counterpunch

I bet you do. You think repeatedly calling me a prick is how you should behave? Because clearly, you're seeking to illicit a response - which is consi...

People are so susceptible to flattery. Agree with me and I'll ask you why! But it's not a fundamental certainty, because it's arrived at by a method o...

It is a public forum. Which only makes your behaviour all the more puzzling. Are you policing this public space? Do you see it as your role to tell pe...

"In a textbook example, if all I know is that you spent $10 on apples and oranges and that apples cost $1 while oranges cost $2, then I know that you ...

So you didn't know what you were commenting on... "Your understanding of it is flawed." — counterpunch Yet proceed to defend your understanding of it ...

You did not contribute to the discussion between Issac and myself. Your understanding of it is flawed. You also inserted yourself into an argument bet...

Presenting my own philosophy I have experienced this problem; there were two natural starting points. Discovery of the theory of evolution, or the evo...

Two truths cannot exist in contradiction.

Thanks for your opinion, such as it is. You're kind of a shit stirrer, huh?

Okay, but you're talking about science as a tool. I'm talking about science as a understanding of reality - as opposed to ideology. Do you realise tha...

Is there any of your business here? I don't think so.

You're not very bright, are you? You failed to understand my basic idea of a disparity between a scientific understanding of reality and an ideologica...

I only tried to help the guy understand and he threw it back in my face. I apologised. My apology was not accepted. I've been more than reasonable.

I was sorry you felt condescended to. Now I'm sorry you're not willing to work at philosophical understanding. You just sit there with your fucking mo...

I'm sorry, no. I don't know of anyone else who attributes the climate and ecological crisis to a misapplication of technology, in turn attributed to a...

Ah, I see. For me, philosophy is a means to an end - and that end is the continued existence of the human species. It's like the old proverb: "Society...

Might you not be better off establishing sustainability as a bridge between is and ought — counterpunch Malthus believed population would outstrip foo...

Might you not be better off establishing sustainability as a bridge between is and ought, and trusting to the moral sense playing out in political and...

Why not engage with others contentiously? Civility is so sterile. Why not bang the table, and scream "you can't handle the truth." Besides, with the p...

Too bad you're a crappy writer - who opens by bombarding the reader with questions that are not the subject of the post - using unnecessary jargon in ...

To be honest Charles, I found your verbal gymnastics in the opening paragraph - somewhat incomprehensible. I'm not sure what it is you're trying to sa...

Your lack of grace in defeat deprives me of the privilege of being magnanimous in victory, you dick!

Okay, listen carefully. There's something that you do not understand - that I am going to try to help you see. Just go with it, and after you "get it"...

"From 1629 to 1633, Descartes worked tirelessly on his treatise Le Monde ou Traité de la lumière, which detailed his ideas on physics. Unfortunately, ...

Not exactly. It's irrefutable that science as an understanding of reality has been downplayed, by emphasising the subjective - as consistent with the ...

I can help you with that. Start with epistemology, as related to the philosophy of science, and stay clear of subjectivism and post modernism. It lead...

Huh? I think you got the wrong fella, fella! But, rather proves my point there's nothing left to say about Covid!

To my mind, the problem with Descartes epistemology is that it's sceptical doubt as opposed to reasonable doubt. He imagines an evil demon is deceivin...

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There's no need to thank me for giving you an opening for one of your mad ideas. I was talking about the actual implications of causality. If that rin...

The point is that your point is wrong. Facts outlast the moment. I can go back and read your post now - after all this time. I'm not going to, but I c...

I want my penny up front!

Then there's really no point reading the rest of your post. Poof. It's already gone.

I however, am not fascinated. I've tried to make myself clear. I do not believe anyone here has the ability to judge arguments about quantum mechanics...

1. I don't know. I don't think in terms of the ultimate. It's important to recognise what you cannot know. 2. Truth is a word with many senses; and fo...

"Professor Brian Cox builds sandcastles in the Namib Desert to explain why time travels in one direction. It is a result of a phenomenon called entrop...

Mark Carney: Climate crisis deaths 'will be worse than Covid' By Sharanjit Leyl BBC News The world is heading for mortality rates equivalent to the Co...

I have argued this thesis many times, and one of the regular objections I get is based in Hume's - is/ought divide. The 'is' are facts. The 'ought' ar...

I claim simply, that truth matters. Religious, political and economic ideologies are not true. Science is true. You claim truth is not possible. You'r...

What this tells me, at last - is that you're evading the question again. You opened a thread specifically to cast doubt upon our ability to establish ...

I didn't ask about Zen. I mentioned it only insofar as I'm trying to get past it to a place of honesty, and it seems to me - that Zen isn't honest. Ad...

You should read Mediations on First Philosophy by Descartes. It's not very long and quite comprehensible, because, no - that's not quite it. Descartes...

In science, we can say we know x within the parameters of hypothesis, experiment and observation. It's not a claim to absolute knowledge. Its logical ...

When I use the term scientific truth, I refer to the body of knowledge, established through forming hypotheses and testing them in relation to empiric...

Molecules are two or more atoms. Does entanglement occur in molecules? I didn't know you could just hop over the quantum/macroscopic fence like that! ...

I understand it. Does it make sense? That's a different question. But at least I can understand what you're getting at. So, here's my question: are yo...

I'm reminded of that famous old quote by Albert Einstein "If you cannot explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." Tell me how quantum m...

I know. I read the other thread. It was completely mental. I'm trying to get to his motives - because he obviously doesn't know what he's talking abou...

That's not what herd immunity is you utter flump! Herd immunity is when a large enough percentage of the population has got antibodies to the disease ...

Other than those five paragraphs of impenetrable jargon that just screams "look how smart I am mummy" we're really no closer to you giving an explanat...