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What else can I do? Your "refutation" was direct contradiction offered without evidence. So I offered some evidence for my claim - that morality is fu...
April 08, 2021 at 03:27
Thanks Banno - I could not/did not say it better myself!
April 07, 2021 at 22:07
You have no idea! When something is funny, you don't think it's funny, then laugh. You might say that, but you laugh automatically, because you have a...
April 07, 2021 at 22:00
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Agent James Reyerson - cont. Manilla envelope containing 2x$20 bills, pipe, cigarettes, card. Exh. 198 - 2x$20 bills - one torn. Glass multi coloured ...
April 07, 2021 at 21:52
What you said though, is that ... And I wonder, to what degree do you think science makes proclamations about truth amounting the Platonic ideal, or U...
April 07, 2021 at 19:38
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/519771 No one has ever thanked me for my time and expertise - and I look far more systematically to ...
April 07, 2021 at 18:01
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James Reyerson. Currently - Use of Force Investigations Group. Officer for 13 years. Bsc Criminology. NYPD 2007. 4.5 years. Impact Officer - quality o...
April 07, 2021 at 17:23
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Sgt Jody Stiger from LA - cont. I'm not recording the bought and paid for testimony of a black political police officer - who has elsewhere repeatedly...
April 07, 2021 at 14:48
Still, one must try! I don't think morality is "made from" norms at all. Moral norms and values are intellectually derived from feelings - feelings ex...
April 07, 2021 at 13:58
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Waiting for the trial to start, watching Chanely Painter from yesterday - pretty as a peach orchard in Autumn - wondering what she'll be wearing today...
April 07, 2021 at 13:01
If you can show that A causes B, and can apply that principle to create technologies that use A to cause B at the press of a button, reliably and cons...
April 07, 2021 at 12:52
With all due respect, what a stupid thing to say... via iphone! Don't mind me; I'm emotionally unintelligent. I haven't advanced much since the days o...
April 07, 2021 at 07:52
I disagree Oliver. Not with the wishful thinking part, but your suggestion we can't fix climate change. We can, but it requires we transcend our ideol...
April 07, 2021 at 07:06
Everything is not a complex interplay of randomness. Entropy imposes order - energy, causality, and the consistent movement of energy from higher stat...
April 06, 2021 at 21:33
Sure: something PRONOUN a thing that is unspecified or unknown. "we stopped for something to eat" · used in various expressions indicating that a desc...
April 06, 2021 at 21:18
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Nicole MacKenzie: MPD Police Officer (6 years) - Medical Support Coordinator. Knows Derek Chauvin - attended training, worked with him. First aid educ...
April 06, 2021 at 20:27
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Waiting for the trial to re-start, and I'm wondering where the racism is? I haven't seen any evidence of racism. People keep saying this is about race...
April 06, 2021 at 17:58
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Court convened! Maurice Hall via video link from prison. Invokes fifth amendment privilege against self incrimination in view of potential 3rd degree ...
April 06, 2021 at 17:21
You don't? Longevity is not a stable evolutionary state either! I did not think that was a big deal for you: Do you appeal to evolutionary stability -...
April 06, 2021 at 13:21
There are no definitive definitions because morality is fundamentally a sense. You may as well ask what makes a joke funny? Or what makes a sunset bea...
April 06, 2021 at 11:08
Is this a really clever joke about Roman numerals? I don't get it!
April 06, 2021 at 10:45
Dr Spok! lol
April 06, 2021 at 00:42
Seems our comments on the other thread were considered extraneous! Surplus to requirements! Expendable inessentials! They were deleted. I'm letting it...
April 06, 2021 at 00:36
The book the passage is from - is about hereditary sin. It's not a physics book. It's not even philosophy. It's theology. K considers different concep...
April 06, 2021 at 00:07
In Leviathan, Hobbes describes a natural balance between degree of political oppression - and the costs of exercising such control, and it's those cos...
April 05, 2021 at 23:31
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Police Chief Arradondo - cont. EDP - emotionally disturbed person. (4500 EDP's.) Officers role as first responders regarding medical care. Most basic ...
