Well, no, not exactly; doubt is a propositional attitude, and being the object of propositional attitudes is part of how a proposition is typically de...
Another awesome band. My aesthetics professor in Montreal actually played in a band with some of the Godspeed members. Weird guy, but a good philosoph...
Also the older creeds and poems/hymns Paul occasionally mentions, as these represent probably the earliest Christian traditions that survive (quite po...
Nope. Being critical isn't being reactionary, nor is distinguishing between speculation and empirically-established proposals. And if anything, its yo...
No, being justifiable, dubitable, or capable of being know are not part of the standard definition of a proposition. A proposition, in contemporary ph...
But there is difference here between Jewish receptivity to the message of Jesus of Nazareth vs. Jewish receptivity to the Christian message. As alread...
Yeah I find this all perplexing, it seems pretty straightforward to me: Moore doesn't know whether "here is a hand", not because "here is a hand" is n...
No, the argument is that if its a proposition, then it must have a truth-value, because that just is what a proposition is (i.e. the sort of thing tha...
Yes, absolutely, that's one of the most interesting parts about contemporary cosmology (imo at least); eternal inflation, conformal cyclical cosmology...
Well, most obviously, because hinge propositions are propositions. Propositions are the sorts of things that have a truth value. A proposition without...
Well sure, I never meant to imply otherwise- there's exceptions to just about everything, after all. So obviously there were Jewish converts (Paul him...
I've already pointed out that the attribution of intentionality or purpose to the universe is not supported by any established empirical results or mo...
Right, and I'm pointing out that he probably didn't (these were later theological inventions, which not present in the earlier Gospel accounts)- I was...
There's no indication Jesus planned to establish a new religion (or saw himself as "the son of God"- this was probably a later theological development...
This isn't "being honest" so much as its being willfully ignorant. The mapping of gender roles onto the biological sexes (which is itself nowhere near...
this is sort of the key part of the article- Jesus was a peasant from a tiny village in the backwaters of Roman Judea. He probably spent the "lost yea...
Roman aristocrats tended to have a pretty dim view of anyone who worked for a living (rather than living off the profits from their estates) so I doub...
Right, and as already noted its completely speculative and baseless, and the fine-tuning argument in particular rests on a claim about probability tha...
No, not really. The anthropic principle, at least in the form that is respectable/generally accepted, is basically just a tautology, stating the selec...
In other words, you're completely disregarding Banno's explanation of the context from which the quote was taken, and how it differs from the one in w...
No, not really. The anthropic principle merely tells us that there is a selection effect on any observations we can make, in virtue of the fact that w...
Wayfarer is good at complaining about "materialism" and parroting the same handful of quotes over and over. Actually arguing anything, otoh... that's ...
And as you'll notice from the article, teleology in biology remains controversial, and even its proponents are quite explicit that they're talking abo...
The precise definition of physicalism is, of course, a matter of controversy, and there are issues involving circularity, Hempel's dilemma, and so on....
The current thinking is as I stated, that we have no idea whether they can take on any values other than what they are, because we've only ever observ...
One of the main problems with the fine-tuning argument is that it has not, and probably cannot, establish this central claim about probability. The no...
:roll: If you prefer to argue with strawmen rather than the people actually participating in the discussion, why are you wasting everyone's time- sure...
This is still just a silly strawman. Israel is at fault for human rights abuses (!!!) they have committed and continue to commit. Not for merely exist...
When people criticize Israel's actions towards Palestine/Palestinian (as many are doing here) they are typically criticizing Israel as a political/mil...
This is a strawman, one I've explicitly denied a couple of times, and a good example of the sort of silly inanity I noted already. This sort of nonsen...
Is this just "I know you are but what am I", or do you actually want to make a claim or argument here? Yes, the rejection of an empty position/pseudo-...
I already said that we can only evaluate theism as a substantive factual claim if it has some concrete truth-conditions and excludes rival hypotheses....
My reading comprehension is just fine, thanks. Your writing and communication skills, evidently, are not up to par. I can only respond to what you've ...
No, it doesn't require impossibility, only falsity. Atheism is the position that theism is false, not necessarily the position that it (or any of its ...
Exactly. If you steal someone's house and murder their family, you don't get to plead self-defense or whine about your "legitimate interests" when the...
Pot, meet kettle. You as well. Not really appropriate to demand serious philosophical replies when all you've posted is silly inanity and disingenuous...
I'm not sure the matter is sufficiently well-defined to answer the question definitively. It doesn't appear to be logically impossible (it doesn't app...
trying to save face, eh? :lol: or is it that you want people to know that your abuse/mis-use of the term wasn't done out of ignorance, but out of a de...
I'm doing fine, you need to worry about yourself; I'm not the one attempting to justify/hand-wave away human rights violations and apartheid and tryin...
Well, no, not if that has been explicitly denied, as it is with most theistic traditions. And the incoherence of a non-physical entity causing physica...
You're the one mis-using the term, not me (and so we can probably safely pass on a lecture about what anti-Semitism is, from the person who has demons...
Exactly. This bothsidesism bullshit is just plain delusional/in denial of the facts. Israel is using one of the most advanced and well-equipped/well-f...
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