Propositional Logic Session with @niyanthvidi - Part 1 Great Teacher Appoota 2023-05-18 | I'm teaching my friend Niyanth propositional logic. So I just figured I could record the entire course and upload it here so that others can follow along too. This is mostly going to be a 1v1 session, but others can join the VC on Vegan India Discord and listen in:linktr.ee/appootaI'm also happy to teach Prop logic to any vegan (for free), as long as our schedules align.
Prop Logic Moj #3 Great Teacher Appoota 2024-05-12 | Part 3 of Prop logic in Hinglish where we do some practice proofs using the 8 Rules of Inference learned in the previous video
Prop Logic Moj with Yashmeet #2 Great Teacher Appoota 2024-05-11 | Part 2 of Hinglish lectures on Prop Logic covering Rules of InferenceTimestamps:0:16 to 18:05 - Recap18:34 - Conditional28:16 - (Important point)38:33 - Truth condition for conditional, De Morgan's Law41:20 - Biconditional46:12 - Difference b/w material equivalence & logical equivalence54:35 - Rules of Inference (start)55:40 - Rule 1 (Modus Ponens)1:00:12 - Rule 2 (Modus Tollens)1:02:50 - What are rules of inference 1:07:30 - Rule 3 (Hypothetical Syllogism)1:08:54 - Rule 4 (Disjunctive Syllogism)1:12:55 - Rule 5 (Simplification)1:14:04 - Rule 6 (Addition)1:15:23 - Rule 7 (Conjunction)1:16:40 - Rule 8 (Constructive Dilemma)Note: Revise rules properly to solve questions in the next video
Prop Logic Moj with Yashmeet #1 Great Teacher Appoota 2024-05-11 | This is the first video of Prop logic that i've made in Hinglish (hybrid of Hindi+English) for Logic-pilling the Hindi-speaking population.0:00 identifying well formed formulas1:15 unary and binary operators5:13 definition of an 'argument'10:00 Semantics (start)11:00 Negation18:13 Conjunction21:00 Systematic way to write truth tables30:50 Disjunction (inclusive and exclusive)Important Note: Understand functions of logical operators instead of just cramming their truth tables. Clarification/Correction: The formula for each column of propositional variables is (2^n)/2, (2^n)/4...and so on, not (2*n)/2 etc.My Links:https://linktr.ee/appoota
Deranged Logic Illiterates Try To Prove Hinduism is Casteist Challenge (Impossible) Great Teacher Appoota 2024-04-28 | Just a random cancerous debate (Prop: Hinduism is a Casteist Religion) where the interlocutors are over-confident and keep asking me for refutations when I'm just taking an agnostic position in the debate and then cry about 'jargon' when pushed using basic formal logic (the terms were explained, but they fell on deaf ears). Btw, for context, I am not even religious, so I'm not sure why they keep saying stuff like "your scriptures", "your religion", etc. LMFAOHope you enjoy it.My links:https://linktr.ee/appoota
Following up with @TurningVeganese after his debate with @eatpvssynotanimals Great Teacher Appoota 2024-02-25 | I watched the debate between Heri and A.J. about culling odd order predators and had some questions.This.....was interesting.
Appoota vs Vegan nightmare (Hunter) on Veganism Great Teacher Appoota 2023-10-29 | This was an old recording that I found in my archives. A hunter had challenged me to a debate on Instagram Live. When I tried negotiating a debate prop, he just said let's have a "discussion". I think there were a few props that I picked up on as we went ahead with the chat. At some point, I started running NTT. Eventually, the person just ran away.My links:https://linktr.ee/appoota
Adoption vs Procreation | Discussion with Androide323 Great Teacher Appoota 2023-10-11 | This is another one of those good-faith conversations. Is adoption better than procreation? That's what we discuss here. To be clear, Andre doesn't think procreation is immoral. He just thought that adoption might be better than procreating (as in more virtuous).My links:https://linktr.ee/appoota
How to respond to HYPOCRISY arguments? Great Teacher Appoota 2023-10-07 | This video is an explanation of a dialogue tree that I have constructed to humanely slaughter hypocrisy claims like "Crop deaths tho". I recommend watching the entire video so that you get to know how to run the dialogue tree effectively. The tree is only as good as the person running it, so you'll have to practice and optimize your usage of the tree. Here is a drive link that contains all the files (The obsidian files for the tree, the PNG of the tree, additional notes, etc.): drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LLVugxYMDd2YTZaBpTD7SmpZa3YkxFUf?usp=sharingTo open these files, you'll need the Obsidian software installed on your device and it should also have the Excalidraw plugin. Install both of those and copy-paste the folder into your obsidian vault so you can directly access it. If you'd like to watch me wreck a carnist who is running crop deaths, watch this video (though I am not using the dialogue tree that I constructed in this video):youtu.be/e13CHNnKIHE?si=wAKFpKH9g8DslwV3The Propositional Rolodex video by Ask Yourself:youtu.be/gvD-Myfqki0?si=dQauHKDwo8U8T7T7I've consistently seen bad responses being flouted around and even championed by vegans who haven't thought much about this stuff. Cutting that supply is the motivation for me making this video. Only you can help me achieve this by watching the video, learning better debate tactics, and by encouraging other vegans to do the same. Let us LEVEL UP, together.My links:https://linktr.ee/appoota
