You make complete sense and thank you. In a sense the two zeros involved - the regular (whole number) 0 and the 0 of "...the set of numbers which is b...
Now that we're already discussing the topic of free will and the OP seems to be open-ended, I'd like to raise another issue regarding free will. It ha...
I don't know how relevant this is or if it even makes sense but let's look at the free will issue from a different level in a manner of speaking. It's...
1.Start. Nothing as in no propositions have been stated 2. P stated 3. ~P stated. 4. P & ~P stated. P cancels ~P and ~P cancels P. Result = No proposi...
This is as good as it gets I suppose. The principles active therein seem inspired by reason. Come to think of it, the logic of the Catholic Church is ...
When you put it like that, it rings a bell. P, a proposition can be viewed as the denial of ~P on the basis that double negation returns the original ...
Well, I was working from the premise that what's key to the inference of god is order which, many have argued, is a sign of intelligence. The room her...
By dependable I mean to emphasize the regularity, the essence of an objectively measurable length of time which then becomes the basis of a unit of ti...
A distance of 2 miles is counted from a point which is designated as 0. This 0 is followed by a 1 mile mark and then a 2 mile mark. When you start wal...
I suppose, given that you don't mention if the separations between the things are themselves regular, I'd say that proximity to the observer can very ...
How true! I wonder what the context was? Nuclear Power? There's my answer. I share Jung's sentiment on the issue but my view on the matter is worse th...
To begin with I'm not a musician. I have a tin-ear and looking at the kinds of music that are popular these days I sometimes feel that it's a blessing...
By worship, I meant something much broader than what the word itself means - things like whether god is too human in the sense has character flaws or ...
You mean to say that the earth will not rotate on its axis or that the moon will stop revolving around the earth or that the earth will not go around ...
:up: You da man! I'm not sure if this off topic but my two cents worth is this: Since you've compared Hinduism to Christianity, I'll try and stay with...
This is not a trivial truth. It's an instance of a law of thought viz. The Law Of Identity . It's basic, I agree, but that doesn't make it trivial. In...
For starters, Camus seems to be working on a problem that's been around for a long time, the problem of meaning as pertains of life. I feel a little u...
I worded that wrongly. Do forgive the unnecessary diversion. I meant to say that as it is temporally sequenced, it is also spatially sequenced. That's...
I don't know how far this is true but my guesstimate is any language that becomes the lingua franca or that dominates other languages is purely a func...
But, it has meaning insofar as living by the truth has meaning, something that Plato seems very keen to impress upon us. Plato asks us to leave the ca...
Also prior in space. That's the point. If a particular event or phenomena can be contextualized in more than one way, there's no compulsion to think o...
I've given it my best shot. If that doesn't convince you then I don't know what will. I'll try again. By the way I'm using dates, an aspect of time yo...
I still feel that's not it but this will suffice for the moment. Thank you. :up: Another word for "human" is "man" and it shows up elsewhere too e.g. ...
More or less, yes. I'm fairly certain, by and large convinced, that inequality in any way, shape, or form is immoral. In saying this I haven't strayed...
Thanks for the tidbit about the misconception regarding the sun going "up" and "down". It'll be useful to me at some point I'm sure. However, as a poi...
I don't how much sense this makes but I'm, in a sense, deeply disturbed by how dogs can't scratch every itch they experience. They mostly use their hi...
I'm unaware of the reasoning that led up to Camus' statement, "One must imagine Sisyphus happy". Camus didn't claim that Sisyphus is happy but that we...
You speak as if you're coming at this issue from a standpoint that's not predicated, according to you, on Camus' real-illusion distinction. Then you s...
This doesn't add up. Historians were mostly men and yet histories have been written about women, perhaps queens and princesses mainly, nonetheless wom...
There's that compulsion thing going on between "omnibenvolent" and "incapable of seeing, creating, or tolerating suffering" which doesn't gibe with om...
:lol: I wonder if the whole "the universe is beautiful" deal isn't itself an accident, one that followed the accident of male-domination of aesthetics...
I'll have to make a note of that. Thanks. Correctamundo! A positive effect as far as I can tell. I like Hitchens. :smile: He seems forthright and if r...
As I said, I'm taking Plato's help only to show that, in philosophy, truth is valuable and living by it is meaningful. Camus claims, and as it turns o...
That sounds like the same thing! A distinction without a difference. I take the help of Plato only to make the case that all philosophers (makes me wa...
If god is omnipotent then nothing can compel him to act in a certain way, not even his nature and that includes his omnibenevolence. Ergo, omnibenevol...
That's probably because you can trace your line back to a King or a Queen, a Duchess, a Count. My descendants, for certain, won't be happy to see my p...
Has anyone, to your knowledge, tried to interpret the Bible as metaphorical and then discovered that the metaphors contained in the Bible correspond t...
Camus' meaninglessness is Platonic meaningfulness. If you don't see a paradox there, that in itself maybe another paradox. My bad. Plato, herein, stan...
The first mile was tough - the road was terrible, and it rained. We got our break on the second mile - the road was smooth, sunshine and fresh mountai...
I have my doubts regarding the matter of referring to the past with "before" but the fact is, at least I think it is, conventions come to be usually w...
True reality - the real McCoy - is, in and of itself, meaningful - that's what, I infer, is the message in the parable of Plato's cave. As for the mat...
Then, it should, for that reason, accommodate religion. I mean if science is all about tentative theories, and it is, these theories and the claims ba...
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