Well by definition it can be. The utilization of that guess and the successful yielding of results alone render it" knowledge". Unsystematic Empirical...
-"The defendant is claimed to be guilty, but it doesn't follow that the defendant is guilty. " -Correct but we don't know that.We can only arrive to a...
Not really. Specifying unfalsifiable concepts doesn't really replace the need of epistemic foundations in a claim. In order for a claim to be wise, it...
Pls explain how your statement is in conflict with what I wrote? In both cases(jury trial knowledge evaluation) we can never be absolutely sure and th...
As I have said before, this is more of Chronicling and less of Philosophizing. We already know that those thesis are not wise because they either conf...
-If you read all my comments, that is my main argument. Theological claims are not Philosophical. In order to understand that distinction, one needs t...
First lets put things in Categories. Atheism was one of the major achievements of Philosophy (together with naturalism). As a result they allowed Scie...
-That is the picture we get from Science. Individuals are not in control of their actions or better they control a really small percentage of them but...
By the way determinism is an observer relative term. We as observers and our limits in our observations "see" things as determine because we don't hav...
-First you will need to demonstrate that free will is an option for organisms with biological urges, drives, peer and cultural pressures, environmenta...
-Well I dare to say that I understand Isaac's point. Before that I must point out that the definition proposed in this thread is a messy one. I think ...
Evaluations of knowledge and truth fail when we apply absolute standards. Science showed us that those standards are useless and disabling. "Beyond re...
-Ok this explains your absurd arguments in our discussion about morality.For a moment I thought I was not explaining things well but you are just in t...
-"Knowledge is true belief justified by true premises" -This problematic definitions states that Knowledge is a true belief someone holds based on tru...
In short, we have no data to feed in our metaphysics. You can't do Philosophy Without foundational data. You assume way to many things that you know n...
-"Now, lets move along and consider how the building blocks came into existence. " -You don't know how they came in to existence. Maybe they existed a...
-Well why is this even a question???? Is Discrimination an option? Would you want to live in a society where your sexuality defines the way you are tr...
-What do you mean "it remains open". Judging(approving or disapproving) people's behavior and its affect on other members of their society is what Mor...
-both describe the same concept. Again the problem is How do you prove that!!!!!? When it is demonstrated that there is something other than the natur...
"Murder" is a legal term. We use many terms to label the act of "killing" other humans and they depend on the situation. So your example already refer...
-? small metal plate being affected by temperature thus allowing a circuit to open or close is not what we identify as "being aware". Animals (includi...
Can you see the problem in your claim? ??u are making up concepts with an idealist quality that don't exist in nature. like a head can have many "numb...
Sure there are...are they for a long time with us? -what emotions????? Dude you also need to do your homework, its not my job to explain to you why th...
Sir...you are fooling yourself with these bad arguments and bad language mode. You can be unconscious, conscious and display many degrees of conscious...
-evidence for what? I also have evidence of your conscious states mate. You interact with me, you share your conscious and questionable ideas, you app...
-"the "Natural" is everything which manifests "through verified building blocks", -yes -"but we still need to account for the existence of these so ca...
btw our efforts to free our will from all this power noise produced by biological drives,environmental influences, peer pressure, cultural indoctrinat...
No no no no...no no no. When we deal with vague existential claims that we have zero data to contract logical evaluations, the only way is by an objec...
Your arguments appear like saying ' in order to talk about modern historical events we need to understand how our solar system was formed." Whatever t...
The actual statement was we don't choose what our biology "values" or strives. Why is this so difficult for you? Do you choose to enjoy a naked flame ...
-...for goodness sake!!! Do you even read what you write???? -"If our well-being is constituted of those aspects which we are driven to maintain then ...
You can not promote an argument from ignorance fallacy and accuse me for not understanding the nature of logic. Do you see the irony in that statement...
Well our biological setup and markers dictate the preferable state and we reason afterwards. This is a fact that makes the concept of "free will" a bi...
Well being is a state which encompasses many different elements like positive emotions, good physical health and social connections. We can list all t...
You shouldn't view my comments as black and white. People do make choices...but they don't choose what choices they have. i.e. we don't choose to have...
That is NOT an ethical question...its a given since we know we have biological drives and urges that "force'' to survive and avoid suffering. We don't...
Great example. Why do you think pharmaceuticals decide to produce pain killers but not pain inducers to by over the counter? Because we value specific...
So I am not refusing to address any criticism. The criticism you push is scientifically uninformed. We don't choose what we value or seek , especially...
-"Why ought we seek wellbeing?" -This is what you are failing to understand even if I have explained it multiple times in these 11 pages. We don't oug...
do yourself a favor and read about all the critique on the is/ought "problem" before using it in the future . Its a superficial excuse that can't much...
You are hiding behind this artifact which is irrelevant to my argument. You haven't post a single argument. You just post irrelevant links. This disti...
try to define what the preternatural is for you and try not to use an argument from ignorance (pointing to phenomena that you think they are non natur...
-Logic can never necessitate an ill defined unfalsifiable assumption about a realm. This is really simple. The supernatural is an argument from ignora...
I only accept what Aristotle understood to be important. Empirical investigation(physika/science) should always inform our metaphysics...but yes, you ...
No, we can objectively prove that both premises are based on evidence provided by science. I have explained them and I can do that again if you like. ...
We need to reevaluate the methods we use in our correction facilities because they are against the well being of the prisoners. That argument also fav...
never did....I have pointed out that I only used his name to highlight the issue of a fallacy (argument from false authority). You seem to be unable t...
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