Is it okay to kill a pig if I am stuck on a desert island? Great Teacher Appoota 2023-08-09 | In this video, we analyze the "Desert Island Hypothetical" question that carnists often ask vegans. This video marks the beginning of a series of videos aimed at teaching the average vegan how to deal with anti-vegan nonsense. Debating non-vegans is a great way to improve your debate chops, but we should be prepared nonetheless, in case the opponent turns out to be a decent debater. PS: One thing I didn't mention in the video was that other kinds of variations to this where the stakes are higher and the answers get more divisive. Maybe we'll discuss those in a later video. My links:https://linktr.ee/appoota
Appoota vs Olicsa Part 2: Crop Deaths tho Great Teacher Appoota 2023-06-25 | Olicsa debated me earlier where I asked him to Name the Trait. He rage-quit that debate, but later came back to debate me about Crop Deaths entailed by being vegan. In this debate, I lay out one of the stronger rejections of crop deaths (relative to the conventional replies which are often braindead) arguments against veganism. Here's the previous debate:youtube.com/watch?v=V7FdlQGxLEwMy links: https://linktr.ee/appoota
Propositional Logic Session with @niyanthvidi - Part 3 Great Teacher Appoota 2023-06-21 | In this session, we discuss Rules of Replacement/Rules of Equivalence in propositional logic. I took a different approach to teaching prop logic here. Generally, Rules of Inference are introduced before Rules of Replacement. I am trying to switch it up by introducing replacements before RoI. Let's see how it goes!My links: https://linktr.ee/appoota
Olicsa tries to #namethetrait Great Teacher Appoota 2023-06-11 | Olicsa is a non-vegan who was invited to Vegan India by a vegan who was talking to him. I decided to ask him to name the trait. Topic: VeganismMy links:https://linktr.ee/appoota
Monkey of Thousand Petals tries to find flaws in my AN article Great Teacher Appoota 2023-06-10 | This guy went through my article and found that it was "riddled with flaws". So I just asked him to come on VC and point them out to me. As far as I can tell, he couldn't even point out a spelling error. Here's the article that is being debated about:theveganverandah.wordpress.com/2022/08/15/why-im-not-an-anti-natalist-anymoreMy links:https://linktr.ee/appoota
Propositional Logic Session with @niyanthvidi - Part 2 Great Teacher Appoota 2023-05-28 | This is Part 2 of the series where I teach propositional logic to my friend Niyanth Vidi.In this session, we revise session 1 (youtu.be/6upp-spaagM) and then discuss the Material Implication and Biconditional.My Links:https://linktr.ee/appoota
Making A Carnist Mald and Rage Quit Debate on Veganism!!! Great Teacher Appoota 2023-05-14 | A good old vegan debate where a carnist contradicts himself multiple times and then rage quits after throwing a basket of abuses. Debate Proposition: We should promote meat eating to get rid of casteism and untouchabilityMy links:https://linktr.ee/appoota
Reacting to @vimohlives confusion about basic Phil of Religion during our debate Great Teacher Appoota 2023-04-02 | A few months ago, I went on Vimoh's (an "atheist" YouTuber) live stream to talk to him about veganism and Theology/Phil of religion. This video is me reacting to that debate with him during that live stream, with my friends from Vegan India Discord Server.I'm not even sure if this can be categorized as a debate because it is not clear that there is a proposition whose truth value is being contested. It is just me trying to convey to him that the terms "Agnostic Atheist" are rather vague, superfluous, or suboptimal for conveying one's views to an interlocutor. There are academic exegeses about why popular terms like Agnostic Atheist are not used by serious philosophers of religion. For example -Atheist: Lacks Belief in godAgnostic: Not sure about it.This just seems hilarious. If you don't have a doxastic attitude towards the existence of god (as they seem to construe atheism) then what is there to be unsure about? If unsure just means that the truth value is not known, that's just superfluous because the proposition would just be "I don't have a view on the existence of god and the truth value of the prop is not known to me" which is just a tautology. Those atomic props mean the same thing so why use superfluous terminology?Link to the debate:youtube.com/watch?v=I3E5-kFuikE&t=3880sMy links:linktr.ee/appoota
