What is the definition of a causal relationship in these definitions? Nonsubjectivity as a criteria would appear to make many theories in quantum foun...
Wheeler coined the term, but it's deeply influenced by Shannon. Landauer bridged the gap between Shannon Entropy as solely a mathematical abstraction ...
Really appreciate his ideas. They work on so many levels. I particularly like information ontology, "it from bit." It is one of the more coherent inte...
You are misreading. Sure, you are quoting, but you are quoting just part of a paragraph and splitting a sentence. I was referring to your credulity re...
Sure, that's exactly what I was saying... :roll: The push south from the Kharkiv axis and North from the Kherson axis, to "cut off the eastern half," ...
You're assuming there is a deal offered. Lavrov and the Russian state just spent months telling bald faced lie after bald faced lie to journalists, di...
I explained those points in detail. You seem to want to reduce my answers to binary 100% yes, 100% no answers. That isn't the case in any complex phen...
100% correct. Sanctions only support defense to the varying degrees in which they erode public support for a war (sometimes this backfires by closing ...
By bankruptcy I meant defaulting on their debt, the sovereign equivalent of bankruptcy in that creditors can legally seize your assets and are unlikel...
There is nothing contradictory about it. Russia is obviously in a stronger strategic position, with its developed arms industry, much larger populatio...
I also think the Ukrainians have growing confidence in their ability to hold out in the medium term and get better terms for long term security. Russi...
I wouldn't necissarily take public diplomatic statements by Lavrov and company at face value. This is the same guy who spent months saying Russia woul...
Could very well be true. A retired Lt. Colonel went on record against the war. Solid outlets are reporting conscripts fleeing across the borders, offi...
Was this verified? I had trouble finding good sources. Which, on a related note, if you're interested in how the conflict is going and want detailed a...
Some of it sure, not all. The bioweapons thing has been a frequent line of questioning by GOP Congressmen vis-a-vis COVID-19 and is a substantial mino...
It's absolutely hilarious to see what this is doing to the far right corners of the internet. While they have been very good at rapidly producing a fa...
A substantial majority. 84% of households have cards, which are overwhelmingly Visa or MasterCard. 21% have cards using lines of credit. Russians came...
The whole legal framework of "war crimes," isn't relevant in what you're describing. Civilians killing civilians isn't a war crime. If the people invo...
I agree with your concern. That said, executing spies and sabateurs in civilian clothes or other nation's military uniforms is not a war crime. It has...
I don't know at this point if any amount of NLAWs in the hands of Ukranians would stop the Russians from rushing at objectives. Their command seems in...
And now they appear to have had their newest class of patrol ship taken out by dumbfire grad spam, a BM-21 the Ukrainians just drove up to the shore :...
Pray tell, what areas are those? Their best chance for hearts and minds in a major city was Kharkiv, which is overwhelmingly populated by ethnic Russi...
Air drops require Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD), otherwise they are suicidal. SAMs need to be down, along with enemy radar systems, and C3 ...
Russia moderating it's demands and looking for a way out more explicitly: https://www.reuters.com/world/kremlin-says-russian-military-action-will-stop...
Grand strategy wise, I actually don't think this makes a conflict over Taiwan more likely. Xi will see how badly this backfired and reassess the risks...
He should have not started a war. But if he was going to, sure, it would have made sense to try the "swiftly topple the government with a huge show of...
If his strategic goal was just those areas, he would have simply recognized Donetsk and Luhansk and done a smaller operation to secure those regions. ...
He almost certainly thought that. He was high on his own propaganda. The Russian forces did not come in ready for heavy resistance. They came in with ...
The more I think of it, the more impossible the situation seems for Putin. I don't see how he can come back from this if he keeps committing more. By ...
Belarus is already crumbling. At the same time as the invasion, Putin is getting sweeping reforms to the Belarusian constitution. Lukashenko will now ...
More control of gas pipelines seems to only mean more money for oligarchs. Unfortunately, it seems like they also plundered the defense budget too. On...
Rough translation of a Lt. Colonel's speech to Belorussians: Introduction Hello defenders of the nation, my address to you. I am Lietenant Colonel of ...
Belarus appears to have entered the war yesterday based on imint. This is pure desperation. Belarus just had a year of mass uprisings against the Russ...
It seems like a very dangerous situation because Putin will pay a heavy political toll for a loss, but he also can't afford a drawn out, unpopular war...
Playing dumb just makes you look dumb. In 1945 the Red Army was sitting on half of Europe and made it clear it wouldn't be leaving. That was the impet...
It makes sense if you know the context. The US forces were there during the Cold War when the Warsaw Pact represented a much more substantial threat t...
On the upside for Russia, their air losses at the hands of their own systems do show that modern Russian AA is good for for more than shooting down ci...
Right, it's unwinnable. The US military couldn't do it and that's with the insurgency mostly being different factions within Iraq trying to kill each ...
Certainly not going as Russia had hoped. They seem to have been aiming for a quick war to force a change in leadership. Probably figured they could di...
The thing that jumped out to me is the claim that causes can't be ignored, while hunger and red lights can. Made me think of positivism and the need f...
Although, come to think of it, it's pretty hard to describe fundemental particles without reference to universals. You have a thing that lacks identit...
Sure. Even setting aside ontological disputes, physicalism vs idealism vs dualism, you have the whole question of modality. I think the realm of the p...
Not as a true proposition in the form of "if p then q," since people can run red lights. You also have the problem of the truth value of statements ab...
Right. The map accurately representing the territory is an auxiliary hypothesis. You build your theories out of auxillary hypotheses that operationali...
Well, that would be a hardline take no one in the philosophy of science actually goes all in on, from what I'm aware of. Even under the strictures of ...
The problem with things like traffic lights "causing" anything is that the propositions almost always end up relying on counterfactuals. Example: If t...
Such a statement can certainly be corroborated (just ask people). Being corroborated isn't a good criteria for truth (e.g., eye witness testimony corr...
Argumentum ad populum is only a fallacy in some cases. If the question is something like, "who is the most popular football player in New England," an...
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