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"If your goal is to be a know-it-all, I would answer yes." Doesn't that amount to dodging the question? Instead of putting questions to ourselves we provide formulas about an imaginary "subject" or "individual". This is a general problem given the assumed or de facto e...

One can add Napoleon to Alexander. And perhaps Hitler, he who created the conditions for the Americans to come to world power, since they put down the E.U., but it was not the E.U., but rather the economic international system, that brought down the Soviet sphere of influence, and brought on the cur...

Is it better to know how, than not to know how, in all things? If we assume that those who can speak a language know that language, or, what is the same, know how to speak it, or the behavior that is that speaking, that there are languages, and that they are known by the speakers, do we have, thereb...

D IALOGUE OF THE T ROLLS (Or, on the region of Questioning as the annihilation of the Human Being) Participants of the Dialogue Troll Troll Stranger, who is called Stranio Troll. I see you are in the orange clogs of a stranger; here we sport exclusively green clogs. My dear troll, from where do you...

This is the current difficulty. Rights (liberties) or "fraternity"? The middle term, namely equality, when one is less smart, less assertive or less strong, is lost. Ergo, the notable rouge Soros speaks of "fragilité" rather than the more nationalist flavored colors of fraternity...

Humans eat the young of trolls, and call it a healthy dinner. No wonder trolls profoundly despise the great human called Christ, the one who orders them to kill troll young in droves in order to fulfill their fate, to let be known the love of all that exists. All that they have dominion over. Once, ...

"If Harris calls belief in transubstantiation psychotic how does it follow that the implication is that he calls all questioning of the meaning of the essence of beings and being psychotic? Questioning the belief in change of substance is not questioning the meaning of being or essence." ...

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Human beings are deceitful and ugly, Trolls grand, noble and beautiful. Humans are uninteresting. Trolls remarkable in every way. Humans unjust, Trolls seated on the fairest, though most stern, seat of judgment. Humans are a fugitive race, Trolls glimmer in revered colours. In the twinkling of an ey...

One can't really agree or disagree without something more exact. I think you will sink in vapid answers, if one assumes to know what you mean each in their own airy think tank. That is what philosophy, as Platonic dialectic, is for, ascending from the ordinary vagueness of the airhead. And only then...

"RIGHTS HAVE NOT BEEN LOST BY GIVING THE SAME RIGHT TO SOME OTHERS." You are being unfair. The argument he made applies to all votes taken since the change. It's true logically, i.e., without empirical examples. In classical form can one deny a premise such as:"An individual's vote be...

A negative, hateful attitude opens the door for evil to possess mind and body. Evil is a bit gloomy. Maybe sentimentality is a better word. Many people deal with that, and it's not evil, just annoying. Evil can mean extremely harmful to humans. No need to be so bigoted, if I may say so, with respec...

"...S->S'. S and S' cannot coexist..."

This is very general and vague, can you give one example?

The human being has been vouchsafed thinking. Thinking is the essence of the human being. Thinking is said in opposition to that that is available to thought, what is pointed to, and what one reflects on. The rational animal is dead. Thinking never attempts to ascend from opinion to episteme or know...

On the other hand, sometimes things turn out amazingly well, i.e., justly. So the reverse of what you say is also the case.