Interesting assumption. Only that you maybe forgot about the overpopulation that will ensue! :smile: But if we also assume that science finds also a w...
Strange that you are reducing one's reality of the world to biases and intuitions. Bias implies inclination to prejudice. Intuition implies instinctiv...
1) What objection? Objection to what? 2) What exactly do you mean by "relationship of personal identity"? Why should you be identical? In fact, can an...
I believe that you should include a few very important premises before #2: that God exists and is so and so and can do this and that, etc. Or, if he d...
In case you refer to "must" in my statement "We must create one for ourselves", I didn't use it in the sense of an absolute need or of imposing compre...
Maybe you must stop being fed with this stuff before you get yourselg an indigestion! :grin: Otherwise, you have good points about the usefulness of l...
I mean I have taken in too much literature data, esp. terms. I am not at all in the literature field, you see. Hence "too much input" for me, i.e. I a...
That's a very good question! :smile: Well, I personally have no problem not knowing the meaning and purpose of the universe. It's enough for me that I...
Thanks! I got richer today by one literary term! :grin: Wikipedia describes the differencr bewteen "metonomy" and "metaphor": "Metonymy works by the c...
You are right. That's why I said, "it's the best one could do", i.e. the nearest to single-word metaphors one can get. @"jancanc" In fact, a complete ...
Which particularly? (I can't handle "these" ...) I assume you mean all of them. Anyway, it depends on how one defines the word "metaphor". I use the d...
Here are some singe-word metaphors: 1) Plain words: - chair: A professorship (We can say, e.g. "he holds a chair in physics") - crane (verb): Stretch ...
OK about the etymology, but the actual metaphor applies only to the Greek language! For the English language, the word "metaphor" is just a word (carr...
All this is quite interesting. But they are all descriptions and fancy definitions To talk about "free will" and have a meaningful discussion, we must...
I wonder if all those people you are mentioning understand and use the term "free will" in its simple, common meaning leading to the unequivocal exist...
In my case, the best way was already offered in high school, in the course of Ancient Greek Language (not optional! :smile:) It is there where I "met"...
You are right to the extent that I have overcritized them. See, I am a fan of paradoxes, I have a large collection of them, but none about God. Accord...
Why don't you state what is the "Epicurean paradox"? For one thing, so that we can all understand and talk about the same thing ... Anyway, Wikipedia ...
Between "cannot be understood" and "100% of information on such subjects" there's a huge difference. You are kind of jumping from zero to infinity, fr...
translate (text): express a text from one language in another language understand (text): perceive the meaning of text Do they look the same to you? T...
The first time you talked about "too many questions" that you cannot answer. I then told you how. Now you talk about my "question". What question? You...
You can't reply to all questions in a single answer of course! :smile: But TPF offers a great method of tackling each question/point on its own: You h...
I don't know what do you mean exactly by "place" (it's too general) but the following may qualify: Criminals, anarchists, hermits, savages, ... Also, ...
I'm surprised by this statement! There are a lot of things that hold a society together: collective consciousness, morals, traditions, laws ... And mo...
(Errata (in my message): "we can't say that he does so because he is a moral person") In your statement "When morality is a voluntary act, you foster ...
Law can "force" morality up to a certain extent. To the extent that it harms others. And even that cannot be always applied. For example, hurting ones...
Don't lose faith so easily! :smile: How many non-scientist persons do you know who read official scientific papers appearing usually in Science Journa...
:up: I guess this includes populararized science and articles that want to create an impression with undocumented "discoveries" ... Even Scientific Am...
Ha! I talked about the "scientific community" in general, not ALL scientists! Of course there are "thinkers" among them, even philosophers. But these ...
I can understand why you are skeptical. You have given some plausible reasons for that. However, just think about something very simple: If the ancien...
What's with you guys? I can understand why the scientific community believes that consciousness is the product of and resides in the brain. Neuroscien...
"Objective reality" means anything that exists as it is independent of any conscious perception of it. Or something like that. This implies that there...
I explained to you the difference between "direct" case and "actual" cause. Maybe the word "actual" is the problem. But from the example(s) I gave it ...
The relation between cause & effect can be whatever, millions of things. From the part of either the cause or the effect. You just have to see what bo...
Why, isn't "the relation between cause and effect" already a workable definition of causality? What else do you need or look for? What questions, for ...
I don't think there's need for a debate on "causality". It's just the relation between cause and effect. If we are to debate over such things, we'll n...
That is, you are at the mercy of your thoughts! The above statement came from a thought that appeared out of nowhere. In fact, you had no control in p...
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