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Am I wrong to think that because equal and opposite forces are always present, names have to be given to phenomena that are not present in the formal math itself?

I agree with the example of human agents because we can acknowledge concepts like will, choice, agency, etc. But none of those ideas are present in Newton's laws of motions.

And at the speed at which the solar system is orbiting the galaxy, I don't know that it would even look much like like the planets are orbiting the sun.

How do you feel about Aristotelian realism? Makes more sense to me than nominalism/conceptualism ever has.

> The difference with the Copernican stuff is that you can fly a satellite (e.g. Voyager) to the edge of the solar system, look back, and see the planets orbiting the sun. Or you c…

$10 isn't $10 everywhere. There are still places in the country where $10 feels expensive. You may want to add a filter for even cheaper meals. On the other end, increasingly, even…

Being paid in stock is a form of income, which is taxed when given and which is separate from the additional capital gains tax levied when the stock is sold. Regardless, even if di…

I probably have a better house in Utah than many Silicon Valley CEOs have in the Bay Area, but they have better weather.

A two millennia old institution rarely operates on the scale of decades. The workers’ rights movement may have become a pressing political issue then, but workers have been around …

Yes, but the thing causing the pain may still be there

So she died of cancer

The current pope is a little more traditional, but it’s hard not to be more traditional than Francis. However, the cardinals as a whole are more or less on board with the previous …

European Protestantism and American Protestantism differ in substantial ways. Crudely, European Protestantism went the way of Hegelian dialectics and evolving beyond the Christiani…

> The church as an institution certainly prefers the more radical conservatives as you go higher up the chain I think right now it’s the exact opposite.

American religions are more like American Indian tribal nations. They have independent jurisdiction and their income is not subject to taxation. Whether or not they engage in polit…

The original law (like many laws that delegated congressional authorities at the time) contained a legislative veto provision which gave the legislative final oversight of any admi…

But that kind of recklessness is malice

“In any statutory definition of a crime ‘malice’ must be taken not in the old vague sense of ‘wickedness’ in general, but as requiring either (i) an actual intention to do the part…

The Dunning-Kruger effect is not well established. It often doesn't reproduce. Also the effect isn't that people misjudge their knowledge, it's that they misjudge their place withi…

Can you elaborate?

They are about $500 on the cheap end if I'm not mistaken.

At least where I live, it's a requirement in order to operate a business. If you go anywhere and ask for their AED and they don't have one they can be shut down.

The mass of the earth dictates the acceleration of the individual masses towards the earth. However the acceleration of the earth itself towards the masses are dependent on how muc…

But what prevents a human from digitally signing content generated by an AI?

Increasingly, medical history includes genetic information. Because of the nature of genetics, your private healthcare data includes data about your parents, siblings, etc. > Dropp…