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    Thread: What songs or artists send you diving for the off button?
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vulcanlogician The Arts 139 9805 February 27, 2024 at 7:50 pm
    Thread: How worthless is Philosophy?
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(February 27, 2024 at 7:20 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: No headway has been made with the QM measurement problem.  The Many Worlds Interpretation doesn't solve it - it just shifts the problem from "how do...
vulcanlogician Philosophy 125 4508 February 27, 2024 at 7:34 pm
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(February 27, 2024 at 6:31 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: Science provides pragmatic truth only.  I wholeheartedly disagree with this. There may be no practical value in establishing how many Eukaryotes exi...
vulcanlogician Philosophy 125 4508 February 27, 2024 at 6:48 pm
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(February 27, 2024 at 5:47 pm)Angrboda Wrote: Science is useful because it makes correct predictions.   True. Quote:Its utility and its correctness are inseparable.   False. They are independent ...
vulcanlogician Philosophy 125 4508 February 27, 2024 at 6:15 pm
    Thread: What songs or artists send you diving for the off button?
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(February 24, 2024 at 1:56 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Not Jimi's best moment. Would you mind posting Jimi's BEST moment? (in your view?) I'd love to hear it.
vulcanlogician The Arts 139 9805 February 27, 2024 at 6:06 pm
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@Angrboda Feel free to say if my answer was dissatisfactory. Maybe I missed your point.
vulcanlogician Philosophy 125 4508 February 27, 2024 at 5:27 pm
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(February 27, 2024 at 5:13 pm)Angrboda Wrote: (February 27, 2024 at 5:08 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: It may be that science is so damned useful because it provides us with correct information rather ...
vulcanlogician Philosophy 125 4508 February 27, 2024 at 5:21 pm
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(February 27, 2024 at 11:25 am)Angrboda Wrote: I haven't read much Plato, If you're ever in the mood to read one of his (smaller) books, I recommend The Symposium... Avi Sharon translation... Avi Sh...
vulcanlogician Philosophy 125 4508 February 27, 2024 at 5:08 pm
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(February 27, 2024 at 1:49 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: (February 27, 2024 at 1:26 am)vulcanlogician Wrote: A mistake, yes. A claim that we should be logical and scrutinize our possible mistakes. I ...
vulcanlogician Philosophy 125 4508 February 27, 2024 at 4:21 pm
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(February 16, 2024 at 10:25 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: (November 14, 2023 at 7:30 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: Should this discipline be required in college? Should students who are pursuing unrelated deg...
vulcanlogician Philosophy 125 4508 February 27, 2024 at 1:48 am
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I get it's a south park reference, but do you wholeheartedly think it applies here?
vulcanlogician Philosophy 125 4508 February 27, 2024 at 1:34 am
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(February 27, 2024 at 1:24 am)Angrboda Wrote: 'Bout tree fiddy. What's that's supposed to mean Angrboda?
vulcanlogician Philosophy 125 4508 February 27, 2024 at 1:31 am
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(February 27, 2024 at 1:14 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: You didn't personally do the mythologizing.  I say we for a reason.  Alot of the mythologizing was done by later christians, both good and bad. ...
vulcanlogician Philosophy 125 4508 February 27, 2024 at 1:26 am
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(February 27, 2024 at 12:04 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: For example, plato didn't propose that we be reasonable about god stories - quite the opposite.  He affirmed those superstitions, especially in...
vulcanlogician Philosophy 125 4508 February 27, 2024 at 12:50 am
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(February 14, 2024 at 11:27 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: If we're looking at things like laozi or republic we're looking at what were most likely composite works aimed at a mid level bureaucrat or the...
vulcanlogician Philosophy 125 4508 February 26, 2024 at 11:01 pm
    Thread: What songs or artists send you diving for the off button?
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vulcanlogician The Arts 139 9805 February 24, 2024 at 12:34 am
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(November 17, 2023 at 11:13 pm)Belacqua Wrote: (November 14, 2023 at 7:30 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: Should this discipline be required in college?  It looks as though you may have wandered off agai...
vulcanlogician Philosophy 125 4508 February 13, 2024 at 3:35 pm
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(November 14, 2023 at 7:51 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: So we decide we need to teach people ethics..whatever specific crisis we're responding to in that notion colors how we teach ethics.   I'm not s...
vulcanlogician Philosophy 125 4508 November 14, 2023 at 8:46 pm
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Should this discipline be required in college? Should students who are pursuing unrelated degrees be required to take any philosophy classes at all at university? Why or why not? What about History? ...
vulcanlogician Philosophy 125 4508 November 14, 2023 at 7:30 pm
    Thread: Celebrities you find attractive
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I gotta concur with @BrianSoddingBoru4 about Audrey. She's the queen. I like Jennifer Lawrence. Pretty predictable and unextraordinary, I know. But Boru beat me to Audrey, so.... If the rules are th...
vulcanlogician Media 114 5971 November 3, 2023 at 9:37 pm