jlou

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat lead⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Being logical doesn't imply knowing every true sentence.

  Also, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knower_paradox

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Marxism is not the only anti-capitalist critique. There are more modern non-Marxist critiques of capitalism such as the theory of inalienable rights. See: https://www.ellerman.org/inalienable-rights-part-i-the-basic-argument/

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat lead⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Self-referential paradoxes are at the heart of limitative results in mathematical logic on what is provable, so it seems plausible a similar self-referential statement rules out omniscience.

  Greek gods are gods in a different sense than the monotheistic conception of god that is omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent. Sure, so the argument I give only applies to the latter sense.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat lead⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If we assume that god, by definition, must be omniscient, there is actually a way to disprove the possibility with the following paradox:

  This sentence is not known to be true by any omniscient being.

  There are also more traditional arguments like the problem of evil

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are other alternatives to capitalism besides Authoritarian Marxist-Leninist states. An example would be Georgist economic democracy. Some policies in such an economy:

  1. All firms would be legally mandated to protect the inalienable right to worker democracy by structuring as democratic worker coops. There would thus be no haves appropriating 100% of the fruits of the have nots' labor

  2. 100% land tax and carbon tax

  3. PCO for all capital

  4. Guaranteed minimum income

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