot deprive the sibling of a politician of their liberties, but I don't think this precludes a law where a...
I find it hilarious how both parties will make endless hay over intimations of corruption and yet, while there is common ground on this issue, they re...
Exactly, I was just assuming he might have allies in the MOD who he knew would jump in if he made it that far and that was part of the decision-making...
Well, he's had centuries of help. Serfs, the vast majority of the population, didn't get their freedom until around the time the US ended slavery and ...
Yeah, although he faces a tough choice. He needs to empower competent leaders to turn the war around and stop the problems that led to this, but any s...
Unclear. Prig ruling Russia as a warlord is in some ways potentially scarier than Putin, but doesn't seem like a likely final outcome even if Putin is...
From the pics it looks like all Rosgvardiya; essentially police. Outside of parking vehicles on the road they seem to have been unwilling to engage so...
Seems that is the plan. I figured they would stay in Rostov but they are already halfway there and have only faced resistance from the air. This hasn'...
Yes, but they punished protestors by conscripting them to the front, so it seems the lesson wasn't totally learned Not so much this time though. His p...
BTW, Relational Quantum Mechanics handles this sort of "paradox" quite well, even if we consider that any full theory must deal with gravity and atten...
lol, I guess I was right about Putin speed running the Russian Revolution. Before this all blew up, I did find myself asking: how were the overwhelmin...
I don't think it's a paradox at all. It's only a paradox if one assumes the absolute Newtonian serial time must exist. It's consistent with local beco...
"Information" is very tough term because it is defined loads of different ways. I suppose here I should have used "Kolmogorov Complexity," in every in...
This seems somewhat related to the (seemingly) paradoxical fact that you can increase the algorithmic complexity of a set by removing elements. For ex...
Lots of good points here, I'll try to get to them all eventually. I thought it might be most immediately applicable to physics. The claim that the alg...
That's a tough question. Religion does attempt to explain the transcendent, and that is where religious inquiry tends to focus today, but historically...
You are correct. Although both terms are used, more so "natural selection," in terms of initial domestication, and "selective breeding," in terms of o...
That intentionality effects genetic selection. If dog breeding isn't natural selection than either humans are supernatural, magic, or all mutualism, p...
Yes, that is exactly the sort of analogy I have in mind. Attractors have been invoked as a more rigorous description of the mechanism of apparent "nat...
Yes to the latter question. This isn't just a supposition of the Enlightenment, but a core component of ancient and medieval philosophy. For Aristotle...
Religion certainly served pragmatic functions in many societies. It can serve to legitimize the state (e.g., the deification of Roman emperors), it ca...
It's a process that appears to have occured in many cycles. You have evidence of a process of self-domestication within other members of the homo genu...
I guess I should caveat that claim by pointing out the scientism actually seeym to have a few sectarian rifts itself, and the common argument to hurl ...
I think you are right, but only half right. Philosophy helps tear down dogmas, but it also helps construct and sustain dogmas. Opposite any critical p...
I'm not quite sure what you mean here? I can't prove the antecedent here. If I could, I'd be out collecting my Nobel Prize for the "theory of everythi...
When ascetic mystics starve themselves to death looking for the truth they are doing it for advantage? When Augustine left his upper class profession,...
The concept of self-organization might interest you. In this book, a theoretical physicist looks into the cosmology of Jacob Boehme. He makes the argu...
"All of Christianity is my interpretation of Scripture," is, while common in Christianity itself, not particularly well justified. Saint Augustine's "...
On another note: Hume's assumption that people think the future will be like the past because, in prior cases the future has indeed been like the past...
Sure, but as to whether these laws actually describe our world is another question entirely. One good example is Max Tegmark's Mathematical Universe H...
I'm not sure if I made my point clear. I'm not saying "I believe the world progresses based on logical entailments." I'm saying that, IF this was true...
What would be the point? If I give you my answer now, and you accept it as you read it, what grounds do you have for thinking it will still hold in a ...
Would this be religious pluralism? To quote Wikipedia: "Religious pluralism holds that various world religions are limited by their distinctive histor...
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