Recent content by Copernicus

This is your response? It is incoherent without some kind of context to identify the "they" you are talking about. Netanyahu admitted that Israel attacked the convoy. They targeted three cars in succession. If you have some update from a subsequent news story, please back up your response...

It was reported in a major news event last month that seriously damaged the already tense relationship between the US and Israeli governments. It was not "clearly faked". I can't believe that you had trouble recalling it. Netanyahu said he was sorry about it. Chef Jose Andres says Israel...

What you said about the post was not my concern. It was the fact that you "liked" and also reposted a misreading of my position on compatibilism. We've had enough interaction before that you had more reason to realize that than Antichris did. In any case, I'm satisfied that the matter was...

No problems, then. Apology accepted. I can be very wordy, unfortunately.

You are replying to Antichris's post, which completely misrepresented my position on compatibilism. See my previous reply to him.

Antichris, you snipped this out of context and made it look like I was saying this. In the original context, I was representing the way a hard determinist incompatibilist like DBT perceives compatibilists. Here is the entire paragraph with your snippet in boldface: "Hard determinists are...

It is considered an informal fallacy based on language, and it can go by different names. The error lies in taking a dictionary as a definitive authority on how a word ought to be used, rather than how it is used. It is useful to disambiguate usage, so I'm not opposed to using dictionaries to...

Thanks for the compliments, but I am very retired at this point. :redface-new: I loved teaching (and hated grading) when I taught linguistics back in the 1970s and 1980s. Afterwards, I became in industry researcher, so I rarely got the opportunity to teach, but I still like to preach opinions...

No, not a simplified version. An extremely distorted version designed to provoke an emotional reaction. Hamas militants are not strapping babies to their body armor, and Israel is not faced with shooting babies. Instead, Israel bombs neighborhoods in which it knows innocent civilians live on...

Zipr wasn't "protecting" Hamas from being hit for committing massacres. He was merely pointing out that they don't have the capability--the military capacity--to carry out ethnic cleansing. Israel does have that kind of capability, and Zionists arguably used it to commit ethnic cleansing when...

OK, thanks. It is true that dictionary definitions are descriptive rather than prescriptive. That is, they depend wholly on how people actually use words rather than on how some arbitrary authority wants them to be used. Dictionaries were originally created to prescribe "correct" or "proper"...

Yes, I think that quantum mechanics is largely irrelevant to the question of free will, so it probably should be in another thread. I would also maintain that QM has little to do with consciousness or self-awareness, as well. Again, not really germane to this discussion. I don't agree...

I have a question about the OP: What are you talking about? I can't tell whether you are opposed to the idea of a dictionary fallacy or just miffed that someone once accused you of committing one. Can you clarify?

I wish that they had called "adequate determinism" by a different name, perhaps "practical determinism". The problem is that people keep confusing randomness with unpredictability. The future is inherently unpredictable, but we experience it as predictable in a practical sense. That is, we...

The one thing that would bring a smile to the lips of Republicans these days would be the stock market to hit record lows or inflation to get up to the levels that it was during the height of the OPEC crisis in the 1970s.