Then make that argument. Because so far as we've been given no explicit reason why it should be relevant. Nominalist or Platonist (or neither/non-comm...
Um... Anyone who understands how the physical phenomenon of lightning works? If we are taking theism seriously as proposing a substantive existence cl...
has anyone characterized e.g. Hamas militants as the victims? Anyone?? Or, rather, have they characterized the countless non-combatants who had their ...
No, or at any rate I can't think of any reason why it should. It is the fact of these causal interactions that entails (in principle observable) evide...
Its unfortunate how frequently spurious/arbitrary accusations of anti-Semitism are used as an excuse to wave away legitimate criticisms of the Israeli...
No, but nevertheless, theism almost universally affirms that God stands in various causal relations with the physical world (most especially creation)...
This strikes me as completely disingenuous. We're not talking about the killing of non-military guerilla fighters who qualify as civilians under some ...
I'd have them stop committing human rights violations, for one thing. Reverse/repeal nakedly apartheid/discriminatory policies. Shouldn't be too much ...
You've claimed that murdered civilians have "earned" what they got. And you're somehow expecting people to treat this as a serious philosophical posit...
No, there is empirical content to theism; God stands in various causal relations with the physical world, having created it and periodically interveni...
The suggestion that Palestinian civilians have "earned many times over" their treatment at the hands of the Israeli security/military forces, treatmen...
It makes no difference in this context; either way, God's existence is what is in question, and so talking of "judging a being", as if there is a bein...
Wasn't that Popper? If a proposition or theory doesn't exclude anything- if it has no conditions under which it can be falsified- then it is, in a cer...
which is why its ludicrous when people claim that God is somehow a superior explanation, or is the best or only explanation for something... God isn't...
In one ear and out the other. Materialism =/= physicalism. You don't know and haven't met anyone who is a materialist, in the sense in which Banno and...
The point is, from the fact that we currently lack an answer, it doesn't follow that there is no such answer. For the theistic explanation to follow, ...
Materialism (in the sense Banno is clearly using the term) and physicalism are not the same thing. Materialism is/was the position that everything is ...
I'd say you rather missed the point here, the inflaton comment was a joke meant to make the point that, as I said, "Its just a bad idea in general to ...
This is just a naked/textbook argument from ignorance. From the fact that we do not presently have a non-theistic explanation for some X, it does not ...
cosmologists seem to be more or less in agreement that the Big Bang "singularity" is merely an artifact of general relativity breaking down when gravi...
I've already pointed out the differences between the two cases. But sure, there are similarities between local atheism wrt some specific god and disbe...
Neither relativistic time dilation nor planck-scale uncertainty invalidates our authoritative knowledge of today's date (let alone any of the many oth...
I'm certainly not making any such claim or implication. Language can only exist and have meaning in relation to the empirical world and social/linguis...
I think the word "authoritatively" is doing a lot of work there. The only way this even remotely follows is if we're supposing that one can only know ...
Right, you're not. Or, at best, that would be a highly unusual and awkward way of speaking, bordering on self-contradiction. And in any case this is a...
We cannot know Moorean/hinge propositions. In order to be known, something must be both true and justified. So, our inability to know hinge propositio...
On this we agree. But their special standing isn't due to anything intrinsic to the propositions themselves, but rather due to the role they play: hin...
Or on these propositions ability to be justified. Knowledge entails not only truth, but justification, and it is our ability to justify hinge proposit...
I hate to be the one to hand-wring over definitions, but I don't think I understand what you mean when you use the word "proposition" (and that is, pe...
I'm not sure why that should follow. We judge things best as we can, in light of our limitations. What else could we do? And in any case, the atheist ...
So when Hume says "The words "necessary existence" have no meaning" (after arguing extensively to that effect), your interpretation is that he meant t...
:up: Well said. I find Sam's position here sort of perplexing. The boulder has a weight, regardless of whether we know what it is or not. So one of th...
Oh dear. Yes, both of them explicitly repudiated the concept. Hume could hardly have been more specific:: (italics mine for emphasis) I mean honestly,...
I'm not sure if I understand you correctly, but I don't see any obvious relation; the problem with God's "necessary existence" isn't that it leads to ...
They are most explicitly not in agreement with what you're saying: they both explicitly repudiate the concept of necessary existence, which you mistak...
Still just hand-waving. If the concepts are clear, then answer the questions I posed. You keep repeating this, as if this is what is in dispute here. ...
Right, the point was that the general conceptual tension manifests in various ways. Transcendence/interaction was one. Temporality and causality anoth...
Also the one about temporality. So you ignored one, and hand-waved away the other. Better luck next time, I guess? Lol, exactly. Of course, given some...
Yep, I sure did. Sure it is. Necessary existence is, by definition, conditioned; given something, something else exists necessarily. Talk of unconditi...
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