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-Correct. -"Rejection means I believe it false." -No it doesn't. Rejection means that you are not convinced of the truth value of the claim. Think of ...
May 04, 2022 at 23:22
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May 04, 2022 at 22:40
-"Not true. One can reserve judgment. e.g. I reserve judgment as to whether there is life on Europa" -Rejection is not a judgment (whether a claim is ...
May 04, 2022 at 22:30
So why do you use Objective evidence to verify your economic state...but you reject them in other existential claims?? Special pleading.....right?
May 04, 2022 at 21:39
You either accept a claim or you don't...there isn't a middle ground. You either live in Paris or you don't.
May 04, 2022 at 21:36
-lol not really.... Do you use the standards to verify whether you are a billionaire or not ? lol
May 04, 2022 at 21:23
I am not sure you understand Atheism or what a circular argument is. Atheism rejects all known god claims because they have failed to meet their burde...
May 04, 2022 at 21:22
-"A god hypothesis would require atheism to be invalid." -A god hypothesis requires Objective facts for the default position of atheism to be rejected...
May 04, 2022 at 21:20
No where in the "argument" The Kalam arguments can not be used to argue in favor of god(s) . The concept of god isn't mentioned in the premises or the...
May 04, 2022 at 20:37
Are you familiar with the realization that we don't have wars between western military powers since nuclear weapons first came to the picture?
May 04, 2022 at 20:31
No. You don't know that and the concept of infinity ...isn't a starting point.
May 04, 2022 at 20:24
I will agree with you . He doesn't seem to be that bad. I am starting to think that he actually believes everything he writes! This explains why he wa...
May 04, 2022 at 19:52
-Again you are promoting a fallacy. Consensus is not the criterion but the "symptom" of a successful theory. The epistemic value IS there and consensu...
May 04, 2022 at 19:46
-guilty as charged! I do tend to use the phrase ...I don't know....when I don't!
May 04, 2022 at 13:50
_Why i feel like a dodged a bullet? -that's even better try a new age or a theological forum! -" Only some can share my cosmological secrets" -Pls fin...
May 04, 2022 at 13:49
I am not convinced you understand the meaning of the word soundness... -"Claims about knowledge is what Philosophy is about! " As you said....claims. ...
May 04, 2022 at 13:46
there is nothing there in these ideas of yours. They are philosophically and scientifically null, reminiscences of a era when humans saw agency, inten...
May 04, 2022 at 13:45
I know your story now "Hillary". Your ideas are not welcomed in the scientific field...so you are taking your revenge in philosophical forums.
May 04, 2022 at 13:39
So your educated guess agrees with my first impression about him. I am not sure that one can use so many fallacies in a sentence and not be a troll......
May 04, 2022 at 13:38
-good luck providing evidence for that assumptions. -" Why is the begin situation situated at the begin instead of at the end? " -Not all sentences wi...
May 04, 2022 at 13:35
-lol you can not use "logic" and "logical conclusion ....are gods" in the same sentence. The gaps are there, you just cover them with a magical plug t...
May 04, 2022 at 13:31
The only one undermining your efforts ....is you sir. There is nothing that you can't do if you are willing to challenge all your assumptions.
May 04, 2022 at 13:11
Yes!....and this is why Aristotle is know for his work on Systematizing Logic and Philosophy...not for his philosophical ideas lol.! A better question...
May 04, 2022 at 13:09
[r Maybe but then again, pointing out that people still insist in using the same heuristics in their philosophy ~500 years AFTER the revolution of the...
May 04, 2022 at 13:05
A Philosoophy of Science course by Paul Hoyningen can provide great info on a systematic methodology of knowledge evaluation.
May 04, 2022 at 12:48
Yeap...you are right!
May 04, 2022 at 12:44
Socrates can speak for himself.....
May 04, 2022 at 12:42
-Either that or she is trolling everyone....including her gods. According to her. her gods fancy reason...but I can not really say the same for her ar...
May 04, 2022 at 12:42
-Why? Are you asking a "why" question about a natural phenomenon....like "why little John eat all the cake" type of questions? In nature we observe ph...
May 04, 2022 at 12:37
Again! You claim that you are doing Philosophy but you don't know what philosophy is. Philosophy's goal is to come up with wise claims about the world...
May 04, 2022 at 12:16
You don't understand!!!!!! In order to say that you know the truth or that your claim is reasonable you need your claims to be based on methods(racket...
May 04, 2022 at 11:56
Check this discussion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCwjSuQjMjg Maybe you will see the gaps in your reasoning because he reproduces the same fallac...
May 04, 2022 at 11:43
-identifying logical fallacies is not your strong point...right?
May 04, 2022 at 11:31
-"It depends. If we consider the material universe we play with the same rackets and the play field is well defined. Though your racket is different f...
May 04, 2022 at 11:29
That is the general dominant theme in these discussion ....
May 04, 2022 at 11:24
....it was already broken...... I only pointed out the cracks..
May 04, 2022 at 10:55
A safe guess would be that you also don't like when your assumptions are getting red flagged by logic and soundness...right?
May 04, 2022 at 10:54
The problem is that your racket and ball only share the same label and nothing else, plus you keep denying the use of the net and lines.....
May 04, 2022 at 10:50
That is irrelevant...You can only make those evaluations based on the available facts not on facts you don't have or might not exist....lol The time t...
May 04, 2022 at 10:49
-Read again, I never said it wasn't!!!!! I said its natural but it lacks the physicality we observe in larger scales -No it is'nt. You just proved tha...
May 04, 2022 at 10:45
you sound like an amateur tennis player bragging on how good she is but when I challenge your claim and offer you a racket and a ball ...you answer is...
May 04, 2022 at 10:40
No you don't....I do! You can't know the truth because you are an inferior human being! How can that is possible? Now joke aside. Truth is an evaluati...
May 04, 2022 at 10:33
-Its natural and energetic. Physicality rises in larger scales. -"No, it's not that which allows them to interact. That's a wrong statement and logica...
May 04, 2022 at 10:29
No the stuff around me and the stuff I am made of...is stuff. The qualifier "divine" implies things that you will have to demonstrate before placing i...
May 04, 2022 at 10:26
- There is this thing call logic...... Fallacies are nothing more than labels we put on arguments containing unverified premises. Do you even know the...
May 04, 2022 at 10:15
-That is because in those "energetic" scales "physicality" doesn't emerge. Physical properties emerge in larger scales (molecules and their structures...
May 04, 2022 at 10:07
I will be back...sorry for not informing you about that.
May 04, 2022 at 10:01
-Well the parcel that Philosophy and science has to open is....>Science provides additional facts to our epistemology and Philosophy tries to understa...
May 04, 2022 at 10:01
-"So do numbers exist? Scientific principles? The law of the excluded middle?" -those are concepts that describe qualities and properties of reality b...
May 04, 2022 at 09:48
-"The universal stuff is not the stuff of heaven." -No heaven has ever been verified...so its irrational to introduce it in an argument as a premise.(...
May 04, 2022 at 09:40