Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Could Hilary Putnam Have Been a Brain in a Vat?: Three Arguments against Reference, Part 1 by David Potts
Hi Michael, I’m sorry it’s taken this long to reply to your comment. (It’s been a busy week.) I think you might be responding to the peculiarity of saying that what we perceive are “causal powers themselves.” I agree that …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Apocalypse Now by stephenmlindsay
You seem like a reasonable guy. I will be interested to hear your thoughts on this as events unfold. My biases and upbringing prime me for sympathy toward Israel (even prior to these attacks) but I will admit that my understanding of the long-term issu…
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(QC RSS) Jagged Alliance
Shut upppp
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on genuinely non-comparative goodness by Irfan Khawaja
It seems to me that you have to decide a prior issue before addressing this one: is “goodness” only derivatively attributed to states of affairs, or is that attribution primary and free-standing? You get the comparative analysis of goodness…
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(Policy of Truth) Apocalypse Now
This morning’s Hamas attack on southern Israel is being portrayed, predictably, as an initiatory act of aggression by Hamas, and a total bolt from the blue. It’s no such thing. The situation in Gaza has been decades in the making. Israel conquered Gaza in an act of aggression in 1967, occupied it, settled it, de-developed…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part V: The Courts
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central coordinating organ of…
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(The GiveWell Blog) Open Philanthropy’s 2023-2025 funding of $300 million total for GiveWell’s recommendations
This year, Open Philanthropy plans to give $300 million for GiveWell to spend over the next three years. We’re grateful for what this support will enable us to do. Annualized, this is similar to what Open Philanthropy gave in 2020 and roughly in line with what we projected earlier this year. It’s less than Open…
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(QC RSS) Metaphorical Cubetown
it’s important to think about these things
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – What do we do
New comic!Today’s News: Hey, everyone!Dave has a new graphic novel out from Seven Seas.It’s a beautiful full color book for kids of all ages!Check out a sample here:https://tinyurl.com/ymeu68mnMissed out on The Art of Ménage à …
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(QC RSS) Getting In Touch
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