No, you didn't understand my point but the fault is entirely mine. Sorry. The idea in the claim that most women are good is that if given a sample of ...
This view agrees with "many ancient beliefs" of time being cyclical in nature - solves the twin problems of: 1. a beginning being impossible 2. Infini...
If I say most Germans are good people does it mean that if I meet a German I should immediately conclude that s/he is good? No. Similarly, if I were t...
I may have misspoken in my previous reply. It seems, if people are like me in relevant terms, that self-love maybe the wrong way to describe this. It'...
Perhaps, there is nothing there that can be known which regrettably leaves us, according to you, in a perpetual state of "guilt". Isn't that the whole...
I agree with what you said but I'm questioning the very idea of a beginning. It's nonsensical to talk of a beginning at all in a sequence (time is a s...
Just as the albino crow proves crows can be white, an evil woman evidences women can be bad. If there's a statistical claim in this thread it's that w...
It is nonsensical to say that time began AND then ask what came before but the problem with this is that the very idea of a beginning is incoherent be...
Why is it "nonsensical" to ask of time before the Big Bang? What is particularly "nonsensical" about it? Does it lead to a contradiction? How? Where? ...
Are you suggesting that that everyone's life-goal should be the same is implicit in our belief that we should treat everyone the same and that failing...
I wouldn't say that the arrow paradox is something philosophers are making a mountain out of a molehill of. If Zeno is right, motion would be impossib...
That I remain within the bounds of reason to the extent that I wield it well; that I don't confuse what I can imagine with what is real; that I don't ...
This touches a chord - I count myself among those who've lost their faith in humankind. Nevertheless, faith, by definition, is irrational and therein ...
Materialism has many things going in its favor. I especially like Sam Harris' argument about how materialism is supported by current neuroscience. Inj...
Indeed, it does seem an optimistic point of view, this "religion" of progress but can we deny that progress has been made and not feel one has lied in...
If we look at it from the point of belief-centered mental illnesses I'd refer you to the most common psychological failure I'm accused of - the delusi...
I don't know why some posters are under the impression that idealism is completely bogus because the very idea that it is is a mind-state. Plus, we al...
Perhaps if we view the human project as a relay race rather than an individual race, it'll make more sense. There's the finish line - end of all suffe...
Why? Haven't I proved that it's possible for women and power to be as lethal a cocktail as men and power? If so, then an argument in favor of women-do...
Well, I've been spewing, what seems now as, half-baked ideas about human purpose. I was under the impression, not without cause, that each and everyon...
The idea of an economic collapse puzzles me a lot. I hear a lot of how Capitalism, doing nothing more than glorifying wealth, single-handedly led to t...
Hobbes, The State of Nature, And Locked Doors Perhaps it's not that we fail to anticipate tragedy; maybe it's just that the tragedy that befalls us is...
Guilty as charged. I was simpl(isticall)y looking for the paradigmatic case of the fairer sex failing spectacularly and in the process revealing how w...
There's music and there are words; when these two come together, we get singing. Music is there to evoke emotions and words there to convey a message....
I thought feminism was about leveling the playing field with men and not turning the tables on them. :gasp: :chin: A very fine reason for accepting fe...
Thanks for bringing the spatial aspect of the paradox to my notice. I thought of it briefly and here's what I made of it. Imagine a person, A, poised ...
Well, considering that philosophical problems are problems precisely because of poor logic, don't you think you're holding the wrong end of the stick?...
How true. The camera, in the hands of the honest, is the perfect witness, ready to record any miraculous event as and when they occur, and yet, as we'...
Well, I agree that all laws suffer from the same problem that all inductive generalizations do viz. they all lack logical necessity but this doesn't v...
Observable. Focus on the essential. Logic & math are also found elsewhere but the empirical is an exclusively scientific feature. I only offered my pe...
I think the notion of god as a creator and the fact that gods began as beings who controlled nature says it all - god(s) were explanations of natural ...
I'm inclined to agree with you but I haven't quite figured out where exactly the problem lies - is it with the subject (philosophical questions) or th...
I see no difference between our senses and detector instruments except perhaps in the sense that the former shares a direct connection to the brain. T...
Physical laws are as much physical as the objects they obey them for the simple reason that they're perceivable or observable. Science is empirical. I...
Indeed, if we look at this in the framework of the supernatural vs the natural, the need for eyewitnesses, those who were there, is a more pressing co...
:sad: Why do you say Wittgenstein was wrong? :sad: What if, just what if, he is right? The current version of creationism draws on real scientific dis...
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