Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Austro-Athenian Empire ) Comment on The New Rankin-Bass Hobbit DVD Is a Fraud by Robert
What I did was obtain the 1991 release of The hobbit on VHS. This version has all the correct sound effects but the quality of the video is not as good. Later releases on VHS possibly have the same sound issue. I had to rip the DVD version, then play t…
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(QC RSS) Howl’s Moving Office
Probably just the wind
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(Cat and Girl) The Gavrilo Principle
This is a syndicated post, originally published by Dorothy at Cat and Girl.
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(Policy of Truth) Moneytalks (1): Essential Workers, Inevitable Death
It’s reasonable to be skeptical of the idea that a single semester’s worth of students is representative of general trends in the larger population. But for whatever it’s worth, this New York Times article really rings true for me. Though focused on Latinos in California, the pattern it describes seems to apply to the New…
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – Things more clear now
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(QC RSS) Bowed But Unbroken
the indefatigable basilisk
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(Radical Classical Liberals) Proportional policing and criminal patrol
One of the (many) moral problems of policing in the US is that law enforcement strategies often fail a proportionality requirement. The principle of proportionality is often invoked in discussions of the morality of the use of force, whether it is force used to achieve military or police goals, or for individual self-defense. It is…
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(QC RSS) There Has To Be A Better Way
Seriously!
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on what normative-explanatory work can fittingness-in-attitude do? by Roderick T. Long
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(Policy of Truth) what normative-explanatory work can fittingness-in-attitude do?
According to McHugh and Way (“Fittingness First,” ETHICS), both reasons and value are to be constitutively (and normatively) explained by attitude-types having certain objects or contents that are “fitting” (appropriate, correct, etc.). For example, my belief that P is fitting (and correct) if and only if it is true. So they reject the “buck-passing” analysis…
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