TheMadFool

That's a very good observation but "unlike horses", human dietary deficiencies are well-documented in medicine. You might want to rethink that stateme...

I'm not against religion per se; I'm against the church. I'm not against eating meat; I just don't like the slaughterhouses.

Well, what is the meat industry actually? Organizations fueled by people who're excersing their right to eat meat, isn't it? What is the church but an...

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Just as running from the tiger is "interesting", so is sitting in the house, if your life is on the line.

I wonder what could be more interesting than not dying? :chin: :mask:

The first quote is true to the extent the second quote is false and vice versa. If one is in search of truth or, what philosophers love, wisdom, then ...

I see. Two things that make sense in my life - destiny & death.

I find the whole notion of separation of church and state to be an oxymoron. If the freedom to practice religion is a fundamental right, doesn't that ...

Really? The winner isn't awarded first prize?

Well, I'd say that an object reflects light according to its own physics and there definitely exists differences in the frequencies of light bouncing ...

I thought Gilgamesh was about the quest for immortality. Is it a tragedy? If the video I saw of the epic is accurate, the hero, Gilgamesh, is in searc...

To begin with, I agree that "something" is meant in the generic sense and not in the particular. Nevertheless, the particulars constitute the class of...

I maybe totally off the mark here but, to me, power, in keeping with the spirit of your post, is basically the ability to initiate a causal chain and ...

Wouldn't you agree that a house that could be demolished was never a good house to begin with? Wouldn't you agree then, that in destroying a weak, erg...

Being on the low end of the love spectrum, herein meant as desirability I know how tough it is to find love; all these fairy tales about "true" love, ...

Well, look at it from a parent's eyes; after all, good is projected as a fatherly figure. Being a normal parent, for better or for worse, comes with t...

What do you mean here by triviality? Does a theory become trivial if, with it, one can prove any and all propositions? What if every proposition is tr...

Ok but is science devoid of all religious content? Does religion have absolutely no connection to science? If you ask me, science is simply a material...

Thanks for the history lesson. It seems that if anything negative can be said about the situation then it's that science is a cop-out with scientists ...

I did mention the materialistic turn philosophy is supposed to be undergoing; that being the case, it seems almost inevitable that religion will be si...

Yes, this (treating nothing as something) appears to be a problem for my argument. However, I refer you to the way definitions work: as far as I can t...

Well, if nothing must have something to do with existence then it would have to be in a sense beyond logic for the concept itself is logically problem...

I recall hearing that, there's a difference between not dying and living and in the spirit of this sentence, the priority now is not living but not dy...

There is reality, then the way this reality is perceived, then there are words aimed at expressing that which is perceived. Words are truthful or not ...

Well, if you go by who gets the attention, atheist scientists and scientifically quasi-literate religious bigwigs, then we get the impression that the...

The principle of sufficient reason (PSR) is similar in structure to the statement, all swans are white. If you wish to disprove the claim all swans ar...

Yes, I did mention this "difficulty" or perhaps better described as an embarrassment, in my OP and in my later posts. However there is a sense in whic...

Well, I would prefer it stay natural and also using negative numbers complicates the matter because the signed value of the score tends to be confused...

How is this done? The answer probably has to do with the implications of the LNC. In classical logic contradictions make proving anything possible wit...

I did a cursory read of the wikipedia article on paraconsistent and it seems negation has a different meaning in it than in classical logic; you menti...

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Mass-energy equivalence?

I realize that but if one goes by "modern standards" of viewing things, a poor show means no cash flow. In short poor funding into viral research coul...

No problem. Thank you for your time. I'll give it more thought; hopefully I'll see your point. Will get back to you if anything we can agree on comes ...

If anything good must follow this terrible pandemic, it should be research into anti-viral drugs. Many suns ago I remember medical professionals patti...

No, I'm not conflating anything at all. Suppose dish x is the tastiest in the world in 2019; this will allow us to say, "nothing is tastier than x" If...

Indeed you're right. Nothing tastes better than fettuccine alfredo doesn't imply that nothing has a taste but the issue is not that nothing has a tast...

If I am equivocating then it implies that there must exist an ambiguity in the meaning of nothing. You seem to think that nothing has a quantitative a...

I'm examining a property, here length, which x and y can share.

Bear with me. I'm slow-witted. Firstly we have a 3-object universe (A = 5 cm, B = 3 cm and C = 1 cm) You have to (mandatory it is) to match the measur...

So, in terms of quantity, you would assign 0.5 cm and 9 cm to nothing. It's the most logical choice, right?

I understand that nothing can't have properties and it is irrational to say it can for it leads to paradoxes and I respect your position that you woul...

What do you mean? Take this universe (matter, energy in space-time) and begin with your idea of "relative" absence and suppose you have an anti-matter...

I was anticipating this response but suppose the scenario I presented to you, which I will not repeat here for brevity, was a homework assignment and ...

Kindly ignore my previous post. I was distracted. Sorry. We began by you stating that all-knowing is an incompatible concept with all-powerful. I gues...

Personally, I believe in free will and that being the case, foreknowledge is impossible insofar as free agents are involved in the chain of causation....

You need not but I'd be grateful if you would.

I agree that it's itself paradoxical that the property of length could be attributed to nothing for there's nothing there to which we may attach the p...

Imagine you have 3 objects A (5 cm long), B (3 cm long) and C (1 cm long) and you have a piece of paper with the following measurements: 0.5 cm, 1 cm,...