Maverick Philosopher

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Vote Democrat! 

A Vote for Sleepy Joe . . .

. . . is a vote for Cackling Kamala. 

She may be a cackling clown, but she is a 'person of color.' Indeed, she is of two 'colors,' Tamil Indian and Afro-Jamaican. She is thus doubly qualified for high office, and trebly to boot considering that she is of the female persuasion. It's a three-way intersection. If only she were, in addition, a transgendered lesbian illegal immigrant!

The only drawback visible to me is that she gives salads a bad name.  Your typical salad, as a comestible composed of comestibles, evinces gustatory coherence. Her famous 'word salads,' however, are notoriously bereft of semantic coherence.

My mind drifts back to John Searle's remark anent Jacques Derrida: "He gives bullshit a bad name." 

A Difference Between Plausibility and Probability

The plausibility of a conjunctive proposition is that of the least plausible of its conjuncts. Not so for the probability of a conjunctive proposition. This point is made by Nicholas Rescher in his entry 'Plausibility' in the Oxford Companion to Philosophy.

Exercise for the reader: give examples.