TheMadFool

I completely forgot about atheistic religions the only one of which I'm somewhat familiar with being Buddhism. The Buddha's refusal to discuss god is ...

I don't see a/the connection between alphabets and logic. For instance, there's nothing logical about "h" or "o". How are we going to proceed from the...

Indeed, you're correct in pointing out the rather narrow Abrahmic triad version of God I seem to have written about. It appears that some folks have a...

My two cents worth... The need for god can be, in my humble opinion, inferred from how we've defined faer - as all-good, all-powerful, all-knowing. In...

What about the ratio between A (surface area of the cylinder) and V (the volume of the cylinder)? A = 2 * pi * r * h V = pi * r^2 * h A / V = 2 / r ??...

Well, even the great Einstein, possesed of such a powerful intellect, seems to have missed a spot. To be fair his idea of god seems Spinozist which wo...

My point is somewhat along the lines Descartes' deus deceptor idea which I believe has modern incarnations mutatis mutandis or so I'm led to believe. ...

Well, how about this then. Imagine two tables X and Y. At table X is a person who has complete information of the initial states of dice, the force fa...

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Thank you. Have a g'day.

Then what were you talking about?

That's an intriguing twist in the plot but I think robotic hands can also manage "random" dice rolls...I'm not sure though.

:ok: :up: By the way, what's "normal programming"? Do you have one yourself? And also, you haven't gotten round to pointing out the error, if there's ...

Get to the point if you don't mind me saying. Either tell me where I'm wrong or stop wasting your time. :smile:

Sorry timwood because right now I feel like a drunk driver being asked to conduct a sobriety test on himself.

I expect @"Harry Hindu" to chime in right about here and endorse the great Albert Einstein's take on probability as simple a manifestation of (our) ig...

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What is your opinion of a person who takes this idea, if I may call it that, and flips it on its head and is interested in obtaining nothing for somet...

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I don't think time is cyclical and it doesn't have to be for eternal recurrence to be true. All that's required is for matter to, well, recycle and ti...

What's the alternative? Anything goes? So, for instance, a dog could be defined in terms of non-essential features like fur, claws, ears, eyes, tail, ...

The Bioshock paradox. 1. It would be shocking if life existed only on Earth 2. It would also be shocking to find life somewhere other than Earth

I know the feminist "awakening" that has taken place over time has been lamenting the conspicuous absence of women in the scientific, philosophical an...

My only response is to remind you that morality is, at its heart, a plea, a desire, a hope in re how the world should be and not the way it is. That b...

:up: :ok: Initially I was wondering whether Possibility's daughter's ability to identify dogs had something to do with innate knowledge but the matter...

Interesting question. To my knowledge, how elections are conducted - with debates featuring prominently (toward the end?) - gives us the impression th...

To all That there are different definitions of truth (correspondence, paragmatic, coherent, etc.) is suggestive...hints at some degree of arbitrarines...

I think your take on the matter has some merit but it breaks down on closer scrutiny. Your daughter being able to identify dogs (knowing dogs) without...

It's possible all these alleged transgressions you mention fall on my blindspot but I seem to have failed to notice them. However, as they say, no smo...

I would like to add that any theory other than the correspondence theory of truth could, in principle, contradict reality.

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The Problem Of The Criterion: 1. To have a definition of truth we must know what truth is 2. To know what truth is we must have a definition of truth ...

Indeed, the general justification for sentience seems rather poorly constructed, assuming that one even exists and that, for better or worse, seems to...

There's another way to approach this puzzle. Whatever a Gabriel's horn is, it can be approximated as a cylinder. Volume V of a cylinder = pi * r^2 * h...

Thanks for starting a thread with I question that I had asked. Anyway, to cut to the chase, what's got me confused is how the convergence of ideas whi...

Ziploc bags. An object with a given surface area can be collapsed and that can reduce the volume without affecting the surface are...if you do it just...

My point exactly. This doesn't jibe with what you said above. There are probably an uncountable number of times when people have been taken for a ride...

I'm not an advocate of free speech as it's understood - the liberty to say whatever you want, to whomsoever you want, wherever and whenever you want. ...

Thanks for the interesting link. Much appreciated. All I'd like to say is that the Vatican department in charge of investigating miracles might be doi...

I came across that video too but all these historical records of the collapse of civilizations have one thing in common viz. there was always a tehcno...

I suppose you're right but what if the relaxed criteria for the capacity to give consent, i.e. not having to be as rational as philosophical standards...

An interesting point of view but the way I see it, the world's technology is known to only a small segment of humanity, there maybe, at the most, only...

Just wondering if there's a reset button for the earth and even for the universe itself. K-Pg extinction event?

To All One word, Atlantis. Ring any bells?

I'm not sure about this but I have a feeling that, contrary to what the law assumes, many, most, people are incapable of giving their consent and the ...

I'll give it my best shot. Here goes... It appears to me that, in terms of temporal sequence, a certain aspect of nature has to acquire some kind of s...

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There are 10,386 things about love but I can't tell you what they are because I'm, at the present moment, lovesick and, for the life of me, I can't se...

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Is this just another way of inquiring into the so-called is/ought gap? The truth is, to my reckoning, if there's a god and assuming fae is all-good, i...