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  • Using logic-not emotion-Trump should be impeached
    1. Donald Trump during his property management interests was accused of discriminating and settle out of court.
    2. Fred Trump was involved in the KKK rally in New York City and was incarcerated.
    3. Donald Trump during his presidency has explicitly disparaged minority women and has told them to go back to their countries because he didn't like them critiquing him.
    4. Donald Trump routinely uses racist language and appears to support extreme white nationalism.
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    5. Michael Flynn who was Trump's campaign director plead guilty to Russia collusion.
    6. Six individuals were found guilty of wrongdoing all of whom were part of Trump's 2016 campaign. And some are in jail.
    7. Trump destroyed the transcripts from the Putin summit.
    8. The Mueller report did not find collusion, but found Russia meddling with our election on his watch.
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    9. During Muellers testimony , Mueller was asked specifically whether he felt Trump had lied to him and he said I quote: "generally".3017amen

    1. A great many people have been accused of a great many things..
    2. Guilt by association
    3. This is fair
    4. Can you site examples of him doing so?
    5. Guilt by association continued..
    6. Guilt by association continued further...
    7. These types of actions do raise suspicion.
    8. This is beside the point of your accusations.
    9. Okay well that's his opinion. If he has good reason to hold it then he should present evidence. As should you.'

    Dude, you a nine points in and presented little of value. Do you have any arguments as to why he should be impeached.
  • The Amputee Problem
    if someone has a condition that they don’t dislike, even if other people would commonly call that condition a disability, it’s actually not, if they’re happier being that way than otherwise. A condition is only a disability (or for that matter a disease) if it is unwanted.Pfhorrest

    Well I'm not sure about that. A disability is simply the lack of some ability. When you are unable to do what an able-bodied individual could, then you can aptly be called physically disabled. What your preferences are, are beside the point. If you have [some illness or injury here] that ailment doesn't cease to be an aliment because you like it.

    I'll also add that there is no way for a disabled person to know whether they would prefer able-bodied life.
  • Is counterfactual reasoning always faulty?
    I read your comment and am tempted to answer, but I think you are best of asking someone else. Lest I lead you further astray haha
  • Is counterfactual reasoning always faulty?
    You are reasoning in the conditional subjunctive (although not writing in it)....Frank Apisa

    This was part of the issue. These concepts are new to me and I'm prone to thinking further ahead than my understating would permit. Leading me to err.

    Thanks for the help.
  • Is counterfactual reasoning always faulty?
    This comment was most instructive, Thanks
  • Is counterfactual reasoning always faulty?
    I think you are conflating two different senses of counterfactual:SophistiCat

    Yes, that is exactly what I was doing. Thank you for pointing this out.
  • Free Will - A Flawed Concept
    How would you define free-will?TheMadFool

    I wouldn't define it, I don't think it exists. I don't think it exists because Its possible to know the future with exact precision, given enough information and a processor powerful enough. It is possible at least in theory to input the mass and velocity of every atom in the universe and calculate exactly how they will interact. If you reverse the velocity of every atom you would see the entire universe travel backward in time to the moment it came into existence. There is no room for free will here.

    I do think that free will is an important concept from a legislative and ethical perspective. In short, I don't think free will, can exist, but we should act as if it did. Punishing crimes and such.

    What I think most people mean by free will is, The freedom of humans to make choices not obviously predetermined.
  • Is counterfactual reasoning always faulty?
    I don't believe the examples you present to be a counterfactual cases. A counterfactual as I understand it is a statement with a FALSE antecedent and TRUE consequent. I might be missing something... As I understand it what you have presented are examples of logical induction.

    I would also say that counterfactual thinking would never work in maths, in so far as the thinking was useful. I'm not sure about that either... This is all very new to me, so I could have it all wrong.
  • Using logic-not emotion-Trump should be impeached
    Reported behavior now includes; abuse of power, obstruction, misogyny, racism and fascism.3017amen

    And yet you fail to present a single example of them. Could you start by doing so?
  • Free Will - A Flawed Concept
    Free will can be translated as the ability to make choices free from influences we have no control over.TheMadFool

    If you define (ill suppose that by translated you mean to define in a practical sense) free will as you have then free will, can not exist. This is because it would require the agent who acts freely to of had control over every influence that has influenced them. This would include the circumstances of the agents existence at moment the agent came into existence. It would mean in short that the free agent would have to of existed prior to his existence.

    This is a necessarily true as if the agent was ever subject to some influence he did not choose to be influenced by then from that point forward the agent would no longer have free will. This would also mean that there can only be at one given time a single free agent. It is impossible for any more than one agent to have free will lest the actions of one agent influence the other. This last sentence doesn't mean much since free will has already defined its self out of existence.