Wrecking my Ex-Best friend so bad that his friends mute and kick me Great Teacher Appoota 2023-03-26 | Debate props:#1 We shouldn't cater to gender affirmation demands of trans people on a social or political level#2 We shouldn't kill odd-order wild predators#3 Buying organic food (whether bonemeal is used or not) is not carnist (didn't happen because they kicked me before we started that one)This has been a long-awaited debate for me. Here's some background:Dharmik Vegan (the interlocutor) was a very good friend of mine before I learned formal logic and started diverging on core views in Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, etc. A few months ago, I challenged him to debate his views on trans issues. The debate materialized only last night. However, This debate is not exactly the kind of debate you'd typically see me have since a condition that I wouldn't engage in formalizations of arguments was imposed on me. I agreed to debate anyway because I was motivated to wreck him, which I did owing to the fact that there were at least a couple of concessions, quite a few invalid and formally fallacious args, etc.The best part was that the only way they could overpower me was by muting me multiple times during the debate and finally kicking me when I asked them to apologize for the unfair usage of mod powers. Anyway, goodbye "buddy" for now, if you ever grow a pair and want to resume the debate, we can do it where your friends don't have mod powers. My links:linktr.ee/appoota
Chatting with @ParadymShiftVegan about Rights Violations Great Teacher Appoota 2023-02-26 | I chatted with ParadymShift Vegan Jedi about whether it is a rights violation to kill an aggressor to protect a victim from being killed by them. The interaction started from an engagement on twitter which we carried to a VC on the Nutrivore Discord Server. It turned out that we just have slightly different concepts of what "rights" mean, which we explore further.It is always a breath of fresh air when you find someone who engages in good faith and is intellectually honest. Conversations like these are rare but also the most productive. Think I'm wrong and wanna change my mind? Get in touch using my links below:linktr.ee/appoota
Talking to a Carnist Clown from Vegan India Discord Great Teacher Appoota 2023-02-11 | We actually chatted for way longer than this and all of it was recorded, but the audio quality was too bad even by my standards to upload. Debate proposition: This clown knows more about nutrition than 99% of the people in the world.Is there something you'd like to debate me about? Join one of the servers in my links and ping me.My links:https://linktr.ee/appoota
Basic Philosophy Primer Great Teacher Appoota 2023-01-08 | This video is just an overview of Philosophy and is by no stretch of imagination, an exhaustive one. I don't intend to turn this channel into a philosophy tutorial channel as there are fantastic channels that already do a fantastic job at teaching some basic philosophy.Channel Recommendations:- Carneades.org- Kane B- Ask Yourself- Vsauce (all 3 channels including D!NG)- CosmicSkeptic (although, I have plenty of disagreements with his views)Book Recommendations:- Introduction to Formal Logic (with Philosophical Applications) by Russel Marcus- Is This Wi-Fi Organic? by Dave Farina- Republic by Plato- History of Philosophy by Bertrand RusselBlog Recommendations: medium.com/@sachvargheseuseofreason.wordpress.com Most reliable Philosophy Resources:The Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (https://plato.stanford.edu/)The Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (iep.utm.edu/)
Appoota vs COMrADE on Conventional Crops being Not Vegan Great Teacher Appoota 2022-12-25 | Hilarious debate where a guy makes a claim that increase in demand for conventional products increases demand for pesticides.My Links:linktr.ee/appoota
Appoota vs Lawrence Anton on Anti-Natalism Great Teacher Appoota 2022-12-18 | I was sent a post by the Antinatalist handbook page on Instagram. So I reached out to the admin of the page, Lawrence Anton, for a debate/discussion. The proposition: It is unethical to create children. We get into a discussion about the underlying normative ethical views that lead to AN, meanings of terms like "uncompensated harm", etc. The debate ended with the agreement that Lawrence was unable to convey the concept of uncompensated harm to me, and thus no reason for me to accept or reject the view(there is no reason to even think that the concept is coherent).Think you can change my mind? Join one of the Discord servers in the link below and ping me!My links:linktr.ee/appoota
Shooting Avni Was NOT Wrong Great Teacher Appoota 2022-12-11 | Think I am wrong? Come and Debate me on Discord via the links given belowCalculations for No. of Animals killed by carnivores:-According to some estimates, Lions on avg need 6kg of meat per day. Avg lifespan of a lion is 10-15yrs.Considering the lower limit i.e. 10ysMeat needed only for survival is 6kg x 10 x 365 = 21900 kg/lion Lions hunt mammals that are between 190kg-550kgOne of the prey whose neuron count is known is Blesbok. Males average 70kgNumber of mammals a lion needs to kill just to survive = 21900/70 ≈ 313 BlesbokThis doesn't take into consideration the herbivores killed by tigers/lions just for funThis comes down to around 11 humans if we take cortical neuron count as a sentience correlate. So a Lion/Tiger kills an equivalent of 11 humans.Music:- Gymnopedie No 1 by Erik Satie (Kevin MacCleod) - Creative Commons LicenseMy links:linktr.ee/appoota
Debating a Vegan Kids Stupid Mom with Pathetic Audio Quality Great Teacher Appoota 2022-12-04 | Sorry for the abysmal audio quality, I considered not uploading it. But then I figured something is better than nothing.My links:linktr.ee/appoota
Channel Trailer Great Teacher Appoota 2022-11-24 | Hello World. It is me again.Thanks to Yashmeet Singh from the Vegan India DIscord server for the Channel name and profile pic suggestion.
