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Most of the psychologists I've come across seem well-balanced, thoughtful and to have evidence-based practice methods. Sure one comes across the occas...
February 06, 2019 at 07:41
I looked at some of the responses to the APA guidelines and was surprised at how completely they missed the point. They seem to believe that gender-ne...
February 05, 2019 at 20:56
It is possible to make that proof rigorous. Actually the shortest rigorous version by that path uses the following, which is the same as the book proo...
February 03, 2019 at 20:54
That is not always possible. The quote function on this platform is unreliable and intermittently fails in some combinations of browsers and operating...
February 03, 2019 at 05:51
I feel that if the nativism is applied selectively then it is nativism mixed with bigotry. Arguing against myself, I concede that a dark skin is the m...
January 29, 2019 at 21:20
I made a positive comment about people striving worthily to maintain their rich cultural tradition. I utterly repudiate the implication that such stri...
January 29, 2019 at 21:08
I think the occasional Randians that turn up here do us all a great service. It provides a rare topic on which people that have been having blazing ro...
January 29, 2019 at 01:27
That reminded me of the TV series The Indian Doctor, which I greatly enjoyed. I expect you've seen it. I thought it portrayed the issues involved in a...
January 29, 2019 at 01:21
I'm not sure there is a tension here. The view that I understand to be seen as the progressive one on these issues is that: 1. it is immoral to impose...
January 29, 2019 at 01:08
Your 'usually' may be correct. I don't know the statistics of the case. But there are some interesting examples in the opposite direction - the Jews a...
January 29, 2019 at 00:53
Since you don't agree to the use of logic, there is nothing that can be discussed. I suspect this is not the best forum for you to find sympathetic ea...
January 28, 2019 at 23:32
Logic doesn't work like that. We are not allowed to use a name for a concept and then rely on it having all the properties and associations that it ha...
January 27, 2019 at 21:25
Not necessarily. And for technical reasons, electric cars are much more amenable to being charged with electricity from renewable energy than most oth...
January 27, 2019 at 10:24
That tends to not work out so well when one has to move a sofa or a piano, let alone a household.
January 26, 2019 at 22:29
First note that: 'Let the world (w) be defined as: the domain that contains all domains.' is not a definition. The use of the definite article at the ...
January 25, 2019 at 21:02
I am pretty confident that post is somebody's homework, and they were just trying to get somebody on the forum to do it for them. Note how it just has...
January 24, 2019 at 11:05
I think "Plato's beard" is what we call a 'play on words' and fits in the same category as the joke "Q. What's the difference between a duck? A. One o...
January 23, 2019 at 20:47
No. I claimed that nobody outside a philosophy of language discussion would be likely to use it. This is a philosophy of language discussion. Note als...
January 23, 2019 at 03:06
Here are two arguments that work for me: Firstly, my observation from various funerals I have seen is that there are often many people that love the d...
January 22, 2019 at 21:31
I'm not sure what you're referring to here. My best guess is that it's my response to this: In that post you appeared to wrongly attribute to me the s...
January 22, 2019 at 07:31
You appear to be upset about something I didn't write - something like that nobody ever uses counterfactuals. I don't believe I ever wrote such a thin...
January 22, 2019 at 06:05
January 22, 2019 at 05:04
January 22, 2019 at 04:12
Yes, that's a very important factor, to which I devoted considerable thought when wondering in what sort of a counterfactual 'Nixon might not have bee...
January 22, 2019 at 00:36
And those conversations have context, which makes the meaning clear. That's the whole point. Fish a statement out of its context and stand it up by it...
January 22, 2019 at 00:34
Perfectly normal? Have you ever heard somebody say such a thing out of the blue? All I can say is that, if you regard that as a perfectly normal sente...
January 22, 2019 at 00:02
My limited observation is that you are likely to get a better education at a uni that is respectable and competent, but not fashionable, which means r...
January 21, 2019 at 21:45
I am saying that: (1) they are ambiguous, and need more detail to clarify the particular meaning, and (2) as stated and in isolation, it would be extr...
January 21, 2019 at 21:35
Not to me. If I were to hear somebody say such a thing I would ask them what on Earth they were on about. Fortunately, I have never heard anybody say ...
January 21, 2019 at 07:53
2 is a definition, not an assertion. If you want to define 'ethical vegan' as somebody that believes it is always immoral not to be a vegan unless one...
January 21, 2019 at 07:07
Most university rankings I am aware of are dominated by publications, so are not a good indicator of the quality of teaching and assessment, which are...
January 21, 2019 at 07:01
Even if that were the claim, it would not follow that the vegan making it also believes that not being vegan is immoral. Let's go back to basics: 1. A...
January 20, 2019 at 23:26
You are confusing the end with the means. And here you are confusing the societal with the individual. A vegan could easily recognise that for society...
January 20, 2019 at 21:45
No. The aim of the suffering-based version of ethical-veganism is to reduce animal suffering. Veganism is simply a practical means to do that. It happ...
January 20, 2019 at 21:10
No, it isn't. A moral relativist is as capable of making a moral claim to another person as a moral absolutist is. If they share the same moral axioms...
January 20, 2019 at 10:14
If you have an argument against what those two individuals have said then your argument is with them, and there's no point in taking it up with me. Wh...
January 20, 2019 at 10:02
Hmm, that's a more interesting and complex question than I thought at first. The actual-world properties by which we identify the person depend on wha...
January 20, 2019 at 05:43
:up:
January 20, 2019 at 02:47
Is that possible? I thought the standoff was precisely because Trump won't sign any funding bill unless it contains money specifically earmarked for h...
January 20, 2019 at 02:46
Indeed, I had the liar sentence in mind as I was writing that. The similarities are strong. I also agree that it is fun to play around with such sente...
January 20, 2019 at 02:43
My interpretation is that it was never intended to be a meaningful offer. He just wants to be able to add the announcement to a list of purported 'att...
January 20, 2019 at 01:37
This has already been covered here.
January 20, 2019 at 00:55
The two rights that come immediately to my mind are the right to drink and the right to vote. I don't see those as related to personhood. I imagine th...
January 20, 2019 at 00:15
This goes to the elusive 'is death a deprivation?' question, that has respectable supporters of both sides, eg Shelley Kagan and Epicurus say No, whil...
January 20, 2019 at 00:10
Yes, my perception is that it's exactly that, and the more cool-headed analyses on both sides of the argument approach it that way. I don't think scie...
January 19, 2019 at 23:59
There's another one here: Don't you just love "whilst"? :heart: I am going to train myself to use it.
January 19, 2019 at 23:53
It's later in the same sentence, and relies on the setup that is done in the first part of the sentence, which meticulously avoids using a proper name...
January 19, 2019 at 23:16
I know what you meant by ethical realism. I just don't accept that it implies what you say it does. If you think you have an argument why it does, it ...
January 19, 2019 at 22:15
The difference between the two sentences is not just the quotes but also the word 'called'. I don't think anybody in this thread has written a sentenc...
January 19, 2019 at 22:11
Thanks for the example. It exactly demonstrates my point. The subject of the sentence is 'The capital of England', not 'London', as you seem to believ...
January 19, 2019 at 22:06