James Riley

I will discriminate against those who do not play ball. I won't violate the law in doing so, and I won't seek to call out, shame or embarrass, but on ...

I'm very suspicious, but I got a one & done from J&J anyway. I don't dive deep on such things, but the memes and tweets and whatnot that respond to th...

Or how about this: If you must be a stone upon which others whet their edge, be a hard one. In that case, you are doing everyone, including yourself, ...

I used to have a quip that went something to the effect "That which is consumed by the fittest must itself have been fit." That may not sound like any...

I would say: "We knew better. And you will know better too. And, like humans, we will lie for each other, pretending that we did not know better, and ...

My former partner called it paying interest on a debt you may never owe. My wife calls it borrowing trouble. That's me, but I'm working on it.

And yet here you are talking to me. It's not a proof or a test. That's the problem. It's a rule. Which way you can move a rook is not a proof or a tes...

Yeah, I pulled that off wiki a long time ago, and it's counterpart over 40 years ago. Again, with the circular reasoning and the tautology. It's not m...

HA! I have to confess it was not intentional. Damn!

Agreed. As we push the envelope further and further, we might just have to do that. But saying it before it's been done, or even before it can be done...

When addressing the merits, instead of citing the rule for it's own authority, we might find that the rule of noncontradiction is not violated when th...

I will. The essence of philosophy. I'd encourage you to step outside your box and see the mess.

That's my thought.

Right. QM does not contradict itself. QM is reality. Rather, QM contradicts your law of non-contradiction. Maybe you are too consumed by me, and your ...

Thank you.

So what is the QM scientist to do when non-contradiction is contradicted? I guess he's left to reality while others play by artificial constructs.

If that is what I said, that is not what I meant. I don't want to imprint data on a photon. Rather, I want to know if data has been imprinted on a pho...

As stated, I understand that it is a principle of logical argument that the burden of proof is upon the proponent. Logic (or it's champions) set forth...

I do not know, other than the large, overwhelming majority of rooms in the world don't have photodetectors in them, unless sofas are not different, in...

Like the next day. Where light is streaming into a room and no one is there to photograph it today. The next day, a scientist shows up and starts coll...

I honestly don't know. But if it is, can it be captured after the fact (i.e. not in the instant as part of a picture)?

I'm not arguing against argument. In fact, I'm using argument's own rules to ask argument to abide it's own rules. Sometime ago I binged-watched a sho...

I stipulate to the anti-logic of my patent attack on logic, and it's failure to abide it's own logical principles, one of which I use to attack it. Ho...

Okay. I was thinking of something akin to reversing entropy. I was thinking that if that photon which hit my brown car and then went into my eye to re...

I'd hate to think my postulating would lead anyone to believe "this couldn't happen" but I think 1/6/21, and many other scenarios were "gamed out", in...

I know it is trite, and cliché, to bring up the pot-smoking stories of our universe on the head of someone else's pin, or a universe on the head of ou...

I hate to be flip, but I think it was Clarence Darrow who said something along the lines of "There is no justice, in or out of court." Had I taken tha...

People will talk of "critical thinking skills" as a virtue (they are). But then some folks conflate that with being a critic. They think if they can b...

Agreed.

I believe it is important for us to try and bend the arc toward our aspirations and ideals, some of which we think are unique to our species (morality...

Thanks, it's all good. I took you assistance in the spirit you intended. My implication was a defensive response to another teacher who wasn't so inte...

After thinking about it for a while, I figure I should have responded to your thoughts here. I did not, because I found them to be a circular tautolog...

It may sound disingenuous and that's fine, but I get that. And thank you for it. I don't argue for the sake of argument any more, and have not done so...

I get that conceptually, but it seems in all those examples we are concerning ourselves with how the situation is perceived, or experienced, by the ob...

If two things are moving at whatever speed, or not moving at all, but space is added between them at a speed faster than light, are not those two thin...

ad verecundiam? Or something similar having to do with time? Are you admitting that time converts to matter? HAHAHAHA. Sorry. No, what I meant was, yo...

Three thoughts come to mind: When a mob boss tells his crew "It would be a shame if something were to happen to Louie" I don't think he thinks that. N...

You're not very good at this. You should probably stick with the smart people and leave us monkeys to throw shit on the wall. (P.S. What was Einstein'...

Probably not. You really have to dumb things down for me.

Same is in the other thread, I was expecting something to do with the merits of why my idea is wrong.

I'm not complaining, so it certainly wasn't my bubble that was burst. In fact, your failure to address the sophomoric shit on the wall with a dumbed-d...

I'll stop throwing ideas on the wall when "your people" quit talking about all the walls they are running into. Discuss among yourselves.

I could live with that. It reminds me of a hypothesis I have: When I go out on a moonless night and look up into a star-studded blackness, I intuitive...

It's not a fallacy. The fallacy is thinking we are exempt because we are a different species. My main point is that people are natural. You can so cho...

You make a good argument. The fact that Donald Trump is dishonorable, a coward, and a liar, undermined the insurrection. There is more to why it faile...

I'm not saying that, but I will. Logic is not a representation of reality. It's a tool used to understand reality, no matter how reality might be repr...

I'm going to cede the floor. I'll check back in once in a while to see if there is anything besides "appearances" or "because I said so" or "a gentlem...

Since you are all about appearances, when QM appears to show a single thing to be in two different places at the same time, then it must be logical th...

That is not my understanding of the law of non-contradiction. As I understand it, the law would merely state that a red hat cannot be a blue hat. The ...

I think it might be wise to let you have the last word.