What elements of the Hodolomor, during which the USSR killed 3-5 million Ukrainians, somehow make it not genocide? You can't exactly call it "accident...
Sure, there are worries about escalation. The alternative is for the US not to live up to its security guarantees to Ukraine, which also risks nuclear...
It talks about Russia's inability to mobilize combat power and the problem of run away morale issues and casualties making most battalion tactical gro...
On the topic of competence, at least Russia has avoided cartoonish blunders. Their flag ship is an older, but heavily upgraded missile carrier specced...
On a less political note, is Russia's performance in this conflict, particularly the heavy losses for armored units just inductive of the quality > qu...
Or more recently, Libya. Given modern war's tendency to send millions of people fleeing into Europe, and the political meltdowns this has caused, NATO...
I'm not being right lipped about assessments. Here is one for the current conflict I quoted at length earlier, as opposed to say, a blurb about Syria,...
You're not helping your case by bringing up an absolute meme site for "military rankings." GFP just shoves arsenals that exist on paper into a spreads...
Their inability to get across the Southern Bug back when they had fresh forces, the heavy casualties and counter attacks they faced there, and the fac...
Russia Global superpower Might want to rethink that. They couldn't support their advances more than 40 miles from their border. This isn't 1975. Given...
They could respond. Aid to Ukraine so far is mostly only usable defensively. Anti-tank missile systems are far less effective when used offensively. N...
Poland is deploying top tier banter against Russia in Ukraine. https://i.ibb.co/sFxTsGw/1649748743020m.jpg a caged bird summary Maybe they can call on...
Yeah, his photos in combat gear "near the fighting" were sourced to inside Russia. Pretty hilarious. NATO had held back on higher end aid. My guess is...
This is a pretty selective memory of the Bush era. News programs constantly called Bush out on the duplicity involved in making the case for the Iraq ...
Yeah, that's a fair criticism. I've always found Kant's analysis of, in his words, phenomenal/noumenal dualism much more interesting. He tows a fine, ...
Any such assertions are clearly due to a lack of understanding of The Philosopher on the part of the student. Haven't you read your scholastic texts!?...
As I mentioned earlier in this thread, I haven't really dug into symmetry. I've been exposed to the concept in physics books, history of science, etc....
Yes. The objections you are making only apply to certain types of idealism, namely those forms of subjective idealism embracing epistemological relati...
By the way, while Berkeley is realist about ideas, he still represents "subjective idealism," in that ideas only exist insomuch as they interact with ...
I'm certainly not saying that, but that is essentially how it works in Berkeley. Like I said, he is relatively silent on the idea/mind interaction, so...
This is simply not true. You are conflating realism and idealism as the same things. They aren't. History shows plenty of cases of proto-physicalist a...
Yeah, that's sort of where I was headed at first thinking about these things. The problem of parts being traits though is that it seems like objects r...
Yes, I think that's correct, with a rather large caveat. Plenty of scientific theories are impossible to vet empircally currently. For example, multip...
I don't think most ontological claims are possible to vet empircally, so they can't be scientific. That said, science often informs our ontology and s...
I don't think I'm reading my concerns into Berkeley at all. I'm not particularly amenable to Berkeley's overall system. I do think he hit on something...
Paradigms in science shift all the time, and then the previously accepted model gets rejected in the same manner. Luminiferous aether, Bowley's Law, e...
It's equally a problem for both as far as arguments for solipsism, being a brain in a vat, being mislead by Decartes' demon, etc. is concerned. The ar...
It's not a wild claim. We've known since the 1960s that only a very small amount of the processes in the brain make it to concious experience. R. Scot...
By the way, I consider myself a physicalist. I am just aware that the ontology has significant unresolved issues and undermines itself through trying ...
My sentence doesn't negate that at all. Ask yourself, if no experiments could have shown evidence for electrons, would we say they exist? Why do we sa...
Yeah, it's debatable. He might be right though. There is a regular cottage industry of PhDs in the physical sciences presenting new, non-physicalist o...
He uses an analogy to multiple personality disorders. The universe is a mind, granted a very strange one. Objects in the universe are what they appear...
Yup. Now this fact is often put forth as a refutation of Berkeley, but it doesn't work unless you misunderstand his position. This sort of epistemolog...
I was speaking to identity in that post. The words "parts and wholes" is misleading there. When we say an object has the trait of being a triangle, or...
I've never seen Bishop Berkeley's argument refuted satisfactorily. Generally, the take I've read in philosophy surveys and papers on epistemology and ...
Lol, maybe in the 1950s. The US has been trying to get Germany to build a larger military for years and was all smiles when they announced their huge ...
Didn't mean non-locality alone for contextuality, although some people do claim that non-locality demonstrates contextuality. I was thinking of more r...
I'm not sure what the disagreement is. I am not sure how propositions not existing without thought somehow implies question begging as regards the ass...
Yeah, the means by which quantum states are decohered isn't a known quantity. Delayed choice quantum eraser experiments don't jive with any sort of si...
That's my take. That's why I think, Boehme, while extremely mystical and esoteric, hits on an essential feature of reality. Definition requires differ...
They do have SSRN. But SSRN would be way more valuable if it hosted datasets. It's amazing how much data the US collects, how much it spends to collec...
Right, that seems obvious. The less obvious thing is that being is contingent on at least some level of difference. Because if being is just being, pu...
That isn't what I am asserting. I'm talking about the contingencies of being. Proof and verifiability are necissary for saying that specific things ha...
Yeah, "the world before born," is not a world before thinking. Your examples all derive from experience. Hence, "tell me a time when you had direct ac...
:rofl: The argument isn't generally "thoughts of being = being." It is: 1. Thought presupposes being. 2. Being does not presuppose thought; however, 3...
I'm lost here. Doesn't this imply that life forms running in rewind would be increasing local entropy, and thus running against the grain of the now c...
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