DESTROYING the Covid 19 Vaccination Conspiracy (Part 2/2)💉 Great Teacher Appoota 2020-12-20 | Hey people. This is Part 2 of a two part series of videos that attempt to address all the claims and controversies surrounding the Covid-19 disease and the resulting Vaccines.Share these videos as this is a nuanced, evidence-based discussion of the situation. This MIGHT save someone who might fall into the trap of conspiracy theories and succumb/be severely affected by this disease. If I've said something factually incorrect, do let me know in the comments with appropriate evidence and I will concede. No shame in admitting one's flawsBig thanks to Shilpa Hak for helping me out with this. Follow her @iadoresaris on InstagramLinks Mentioned:rcsb.org/structure/7KNIresearchgate.net/figure/Transmission-electron-microscope-image-of-SARS-CoV-2-spherical-viral-particles-in-a-cell_fig2_343079889jasn.asnjournals.org/content/31/8/1683.longannualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-virology-110615-042301https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/kleelerner/files/20200420_journal_of_biomolecular_structure_and_dynamics_-_novel_2019_coronavirus_structure_mechanism_of_action_antiviral_drug_promises_and_rule_out_against_its_treatment.pdfnature.com/articles/nrd.2017.243
DESTROYING the Covid-19 Vaccination Conspiracy (Part 1/2) 💉 Great Teacher Appoota 2020-12-20 | Hey people. This is Part 1 of a two part series of videos that attempt to address all the claims and controversies surrounding the Covid-19 disease and the resulting Vaccines.Share these videos as this is a nuanced, evidence-based discussion of the situation. This MIGHT save someone who might fall into the trap of conspiracy theories and succumb/be severely affected by this disease. If I've said something factually incorrect, do let me know in the comments with appropriate evidence and I will concede. No shame in admitting one's flawsBig thanks to Shilpa Hak for helping me out with this. Follow her @iadoresaris on InstagramLinks Mentioned:rcsb.org/structure/7KNIresearchgate.net/figure/Transmission-electron-microscope-image-of-SARS-CoV-2-spherical-viral-particles-in-a-cell_fig2_343079889jasn.asnjournals.org/content/31/8/1683.longannualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-virology-110615-042301https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/kleelerner/files/20200420_journal_of_biomolecular_structure_and_dynamics_-_novel_2019_coronavirus_structure_mechanism_of_action_antiviral_drug_promises_and_rule_out_against_its_treatment.pdfnature.com/articles/nrd.2017.243
SHOCKING REVELATIONS BY AN EX DAIRY FARMER Great Teacher Appoota 2018-04-14 | Is your milk really yours ? Let's ask someone who rescues the rightful owner of the milk and also the 'Gau Maata' who is abandoned after being used and abused for her entire life. Watch The Best Speech You Will Ever Hear by Gary Yourofskyyoutube.com/watch?v=es6U00LMmC4&has_verified=1Watch Documentaries on Netflix :- Earthlings (Earthlings)Cowspiracy (Environment)What The Health (Health)JOIN THIS 22 DAY VEGAN CHALLENGE:-www.challenge22.comJOIN FACEBOOK GROUP :- India Vegan Revolutionfacebook.com/groups/IndiaVeganRevolutionMusic Credits:-Barty's Path- Valor/Squalor(Arjun Iyer)bartyspath.bandcamp.comsoundcloud.com/bartyspath
