When we criticise the use of a certain word or phrase, we are not criticising the language as a whole, just that particular use of it. There's no inco...
I think they only hope that the operation succeeds. Even if there is a right way to transplant a heart, doing it that way does not guarantee success, ...
I suppose what I can't see is what philosophical work you see the notion of Objectivity doing. What do we get from calling mathematics Objective that ...
Nation states are not trusted with guns. It is just a fact that they have them, and there is nothing we can do about it. A country could unilaterally ...
If 'objective' is interpreted as meaning 'in some sense reliant on human minds' then my belief that 1+1=2 is not an objective belief, because it is ba...
The recognition of a pattern of light and dark as an instance of a particular symbol is made explicit in the coding of optical character recognition s...
The Alan Watts website makes one part-lecture of about 15 minutes available per week, available as a free podcast through podcasting services. You can...
A little light relief: Apparently President Trump's idea that to solve gun crime all you have to do is arm everybody else is not new. This clip is fro...
That's not the question you asked. You asked 'can I stab you?', and I answered that question by saying that I would not mind, as long as you succeeded...
Fie. Only a few posts ago you were complaining - justifiably, I felt - that people had not responded philosophically to your ideas and were just dismi...
Hello. Well done for acknowledging that it is possible to believe that human life begins at conception but personhood does not. That is the position o...
No. It's a metaphysical interpretation. Metaphysical interpretations are untestable and unfalsifiable, and hence of no relevance to discussion of publ...
It is your point. It is not a point that anybody else cares much about, because other people care about whether protection is provided, not about whet...
So far as I can see, nobody has said any such thing. You are the first to mention 'dignity'. It is up to you to make the case that it is a universal h...
The inconsistency is between the two sides, not within either of them, which is what one would expect in most debates about most subjects. The pro-gun...
Read your own post. In para 5 it says: We are not going to agree on that. If whether somebody actually helps you is less important to you than whether...
I think this exemplifies a flaw in the English language. I read Cava's statement as meaning 'invisible to each other' - ie their skin colour is invisi...
"Right to sue" is irrelevant guff that, like the book's title, is simply designed to pump sales. All that matters is: in what proportion of incidents ...
It is not intended to indicate that, but rather to just distinguish those that practice science from those that make a gilded idol of it. People curre...
What if we returned to the pre-nineteenth century label of 'Natural Philosopher' for people that Do science, and left 'Scientist' for those that worsh...
In mathematics, a successful definition is one that has the following properties: 1. It is unambiguous. It leaves no room for argument or even discuss...
I think you and I agree that Coyne's view, and that of many others like him, is simplistic, dogmatic and unimaginative. It is the view of adherents of...
In general, evidence has shown there is not such a need. Governments introduce buyback programs where there is a limited time frame in which owners of...
I already covered this above. We DO outlaw the use of certain types of cars on the road that are particularly dangerous and for which there is no pers...
Based on @"Michael"'s poll here, only 35% of respondents at this forum were non-skeptical realists, and only 30% were physicalists, so I think Nagel i...
No, but we require somebody to have a licence to drive a car, and we take it away if they are caught driving while intoxicated, or if they are judged ...
'maybe'?!? Come on, be serious. That 'maybe' is nonsense. Unless he were a ninja, it is inconceivable that he would have killed anywhere near as many ...
What is the relevance of statements like this and this It looks like an undiluted use of the Nirvana Fallacy. If that's not what you're doing, what po...
While I don't share Kant's willingness to say what is going on in other people's heads, it at least seems plausible to me that people share a common g...
I'm very happy to go along with your definition of reality as the phenomena rather than the noumena as, not being a materialist, that is the idea of r...
I don't agree with the 'In principle it could' claim before this. But I find this quoted bit much more interesting, so I'd like to explore that instea...
That doesn't follow. The difference between a perfectly flat space and one that is curved very, very slightly would make no difference at all to the a...
Oh, do you mean the OP is just your opinion? In that case there's nothing to argue about. It would be very presumptuous of anybody to tell you that wh...
I like the Guardian but I wouldn't use it as a source in a debate because, although it has enormously greater integrity than the Mail, gun enthusiasts...
That relates to a claim about one religion that was made part way down the thread. But you still have your OP sitting there consisting of two unsuppor...
Skepticism is inimical to your position in this situation. You have made two claims in the OP. The skeptical position is to doubt any claim. Your clai...
This sounds an interesting avenue to explore. As I recall our discussion of a few days ago, you are conscious of its necessity, and I am conscious of ...
Not being British you would not be aware of this. But quoting the Daily Mail as a source has about the same credibility as quoting a Trump tweet. That...
Cash in cash registers can be reconciled against sales. If he puts $5000 in the register without recording a sale on it, there will be a $5000 discrep...
Didn't he get a receipt upon payment of the money? The OP does not mention whether he does, but only a fool would pay such an amount without immediate...
I don't think that's a reasonable paraphrase of the sign. This version refers only to the present, and whether, at the time the reader is reading the ...
I think the following incorporates your amendment: \forall t2\ \forall t1\Bigg(\bigg(Pays(C,5000,t1) \wedge (t1+1\gt t2 \gt t1)\bigg)\to OwnsDiamond(C...
I don't agree that those adjustments are necessary but, for the sake of furthering the discussion I'll accept them. Here's a version where t2 strictly...
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