http://bloom.bg/15z0hMPTHANK YOU VLADIMIR
Even if was for purely domestic political reasons, It’s still a good thing.
Put the USA back in its box. So that the american government can give higher priority to citizens than the empire.
And perhaps, break into parts, rather than continue the tyranny.
Source date (UTC): 2013-08-02 04:05:00 UTC
In what world do trucks line up to pour concrete in a residential neighborhood at midnight?
I mean. This is Kiev. You cant get this kind of thing organized reliably at mid day. How did they pull it off at midnight?
Bad enough that the subway is thee feet under the pavement. 😉
Source date (UTC): 2013-07-29 17:33:00 UTC
FUN COINCIDENCE
Coursera has a course, starting monday, in Mathematical Philosophy addressing precisely the questions I’m asking – Although, from what I gather, it is an example of everything that is I believe is wrong with the discipline of logic. 🙂 “Know thy enemy” and all that sort of thing. Anyway. I thought that it would be fun to take. And to have whole bunch of people and some young professors to bounce ideas off of. I’m pretty sure I understand the domain now. It only took me two weeks I think. But I’m pretty sure that the infinite set problem is a trivial statement about constructing statements, not a meaningful statement about reality.
Source date (UTC): 2013-07-29 07:28:00 UTC
WHITS SINGLE MOTHER POVERTY STATS
“For the first time since 1975, the number of white single-mother households who were living in poverty with children, surpassed or equaled black ones in the past decade, spurred by job losses and faster rates of out-of-wedlock births among whites. White single-mother families in poverty stood at nearly 1.5 million in 2011, comparable to the number for blacks. Hispanic single-mother families in poverty trailed at 1.2 million.”
White crime rates are increasing at about the same rate hispanic crime is decreasing.
Source date (UTC): 2013-07-28 12:30:00 UTC
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/states-nullification-obama-94826.html?hp=t1THANK YOU TOM WOODS FOR PROMOTING NULLIFICATION.
Source date (UTC): 2013-07-28 07:30:00 UTC
http://www.propertarianism.com/tools-and-techniques-for-political-debate/a-list-of-terms-for-use-in-evaluating-political-debate/CAPTCHA FOR REASON NOT RECOGNITION
I’m going to add this to my Quora signature because it seems like I use it in every debate:
“**So, you mean that you don’t understand, and can’t formulate an objection, so you will retreat into your ignorance, because you are operating on belief and not reason. Right?***”
Quora WAS interesting. But it’s degrading into just another Yahoo Forums / Internet Newsgroups. The useful thing about wikipedia is that the damned syntax prohibits casual editing by idiots.
We use CAPTCHA for proving you’re human. It’s a trivial Turing Test for recognizing letters and numbers. But to improve debate, we need an equivalent system to test not for RECOGNITION but for REASON.
I have to think about that a bit. Is there a way to generate random syllogisms that distinguish between sentimental, allegorical, normative (moral), historical, empirical, rational and ratio-empirical?
Just think of the value that would add to online arguments. 🙂 Or rather, the value it would have in reducing online arguments. 🙂
See my categorization of arguments here:
http://www.propertarianism.com/tools-and-techniques-for-political-debate/a-list-of-terms-for-use-in-evaluating-political-debate/#I
Source date (UTC): 2013-07-28 05:00:00 UTC
DILIGENTLY TRYING TO PREVENT THEMSELVES FROM BEING TAKEN OVER
Source date (UTC): 2013-07-27 08:27:00 UTC
http://ncfmr.bgsu.edu/pdf/family_profiles/file131529.pdfGood current data.
Lowest rate of marriage in a century.
Oldest rate.
15% of divorced women stay that way. Mostly in the lower classes.
Numbers are worse than they sound. But my iphone battery is going. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2013-07-26 15:27:00 UTC
MORE ON WRITING THEORY : AN ARGUMENT IS A THEORY AND WRITING IT IS A TEST
I guess, I should put it this way: I don’t assume I know anything. Anything at all. I just construct arguments to see how well I can make them. They’re like recipes. I bake a hundred variations of the cake. Maybe one of them rises enough to be worthy of frosting. When I run out of ways to write a recipe and the recipe produces a cake all the time, I consider it the best recipe I can make for a cake.
1) Write to learn what you do not know. (observe and record)
2) Write to test what you know. (conduct experiments)
3) Write what you know you know. (articulate hypothesis)
4) Publish what you have written (subject it to testing by peer review)
That’s about it. That’s science. I don’t assume I know anything except that which is false. And libraries are largely populated by that which is false. The problem is determining what’s left over that still might be true. 🙂
If each book held one idea, I’m pretty sure that a library of 1500 books (per both Murray and Adler) would accomplish the task.
Source date (UTC): 2013-07-25 11:51:00 UTC
The last generation of libertarians have David Gordon. I’m envious. But, we have Skye Stewart. And that’s a pretty good thing it turns out. 😉
Source date (UTC): 2013-07-25 05:13:00 UTC