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Fair enough. How does the fact that we've imported primary qualities into the definition of secondary qualities affect this distinction? E.g., wavelen...

At it's mildest that would be a democratic deficit. At its worst a dictatorship. The USA is somewhere in the middle but "the greatest democracy in the...

Next time Bernie Sanders then?

Since it seems we're pretty much reiterating positions here, let me at least finish with a few questions that people might want to answer so that I ca...

Well, happy someone agrees but it certainly appears to be the minority position!

Indeed the spectrometer doesn't see red, it measures wavelengths. I don't see this as a problem. What's the problem that this implicitly relies on wha...

Doesn't look like proof to me.

Ok. I'm just confused as to why I should forgive a sinner and God doesn't.

I think there's a lot to be learned from reading the musings of various Christian scholars about ethics but I've always rejected the institutionalisat...

And don't forget the recent philosophical revival of virtue ethics which finds its roots in ancient Greece. In fact, the Christian tradition incorpora...

I thought it was, "love my knickers but where's my breeches?"?

Grey is like white, it consists of a lot of wavelengths including those for the colour red. And yes my first posts were inaccurate but I clarified in ...

can you just zoom in on the pixel? Compare that to the following. In a flash you think you see a cat. You look again, it turns out to be a dog. The fi...

In your case, I suspect most of the time your pants are on fire. Like now.

With the firefighters there, it's probably an office that's on fire.

Sure. So how about you get the image into paint and zoom in on that apparent red pixel until that pixel fills your screen. Then get back to me with wh...

As I said: I'm willing to have a spectrometer to have a last say on this. Are you? I agree they aren't the same thing. However, I don't believe we can...

I agree we can use the word "red" in different contexts but when we disagree on the redness of something, how are we going to arbitrate this question?...

My top 5 already consists of things I rather not be doing with Ayn Rand, followed by another 100 things I could be doing with her, then followed by al...

If we define red as light with a wavelength between 620-740nm, then calling any light with a different wavelength "red" is wrong. By definition. And t...

There's a difference between colour and chromaticity. Sensitivity to colour change for humans is in the range from 1nm to 10 nm. There isn't a Platoni...

They're both nice retreats from some of the even stupider threads on this forum.

Steal? Seriously. I think we're done here. >:O

Because they're fun. Dragonball super not so much, so I'm guessing nostalgia in this particular case.

Actually it makes a lot of difference. A Dutch invention could be exported and used by other countries, for instance. A county can inspire others for ...

It's instrumentation that can tell you there's no red in the image. The rest of your post is an argument to ignore progress and return to the Middle A...

Right. So we can stop trusting telescopes that there really are more stars in the sky than we can see with the naked eye. There's a reason why we trus...

OK, wasn't sure what you meant with "seeing inheres that transformational aspect". Must be my English. :D

I thought this particular image had to do with our brains "white balancing" the image due to the cyan tint to it. An adaptation we also use when movin...

That's fallacious reasoning. Just because China is the worst polluter doesn't absolve every other country from doing what needs to be done. Moreover, ...

uhuh... The Pretence of Knowledge Copenhagen Consensus is, in general, a bit weird. I mean, if I fiddle with the discount rate I get totally different...

fair enough but I maintain I'm not the one you need to argue with on this subject. :D

The good thing about End of Oil is that that will (belatedly) solve global warming as well. There's a limit to how much stuff we can burn after all.

https://xkcd.com/1732/ Yeah it changed just not so drastically. Average world temperatures will go up, which the earlier research focused on and is st...

And here I thought a funny Republican was an oxymoron.

I understand you're skeptical but the issues you raise are a consequence of the subsidies. What I describe is hardly a fantasy and there is an the eco...

Shale oil is not a US innovation. It predates the US by a couple of hundred years. ;)

Yup, my mistake. Not in the manner you describe. The idea behind biofuels is to use biomass and catalytically convert it to fuels. the biomass is quic...

So do biofuels. I meant, of course, in a commercially, viable manner. ;)

World GDP growth and energy usage are closely correlated. With the advent of burning fuel to power machines, we've greatly increased our capacity to p...

It's about time you understand those jokes aren't appreciated and that they detract from the user experience of other members. The fact you keep comin...

It might be me but I read the OP as an invitation to find a shared MO that's conducive to the quality of this site without moderating action. But mayb...

So unless it hit puberty it worked?

I'll threaten to blow it up before it's supposed to blow up so it can never fulfil it's life purpose.

So, we shouldn't take him seriously because he's new age and probably rich. Or, he isn't really a Franciscan. Or, it's detracting from social conserva...

Syphilus smiles when Agustino goes around as everyone's bitch... :(

No interest in improving it then? If politics is just show then you don't have a democracy. Or is it a cynical "good enough for me" or maybe even "apr...

Don't forget Pakistan. At least, I don't think Bush had already extended military action into Pakistan.

Why isn't this possible when you assume this was possible for the original Liar's Paradox? This appears arbitrary.

Are you sure? We can agree on the law of identity yes? You've already handily identified that there's a statement A and a statement B. A = A, pace the...