>The present king of France is bald
What did he mean by this?
>So we do not have a failure of the Law of Excluded Middle: "the present King of France is bald" (i.e. ∃x[PKoF(x) & ∀y[PKoF(y) → y=x] & B(x)]) is false, because there is no present King of France. The negation of this statement is the one in which 'not' takes wide scope: ~∃x[PKoF(x) & ∀y[PKoF(y) → y=x] & B(x)]. This statement is true because there does not exist anything which is currently King of France.
When did logic become so obtuse?
>>645193
>The present king of France is bald
I know fuck all about the history of france or philosophy but here's my guess: the real leader of france doesn't wear a crown
>>645202
How is that obtuse?
What was the greatest air battle of all time and why was it Battle of Britain?
>>644405
Midway
>>644991
This desu.
The Pacific Front was as much an air war as a naval war.
>>644991
I don't know loads about the Pacific front, but the battle of Britain was a fucking nail biting thing, the Germans at one point had the RAF on its knees. Then the RAF fucking jump back up and beat the shit out of the Luftwaffe, but idk, was it like that in the east? From what I know the Americans had superior numbers and tech in terms of aircraft, not saying it was not hard fought, but it seems inevitable that the Americans would win.
Is this a good for dummies overview of Japan from start to finish?
neat video.
https://youtu.be/Mh5LY4Mz15o
>>643491
Neat
Liked the style
>>643491
Are there more videos like this? Of this style?
>>643577
only one the guy has made. Fresh idea.
Tell me about the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Commonwealth
It was a commonwealth that was Polish and Lithuanian.
>>642477
Should have allied the Turks instead of the shifty backstabbing Austrians.
They would still be a superpower today.
At what point does an AI deserve human rights?
>>642399
Never.
>>642404
Brotherhood of Steel pls go.
>>642399
by definition it can't have human rights
funk off kid.. heh.
Knights were completly useless
>defeated by mongols
>crusades were failures
>poorly trained
name 5 noteworthy knights
exactly
there is a reason why when people talk about historical badasses they mention Spartans, Samurai, Vikings but never knights they were just embarassingly bad I'm surprised they were even a thing
Just rich English/French fops with too much money, pillaging their own countrymen for the "honor" of someone else's wife.
Fuck nobility.
Knights mostly were useful after routs, pursuing enemies that were trying to escape.
>>642250
>honor
Honour, thou knave
Which buildings or monuments are almost overwhelming for you?
Myself, most recently it was the Hagia Sophia. Nearly 1,500 years old. And there are earlier Byzantine & Egyptian pieces nearby. Emperors walked through the same grand doors as tourists today.
>>640948
Turkish architecture at its finest desu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2IHjUr7KiQ
So far, nothing has overwhelmed me which I havn't visited in person.
But the Roman Pantheon got pretty damn close.
>>640948
Those kebab sticks are making me tear up.
In this thread it was established that there must be a predicate for scientific nothing (referred to as void in the Bible): >>632478
It was established that philosophical nothing (absolute vacuum) as a predicate would be incoherent, so it must be another predicate.
So what we're talking about is a predicate to reality. What can we say about this predicate? First of all, we know it did not just "give birth" to reality, but actively sustains it
>>635489
Secondly, we know it is a power beyond anything we can comprehend.
Thirdly, we know it isn't subject to time or space, and isn't material (not even the stuff, the energy, that comprises void). So it is completely abstract. Now, what are some wholly abstract things? Well, there are numbers. There are actually a lot of things besides that. But running through everything, the only abstract which could accomplish something on its own would have to be a form of Geist. Therefore we are talking about an agency. There is another indication of this: if the predicate did not have agency, then reality would always have existed, and therefore we would be in heat death already, because if there were no agency then reality would be be to the predicate as frozen water is upon a freezing temperature; if that temperature always was, then the water would always have been frozen. But instead we are talking about something with the capacity to endow reality, but which did not always endow reality, which is indicative of agency.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wm4RlnnaOU
Orthodox FAQ for Catholics, Protestants, atheists, Muslims, Jews and liberals, plus reading list: http://pastebin.com/bN1ujq2x
>>637821
I never seen this icon before.
Saved.
