Condition aid to Israel based on withdrawal from the Occupied Territories. As they go on fulfilling promises, aid may be given. If not, it can be redu...
Sure. Nothing's ever innocent in this respect, as long as we're human beings, we are going to have biases for everything, if we didn't we'd likely be ...
Varoufakis' And the Weak Suffer What They Must? his book and many lectures on Adults in the Room, and Mody's Eurotragedy are very eye-opening. Euro le...
One of the positive consequences of Trump, totally freak-ish, but, could have led to something, was when Germany (and maybe France too) said, essentia...
It makes sense for China to support Russia here, given the Taiwan situation, which surely merits its own thread. In that case, I think there is more r...
Noumenal for Kant would be what Lucy Allais describes as "intelligibelia". There are positive and negative conceptions of the noumena, on this reading...
I agree with that. While Biden has done decent things - at the very beginning - for people, his foreign policy in action, not in rhetoric, is not much...
Richly cognitively endowed, yes. So far as the manifest image goes, it works rather well for ordinary affairs- day to day stuff. It becomes hard once ...
That makes sense to me, in so far as things like this can make sense. That koan proceeds to take apart what we take for granted. What is curious is to...
I agree. We mostly disagree on terminology: "naturalism", "empiricism", etc. But the terminological oddities are mine, you use them as they are common...
I mean, our vocabulary changes with the times, that makes sense. And we can still use the word "soul", as in, "that moved my soul". If it has religiou...
I mean, I think we can use the word "truth", with a lower case "t". I'm seeing letters on a screen is true, at one level of description. Photons are h...
:up: I'm sympathetic to that view and it seems to me to be reasonable, again, given the creatures that we are. I mean, this whole problem with "Truth"...
You are right. Britain was destroyed in WWII and the last solo act they tried at Suez in 56', was sternly rebuked by Eisenhower, who was stuck with th...
It's the condition of the US as of last year. If you can show me massive cuts in military spending, then you can say that US power is going down, lite...
That's comparing the US military to all the other ones in the world. Has the budget for the Pentagon gone down? What does China emerging as the bigger...
Refusing to cooperate by not sending more weapons, as Germany has done. Asking for more diplomacy instead of causing tensions to rise by repeatedly sa...
I don't disagree at all. I mean, for me everything is essentially a mystery, science included. It's not as if science makes sense, as I've been saying...
There have been some instances in which the EU has managed to stop the US doing its most possible damage, I'm thinking of the time the UK refused to j...
Historically, simplifying a great deal and looking at tendencies while skipping major figures, I think that Descartes invoked God as an assurance that...
Absolutely. Though there's the extra factor of "nationalistic pride", that's just present in all confrontations between power states. It's natural, I ...
It's close to this, not exactly though. The apple falling does make sense to us and probably should, given (probably, I'm totally guessing) elementary...
I think so. I mean, it's the question Hawking asks: "what breathes fire into the equations"? They're mathematical theories that happen to link up with...
There are many factors, of which I don't know of, but you bring up which are important. It's not unlike Venezuela in some respects. Why do major power...
It's very hard to say. Hume, for instance, argues that what we get are perceptions and form ideas out of these. But for many ideas, the imagination mu...
Thanks. I fully agree with Raymond Tallis when he says "In the beginning was astonishment." That looks accurate to me and it makes sense, once we move...
It's studying what the classics - up till Newton - and a bit beyond him, took to be a fact about the world, that we could understand it. We can't. Wha...
Sapir-Whorf has been studied for decades, it turns out to not hold up to scrutiny, which is not to say that different languages may express very speci...
That's what's likely happening, we'll find out soon enough I'd guess. It's very dangerous. I mean, they have to know the consequences of fanning the f...
CNN and MSNBC are an extension of Pentagon PR. Have you ever seen them not wanting go to war? Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, China Rand now Russia. ...
Because the issue is framed as "Russia bad", "NATO good". That's not real life. I always think it's a good exercise to think "how would I think if I w...
I lean to StreetlightX's approach here in general, though I would express things in a different manner, perhaps emphasizing different things. Yes, tha...
Familiar story. Listen, I agree with the overall thrust of your argument, I don't think the US, has any business with this Ukraine situation. All one ...
:sweat: Finally, a post I agree with you with! It's been a while! :joke: No, but seriously, it was even reported that the Ukrainian PM told Biden to t...
Yeah, I also agree that I wish this thread would close sooner rather than later. We're going to be in suspense for some time though... I don't like Pu...
I mean, one thing is to read his essays. But to listen to his lectures or interviews, I find it pretty remarkable. He's like "it's obvious that this a...
This is f*cking crazy. It boils down to who has more projected power and a bigger phallus (to not use the more vulgar word). And for what? I don't see...
The first sentence is crucial, in that we do not "understand matter as thoroughly as possible." That is exactly right. In fact, as Strawson and Chomsk...
Close. I think we may get to the point in which we have some type of theory of consciousness, perhaps someone discovers which brain regions are strict...
Not only Putin, he's bad enough. The US destroys countries, as seen by mid 20th to early 21st century history. It can do that because it has the power...
As long as we are speaking of nuclear powers it doesn't matter much. I don't know how they plan to fight a war without quite soon threatening to use t...
Correct. He calls it a "truism", he doesn't like the term mysterian. Mcginn and others adopted it because the labels stuck. He has spoken about Dennet...
The point is that people like Sean Carroll or Daniel Dennett say they follow Hume, so they too "repeat what someone else wrote three hundred years ago...
Ah. Sure. Assuming - and this we have to always keep in mind - that we are correct with our reasons, what you suggest would be the right way to approa...
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