swordsbane wrote: I have never seen it used to mean anything but the prospect of having to disprove a proposition by an exhaustive search of an infinite or at least impossibly large…[go]
elwedriddsche wrote: It’s a cute essay, but it also exemplifies why I don’t have the highest opinion of philosophy. The essay starts out with a huge equivocation and/or strawman with regards to…[go]
zilch wrote: Ah, gotcha, swordsbane- I wasn’t reading carefully.
D’accord.[go]
swordsbane wrote: Hmmm, swordsbane: do you know of any politicians who tell the truth? Hell no! Anyone who relies on a politician to tell the truth, especially when they’re talking about…[go]