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Kant defines a proposition as 'analytic' if its conclusion is 'contained in' its premise. The broad idea is that the set of analytic propositions is a...

I think the answer is that rationality is not inconsistent with emotion. As Hume observed, reason is the servant of the passions, not the other way ar...

My two cents' worth: Patriotism is loving your country and wanting to help it succeed. Nationalism is claiming your country is better than all the oth...

To make sense of the question you'd need to get a lot more precise about what you mean by property. For instance, is being liked by a specific person ...

I don't see anything neurotic about someone taking up bodybuilding. It's just another sort of goal, and goals give meaning to our life. It does no har...

I've never come across that particular prejudice, thank goodness. But I recall a scene in a US sitcom years ago (I can't remember which one) in which ...

It sounds like your concern about psychiatry relates to its practice in the criminal justice system, where the subject is not the doctor's client. Tha...

How could you know it? To know it, the info would need to be stored in your brain. But then your brain would contain all the information about what is...

What is any doctor without their diagnoses? What is the point of that question? You could play that game with any profession: what is a lumberjack wit...

I think the use of general terms is that they work very well in everyday language, because context makes them clear and precise. The trouble philosoph...

My response to your question is similar to that of @"Judaka": different answers work for different people. That there are many philosophical views is ...

That might be the problem then., because I think that category of people is almost empty. As I understand it, the OP is about people that use SJW as a...

That doesn't identify anybody. Name some names and explain why you refer to them as SJW. Until you do that all your posts are just nebulae.

You may know what it means but still be misusing it. Until you give an example of your using it, with the details I requested above, it's all guesswor...

If we trace this exchange back to near its root, say here, we see that: 1. I said the main pejorative use of SJW is by hard right figures 2. You said ...

You are asking me to explain to you why you use a term a certain way. Doesn't that seem a bit odd to you?

The trouble is that we don't know what a 'non-trivial intrinsic similarity' is. You have given examples of similarities that you regard as not being t...

There's no discussion possible from a cryptic statement like that. You need to identify an individual about whom you are saying it, the activities of ...

In my experience it is not used pejoratively outside those two contexts. If you think otherwise, supply some examples and we can discuss them.

What about them?

When progressives use the term pejoratively, they are thinking of extremists that favour violence or seek to de-platform even relatively moderate buff...

That demonstrates the difficulty with the term SJW. I think most people would agree that the treatment of the Christakises was terrible, and if the te...

Now you're dodging: ... but you won't identify one of them, ... and yet you don't. If you are now saying your attack on an individual and a profession...

And psychiatrists campaign against conditions that contribute to psychiatric disorders. For instance they have been foremost in the campaign in Austra...

It sounds like you are not aware that that is exactly what psychiatrists are.

This just shows that you don't understand what depression is. Many people with depression are not that way as a result of being treated badly at all. ...

That is beneath your usual level, and rather disappointing. Such a statement is an insulting grab for the moral high ground and bears no relevance to ...

Knowing several people whose lives have been immeasurably improved by psychiatric treatment, I am very glad for the existence of psychiatry. That pres...

An Australian alt-right figure, Pauline Hanson, said that 'Islam is a disease' and that Australia has to 'vaccinate itself against it'. It was reporte...

Then give one. The above are not examples. They are vague, generalised asserted slurs. Let's have some names, places, dates and quotes, rather than ne...

Name one.

and you have been repeatedly asked for an example of this alleged double standard, and have failed to supply a single example. In the few examples you...

and you have been given examples of where it has been criticised. If you think there are important examples where it has not been criticised then ment...

I urge you to reflect for a moment on what you were saying. You are implying that every one of those many millions of times that a devout Christian ha...

In the OP you were saying more than that. You were implying that people criticise behaviour in the alt-right that they do not criticise when it is dis...

Some of the purported examples are just speculation. You speculate that the lack of ethnic diversity in China and Korea may be because of racism, but ...

There are plenty of places where people work hard to preserve their culture. France springs to mind, where, so I am told, they have a government depar...

Because they would not get many white people coming through a village in the Congo, and would be curious about the novelty. When I travelled in remote...

I have never heard anybody say they are ashamed of white culture, and can't see why anybody would. What's to be ashamed of in classical music, the can...

I doubt they would be interested in the placard. Why should it matter to them what you think about an abstract, not to mention scientifically unsound,...

Then they are not interested in ethnicity, and so a parallel cannot be drawn between them and people who celebrate their ethnicity or culture. Ethnici...

That's not what I've been seeing. I've only seen the term 'alt-right' applied to sites like Breitbart, Fox News and people like Trump, Milo Y and othe...

If the alt-right really were focussed on celebrating their own ethnicity and culture they would be: - learning Morris dancing - organising Shakespeare...

What about those people for whom the essence and zest of life is looking for answers? What will they do?

With decoherence, which is key to my preferred interpretation, collapse does not happen, unless we want to call a rapid but continuous evolution from ...

Every one of those four points is simply an unsupported assertion. It looks like the place where you got them is a low quality source, and best ignore...

I don't think it's about probability. The Slippery Slope argument says that if we make small change A, then we will subsequently make larger change B,...

At the risk of being annoyingly meta, I think there are multiple interpretations possible of the many-worlds interpretation of QM. One can take a 'spl...

That is my understanding. And the abstract of the paper doesn't say a superposition is detected. I suspect there is some over-interpretation of the ex...

I don't think any finite being can have infinite knowledge of anything. Where could they store the knowledge? Some philosophers (eg Kant, who was at l...