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That is a cynical view of what SBNR means, and I would say that in the majority of cases it is wrong. One could just as well argue that allowing onese...

Are you sure that was your first reference to it? According to the site's search function you were the first user. It's possible that it's malfunction...

Boethius gets the Godwin Prize for being the first in the discussion to play the Nazi card. Yet another confirmation of Godwin's Law. Perhaps it shoul...

An example of knowing but not knowing that you know might be blind sight. As described, it appears that someone with blind sight could know that they ...

It depends on what one means by 'I believe that P'. In philosophy that sort of statement is a cliche and usually leads to boredom, but perhaps one can...

I don't know a great deal about how it is used in the criminal justice system, but my impression is that the involvement of psychiatry is mostly relat...

I see that as taking the principle of charity too far. I am all for making allowances for language difficulties in civilised discussion, or even for d...

The trouble with philosophy forums is that as soon as someone says 'should', others will descend upon them asking 'whence comes this should....', misq...

I disagree. To me the gulf between the two is unfathomably large.

That seems fair enough. I would add that the infinite series of "I believe that..." collapses to a single one because it is what mathematicians call a...

How do you make that out? How does one get a regress out of a person saying "I don't believe in objective truth". In what's above, the regress relied ...

I think she punishes Jemimah for lying, and lying is deliberately saying something you don't believe. In everyday language, someone is telling the tru...

According to the original quote, and even according to Eaton's article, Scruton never said 'Jewish intelligentsia networks', which would have nasty co...

I disagree with Roger Scruton on most things, and I don't agree with him about 'Islamophobia' but, reading most of what he said, I can't see any groun...

It is usually thought of like that, but it doesn't have to be. Another version is that there is no splitting, but just an infinite number of parallel ...

The statement is not 'I don't believe in truth' but 'I don't believe in objective truth'. The qualifier is critical and removes any self-referential o...

Personally, I wouldn't say that, because I think the useful everyday word 'objective' loses its meaning when it is deployed in a philosophical context...

I suppose that depends on what one believes that issue to be. It's not an issue I am familiar with - at least not by that name.

Yes. Life is long and one will tire of it after a while. I am happy to know that somebody else will get a chance to live, that my departure will have ...

Each is known by the observers in that world, and not by the observers in any other world. In a sense, the many-worlds hypothesis is a reductio ad abs...

Fixed it for you. This sort of error of omission cannot be lightly excused, because the omission renders the statement both false and vicious.

Thanks for linking that. The comments from Demystifier and other members whose opinion I respect, align with my impression that this paper doesn't rev...

Which statement are you referring to, and what do you mean by 'believe in the veracity of'?

Somebody that didn't believe in objective truth would not believe that, and hence would be liberated from a potential contradiction. Of course they wo...

No, It doesn't, and it isn't.

I'm a big fan of CBT. It's not the solution to every problem, but it is the solution to many common problems. I also appreciate the commonality it has...

In your reply you seek first to counter my suggested definition of 'wave' by referring to the definition currently on Wikipedia - which anybody could ...

To complicate matters, the 'wave function' is, I believe, a misnomer. It's not a 'wave' in the way waves are understood either in physics or in everyd...

Fair enough. But we'd need to go on to acknowledge that even with ordinary old water waves and sound waves, the phenomenon is not the wave but the exp...

I think the 'yourself' that Wallows recommend recuse themselves was the person at the switch, not you BC.

I don't see that it makes any sense to talk about the entire human race, since there is no remotely likely scenario in which any of us would have to m...

Yes. I think most people would conclude that it is morally preferable to not kill one billion innocent people. Most people see killing a person as far...

People face situations every day where they encounter their prejudices and can choose to act on them or not. I can't see that conjuring up an impossib...

Not in physics. In physics a wave is a phenomenon that behaves in accordance with the wave equation.

OK, so that's what the point is not. I thought you were going to tell us what the point is.

We'll save Australia - don't want to hurt no kangaroo! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqBrw3rQvKo

Oh, don't be such a tease! :sad: Can't you tell us now what the point is?.

I agree. The difference between those health policy decisions and the sci-fi thought experiments is context. Everything depends on context, so a thoug...

What it makes me feel is regret at the Hollywoodisation of ethics. Rather than deliberate over real problems that actually occur in our world, people ...

That supposition was rejected more than a century ago given the results of the Michelson-Morley experiment. There is no medium in the model for electr...

I agree.

I don't know about Sweden, but France was far from the peace-loving victim that many WW2 narratives suggest. The way they behaved after the war in agg...

I dare say you are right. Amazingly, I had not hitherto noticed that the first six letters of 'objective' are 'object'. Strange, for somebody with a k...

Question to the UK members: was the prospect of a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic, and the consequent risk of a return of the Tr...

It occurs to me that the notion of QM undermining the notion of 'objective reality' only makes sense if one insists that only particles, not waves, ca...

Putting this together with your earlier comment that you are not attached to locality, it sounds like you have an affinity to the 'non-local hidden va...

That Europe values peace much more than one hundred years ago is not in dispute. But 'too peaceful'? In which particular present-day or recent conflic...

As per my previous post, we cannot measure the 'length' of a photon, because that would require two or more measurements - one at each 'end'. Note als...

A photon is essentially an observation, and can only happen once. It is not possible to observe "the same photon"* twice, so it is not possible to obs...

It has negative connotations, but often unjustified. For instance people have criticised environmentalists and anti-slavery campaigners as 'do-gooders...