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spirit-salamander

['Member']Joined: April 11, 2021 at 11:27Last active: May 30, 2025 at 20:4319 discussions249 comments

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I see it the same way. The latest example of an unphilosophical attitude to theology comes from a philosopher: Massimo Pigliucci @mpigliucci I’m sorry...
April 01, 2023 at 01:00
But I had the impression that Hart left the question of an alteration in God somehow ambivalent. He has, of course, the clear tendency or conviction t...
April 01, 2023 at 00:40
By the way, I have already lowered the ambition of my argument. So that no one thinks I want to defend it by hook or by crook, as it is written in the...
March 31, 2023 at 18:39
I leave open whether God was active in every way appropriate to him prior to his creation. At least as far as creation is concerned, he was inactive p...
March 30, 2023 at 12:20
You seem to be alluding to something obviously familiar, yet I can't figure it out. Christ dying on the cross? Or Indian mythology? Or from indigenous...
March 30, 2023 at 09:10
In the specific case here, simply defending the (new) title of my post. I am also looking for counter-arguments, which you have thankfully given me. T...
March 29, 2023 at 13:59
Okay, maybe I just need to lower the standard of my argument a bit. Since my argument from simplicity would only be a possibility and not a necessity ...
March 28, 2023 at 23:01
Let's say God is not simple, but that he has parts. Would you agree with the injury problem that is stated below? If a God with parts “injures” himsel...
March 28, 2023 at 20:46
My argument takes place within the framework of a more or less loose or strict theism. I have not made that too clear. If you believe that God cannot ...
March 28, 2023 at 20:18
My argument tries to build on the creative function that has been performed, regardless of the other functions that could have been performed. Why is ...
March 28, 2023 at 20:06
That's fair, I agree with you. I have now changed the title of my OP.
March 28, 2023 at 18:23
To create literally out of nothing is logically impossible because “nothing” is the absence of anything that has any trace of “being”. Do you agree or...
March 28, 2023 at 16:22
Would it be fair to describe your construction or model as panentheism? If so, I would get the point. For my argument is in principle directed only ag...
March 27, 2023 at 20:45
Basically, I agree with you. But perhaps one could say that proving mental model world explanations is possible after all. One only has to agree on a ...
March 27, 2023 at 13:14
I have a naïve expectation that they will speak up here of their own accord.
March 26, 2023 at 15:22
Haha, you're right in that it has to be seen as making sense for my reasoning to work. I am still not quite sure myself what to make of this discussio...
March 26, 2023 at 10:49
What do you think of the “God has parts – God has no parts” discussion in the philosophy of religion?
March 26, 2023 at 10:29
Thank you for your response. I agree with you that there are of course some alternatives to my construction which fits the God's Debris notion. (Aside...
March 25, 2023 at 23:01
Why would it ever have entered your mind to ignore me, since I was and am ready for a discussion from the very beginning, and have shown doing so? Bes...
September 15, 2022 at 03:21
I didn't so much want to label as to inquire what your position is more precisely. If I gave the impression of merely labeling you, then I apologize. ...
September 13, 2022 at 13:06
But it looks more to me that we have only begun to learn about it. How is it that in 2006 an expert admitted a complete lack of knowledge? If it is so...
September 13, 2022 at 12:47
So to you, I am a cretin. For me, you are a dishonest, disingenuous interlocutor. You believe in God? But I'm no longer interested in your answer eith...
September 09, 2022 at 06:31
To all. What aPicture arises when you read the following quotes? Please read with an open mind. Venus: the hot spot 'It's very disturbing that we do n...
September 09, 2022 at 06:27
I think that's a bit disingenuous on your part. If you read my listed snippets from scientific articles, then you will realize, hand on your heart and...
September 09, 2022 at 06:20
So you're an instrumentalist, a pragmatist, a non-realist? And you are a skeptic?
September 09, 2022 at 05:31
So you don't think that ideals should be pursued. Isn't that what one teaches children? Ideal parents, ideal politicians, ideal students, etc., even i...
September 09, 2022 at 05:27
Maybe it's not magic: Astrophysicist Dr. Percy Seymour magnetic theory of astrology
September 08, 2022 at 12:32
Sure, but still there is an ideal of the scientist. A standard to which all scientists want and should adhere. Love of truth and objectivity, sobriety...
September 08, 2022 at 12:08
Do you say so because you have already studied the history and systematic astrology in depth and have tested it on yourself and others? Or do you say ...
September 08, 2022 at 12:00
Paul Feyerabend once played the devil's advocate and defended astrology, and he saw that the arguments against the very ancient tradition of astrology...
September 08, 2022 at 09:37
That's right. But I think everyone can soberly say for themselves, what if. For example, a friend of mine once said that if astrology proved to be cor...
September 08, 2022 at 09:34
And many do not realize how spiteful, how contemptuous, how prejudiced and biased the scientific debates have been throughout history. Many scientists...
September 08, 2022 at 09:05
Would you say that this fact is problematic?
September 08, 2022 at 08:56
My question was intended as a psychological test. I think many might say: should astrology turn out to work by whatever means, then I no longer believ...
September 08, 2022 at 08:53
Just for the sake of argument, what if astrology were true? How would it affect your scientific worldview and philosophy?
September 08, 2022 at 08:29
Knowing more is relative. Yes, they know more than I do. Still, they would say they know very little and are only beginning to slowly understand these...
September 08, 2022 at 08:22
So my thesis is that we know very little about the interactions between the sun and the many layers of the earth's atmosphere. And very little about t...
September 08, 2022 at 08:04
I'm not talking about boiling the water. That should have been obvious after all. I think more about e.g. cloud formation as one example. Now you're r...
September 07, 2022 at 21:36
I mean the totality of the theses of every single scientist in every generation. Most of the theses can be said to have turned out to be wrong. I real...
September 07, 2022 at 19:42
Certain predictions regarding water behavior would then simply be uncertain. An analogy to climate. How often have scientists been wrong in history? A...
September 07, 2022 at 18:07
Maybe you are right. But how do you know? The media's scaremongering is not a reliable source either. I'm not necessarily on Lomborg 's side either. I...
September 07, 2022 at 16:46
That is a fact. What do you say?
September 07, 2022 at 16:23
And I would add that we still do not understand the properties and behaviors and operations of water in certain circumstances. In this regard, please ...
September 07, 2022 at 16:18
No, climate is an extremely complex thing and not like anything. That is not a substantial response. I might say severe droughts have always existed. ...
September 07, 2022 at 15:48
By global warming, I assume you mean man-made global warming. That is, the idea that humans, with their powered machines and factory farming, are prim...
September 07, 2022 at 11:54
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I just want to say that there are models of a Supreme Being that it is no thing at all. For example, Hegel asserts that absolute “Being itself” seems ...
August 21, 2022 at 01:05
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If one understands “something” in a very wide sense, so that no weight is put on the thingness in it, then indeed some unitary being is assumed by som...
August 20, 2022 at 07:46
So mentation is timeless, that is, without succession? The universal mind has no dashboard of physicalism? The universal mind is unbounded mentation? ...
July 06, 2022 at 00:30
This is a very good question, perhaps the most important of all, to which an idealist must give a very thorough and detailed answer. Kastrup's answer ...
July 05, 2022 at 21:21
I think I understand your approach. But, as I said, one can make a philosophically justified distinction between a potential person (Newborn) and an a...
June 27, 2022 at 10:07