I didn't say "fully" --that would be foolish-- I said "well". Huge difference. Try to duplicate what people are writing. It helps using TPF Quote feat...
From some aspect, you might be right. Although I have a difficulty imagining God being examined under a microscope or measuring its electic field as i...
I don't know what kind of individuals are you referring to. Anyway, as I already said, if someone knows well what computers amdna mind are and how the...
I don't know what does "mind" mean to you, but the functioning of robots, like computers, is based on electronic circuits. And these circuits work on ...
Well, I definitely support instead rational thinking and argumentation, as imperfect and versatile as these can be among human beings ... (BTW, don't ...
Good that you don't believe it! As for Wiki, although I generally trust it for a lot of things, I have found a lot of insufficient, inaccurate and fal...
I like the way you took it, because indeed it was a little offensive, although I was not addressing to you, personally and my remark was not a critici...
:up: Very interesting topic! Confusing "out of this world" and "empty", as often is the case. I really wonder what people see in this highly depressiv...
What does "Deus Novacula Occami" mean @Agent? Couldn't find it anywhere ... Anyway, I can't see your point ... That "God" is the best (shortest, simpl...
What are the two points of view? I only see one here ... You cannot feel something that does not exist neither you can feel that something does not ex...
Knowledge is facts, information, and skills acquired through experience or education. Intellect has to do with reasoning and understanding, i.e. nothi...
:up: Excellent presentation! (Well, except maybe its length! :smile:) It serves as an example of how someone should introduce a topic, esp. the defini...
Of course. But you have talked about overpopulation, which is what I understood from "The greater number of those who survive, from some point on, the...
I have also taken two courses in Psychology in college, but, more importantly, I have read a lot of books in this field, including of course its big "...
I already did. I shouldn't. A bad habit of mine. My effort is often ignored and, more importantly, I encourage people avoiding looking up words to see...
No, I haven't. But see, I would have then to read a whole bunch of literature to find out what it is all about. This would not be me. (But who cares?)...
I see, OK. This can be true in certain cases. Making a lot of children can and does sometimes produce financial problems for the family. But the purpo...
I started reading the article that you brought up. I left it quite frustrated. And because I don't like to speak in generalities ans withoug "why"s, h...
Didn't you ask me how do I defined sophistry? Well, this is what I did. If the end result of both a "lie" and a "sophistry" is deception, this does no...
OK, more about "survival" ... When I say "survival", I don't mean survive just as a body, i.e. "stay alive" or escape danger or death. Although in cas...
Use of clever but false arguments --apparently plausible reasoning--, especially with the intention of deceiving. The term "sophistry" is a modern ver...
Although this topic is on subject that most of us know what it is all about and there's no much more to talk about --it's an almost "dead" subject-- I...
A great number of people do survive. There may be an overpopulation in some places on the planet as well as limited resources. But ethics will always ...
I respect your view about No.3 and also your experience regarding it. For me, experience is most important in formulating our realities. I knew about ...
Thank you for your coming back with all that! I'll try to reciprocate! :smile: Yes, flies too do that. And then they are crashed! :grin: So we can for...
Thank you for coming up with an alternative ethics scheme. I was craving for one! :grin: I tried to learn about "moral constructism" but I was kind of...
Actually, not even the "greatest number" is always easily to judge. It is not based so much on numbers as to areas of larger magnitude and importance....
Do you mean if a moral code can never diminish/invalidate the morality of an action and that it shows what is always the right thing to do for a certa...
Prepared in advance. (The term "preset" is mainly used in music, but I like it! ). Maybe the word "predefined" is more appropiate. What I mean is a la...
I have improved my Latin (and philosophical terminology) by looking up "salve veritate". Thanks! :smile: The above two statements are quite different ...
Certainly. (BTW, this is the phrase that @L'éléphant used referring to the inadequacy of etchics based on "major good for the greatest number".) Of co...
I see, you mean the program, the regular plan that the driver should follow. Well, does this include what you should do when you are approaching perso...
I see that you keep critisizing or findng inadequate etchics based on "major good for the greatest number". That "it doesn't work as one-size-fits-all...
I agree on this. We can exclude self-sacrifice and cases of consent, although they certainly contain a moral choice. But what about my examples with d...
From my experience in TPF, I can't say that physicalism as a subject is at the focus. Rather the opposite. It's quite scarce. But this is of no surpri...
I see. It's not good at all, then. It's useless. Because you can't use it sometimes only, as I said. Right? OK. I can accept that. There are a lot of ...
What does "not always good" mean? Can one apply a different theory, system, view of morality to different cases or decide about a moral action based o...
I think that the word "strategies" is too much of a requirement for this case. I would rather use the term "thesis" or even just "argument". The immed...
Thank you for taking the time to reply in that length! I realize now that I have asked too much! :smile: Anyway, I will comment shortly on some things...
This is a topic by itself! Can you at least describe it shortly? Can you explain this please? I can see some truth in all this, esp. concerning "divis...
It was a correction, not a criticsim. But if you like this word, you can consider my remarks as "constructive" criticism. :smile: You got me clueless!...
You are not totally wrong! :grin: Well, you tell me. I'm a computer programmer! :smile: But, don't we have similar conditions in philosophy, appearing...
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