Seppo

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Yes/For/For, of course

I've criticized you for the (frankly rather ridiculous) things you've said. Not for any items of personal trivia. And as a self-admitted crackpot (poi...

(I'm definitely guilty of conflating logical positivism with verificationism, partially because Ayer was the one I was most familiar with... though ob...

Oh yeah, this is definitely the case. Physics is.. sort of broken right now (cosmology and particle physics at any rate), but that's not a story that ...

I don't really have any objection to any of this. I actually think its a really good point that we should be suspicious of proposals that appeal to ou...

Isn't it pretty widely agreed that falsificationism is, at best, far too simplistic if not outright wrong? Sort of ironic that many scientists and non...

I'd suggest, again, that this was merely a symptom of the more fundamental failure: observational verification is not a descriptively adequate account...

Sure, that's perfectly fair. I'm mostly just stating what is the conventional wisdom, and I'm aware that the hope in QG allowing us to peek behind the...

in which they had at least some part sowing the seeds

I'd suggest that it wasn't so much a lack of an ethical theory, as the fact that the ethical theory was built on the same faulty foundation the rest o...

:strong: :up: :ok: Good call on Nietzsche, too (he was definitely ahead of the game in his suspicion of any supposed unity/transparency/etc of conscio...

A huge part of it was that it was just empirically inadequate as a theory of meaning; see Wittgenstein's PI for a good antidote to the LP's view of li...

Because that's where our theories cease to be good descriptions of physical reality. As we rewind the clock backwards and the universe gets smaller an...

Wayfarer/Jeeprs has been posting the same handful of quotes, posting the same silly strawmen and deliberate misrepresentations for years. Like, litera...

in the case of Craig, I think its quite clearly deliberate, not a good faith misunderstanding. He goes to great lengths to misconstrue contemporary sc...

Yeah I think its safe to say that Christianity very routinely fails to deliver on its promise of facilitating good behavior or happy living (its been ...

yeah he's written quite a few fantastic responses to various parts of the causal/cosmological argument, and in particular he had one of the best argum...

And it continues to this day; William Lane Craig is a particularly egregious case, he continues to deliberately misrepresent contemporary cosmology as...

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Sure; dark energy. But that's about all we know, its called "dark" mostly because we have no idea what it really is or how it works :razz:

the prevalence of the misconception also probably has something to do with the rather aggressive propaganda campaign on the part of theists/Christiani...

I mean, sometimes you just can't help but remark or observe when someone is being evasive or dogmatic. It might not be polite (though it may well be a...

Its an extremely common misconception/error, and one that science educators/communicators and popular science journalism is constantly propagating. Lo...

Plato agreed. In the Parmenides, he disavows the idea that there are Forms for low or gross things (I forget the specifics examples, but iirc "dirt" o...

Its not about the "creation" of space. Its about the expansion of space. The BBT, at least the parts that are well-corroborated and widely-accepted, d...

No bother. It would be a fact... when its true. So probably the more central question you're driving at is: what does it take for something to be true...

But again this is just a matter of definition- facts are not only always truth-apt, they're always true. We might ask when or how, say, utterances are...

I don't know about "wisdom", sort of a slippery and subjective term, but there's certainly more truth in the basic tenets of Buddhism (i.e. the Four N...

But for Plato, this isn't exhaustive, he routinely distinguished between: - the object in which a property is instantiated (the apple, the yield sign)...

There's probably some terminological schemas where facts are defined as contingent, experiential (a posteriori) truths (and so, for instance, truths o...

Its definitionally true. A fact just is something that is true. Asking how we know facts are true is like asking how we know that bachelors are unmarr...

Is there a more widely misused term on the internet than "ad hominem"? If there is, I'd like to know what it is. People cry "ad hominem" any time a pe...

How about the Oppy one on infinity?

Maybe. Probably. Still interesting, and its not like you have any clue either way, so why pretend?

now you're comparing yourself to Roger Penrose? :lol: maximum crackpot level achieved!

How was that? Penrose is a treasure, and his CCC is super interesting. Guy is just a machine (90 years old now!!!)

:lol: ok bud

Its a simple question. But you're evidently not prepared to have a meaningful discussion on this topic, so I'll stop wasting my time.

So... yes? Or no?

nobody said that the fact that theists can doubt and remain theists "makes the formal concept of theist untenable".

give him one thing, you can't say he's not consistent. He's been doing this same exact shtick for years now. Its just incredible that he hasn't gotten...

Do you see that the phrase "doubting theist" includes the word "theist", or not? Simple yes or no will do.

I said theists can doubt.

Exactly. Nothing about one's level of commitment, certitude, or open-mindedness; theism is belief in the existence of God. And belief can admit of dif...

I'm saying it is relevant, and gave an argument why; different forms of theism warrant different responses. If you can't rebut the argument, or provid...

Yes, whether a doubting theist is a theist or not is definitely freshman level logic: this is a logical truism, a tautology. Replace "theist" with any...

Christianity is one form of theism. If we're talking about theism, its obviously perfectly fair to talk about specific examples of types of theism. Th...

I'm not the only saying "some kinds of theists aren't theists". This is an explicit self-contradiction, you say they are a theist while also denying t...

And I never said anything about "every religion in the world". We're talking about theism. And theism is an umbrella term for a wide variety of views ...