If you look at the post of mine to which you are responding you'll see that the text I was quoting from you was not the FBI links but the romans322 li...
It's not just the errors. It's the credibility of the source. The first link was from an egregiously pro-gun site. The second is from a site campaigni...
The older I get, and the more I see the appalling suffering caused by capitalism, and by theocracy - the other major governmental system in today's wo...
It is a historical observation. Just as the facts of the many acts of mass murder conducted by Christian regimes and by Western capitalist colonial po...
If, as some of his supporters on here have suggested, he has claimed that Marxism leads to mass murder, then that is a sufficient reason for condemnat...
How could Peterson possibly know what drove Mao to his destructive end? According to your report, it seems that Peterson asserts that it was Mao's Mar...
We don't even need to go to Google. Both Merriam-Webster and Oxford give a meaning of 'dimension' quite early in their lists of possible meanings, tha...
I can see that that particular type of purpose is risky. There are other sorts of purpose one can adopt through philosophy that are less harmful thoug...
Yes, I agree with that. Ayn Rand's philosophy is an example of one I think it's good to talk people out of, as are the more extreme versions of nihili...
Is the model falsifiable? If not then Hawking is doing philosophy, not science when he engages with such a model. Which makes his claim that philosoph...
That is not a point. It is an assertion. And it is unsupported by any argument. Hence it is not worthy of anybody spending any time considering it. Fu...
Was there? I would be surprised if there were not some cultures in which men and women performed the same roles in everything except those things that...
Yes, I'm not advocating the adoption of such romantic views of one's preferred political philosophy. Just pointing out that if one wishes to assert th...
I thought it was a bit strong in its criticism. However it makes one excellent point that I had not considered before. The primary target at which Pet...
I'd like us to be a little cautious with the use of the term Empiricism here. 'Isms' are always a worry, aren't they? I think that the worldview that ...
To disprove supervenience we would need to observe a change in mind state over a time interval in which the brain state did not change. Since brain st...
Yes, and so is the history of art, literature and most worthwhile human endeavours. Yet when celebrities that know little of art or literature say ign...
Whether that's the case is the big question that is nowhere near answered - to what extent human sexual stereotypical behaviour is based on genes vs h...
Certainly not. But with so many ideas around, we need to use some filter to decide which ideas to discuss. When we see somebody putting about an idea ...
I haven't said anything about Heidegger. I don't really understand him, but I am open to the idea that there is something very interesting there. If o...
That it can (present tense) answer these questions is demonstrably wrong because there are no scientific answers to the questions. That it may, one da...
For most of my life 'gender' was considered a polite synonym for sex, because the word 'sex' was considered a bit risqué. That has lead to many forms ...
I would not say 'excessive'. As a science junkie myself, too much science is never enough! Rather, I regard it as the claim that science should be use...
Peterson comes across as a full-blown conspiracy theorist in that interview. Um, no, you spend tens of millions of dollars on a lovely story, and catc...
Indeed. According to wiki the earliest known examples of writing are 3100BCE, which is 5100 years ago. I suppose they must have found a clay tablet fr...
I read somewhere - I forget where - that a research project had been commenced in the Stanford Physics Labs to try to answer this question once and fo...
I am strongly anti-scientism and I am also totally in favour of the destruction of claims of climate denial and anti-vax nonsense, whether that be by ...
I don't understand the question. It sounds like a question, but when one looks more closely at it, it dissolves into a purple haze. To understand the ...
Still waiting for Dr Peterson to come out with a written statement of his claims. It's hard to take claims seriously enough to bother spending the tim...
And that is not the way the word 'typical' is used in English. How many examples do you know of somebody saying to someone that is not in group X, in ...
You needn't worry about this. If the Y chromosome disappears, another genetic locus will determine the sex of each member of the species. Disappearanc...
I assumed no such thing. As a native English speaker you should understand the difference between asking whether X is the case and assuming X is the c...
No, that is not what you stated. What you said is the following: Is English not your first language? If it is not, you can use this as an opportunity ...
The West doesn't have a foreign policy. A foreign policy is an attribute of a country, not of a vague reference to a disparate and fuzzy group of nati...
1. So what? 2. Again you have left out the quote to which what you quoted was responding, which was an attempt to drag America into the discussion. Th...
That was in reply to you bringing America into the conversation, and it was directly pointing out the irrelevance of doing so. You have yet to explain...
You pick radical feminists yet you do not name any. I know that some radical feminists are dogmatic and closed to new ideas, but not all radical femin...
Neither Sophisticat nor Agustino, who wrote the OP, is American (and neither am I, and neither was Bob Marley), so the cleanliness or otherwise of Ame...
I believe direct participatory democracy would be an unmitigated disaster. Governing is very complex and requires advice from people who are expert in...
I thought you meant what Sophisticat thought you meant. If that's a misinterpretation, it would be helpful if you would clarify what point you were tr...
To use 'credible' in the sense it is used in this quote is to use it in an absolute sense. I see credibility as relative to the person who gives or wi...
This is a good question and one I have thought about quite a bit. Probability has a mathematical definition, but it is instrumental, not fundamental, ...
My view on this changed a few months ago when I looked up Russia's population. I had erroneously believed that Russia's population was 250-300million,...
The split is determined by the definition used for the word. Every word in the definition that is not already clearly understood gives rise to a new b...
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