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Teen: "Math isn't real" Revisited

Two Articles by Walter Williams, RIP Moral debate per Alasdair MacIntyre

How many pancakes are needed to shingle a 54 sq. ft. tool shed?

Schumer and Warren yearn for a dictator

Year USA deaths %inc. 2015 2,712,630 016 2,744,248 1.17 2017 2,813,503 2.52 2018 2,839,205 0.91 https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm says the number of provisional deaths in 2020 through 11/28 is 2,654,825. Extrapolate that to year end. 2,654,825*365/332 = 2,918,708. Population growth of about 0.5% for 2 years after 2018 yields an expected 2,867,597 deaths in 2020. This assumes the same age distribution, but age distribution changes very little in only 2 years. 2,918,708 - 2,867,597 = 51,111 is the implied extra deaths. Population growth of about 0.5% for 3 years after 2017 yields an expected 2,855,705 deaths in 2020. 2,918,708 - 2,855,705 = 63,003 is the implied extra deaths. Population growth of about 0.5% for 4 years after 2016 yields an expected 2,799,133 deaths in 2020. 2,918,708 – 2,799,133 = 119,575 is the implied extra deaths. Whether 2016, 2017, or 2018 is used as the base year, the implied extra deaths in 2020 is between about 51,000 and 120,000. This is well below the CDC’s provisional 2020 Covid-19 related deaths. (Plausibly, deaths related to influenza are being counted as from Covid-19, either by error or medical providers to get higher reimbursement [20% for hospitals] from Medicare and Medicaid.) Still, extra deaths of 51,000 to 120,000, and insinuating that most scientists and doctors dealing with this pandemic are fools, makes calling Covid-19 a hoax or imaginary is absurd.

A Metaphysics for Freedom #8

Coronavirus - vaccine development

Coronavirus - spread Coronavirus -vaccine approval

😊 For Wile E. Coyote pursuing the Road Runner, the possibilities are of utmost importance. 😊

Perhaps the reductionist materialist model assumes too much. Helen Steward believes so as she explains in A Metaphysics for Freedom. I have some blogposts about this book. See especially #6 and #7.

A Metaphysics for Freedom #7

Coronavirus – clinical trials #5 (& statistics) Coronavirus -- vaccine effectiveness Truth, Power, Money

Huh? Trump has been honest? Now that's hyperbole.

Self-employment taxes A Metaphysics for Freedom #6

Your quote matches 14 words of the following exactly minus a comma. "Moralistic fallacy – inferring factual conclusions from evaluative premises, in violation of fact-value distinction; e.g. making statements about what is, on the basis of claims about what ought to be. This is the inverse of the naturalistic fallacy." (link).

I regard political platforms the way I do advertising. Ayn Rand's defense of individual rights included a clear, strong banning of the initiation of force. The Democrat does not. The Republican platforms does not w/o a religious base. Also, Democrats favor the initiation of force more than Republicans do, especially against business people.

What you "quoted" was about the moralistic fallacy, which is the inverse of the naturalistic fallacy.

Huh? "The is–ought problem, as articulated by the Scottish philosopher and historian David Hume, arises when a writer makes claims about what ought to be that are based solely on statements about what is" (link).

A Metaphysics for Freedom #5

This is not a moral ought. The most cited part of Hume's Treatise of Human Nature regarding is-ought is titled "Of Morals." The general form of a moral ought is 'Some human ought to do or not do X.'

My first two JARS articles

What do you regard as nonsense -- naturalistic fallacy or naturalistic fallacy fallacy or both? The first makes sense to me, but not the second.

A Metaphysics for Freedom #4

When I wrote A Metaphysics for Freedom #1 on Nov. 2, I didn’t include much from pages 9-12 in order to emphasize her argument for free will rather than her argument against determinism. This morning I added an addenda to #1 that will hopefully satisfy MisterSwig for the present.

"The moment of settling is when the agents decides and acts and hence settles the matter in a particular way" (p. 39). This was included in A Metaphysics for Freedom #2. Steward alluded to the determinist hypothesis when she wrote the following that I quoted in #3. "An algorithmic or functionalist view of the earthworm’s behavior can only go so far." But I will look for a more extended passage where she says why she disagrees with determinism.