The more we go on thinking a shining Democrat Knight will come and save us - or for Conservatives the Repbublican counterpart - the more things will...
Thought I'd check in and see what you thought of this president..... Remember this.... I'm in quotes there, you're responding. You got...
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/dec/25/amateur-scientists-try-their-hands-genetic-enginee/ (the article appeared in a number of...
I have the same proclivity, and heck, I am married now and happy with the arrangement. It seems like a 'ho' is a woman who either 1) you sleep...
This just in - too recent to even link: From the Herald Tribune Obama shifting his tone on troops in Iraq. Yes, note the country. He is now...
yes, Iraq was the biggest mistake - at least in terms of lives lost etc. but perhaps the long term effects of the loss of rights at home will be even...
I think this is interesting and I have noticed the phenomenon. I think it is important to add that the mirror process is there also. When one...
methodology for arriving at the truth or knowledge or belief? You can have a methodology for getting your wife to clean the house, but that is...
I was translating it for others. I thought it would be less threatening in the hypothetical. People bear down under duress. Maybe you had the...
JDawg said: Well, you can feel that way, but when your stance was based on little more than what you've been told to think your whole life...I don't...
Imagine we are in a multiverse - something a reasonable % of physicists think is possible or likelly. So what we have is all possible worlds and...
We are trying to control you. Here's a sloppy definition: the study of how one goes about finding out what is true.
I could be about that, yes. An interpersonal stance and an epistemological one.
Well, let's say you are right about this... the biggest killers were also certainly men. Was it their maleness or their theism that made them...
This is a core question. First I would ask you: do you experience it this way? Have you moved from a period where you doubted less and when you...
Well, it's been a long time since I read descartes, but I assume some meta-premises like one can imagine things (which may or may not be true)...
This hypothesis stood out as rather strange... The good qualities in religion from humans. Ít's bad qualities come from theism's own nature....
Let me try to bring it back to Ham's OP, mixing in what I am getting at. Descartes chose to do a thought experiment. He doubted, radically - but...
The above has a kind of 'truth is contained in propositions in the brain that mirror reality'. But propostions do things. Thinking of them as...
Appreciate the seal of approval. I assume you mean that induction cannot justify itself. It needs some axioms non-inductively arrived at. I was...
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