shirgall

By positing objective rules for evaluating potential moral rules, and evaluating those rules and their implications with typical modern moral questions.

I can't imagine asserting predestination is a way to argue for or against anything, since the outcome is unchangeable. You had the free will to make the posting, and people have the free well to make the best trades of value for value for themselves. There is no compelling reason to believe that someone else, or the fates, can make better trades for us.

Have you seen the movie? http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Rainbow_Unicorn

I was tempted to link it to the "Thick as a Brick" thread too, but the reaction would be mortarfying.

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/summarythermy.html

If we are going to be more precise with our statements, then the law of noncontradiction also requires that both statements be in the "same sense". In the beginning this was all about a statement about an object being something, and another statement about an object not being something, and because of Heraclitus, we had to make sure both statements had to be at the same time. And, of course, this is limited to two-value logic anyway.

All this talk of masons is building up to something, I'm sure.

In order to objectively evaluate statements we must separate arguments from the arguers. PS, Loved your cameo in Inside Out

Calling something a fallacy, even if it is correct to do so, is usually not enough. It also helps to show why the thinking is fallacious. This is what changes the invocation of a fallacy from name-calling to an argument.

I watched this movie yesterday and it was pretty good. It's not a spoiler to mention that the girl's emotional crisis comes from a significant cross-country move with the usual stressors of middle-school age transition. It had a lot of great moments, but I am still wondering if it's a "watch again" kind of movie like The Incredibles was for me. I liked the metaphors for emotions and personality, but some of the other mental elements felt "tacked on". I definitely recommend seeing it.

Well, flowers would be nice.

Reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number is infinitely more rewarding than mangling English and mathematics in the same thread.

You need to show contradictory statements are simultaneously true to break noncontradiction. You are comparing different kinds of infinities that are not the same. "A rock is matter" and "A seagull is matter" is not a contradiction. If you want contradictory statements, try "All matter is rock" and "All matter is seagull." These statements are not true. "We are the same" is not true, and self-detonates. If "you" have to explain to "me" that "we are the same" it's obviously not true because there's already a distinction between "you" and "me". The rest of your examples demonstrate sloppy usage of the English language and not contradictions. You should look into statements that are absolutes and clear to find a way into this knotty problem.

Melatonin regulation should be limited to resetting one's sleep cycle... one at sundown, another at bedtime. I haven't really seen it's helpful for much else.

"Symbols are for the symbol-minded." -- George Carlin

Yeah I played to the bias of the mods for childbirth over whoopie, though. Trying to avoid the PUA debate.

He only asked you what you meant, and asked that you be specific in your charges. That didn't really call for a broadside.

A minor nit, but the phrase is supposed to be that warriors run "towards the sounds of gunfire"... (and it's "rites" of passage as in rituals, not "rights")

"Contradictory statements cannot both be true" is bullshit? I think you'll have better luck arguing that the statements in a particular case are not contradictory than undermining this one.

On a serious note, red left turn signals in the Seattle and the east side are being converted to flashing yellow lights for a "left turn when clear" situation.

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

There is still selection of those who get to breed before they die and which offspring survive to breed again.

Shorter: what engineer runs a sewer through a maternity ward?

Since I'm drawing the distinction between males and females at Y-chromosome deficiency (call it the firmware level, and not hardware or software), hermaphroditism is not an edge case.