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You may be right. I'm still not sure. Camus could have just said that Sisyphus remained brave, that he didn't complain, that he learned to cope with h...

Don't you feel there's a bit of a Buddhist angle there? Sisyphus achieves ultimate acceptance. If we can learn to fully accept and not judge, can we b...

Read again the post in response to which you posted those links - more carefully this time. It was not about schools expelling. It was about the syste...

Read the section entitled "What programs and supports are offered when students are expelled?" The public education system continues its attempts to p...

@"praxis" @"Maw" I don't normally watch videos but I sat through every minute of that BBC Shapiro one. It was fabulous! I had to look up the interview...

Old Australian slang for visitor or immigrant from England. The etymology is lost in the mists of time. Two explanations I have heard are: 1. It used ...

I think that distinction should be easier to spot for Americans than for other British speakers, because most varieties of American English are 'rhoti...

It's a French word. Two syllables. First syllable is the Italian word for 'with'. Second syllable is a Cockney adjectival word for a person being toug...

I find use of the word appalling and would never do it in any situation. What I find hard to understand is the feeling of many Americans that the word...

No, it was about a minute. The thread was resurrected by Mr Spock.

I was going to point out that, if we have to go to a list in some obscure corner of the internet to find out about these inventions that have purporte...

What is your evidence for that claim? Have you researched it? I have never heard of a public school system that can expel students. They can be suspen...

I like your multi-dimensional geometrical interpretation!

I don't usually watch videos posted online, but that is inspiring. The guest, Leon Castillo, was absolutely brilliant - so gentle, thoughtful and resp...

Whether it is systematic is irrelevant. If the Catholic system, or any private school, expels disruptive students, who then end up in the public syste...

I don't understand that sentence. Are you sure it's what you meant to write?

My understanding is that at least part of the point is that it is not against islam, only against certain extremist interpretations of islam such as w...

What BC said. C'mon people, spelling matters! (and grammar matters even more) Wars have started over less. Read over your posts before clicking on 'Po...

Are you confident that Catholic schools never expel students in Canada? I went to Catholic schools in Australia and we had many students expelled, and...

One possibility is that the Catholic system may be able to reject difficult students from its system, whereas the public system does not. In many coun...

When this topic is discussed, it is usually about the hijab for Muslims and crosses on neck chains or badges for Christians. I would be interested to ...

It's fine for you to do that. But realise that most people do not share your opinion, so their beliefs will differ from yours. From what I have seen o...

Beware the words 'clearly' and 'obviously'. When used, they are nearly always wrong. That is the case here. If you think otherwise, try to prove that ...

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Thanks. No worries at all. That thread was a minefield! I was not aware of that. Is that scientific contention, involving criticism of whether the exp...

We directly detect our own consciousness. There is no supposition going on there. The supposition first starts when we use the observation that other ...

Beware the use of 'clearly'. Things are rarely if ever as clear as one first thinks. The truth of the proposition in question is far from clear to me....

I have panpsychic leanings, so am inclined to agree with your conclusion that if all humans are conscious then everything is conscious. However there ...

My recollection of the saying is different: 'To be is to be the value of a bound variable'. What the bolded word adds is that the variable is quantifi...

For the theorem to apply, the system must have constant volume. That rules out infinite universes and finite universes with changing volumes, which ar...

. If we take that approach then the statement of the judge is false because whatever day it occurs, the prisoner will be able to prove it must happen ...

I believe that fiat money gets its ultimate value by the issuing government's promise to accept it in payment of a debt. There will always be lots of ...

I think most people would put the beginnings of postmodernism as later than that date of 1915, which is when Einsteins General Theory was published. A...

What a telling, pithy phrase! I will definitely use that, next time I get an opportunity.

That is a metaphysical perspective, not a physical one, and what you refer to as a force there is completely different from what a force means in phys...

Are you sure that shouldn't be Merkwürdigliebe? I am a novice at German but I am pretty sure there is no word "Merkwurdich". I also wonder whether "se...

In white collar professions that tends not to be the case. In medicine and law more graduate entrants are female than male, yet most of the people in ...

This highlights the dangers of people using 'misogyny' as a synonym for 'sexism'. The two are very different, with only a small area of overlap. Far t...

I don't think we can say that at this stage. At present he is held on charges of skipping bail for charges of sexual assault in Sweden, which is fair ...

What if one of the main obstacles is a toxic masculine culture in parliaments and party rooms that discourages them from getting involved? Experience ...

I didn't say it was a scientific principle. I said it was a scientific concept. Rest is a definition. We say an object is at rest relative to another ...

Your claim that it is an ontological principle is what creates your problem. That's why it is unhelpful to adopt an ontology that includes such a prin...

'Preferred' is a function of someone's mind - the person that prefers it. It is not ontological. For a given calculation there will often be a frame t...

Sure, if one adopts an ontological perspective that says there is such a thing as absolute motion, rather than just relative motion, then one will hav...

If you believe in real motions then you will have a problem with relativity theory. It is your problem, not the theory's problem.

It doesn't feel like a partition to me. That may be because in most instances it will be a rhetorical question. It's just a different way to say 'Plea...

Is this essentialism? Cavell's thesis seems to be that if our kind of houses do not turn into our kind of flowers, they must have an essential propert...

I had never heard of Tammy Duckworth, but I looked her up on wiki and she sounds tremendously impressive. Quite an inspiration!

I have recently come across a few sites that seem, at least on the surface, to celebrate masculinity in a positive way, rather than whinging about wom...

I think it is more the word 'invasion'. To describe a stream of desperate, terrified, hungry refugees as an invasion strikes me as heartless at best a...