Right, and this leads to the sorts of issues I mentioned. I know what it means, the problem is that it doesn't hold up under scrutiny, as Kant and Hum...
More logical in what sense? Classical theism has at its core an apparent contradiction or conceptual muddle, between God's transcendence, and God's ca...
Right. And at least traditionally, atheism has been akin to/friendly towards materialism/realism/physicalism, whereas idealism/anti-realism has been a...
Its not that I don't know what you're saying; I don't agree. I don't see why we can't distinguish between the claim and the corresponding state of aff...
Of course its an example. My truck does have a particular weight. So there is some truth corresponding to its weight, whatever it may be. But its a tr...
Yep, exactly! That's why its a problem, and why its dishonest. Many people might not even realize you can manually input a quote into the quote functi...
I guess I fail to see what is contradictory about an unknown truth. My truck has a certain weight. I don't know what it is, but it has one. So there i...
No, only woo is woo, nor was there anything difficult to understand about your comment. That's also extremely dishonest to use the quote function to a...
I think Banno has the right of it here. What makes hinge propositions different isn't that they aren't propositional, or cannot be true or factual- it...
These are, as I suspected, highly idiosyncratic definitions, and even on your personal non-standard definitions they are different. But in this contex...
Ah, yes, meditation has secretly revealed to you that words that denote very different concepts are actually the same, because magic. :lol: Very good....
Sure they are. Either the universe is past-eternal, or it is not (i.e. it came to be "from nothing"). If the one is true the other cannot be and visa ...
This one's easy; something from nothing is more far-fetched, and it isn't especially close. There isn't even anything particularly far-fetched about a...
:100: Jan 6th is, like Russia and Ukraine, a shiny object to distract Democrats and hopefully centrist/independents from the fact that the Democrats a...
Did you read the paper, would you mind briefly summarizing the criteria for a factual belief as opposed to a religious one? (I don't mean to be lazy, ...
Um, right. That's because its not "attached to" it in a physical sense (again with the physical metaphor), charge is a property of a particle, and so ...
Um, no? Why would me requesting to know on what basis someone is claiming that Graziano "is absolutely clueless" imply that I'm looking to give a "tut...
Physicists don't use the word "charge" to talk about "mental stuff residing in physical stuff", they use the word "charge" to talk about a particular ...
Given the usual English meaning of the phrase "residing in" is certainly is a physical relation ("residing in" is equivalent to being situated, locate...
Why is the former more likely? It strikes me as equally plausible that either they accept the doctrine that one is justified by faith (and so belief i...
(I also think you're either confused about what "charge" is- charge is a physical property of physical objects/matter- or are using words in a highly ...
I've answered this twice now: If you're saying that "mental stuff" can stand in physical relations with physical stuff, then you're essentially saying...
Because "residing in" is a physical or spatial relation. How can a mental substance or entity stand in a physical or spatial relation, without itself ...
On the basis of what, specifically? Obviously experts can be and frequently are wrong, but if your impression, as a layman, of someone with a doctorat...
Hardly, even supposing that "the mental resides in the physical" (and supposing that this is even a meaningful phrase in the first place, given that "...
Yeah neurotransmitters are chemicals, they are physical, they have physical properties which are in principle quantifiable/measurable... so the compar...
No, you didn't (obviously we both know and understand the difference between "writing a story" that mentions bigotry vs. writing bigoted posts), and n...
In other words, magic, i.e. mind-of-the-gaps. Physicalism might not have worked out the precise relationship between mental phenomena and physical sta...
No, not "any" sentiment, just the racist/sexist/homophobic/etc. ones. This isn't complicated at all, just don't post hateful/prejudiced BS and you're ...
The will of the people, eh? I don't suppose you're referring to either the majority of Americans who thought the Russia investigation was fair and its...
It actually is a pretty good argument. I'm not sure where the saying "absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence" came from, but its simply incorre...
Indeed, this basically renders the rest moot. Not getting vaccinated does have negative consequences for other individuals and the community as a whol...
You say this as if "religion" is a homogeneous category that we can speak of generally (at least wrt their emphasis on factual correctness). It is... ...
Not to speak for Oliver5, but facts as discrete observations/measurements or as proven or well-established truths is a perfectly common usage of the t...
Its not solely because the view is absurd, its also because in so many of these cases we're able to trace that absurd view back to a source of misinfo...
For most forms of extreme vaccine/covid denial, this is manifestly untrue: it is impossible to believe things so absurd and so clearly and verifiably ...
That's a pretty strong indication that what you're trying to express is not coherent. TO the extent that there's anything meaningful to say here, its ...
seems like he was trying to "gotcha!" Tegmark in a self-contradiction, like asking the anti-realist wrt truth whether their anti-realism towards truth...
With the likes of Butt-chug Brett and Amy Barrett on SCOTUS (!!!) we shouldn't really be surprised by anything at this point, but... still can't help ...
Right, but the point is that that's not really how ancient Hellenic cultures thought about atheism or blasphemy: it didn't matter what people believed...
Should be noted that "atheist" used to not only denote someone who disbelieved in the gods, but also someone who said/believed blasphemous things abou...
Lol, please- hardly. A similar view, maybe, on this particular topic at least, but no one who's read both our posts can say its a "similar style" (I s...
(note to mods: hopefully you can see by my IP/location that this suggestion that I'm a banned member sock puppet is not accurate.. and nothing against...
you'll have to forgive me for being somewhat incredulous that you haven't gotten bored, if nothing else, of posting the same shtick over and over for ...
Its not actually that simple- again, its probably impossible for a fundamental physical theory to be totally bereft of metaphysics- and whether or not...
What fundamental physical theory isn't, on some definition, "metaphysics"? Is QFT not "metaphysics" in a similar sense? GR? What would such a theory h...
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