April 05, 2021 at 21:31
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Discussion of the legal relevance and viability of potential exhibits. Dr Langenfeld. Senior Resident. Hennepin County Medical Center. 1pm to 11 pm. C...
April 05, 2021 at 17:33
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Prior to the start of the trial, I'm listening to Chanley Painter and guests making Floyd out to be the victim of a "struggle with drugs." I have seen...
April 05, 2021 at 13:31
I think that morality is fundamentally a sense that human beings developed as a consequence of evolution in a tribal context. Proto-moral behaviours a...
April 05, 2021 at 05:33
I think the obligation is upon you to say what you think the passage means, if you assert it is something other than what I say it means. Explain, suc...
April 04, 2021 at 20:16
Could you not just take turns Constance? Only child were you? My goodness me! I don't think the emphasis in this passage is on how time works, but rat...
April 04, 2021 at 15:36
How is this about religion? It's about the temporal orientation of civilisation; backward looking. Unsaid, is that we retreat, bowed from the presence...
April 04, 2021 at 14:45
There are subjectivist philosophies that go to the epistemological extremes; most notably, post modernism - but more generally, subjectivist philosoph...
April 04, 2021 at 14:31
I am a lousy theorist, that's true - but I look to the most scientifically fundamental and beneficial application of technology as a matter of my "bel...
April 04, 2021 at 04:10
Not in my schemes, BC. I don't want to change anything. I want to change everything. I want to cooperate insofar as is necessary to attack the global ...
April 04, 2021 at 02:15
Seems a little far fetched when we can't get humans to apply available technologies for the benefit of humanity; not least, drill for limitless magma ...
April 04, 2021 at 01:37
Religion occurs in an evolutionary context - and may well be pointing at something real; albeit in a culturally idiosyncratic manner. I don't know if ...
April 03, 2021 at 19:55
My pleasure. Thank you for affording me the opportunity to express my views.
April 03, 2021 at 18:22
Interesting subject; and I agree, death is not necessarily bad. It is a necessary aspect of evolution that previous generations make way for subsequen...
April 03, 2021 at 18:11
You're right; it is pretty cool.
April 03, 2021 at 17:22
Nice image. It shows exactly what I mean. There are physical differences between wavelengths of light detected by the eye - albeit only across the nar...
April 02, 2021 at 22:17
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Edwards. Police Sergeant. dogwatch shift third precinct. 20:30 hrs rollcall. Called by Sgt Pleoger shortly after. "At hospital with male - may not liv...
April 02, 2021 at 16:42
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Friday. When court adjourns today it will resume Monday; the weekend a long break in the midst of such a trial. I imagine the judge, prosecution and d...
April 02, 2021 at 13:32
I've read the Odyssey, and I'm fairly sure he speaks of the wine dark sea. But he also speaks of the gold and rosy fingers of dawn - which is an unerr...
April 02, 2021 at 06:15
The sky is blue because other wavelengths of light are filtered out by the atmosphere. I think of the perception of colour as the elimination of other...
April 02, 2021 at 05:00
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Smith. Paramedic. Arrived on scene. I checked for a pulse. I checked Mr Floyd's pupils. Large. Dilated. "In lay terms, I thought he was dead." Inside ...
April 01, 2021 at 21:55
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Ross. Floyd's lover. Opiate addict. Floyd had proscription for back pain. Opiate medication. "Played sports everyday. Lifting weights, running, biking...
April 01, 2021 at 17:32
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Waiting for trial to start - not watching Court TV as they feature a procession of people calling for a guilty verdict whilst the trial is in progress...
April 01, 2021 at 13:54
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McMillian. Old man, outside cup foods. Exh. 39. CCTV. "You can't win!" (intervention counter-productive!) Court break. Police digital information offi...
March 31, 2021 at 21:48
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Martin. Shop clerk - cup foods. Fake $20 bill. Court break. CCTV. Floyd buys cigarettes with fake $20 bill. Martin initially intends to put bill "on h...
March 31, 2021 at 17:05