Interests include baseball, film, music, politics, religion, and philosophy, especially Hume and free will. Working toward Philosophy 2.0
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There are no contingent truths.
Let A be a contingent truth.
A is capable of being true AND capable of being false. A is capable of truth if nothing prevents it.
So we may suppose A is false.
But ~A is prevented. We must also assume A is a definite truth and that prevents ~A.
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One of the top ten philosophy memes that still make me chuckle every time I see it.
If ICE is trying to kill you, and you drive away, that is "weaponizing a vehicle," which means they can kill you.
(1/2) A question about prediction
A poll says A will beat B: 47% for A vs. 42% for B, with 10% undecided.
However, many polled will only vote if they believe B is going to lose, and they are highly influenced by polls.
How does preventing other people from getting married protect my liberty, religious or otherwise?
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Why is it that people who voted for Trump are allowed to say things about Trump that people who were smart enough not to vote for Trump are not allowed to say?
I thought this was a Hume cover band, but indeed it has nothing to do with David Hume.
We need a Hume Band that will prevent people from making value judgments based on matters of fact.
Some humans can be guided by a list of questionable moral rules that are subject to reasonable counterexample, while others of us cannot live by such rules.
Ergo, there is no hope for a universal morality.
The best we can do is compromise, tolerate, and learn from each other.
CLAIM: Given determinism there are causal relations between states of the universe prior to human existence and human actions. To change actions one would need to change those states.
Yet a change of prior state does not always lead to a change of action.
Ergo, CLAIM is false.
Derek Jeter essentially played a season's worth of playoff games - 158. If the stats were spread out over a season it would not have been his best season, but it would have been his third best season (at least in terms of OPS and other important stats).
Hume transforms the central connection in causality from a relation between objects/events to a relation between propositions.
Causal relations are constant conjunctions between objects together with a propensity to draw warranted inferences from one object to the other.
What is the necessity of the past?
-Past occurrents (events, states of affair, objects) are unchangeable.
-True propositions about past occurrents are unalterable.
-Assumptions about past occurrents that are accepted as true for the purposes of conversation are fixed.
I did a search for films – mystery thrillers in castles and on trains that were not Agatha Christie remakes or Netflix mysteries (we've seen those). Here is a list.
Glen Campbell was a great guitarist, too.
And it's knowing I'm not shackled
By forgotten words and bonds
And the ink stains that are dried upon some line
That keeps you in the back roads
By the rivers of my memory
That keeps you ever gentle on my mind
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