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jakelafort wrote:
Not sure whether a fervent progressive or Trumpist is more ardent. Man oh man they despise and dehumanize the other side. Both certain of their moral high ground and how intractably stupid the other side…

The love for Hamas in American Universities is not an accident. Look at Qatar alone….

In 2022, a report by the Network C…[Read more]

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_Robert_ wrote:
Actually, even the logical construction of the premise is incorrect because of the use of ‘OR’. This implies that a migrant can’t be a mental patient AND a criminal AND a rapist. This first statement needs to be proven true before any rational inferences may be made about it.

“Or” is the oddball logical operator…

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Simon Paynton wrote:

Unseen wrote:
True premises used in an argument with a valid form must imply a true conclusion.

This is what I’m saying. Sometimes the premises given aren’t true, but a logically-formed argument can be made out of them. E.g. Donald Trump – “All migrants are rapists, criminals or mental patients.” “X is a migrant.” C…

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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
you’re using reason to make your case

I think reason is the problem half the time. There is something in propositional logic, that states that a set of propositions can have internal validity – they are logical – they follow reason – without being true overall. The real issue is facts. People…

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_Robert_ wrote:
If a Galton board is tilted-off just a bit…well, a pinball machine will tell you.

Well, I’m sure a competent scientist would work hard to make sure the experiment was “on the level.”

I would not doubt it if they were actually measuring the tolerances of the device itself. Once you make it essentially perfect you wil…[Read more]

If a Galton board is tilted-off just a bit…well, a pinball machine will tell you.

Simon Paynton wrote:

Simon Paynton wrote:
all played out to the letter.

If Babs really was able to see twelve hours into the future, what would that tell us about the nature of space-time? That from the point of view of the present, the future already exists. After all, the future is a place as well as a time.

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Simon Paynton wrote:

Unseen wrote:
If I ever had an astrological reading telling me that I would set aside my teenage leaning toward being an Episcopal clergyman in favor of becoming an atheist philosopher whose main interests were linguistic philosophy and the questions surrounding free will consciousness, I’d be impressed on one level,

Well, a…

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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Have a great week everyone! The difference between faith and insanity is that faith is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence whereas insanity is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence. William Harwood (Dictionary of Contemporary…

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jakelafort wrote:
I’d be happy to pay you tuesday for a hamburger today. In the meantime i would be obliged to bum a banana or two.

Never ever bring a banana aboard a boat. This is why monkeys don’t sail.

Simon Paynton wrote:
The Christian idea of heaven and hell never made sense to me. Is there some kind of binary division between good people and bad people? No, there isn’t. So, apparently you only get in to heaven if you believe in Jesus. Anything else is “hating God”. If God exists, he has the morals of a toddler. I think heaven or hell makes…

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Simon Paynton wrote:

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
DEBATE: Is Morality Objective? – Alex O’Connor vs. Craig Biddle.

The usual complete load of old tosh that you get whenever moral philosophers have discussions. I think that no two of them agree on anything. Their ideas are bollocks. However, they do raise some excellent questions, and if I am…

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I found that article

why AI will never be conscious

less than convincing.

Simon Paynton wrote:
What can I say? The average in the US is 98.

Yes, that’s why we came up with the Intelligence Capital Index, LOL. USA, USA, USA. Supposedly measures the ability of a country to harness the intelligence it has.