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You'd best ask the university.

Yes, poor management They tried to reform it ages ago but then left it half finished

Apart from completely reforming the ridiculously messy and obese tax act, fixing up the marriage act and abolishing the Civil Liabilities Act, mine would be: A statute that sets up an independent body to determine judicial appointments to the high court. There would be a vote cast by the...

'Informed' and 'telegraph'... two words I thought I'd never see in the same sentence

There's still good old John Clarke and Brian Dawe every thursday :)

Arguing from majority is a fallacy and adds nothing constructive to the discussion. A long time ago the majority of the inhabitants of the Earth might have believed the Earth was flat.

Style guide for what?

That begs the question

lol The first article might explain what we were talking about the other day.

Yes s 72 is your best bet. A's state of mind about being fed up coupled with his intent to kill Steels would be a contemporaneous representation within the act. It seems like a fairly broad exception though, and there is virtually no authority as of yet that deals with the scope of the exception.

Mmm, very pertinent point

No you contingently exist. If you need more info about modal reasoning please read a bit of the info from the link I posted about possible world theory, it's easy to read and should help

True, though if one disagrees with a premise, you'd best state which premise and why

Alritey. Before I begin let me say that this is NOT the normal ontological argument. It is a modal version of the ontological argument which does not contain the same question-begging fallacies. (This argument entails some knowledge of possible world theory). 1. A perfect being (a being...

Yes, I agree with that.

Precisely. That's true. But it can hardly be said, as implied, that (a) that a belief in some sort of supreme being and (b) reason are incompatible. I know you're not denying that. But you suggested that reason and god are incompatible, which they are most certainly not. To demonstrate this...

Okay good, because intelligence and ability to succeed are two different things. Now that we've clarified that, I still don't think you can say that fee-paying is interfering with this. As I said it is a maximum of 5 UAI points lower than normal. It is completely bogus to claim that allowing...

Very well then you contradict yourself - you imply that intelligence has something to do with UAI with your complaint about fee-paying students: If you disagree with UAI and intelligence being related, then you cannot hold to your statement about fee-paying somehow inhibiting the intelligence of...

Ah, there are rational ways of attempting to prove the existence of god you know.

In principle that is true, though in these circumstances I believe fee paying places are a maximum of 5 UAI points less, and are often less than that in difference. It's pretty silly to say someone is likely to be less intelligent than someone 3 UAI points higher than them. UAI and intelligence...