>>637821
Isn't it forbidden to make yourself a eunuch? Why have you turned into a trap then, Constantine?
I find it incredible I know it's a Constantine thread before even opening it.
Is it true that many 4channers have taken up religion, Orthodox and Catholic Christianity particularly, from original positions of non-belief, not from agenuine belief but for reasons of a stronger moral code, taking a position against Islam and/or degeneracy, pure aesthetics, etc; or is this just a dank meme used to discredit the many tippers for Christ on 4chan these days?
Some of us were always religious, we just talk about it more now because others seem to want to know.
>>634879
I went through my tipper phase in high school and now I've come back.
>>634879
It's true in my case too. I mean, I'm not a Christian (yet?), but I'm reading a lot about Christianity and theology in general and I changed drastically from a naturalist/materialist view of life to a non-naturalist/non-materialist.
All the atheists' arguments I see here where my arguments at some point in life, I was a fervorous tipper.
Post some Alt-History stuff. I like the idea of a modernized Roman Army.
>>620538
>>620538
I like the idea that pic related was in charge of North Africa instead of Rommel. Don't get me wrong, it wouldn't have changed the outcome of the war, but I do think that the Axis would have lasted longer.
A few weeks ago I made a thread asking people whether they considered liberty or equality to be more important. The response was overwhelmingly in favour of liberty. How can this be, considering that this board has so many socialists?
>>618346
This board doesn't have that many socialists, and part of socialism is (from their perspective) aiming for liberty.
As far as socialists are concerned private property is simply another form of bondage through the need to sell your labour to survive, so were the means of production to be controlled by the workers this class bondage wouldn't exist and they would be more free.
Socialists see socialism as very conducive to freedom, moreso than capitalism.
>>618353
But aren't they still in favor of a planned economy? How could that be free?
History has already picked the winner. Capitalism and Socialism in one country (progressives) beat Fascism and National Socialism (reactionary). Later on, International Capitalism won the race with the Soviet Union. Whether or not, Capitalism undoes itself or not later on, we do not know, but we do have a winner right now.
>>625403
Technically, it was Communism, not Socialism and the Soviets did most of the grunt work as 70% of the German casualties were on the Eastern front.
And technically, National Socialism wasn't defeated economically as their loss was a purely militarily one and scientific one.
Had the Americans not invented the atom bomb, the Soviets could have beat them militarily too.
That said, Capitalism beat Communism (not Socialism) on the economic front as the Soviets never engaged the US directly in full scale war.
National Socialism economically could have possibly beat Capitalism, but we'll never know except for the fact Chinese sort of practice. They are going through some economic troubles now, but if they pull through and still become dominant, we will have to say that National Socialism would have beat Capitalism economically.
Communism has never been tried.
>>625575
>Communism, not Socialism
If you want to get 'technical' that's wrong.
Also National Socialism was primarily defeated economically.
>Are there objective truths?
Yes.
>Is everything we imagine, feel, and experience (religion, mystical experiences, fear of death etc) just the brain being the brain and nothing more?
Yes.
>Is evolution responsible for our consciousness and thus our ability to look intrinsically and fear death and wonder about the beyond?
Yes, for it is the brain only being the brain.
>Will death be simply a candle being put out and nothing more, all fictions of an afterlife simply the brain not knowing how to handle its own non-existence?
Yes.
Oh my goodness you have solved all the problems of philosophy good job duuuuuude I am blown awayyyyyy
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>evolution explains consciousness
lol worst meme on this board to be honest
>cold weather explains snow lmao
>>623997
>cold weather doesn't explain snow
What?
What does /his/ think about this book? I read it and it was k.
a fag who sells his shittier researched books, seperating alt-right wingers from their shekels.
>>621267
>taking advice on how to be a man from a guy who sucks dicks
shiggy
It's a bit faggy. The equivalent of I am woman hear me roar shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cqTE_bPh7M
I mean, that it's all bullshit?
>Chomsky discussing literally anything other than linguistics
>being on point or insightful
"No"
>French
>Intellectual Culture
"No"
And I'm not going to listen to that old man groan on like he's fucking on his death bed.
>>616966
why do you feel this way, anon.
>Chomsky
>Post-Modernism
into the trash it goes