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Yes I'd second 'Optimistic and Hopeful'. If nothing else it's a chance for the USA to rejoin the international community of civilised nations. You hav...
February 20, 2019 at 09:44
My source for this was originally the talks of Alan Watts. When I went searching for it in Indian scriptures, I found myself mostly pointed towards th...
February 19, 2019 at 10:07
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGVZOLV9SPo
February 19, 2019 at 00:40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xnNhzgcWTk
February 18, 2019 at 23:43
I don't know about paradox but the 'voluntary ignorance' idea is present in Advaita Vedanta (an Indian Philosophy), which hypothesises that every cons...
February 18, 2019 at 23:31
You have shown no interest in discussion, only in lecturing others, hectoring them with questions and ignoring the questions they ask you. I'll leave ...
February 18, 2019 at 03:03
Mostly from households. People using energy to keep their houses warm, cook, heat water for baths etc. Of course I'm not sure, and I am assuming nothi...
February 18, 2019 at 02:40
I think Sophisticat's method will be easier. Just to make the hint a bit broader, consider that if d_n, d_{n-1}, d_{n-2}, ..., d_2,d_1,d_0 are the dig...
February 18, 2019 at 02:32
That is not pointing to business. It's pointing to governments. The word 'business' does not occur anywhere in the article. Nor does 'profit' or 'comp...
February 17, 2019 at 23:31
No you haven't. You've linked to an article that criticises governments for not charging for greenhouse gas emissions. It provides no support whatsoev...
February 17, 2019 at 22:07
If the substance of the article is that business is bad, I am rejecting it, which is not avoiding it. You are tarring all business with the same brush...
February 17, 2019 at 20:41
This all falls apart when we notice that all 'rational' beliefs can be traced back to unprovable axioms that we take on faith, such as the Principle o...
February 16, 2019 at 21:39
What a wild and baseless generalisation! There are businesses that do a great deal of good. Don't make the fight against exploitative multinationals a...
February 16, 2019 at 21:27
That's as I thought. So if what you mean by sex differences is just differences in the averages of certain metrics, I'm just a bit perplexed at how th...
February 15, 2019 at 06:49
The vast majority of the wiki article on dimorphism is about difference of kind, not of degree, like the extravagant tail of the peacock, which a peah...
February 15, 2019 at 06:24
What is a sex difference and what would it mean to believe there are none?
February 15, 2019 at 06:19
What would be an example of denying biology?
February 15, 2019 at 06:13
The average height of men is higher than for females. When a woman is taller than the male average, do we say she has a 'male height'? No, we say she ...
February 15, 2019 at 05:24
That is a deeply philosophical topic. Robert Pirsig dedicated a whole section of 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' to the phenomenon of stuc...
February 15, 2019 at 00:49
The work done by the word 'natural' in 'natural selection' is to indicate that the selection is not done by a conscious being who says 'we'll have thi...
February 13, 2019 at 08:41
That is a naturist, not a naturalist.
February 13, 2019 at 08:36
Nicely put! :up:
February 11, 2019 at 21:38
Are you familiar with the concept of functions? That is the easiest way to express this, by defining a function f, whose domain and range are the posi...
February 11, 2019 at 21:34
I support your proposal in principle. But it would need more than a change in tax rates, because most of the wealth of billionaires is in the shares t...
February 11, 2019 at 10:40
This doesn't sit well with the notion that morality is objective, because Dostoevsky's morality - which is essentially deontological and divine-comman...
February 11, 2019 at 10:27
JM Coetzee immediately springs to mind. He's still alive and writing. And John Steinbeck, going back a few decades. The Grapes of Wrath changed my lif...
February 11, 2019 at 10:19
That was a legendary episode. So much so that the BBC made a TV drama about it a few years back. Quite engaging and interesting as I recall. Worth wat...
February 11, 2019 at 07:42
That sounds a bit grumpy, and highly inaccurate. Writing really good comedy is a high art form, and at its best is timeless. My children love Monty Py...
February 11, 2019 at 06:22
Yes I think so. There are occasional exceptions. For instance I may be wrestling with a moral decision about my own potential future actions, and seek...
February 11, 2019 at 01:34
I am not aware of any laws in the US or any other developed country that enforce gender norms (unless we count Saudi Arabia as a developed country. Sa...
February 10, 2019 at 21:36
I think that the concept of 'meaning' is over-used, particularly at the macro scale. We can ask what a word means, and in some cases there is a simple...
February 10, 2019 at 08:45
Indeed!
February 10, 2019 at 04:47
I'm surprised that nobody has answered it, because I believe it is very simple. Perhaps you didn't ask it quite as directly before. For me, 'sex' refe...
February 10, 2019 at 04:45
I don't understand your comments about cake, or about the fellow lifting himself up. If you're saying that programs in schools do not help a person th...
February 10, 2019 at 03:05
I assume you mean 'sex' rather than 'gender' here. The way that this conversation relates to him is that in a world in which gender stereotypes were n...
February 10, 2019 at 02:25
I baulk at the first sentence of (1A). Describing the journey as a 'sequence' is inaccurate and almost presupposes Zeno's conclusion. Also - and I'm n...
February 10, 2019 at 00:54
'Series', like 'sequence' is a technical mathematical term. Usually it is used to describe the sequence of partial sums of a sequence, although someti...
February 10, 2019 at 00:03
I see it as getting stuck on the first horn - that goodness is whatever God does or wants done, so if that is killing all the first-borns then that is...
February 09, 2019 at 06:25
'Sequential' is the problem word here. I would say that passing in order is not sequential, because the events are not sequential if we use the usual ...
February 09, 2019 at 02:45
I chose to use the word 'passing' rather than 'counting', with intent. There is a critical difference between 'counting' and 'passing'. To me, 'counti...
February 09, 2019 at 02:05
Proving that there is no smallest will do it. Like this: Assume there is a smallest, call it x. Then x must equal 2^-M for some M. But 2^-(M+1) is les...
February 09, 2019 at 01:40
The second part of that sentence is either an assumption (so the 'so' should be an 'and') or based on an unstated assumption, which will be something ...
February 09, 2019 at 01:03
I agree with the first point. For the second point, we need to be careful about what we mean by 'sequentially'. If we mean that we pass through x befo...
February 09, 2019 at 00:53
Thinking about this leads me to what I think is a fairly precise mathematical statement of the controversial assumption that Zeno's argument makes. It...
February 09, 2019 at 00:26
This replaces one word, whose meaning we are wondering about, by a list of words: kind, loving, impartial, fair, just. All this seems to me to do is t...
February 08, 2019 at 06:03
That question can only be fairly answered by an Aristotelean. I am not one, but I think there are plenty on this board. IIRC @"Metaphysician Undercove...
February 08, 2019 at 01:48
Because, while the logical discipline that he had developed was sufficient to identify the flaw in Zeno's reasoning, Aristotle did not spot how that c...
February 08, 2019 at 01:20
All of the Zeno paradoxes that I know have the following form: 1. Prove that in order for one's position to change, one must first do an infinite numb...
February 08, 2019 at 01:05
Do people claim to be gender neutral? I thought they aspired to be gender neutral. Just as people of goodwill aspire to be non-racist, while recognisi...
February 07, 2019 at 23:00
I just noticed the following, as an example of how either sloppy or dishonest Jordan Peterson is in his arguments: If that were the case, the APA docu...
February 06, 2019 at 07:56