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When you are using phrases like "epistemic problem" you are assuming that there is one. Not really. I am assuming a load of stuff, but the one thing I cannot doubt is that, whoever or whatever I am, I experience uncertainty where knowledge requires certainty, and that is an epistemic prob...

My knowledge is imperfect and the only thing I can be sure of is that nothing is knowable for certain. You are allowed to know some hard limits. That's kinda useful in drawing hard lines between "possible" and "impossible". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_impossibility I ...

Who are Adams and De Toqueville that we should take their political philosophy seriously? It seems to me that they are both wrong.

My knowledge is imperfect and the only thing I can be sure of is that nothing is knowable for certain. It is a mistake to impute from that uncertainty the certainty that there is nothing to know. That there is Reality is a basic assumption. It is so basic as to be impossible to put to any test, and ...

Jeff, welcome to the bear garden that is the Philosophy Now Forum! If you are looking for the warm companionship of like minds, I can confidently predict you will not find it here. Here we have a collection of competitive egos, few of whom are capable either of sustaining a proper argument or of rec...

Walker wrote: ↑Mon Jul 22, 2019 11:44 am... the old days of Catchfart Obama giving them plane loads of untraceable cash for terrorism funding.

lol You make it sound like the US policy of sowing unrest and bolstering armed resistance to regimes they deem unhelpful was invented in 2009. Clue: it's much older than that, dude.

So what rational line of inquiry convinced you -- and should convince us -- that a late-third-trimester "fetus" is not a "baby" and not a "person"? "Person" in the context of crimes such as murder, is a legal concept. Consult a legal definition applicable to ...

I'm going to recycle a post I made back in '15

mickthinks wrote: ↑Tue Feb 17, 2015 10:35 amWHY DO YOU SHOUT YOUR SUBJECT HEADING AT US IN UPPERCASE? IS IT BECAUSE YOU THINK YOUR TOPICS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN OTHER PEOPLE'S AND NEED MORE ATTENTION?

Nice work, Willy. Thanks!

I think not.

Would you want it to?

are women to blame for tyranny? Er ... No.

while this does sound a touch misogynistic ... Yes, more than a touch misogynistic.

How a God who is Love, fully self giving, could wish that everybody should Love him more than the amount you love others? There are a number of assumptions made in your preamble that I think are doubtful. To love is to give yourself, certainly. But to be Love? Is being Love the same as loving? If i...

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Eodnhoj,

You clearly believe you know a lot. The problems you have are:

1) You are incapable of explaining your ideas intelligibly (in English at least).
2) Whatever it is you know a lot about, it isn't Physics.

Yes, Eodnhoj, I still can't follow a word you say, and I have enough physics and mathematics to be pretty sure it's because you don't know what you are talking about. If the vacuum is not absolute, then the speed of light is not absolute. If the vacuum is nearly absolute then the measurement is near...