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Let's have your argument supporting the sameness of a) questioning God's existence and b) judging claims about God's attributes. I ask this question b...

Do you know the sign God has no referent, or do you theorize the sign God has no referent? Inertial reference frames of relativity assert the lack of ...

George - "Lord Alfred, the big wheel developer, intends to have the abandoned mill property razed to the ground. This in spite of public opposition." ...

Well said, ZzzoneiroCosm You call it self-love part 1. I call it self-esteem. I will say this, however; I see your list of reflexive actions as prep w...

You argument holds good up until the start of the 20th century and the arrival of QM. I resort to the empirical extremis, which greatly weakens my arg...

There's some incoherence between your first sentence and your second sentence. The first sentence presents strong atheism, an extreme epistemological ...

You imply that a proposition can be analyzed & judged apart from its referent within the empirical world. You therefore imply that language has existe...

Do you advocate for social justice through personal empowerment? Do you believe it's achieved through universal access to personal development in the ...

180 Proof & Seppo make useful points here. They are succinct & clarifying examples of compare & contrast pertaining to theism/atheism. Seppo, Regardin...

Do you think I'm a theist? If so, why? I've been examining some details of atheism. Does my exam imply pro-Theism? If so, please cite examples. I thin...

Your response is logical & clear. I think I understand you. Here goes: You're saying that a necessary being must have an antecedent condition in virtu...

Is there any similarity between the fallacious conceptualization you describe in the above quote and the problem that Georg Cantor ( considered the fo...

Atheism's link to solipsism & monism, as presented in my argument, is simple. To deny omniscience authoritatively means to be omniscience. By common s...

01-25-22 Atheism & Solipsism – Final My work entails establishing a connection between atheism & solipsism, plus their two modes: monism & idealism. M...

Hello fellow traveler, Agent Smith. Looks like we're on the same page re: the atheism_solipsism connection. universeness re: Agent Smith's above quote...

Bravo, Ciceronianus! When it comes to interpretation of this scene, your arguments are top flight. I now see it's the dilemma that foils Mary Kane's a...

Great poem. Big chunk of my life in a nutshell. My parents made some colossal goofs raising me, but I love 'em anyway.

I'm inclined to think self-esteem is the foundation out of which pride arises. Individuals afflicted with low self-esteem are not often perceived as b...

Excellent exam! Shrewd and instructive explanation. Members of both camps can make good use of this. With your statement about theism, you make it cle...

You have shown me how my exam of Mary Kane is flawed, perhaps seriously. I do, however, maintain doubt as to the soundness of her judgment in handing ...

What do we actually see in the movie? The boy is happy in childhood. In my view, his frolics in the snow don't bespeak the onslaughts of a pedophillic...

One of my incidental goals is the honing down of our emotive umbrella word. Love, love, love. What is this immersive experience that's pulling me out ...

Family doesn't appear to me as a zero-sum game. My speculation is that parents don't break even in the bargain, especially not mothers. A woman marrie...

I should perhaps accept resounding defeat and keep silent, but I'm too self-important to shut up just now. God has a weakness. God doesn't want to be ...

Thanks, jamalrob

I'm trying to learn how to PM my short story submission to Baden. Do I go to Baden's profile and click on "Send Message"? Do I need to include my name...

For our discussion, I can use organics in place of mechanics. In either case, I'm referring to organized movement of interlocking parts. With the form...

You present a powerful argument. I must proceed carefully, lest I mis-communicate. I think I'm seeing a rigorous avoidance of theism on your part. Ins...

If, as I believe, you're making mind & matter coequals, you're expressing, in your own words, something closely akin to the main thrust of my argument...

Is it correct to say you believe the material universe arises from a priori cognitive design? Do you, like me, understand that such a configuration as...

Your language foregrounds ratiocination to a derived conclusion, whereas my language foregrounds an involuntary response, something like a chemical re...

Your enquiry is spotlighting issues that raise questions that impel us toward intriguing considerations of subtle distinctions between ways of existin...

Does the pencil as writing instrument have at least one existential attribute in common with the pencil as rocket?

Question -- Since your example sentence provides (1) subject (pencil), (1) complement (rocket) and (1) verb (to be), when you write am I failing to un...

I'm not denying Sartre's claim that existence precedes essence. Instead, I'm situating it within a larger complex than the one he assumes. Viewing our...

Regarding experience -- I think one functional picture of experience is that we persist in time as a kind of macro-sized distribution across said time...

Is my OP (Operating Premise?) nonsensical within the context of Three-valued logic? Perhaps you've done me a service by enlightening some of my ignora...

Are you telling me logicians have no conceptual bone to pick with paradoxicality or, if you prefer, undecidability?* Are you also telling me the PNC i...

Your comments here are packed with astute observations. I'm drawn to the notion that physics boils down to manipulated information, however, our so-ca...

This is the gist of my argument. Boiled down to its core -- the lotus blossom in my garden -- it asserts that perception and its referent (an event th...

Yeah. It should be understood that Locke's Tabula Rasa comes with a limitations and conditions clause.

I like to believe my opinion is based upon some observed phenomena established by repeated experimental observations performed by various researchers ...

Hello T Clark, Big thank-you for your energetic & detailed response. Yeah. My approach to science (unfortunately) is through the lens of philosophy, w...

Shout out to Xtrix for starting this expansive thread. Your detailed consideration of being gives me much to think about in the coming days. Looks lik...

Great question, Banno. My tentative response has me taking recourse to that rascal, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. I'm supposing that when we claim something ...

Some additional thoughts, To abstract and to generalize are closely related. To abstract means to take the general form of something out of its local ...

Hello T Clark, Thanks for the welcome to TPF and, also, thanks for taking the time to respond to my post. I sense that your distinction between abstra...