no kidding

The argument is known as the integration challenge after work by Peacocke in the late 90s, but was already discussed by Lewis in *On the Plurality of Worlds*

There's a kind of philosophy of mathematics expressed in the full Scholz quote for example, trying to answer "What are we doing when we're doing mathematics?", but not in a way that maps onto standard phil of maths concerns. Is there much phil of maths along such lines?

If it's anything like insulin, in the world outside the u.s. it will be one tenth of that cost.

What do you expect from the vanity cabinet minister who summoned all US generals to the same room to listen to his talk about manly violence so they could risk all getting ill at the same time?

Take a vegetable and simmer gently for hours. Best done with something that will stink the whole house out, such as cabbage or swede or brussel sprouts. Being careful not to season, and serve with anything that would have been enjoyable on its own.

Surely the real issue was never whether sanctions on Russia, properly imposed, would have worked, or at least had a major impact. It was the EU's unwillingness or inability to impose them without umpteen loopholes and get-out clauses in favour of internal special interests.

miss is hit or miss. sorry

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But the paywall solution is awful, particularly when academics have got where they are thanks to public money, free peer review etc., and analysts a ton of luck. Is $80 a year really not high? Scale that up by the number of sources I follow and the cost is astronomical.

I understand that the percentage of academics / analysts who have important things to say and the ability to say them well to a general audience is fairly low, and that there are costs in doing so, so the absence of some kind of non-intrinsic compensation seems unfair.

That's a great shame. Your general posts on problems with the EU, failures of its sanctions on Russia, and so on, are a public good, and so important for a general audience.

One can think of a one-out, one-in deal that would work

I'm probably the last to know this, but I just found out that the results for a Google search for "67 meme" are also iconic.

Wouldn't know, but I know enough to have quickly learned that phi sci does not take him seriously.

I find such cases strangely disturbing. Makes me wonder if I overrate general intelligence, or the transferability of domain-specific cognitive skill

what?!! that's the many-worlds David Deutsch????

Dialethism (there are true contradictions)

I think they're between a rock and a hard place. Mimic him accurately and he'd fire them for making him look illiterate, so it's a combo of sentences whose grammar he could never muster and the inevitable all caps and whatnot for authenticity

If he wrote that then I'm Stephen Miller

A: "Voters in that country are a problem"
B: "True, but when you look at it, it's only those who don't have access to independent media, even if that's the great majority"

Aren't both right / reasonable?

To tone the discussion down a bit, suppose that (a) voters in all but one country are well-informed and tend to make reasonable decisions, modulo the usual small-ish disagreements, while (b) the great majority of voters in one powerful country are poorly informed and tend to make bad decisions

I agree about contexts, though my guess is that in good-faith discussion, it's the assertions themselves of generics that are doing a large part of the context-setting (this is a bit like Lewis on how assertion tends to single out one of the multitude of possible counterpart relations in play).

I would hardly start a generic with “all”. Would you dissent from “Birds lay eggs”? About half of them don’t.

By contrast, each person on the left thinks every single other one is far more decent than anyone on the right. Yet they find their small differences enough to launch the forever wars

FWIW, when I was a long time resident of Hong Kong, I thought there were plenty of unflattering true generics concerning British ex pats like myself, and took that to generate various special obligations on my part that wouldn't apply to e.g. Asian ex pats.

True generics admit exceptions, and are a useful part of discourse. Some will surely be of the form "People of type X are a problem", notwithstanding exceptions. When 70% of eligible voters do not oppose the election of someone like Trump, you might think a true generic is in the offing.

"Putin's not afraid of Nato. Putin's afraid of us. ... Nato is us."

we notice a nuance

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