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Yes, that’s probably correct. I was thinking of actual land that literally was part of the old Russian empire. Finland and Poland were never part of the Soviet Union. But Poland and the other Eastern bloc countries, while ostensibly independent, were under full sway of the Soviets.

I think in his paranoid dementia he wants more than the old Soviet Union back. He wants the old pre-World War I Russian empire back. That included not just Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic states, but also Finland and Poland.

You did, in your own post 351, which I linked.

Incorrect quote?? It’s right there, word for word, under your name, in your own post that I linked!

“DOJ suggested Trump to plea. He refused.”

Yeah, you sure sound dejected over the verdict for. a guy who isn’t a Trump supporter! :rofl:

New York City one of the safer big cities in America. Crime rates continue to decline. Crime IS up in one respect, though. What would that be? Hate crimes directed against people MAGAts hate!

Not the Times 34 part! :rofl: :beers: :ROFLMAO:

GUILTY! TIMES 34!!!!!

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The movie Oppenheimer brilliantly explores this theme. You can’t separate science from values. Science does not exist in some ethereal Platonic netherworld, it exists in the real world with real consequences.

The Everettian Wentaculus, Chen’s preprint, which I’m still reading. The SA article doesn’t specifically mention superdeterminism and there seems to be some distinction between that and strong determinism, which I think Chen discusses in his paper — as noted, I have not yet read through it. As...

Gah, need a subscription. Can you gift that link? Just from glimpsing the title before the paywall went up, it looks to me like the article is about superdeterminism.

Do you have a link to that article?

Both statements are true, but the first COULD be false, and the second CANNOT be false. There is a possible non-actual world at which Fred had something else besides eggs for breakfast. There is NO possible world at which triangles have other than three sides. The first statement is therefore...

Yet there is nothing “necessary” about any of this “inner” stuff. Tarskian or correspondence theory of truth holds that “truth” lies in descriptive propositions about the world that correspond to facts about the world. Thus if Fred had eggs for breakfast this morning, the proposition “Fred had...

I think “inner necessity” is a byproduct of the idea that there are “laws” of physics, which in turn is a hangover of the idea that there is a “lawgiver” — i.e., God. This is what Newton thought, that he was discovering God’s “laws.” Yet even he was puzzled by certain things — such as the...

“Inner necessity” is simply a synonym for “hard determinism.” As such it’s a label and question-begging. It assumes the very point in dispute.

Einstein also said God doesn’t place dice. He was wrong about that, too. I defy anyone, anywhere, to show that there is any valid scientific or philosophical category called “inner necessitation.”