Thanks for the links. I've always been a little confused about this issue. We are in awe of what I assume is the complexity of the cosmos, life being ...
Well, self-examination is basically you being yourself and also the mirror you look at yourself with. The mirror is only as good as you are: your prej...
The false dichotomy roots itself in either the deliberate concealment, or unwitting oversight, of a third alternative and presents the audience with w...
Good point! You're putting the cart before the horse. Stress is a response i.e. it doesn't arise spontaneously without a cause. It can be said that po...
Stress is defined as psychological strain but note that it is always induced; in other words stress is a reaction to a perturbation in a person's life...
What's new in all this? However, I suggest a rethink on the claim that stress is killing the poor. To my reckoning, it's not stress but disease, the i...
I don't know. Perhaps philosophy isn't about ideas as such for I see no real progress in that department; the philosophical enterprise resembles then ...
All I get from this quote is that the outward conflicts of humanity are a mirror image of the inner conflicts of the individual and that a favorable r...
I think you nailed it with your categories: matter, math and mind. The first is obvious, the second describes the first very well and the last can wel...
Conformity is bad insofar as it is on matters not well-reasoned and good otherwise. Since we're still not out of the woods yet in re the former, I sug...
I don't know how serious you are about this issue but what I'd like for you to do is distinguish between disbelief in god and belief that god doesn't ...
Is it just me or has the proportion of "beautiful", herein meant both figuratively and literally, men AND women gone up over time. Conversely, are the...
If it's true that x doesn't think god exists it means that for x the proposition "god exists" is not true but that would mean x has to think god doesn...
Well, Aristotle did make a big deal of finding the so-called golden mean and if one subscribes to the basic idea behind it then both there exists such...
or unknown. The idea behind agnosticism is simply that the truth value of a proposition can't be determined. Whether it is unknowable or unknown or th...
Indeed, essential to every argument is a good definition but the discussion has strayed into the notion of belief and the nature of belief and what ex...
You maybe right you know but let's see what amounts to disbelief? The dictionary defines "disbelief" as "mental rejection of something as untrue". Let...
@"Pfhorrest"@"Pinprick" Beliefs must be about propositions in that believing only works if there are propositions to invest belief in. What concerns u...
In my humble opinion, contrary to what @"180 Proof" and you all seem to be trying to do viz. make the issue atheism about the nature of beliefs by say...
An interesting fact is that people seem to have conflicting thoughts on the matter of whether we have free will or not: people say things like "that's...
There are only four possible propositions that can be subject to belief in re god: 1. god exists 2. god doesn't exist 3. god may or may not exist 4. I...
Atheism is a meta-statement on theism? Well, in a sense, atheism is claiming the statement "god exists" is false but if it were left to that alone I w...
Hate is probably an inappropriate term to describe loneliness. Sadness is perhaps the most apt word here. Of course, we can say "I hate loneliness" bu...
What is game theory? How can we disprove game theory? Is there a single proposition that stands for game theory which can then be disproved? I believe...
Creationism as an idea, despite it's actual meaning, has a particular quality to it - that whatever was/is/being created was/is/will be fully-formed. ...
There are two parts to lucid dreaming: (1)the dream and (2) awareness (of the self/I dreaming). Ordinary dreaming is simply (1) the dream and (3) vari...
Approximate(ly) a straight line can be rephrased exactly as like but not identical to a straight line. In other words, the staircase never ever actual...
In lucid dreams you're not asleep, you're awake and thus the qualification "lucid". If memory serves they are states in which a person becomes aware t...
What exactly do you mean by this? The self exists in contrast to something else and that something else seems to be the "external world". I don't see ...
Consider what we mean when we say "x is good". Does this characterization of x allow the possibility that x could be immoral/bad in any way? No, "x is...
I confess that I'm a little confused on the distinction between use and purpose. Contrary to my claims, some of us, like myself, don't exactly excel i...
Thanks for your comments and I believe it reveals, in a very narrow sense, a fundamental problem with confidence. The word "confidence" in the OP is b...
Well said and fully accepted. As I said in my last post it is extremely difficult to believe in an all-good god; it would be like getting drenched to ...
This really isn't a paradox as such because there's such a thing as promotion. The job experience you acquire qualifies you to another position in the...
That doesn't make sense. You're right. Does "god's command is moral" make sense? How different is "god's command is moral" from "god's command is god"...
Well, these are facts of the world and yes, they clearly contradict god's omnibenevolence but I feel it's not releated to the Euthyphro dilemma, at le...
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