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...
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...
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...
That is not always possible. The quote function on this platform is unreliable and intermittently fails in some combinations of browsers and operating...
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...
I made a positive comment about people striving worthily to maintain their rich cultural tradition. I utterly repudiate the implication that such stri...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Not necessarily. And for technical reasons, electric cars are much more amenable to being charged with electricity from renewable energy than most oth...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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