Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Workflow for Doomsday: Russia, the US, and Ukraine by Michael Brazier
Given the absolute hash that “the men and women who govern this great nation” made of withdrawing from Afghanistan, a policy for which they actually had general support from the people (before they did it), why would you suppose that they h…
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(Policy of Truth) Workflow for Doomsday: Russia, the US, and Ukraine
I do workflow for health care organizations. Here is my proposed workflow for US policy on Ukraine. Either we are willing and able (militarily) to defend Ukraine against a Russian invasion, or not. It may be cheating for me to treat “willing and able” as a conjunction rather than as a disjunction, but sometimes, it’s…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on To Cancel or Not to Cancel by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to sean samis. I don’t think the issue is a matter of rushing to judgment or not, but of line-drawing. We have to make some distinctions between lesser and greater offenses, and avoid treating every offense as deserving of termination, a…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Fireside Friday, February 4, 2022
Fireside this week! I am still working on “Decline and Fall?” Part III and should have that ready for you all next week. Part III is going to deal with economics and demographics (and also briefly, the question of non-elite literacy), which will hopefully make a lot of you happy since questions about those issues…
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(QC RSS) A Man Of Many Talents
Hi Nelson
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(Our World in Data) In most countries, democracy is a recent achievement. Dictatorship is far from a distant memory
How old are democracies across the world?
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – As a couple
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(QC RSS) Contract Dispute
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(QC RSS) Beeps Is A Narc
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(Cat and Girl) The Golabki Theory
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