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I remember her and liked her too, seemed to be doing the right things. Shame she still isn't in power, or at least remained in office for a longer per...
November 01, 2021 at 12:53
I've got to read a good book by some learned reporter or scholar on Australian politics, I used to know a decent amount, for somebody who's very far a...
November 01, 2021 at 04:26
Yeah, found out about the nickname in the Australia subreddit. I had heard that the original French submarines weren't nuclear powered, but I haven't ...
November 01, 2021 at 03:19
The government, sure. But what about the voters, or is this deal not very relevant to them? After all, you still get the submarines...
November 01, 2021 at 02:43
Macron went to the point here: https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/qk1ezu/macaron_telling_it_like_it_is/ Would it be fair to say that some peo...
November 01, 2021 at 02:03
EDIT: Sorry, I didn't even read your OP, just the title. Given what you say, you probably should see a professional. It doesn't look to me as if your ...
November 01, 2021 at 01:15
If the multiverse is infinite (in terms of quantity of universes) then I could see the case as to why anything would eventually happen, paradoxes asid...
November 01, 2021 at 00:52
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Sure. I read the Spanish translation, which is just a small portion of what he wrote, so I cannot opine too strongly on his larger ethical views. As i...
October 31, 2021 at 23:05
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:heart: :heart: :heart: His translation is coming out next year. There's one made by a an enthusiast in Mainlander's subreddit, which is pretty decent...
October 31, 2021 at 19:37
:up:
October 31, 2021 at 19:12
The physicist is not interested in the definition, they are interested in the phenomena. Most physicists I know don't spend time worrying about the de...
October 31, 2021 at 18:57
I actually disagree with you, no surprise. If these terms are so well defined, why the heck do people argue about them all the time? Do you see physic...
October 31, 2021 at 18:03
In a possible world we could be ants in the playground of a little kid. In another possible world there is a massive horse that rules the universe. Th...
October 31, 2021 at 16:26
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Well put. :up:
October 31, 2021 at 14:48
Yes, the only substantive issue on this topic is the pace of change - which is quick, granted, given what we used to have, but still not quick enough....
October 31, 2021 at 04:37
Yeah. That's the problem. There's plenty of ways to laugh all the way to the bank - sometimes people fall for dupes, and well, somebody ends up winnin...
October 31, 2021 at 02:59
They have, to the extent that they're the dominant regional power. What they've done in HK is quite ugly. At the same time, the way the US and NATO ar...
October 31, 2021 at 02:55
We can talk about cats and not pandas, no problem. I don't want to have a truth claim to what knowledge is such that if a person disagrees with my def...
October 31, 2021 at 01:22
:cool:
October 31, 2021 at 00:35
I don't see what is gained by insisting that knowledge must be thought of as so and so. The way I see it if that if we continue insisting on these cri...
October 31, 2021 at 00:34
:rofl: Nerds all of you!
October 31, 2021 at 00:19
We can say that now. Back then they could not. It was the best theory they had for the time and not an unreasonable one at that, to me anyway. What wo...
October 31, 2021 at 00:01
I didn't look into that one because it did not look inviting for some reason. But if people here think it's good, then it probably is. Thanks. :up:
October 30, 2021 at 23:47
Yeah it's pretty ugly. It's often boils down to money and power, not much more. But it's far from unique to the US. The British, The Spanish, The Fren...
October 30, 2021 at 23:37
If that's how you take it, fine. Really?!? You're born in the middle of a tribe, you see this vast ocean of things in the sky. You have no access to t...
October 30, 2021 at 23:34
Well, you've now introduced the idea of "naivety" to JTB's. Some some beliefs are naïve, hence not really JTB. What beliefs are naïve as opposed to no...
October 30, 2021 at 23:18
There's a few ways to interpret the paper and much subsequent literature on it. But the title is literally Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? He give...
October 30, 2021 at 22:57
And this one too: https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Hope-C-I-Interventions-II-Updated-ebook/dp/B00HFA93N8/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=killing+hope&qid=1...
October 30, 2021 at 22:34
This is a week old but: Outside of mathematics, I don't know of a single word which has an easy definition. A dictionary will give you the most simple...
October 30, 2021 at 22:32
What are you asking: Why isn't knowledge justified true belief or why can't it be defined by a strict set of criteria?
October 30, 2021 at 22:20
Yes it is. But I think we have to distinguish between the policy makers and those on the levers of power as opposed to the general population. It's th...
October 30, 2021 at 21:47
Pretty much. :up: Currently reading: My View of the World - Erin Schrödinger An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - David Hume Almost done with: ...
October 30, 2021 at 18:06
Yeah. It's an important aspect of a massive change in political ideology that is still with us to this day. I haven't read the book yet, but know a li...
October 30, 2021 at 17:35
No. It has to do with an economic system dating back to the late 70's in which economic policies were forced down people's throat under the guise of f...
October 30, 2021 at 14:33
Sounds right up my alley. :up:
October 30, 2021 at 05:25
Ah, cool. The idea of the family used as excuse for implementing market discipline kind-of thing? I'll be sure to check it Cooper out. Many thanks!
October 30, 2021 at 05:13
If I don't remember incorrectly, you read Quinn Slobodian's Globalists, which was an excellent dissection of Neoliberalism. It led me to other fantast...
October 30, 2021 at 04:58
I like my phenomenology simple, which is why I really like Tallis here. He doesn't call it "phenomenology", but that's what he seems to do. The proble...
October 30, 2021 at 04:15
Wonderwall - Oasis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hzrDeceEKc
October 30, 2021 at 03:23
They've been toning it down as of late, it's more difficult to defend absurd claims in light of the evidence.
October 30, 2021 at 02:17
I agree. Many people do not. You hear people speaking of "my truth" or "it's true to me" all the time. Yeah, such statements aren't suitable for logic...
October 30, 2021 at 01:58
I tend to agree. We seem to demand everything have a causal explanation. But what if something just don't have any? For example: That something can co...
October 30, 2021 at 01:26
Manchin is real piece of shit. Who gives a fuck if your laughing all the way to the bank if your daughter and/or grandkids are totally fucked. Because...
October 30, 2021 at 01:02
He did. But common sense is not easy to tease out. I think believing in God at one time during our evolutionary history made sense and was even ration...
October 30, 2021 at 01:01
And I forgot to add, why don't people ask about the devil? I mean really. The opposite of an all good being.
October 29, 2021 at 23:59
Yes. I mean, part of the problem is that if you "what is God? And please, don't give me the All Wise, All Noble argument." What they usual say, in my ...
October 29, 2021 at 23:59
Well, to the extent that God is made up we can proceed down the following path: I'll not go over the "flying spaghetti monster" argument, but let's sa...
October 29, 2021 at 23:45
They take him to be saying that he denies consciousness. Dennett always says, he's not, and adds "Consciousness exists, obviously, but it's not what m...
October 29, 2021 at 22:41
What is "over and above" the qualities we find in things? Is there anything like that? All we can say about the world is going to be related to whatev...
October 29, 2021 at 22:09
Oh, well. On to more wine. Cheers.
October 29, 2021 at 22:07