Well, in a loose sense, he's making generalizations from observations, and so he is an empiricist. His arguments regarding causality are sort of diffe...
Yeah, it was Dembski's arguments, in particular, that had be starting off with talking about complexity. But I'm willing to see where the thoughts go....
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-anti-realism/#Sub In reading the above entry, I came across an interesting section which details problems wit...
@"PossibleAaran" -- I suppose I'd first ask, what is it about perceiving the paper that makes you believe you know, in the same sense that you're aski...
Sure. I allowed for that possibility. I didn't explicitly say that the premise had to be denied, but that's what I meant by "skipping over or written ...
Hrmm, that's not how I understand it at all. Substance or property dualism would be an explanation for the hard problem, not a problem for the hard pr...
I think that were a materialist to say that then they'd be sort of skipping over the hard problem, or perhaps have written it off as a pseudo-problem....
So I think my main objection is with premise 2. But I hope to say a little bit about why I think disagreement on ID is strongly divided first by respo...
Cool. The tree example was meant to get at the whole nature/artifice distinction as well. This is nice and straightforward. I'll have to think a bit b...
I didn't ask a question, only answered yours. But I'll try to posit a direct question here to keep the ball rolling. It seems to me that what needs be...
Granted I am risking going into tautological territory. I'm hoping that by reference to particulars, like a chair, the gist comes across without merel...
Cool. Examples are nice. In some sense if one believes in an intelligent designer to the universe it would seem to me that even the eddies in the sand...
Seems interesting to me that you don't use life, but physical reality, as the gawking point. I think the sense of awe one feels when looking at the co...
Eh. While I agree there's more to curing depression than anti-depressants, I don't think this is right either. Anti-depressants work for some people. ...
And we mere students were simply waiting by the pond for the master to appear from his work to enlighten us, and help us over the great hurdle of obse...
That doesn't answer my question. I quite agree with the idea that people hold onto beliefs in spite of evidence. I think it is well demonstrated. I ag...
The paper you're citing defines belief pretty early on, and it doesn't really match how you're defining belief, i.e. by reference to a single definiti...
Seems an odd start because most defenders of intrinsic value are usually against pleasure. :D Not to say I am one of them.... Though I think it does d...
I feel like this statement gets closer to disagreements we've had on incommensurability before. (I'm sorry to Streetlight for going astray of the thre...
I think that's just a matter of names after the fact. How do you answer the questions you pose? I'd say a piece-meal approach to the questions is bett...
Cool. My familiarity with Cicero is primarily through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_finibus_bonorum_et_malorum bc. of its polemic of Epicureans of ...
Ahhh OK. Cool, I had it backwards in my head then. I wouldn't speak against eclecticism, per se at least. I'm more just trying to get at that while ca...
I wouldn't be so quick to cut out other possibilities. What did "existentialism" mean in medieval philosophy, after all? These are only categories to ...
I suppose I'm a bit of a relativist in these matters. I would say 1) The Mind is not the same as The Social, and 2) Mathematical concepts and truths o...
There are eminent persons the world over who cite philosophers as the basis for their action, but I wouldn't say that this then entails that the emine...
Honestly, I don't think Popper can be taken seriously after Feyerabend. Not that you have to go "all the way" with Feyerabend, but his work can be rea...
I always feel two conflicting feelings with the word "Democracy" There is the use of "Democracy" to indicate features of current institutions which la...
That is a good question.... I think it's something to do with how we tend to think about things. I certainly think about the world as something "outsi...
I'm going to try something here that might be a divergence, and it might help to bridge our understandings too. It's long-ish. Sorry. Consider it a pl...
There are two characteristics about of social entities which are, at first blush, seemingly difficult to resolve. One is that social entities are real...
Cool. I think that lays out the disagreement/confusion very cleanly. I'm about to head off to work now, just fyi. That gives me something to think abo...
The picture I provided was a river driven by motors within a concrete bed made for the purpose of luxury. No less a river -- at least in the Eurocentr...
That's exactly the sort of thing I'm hoping to avoid -- mostly because I don't see the issue as settle-able. We'd then just end up discussing realism,...
I am not so certain on language. The river is called the Nile. If we called it the Umbongo, then it would be called the Umbongo. However I'd say the f...
Ah, sorry. I'm expressing where I feel confusion. And trying to show, at least, that we could avoid a lot of these sort of big questions. I don't -- r...
Which story? I'm not following what you mean by that. I'd also say I'd much rather avoid importing Hume's definition of anything. Like, I think it mak...
Some rivers could be social constructions... http://www.destinwest.com/files/1273/pGal10.jpg But I don't think it makes sense to say all rivers are so...
I just came across this story this morning. I leave it here as an illustrative example of what I'm trying to get at when it comes to social constructi...
Sure, I can go with that. I don't think the belief that blacks ought to be treated as whites was widespread prior to the civil rights movement. And I ...
My point wasn't that things should happen more quickly, but that belief -- and in the particular case of Searle we-intentions which designate status -...
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