TheMadFool

I see. Care to share your personal experience? What does it look like?

Then it's no longer language language is it? This is one of my complaints against Wittgensteinization of philosophy. It seems to rely wholly or a lot ...

Stoicism? Buddhism? :chin:

IQ & EQ? The two are a complementary pair. With IQ you can build EQ. Sans EQ, your IQ is disabled.

Wittgenstein? Why, he would've said this whole discussion is pointless if it depended on meaning as essence but, speaking for myself, he mistakes the ...

I guess so but I have a feeling the word "grammar" has a rather unconventional meaning in your post and Wittgenstein's writings if he ever uses it.

I used to believe in the truth but, even though I never really got down to seeking it in earnest, I look around and listen to what others have to say ...

You have a point though. I completely forgot about the order that the universe evinces. Nevertheless, life can be taken as one long process of slow de...

This is not as cut-and-dried as you might believe.

:rofl: And that's why, ladies and gentlemen, "virtue is expensive and painful."

:ok: So some are still on this wild goose chase. Someone should tell 'em.

:up: Why do you think that is? Shouldn't it have been the other way round? We make such a big fuss about morality - ethics of this, ethics of that - t...

Yep, I'm beginning to have second thoughts about the truth. I no longer believe such a thing exists. Still the myth persists - I wonder why? Who's kee...

Someone must've beaten me to it but I thought I might as well say it. Religion gets it right as to what we should all train our sights on - the truth....

Since we're now discussing God, I'm currently reading Yuval Noah Harari's book Sapiens and he writes that despite the claims, monotheism is a syncreti...

Where did that come up? It doesn't I guess but maybe that's the whole point! I dunno! I read in a paper quite a many years ago of a contract killing i...

I was assuming the philosophical analysis you describe above was behind us, territory already covered. Once we get past all that, when and if we do, t...

It's official, COP26, despite all the hype, was a complete washout! Really, who were we kidding?!

Morality, traditionally, doesn't make sense without free will. If one has free will, one can, as pertains to God, Adam, Eve, and the forbidden fruit, ...

:lol: I have not time for your silly games khaled

My two cents. Whatever something is, it is that. Then a meaning is attached to it. This is done in obvious and not-so-obvious ways. Consider this mean...

Sadly, Wikipedia reports that almost all Ngostic texts were destroyed by the Church and its henchmen. I guess we'll never know how much wisdom or trut...

Why? Sentential logic works fine. You're bending over backwards, going to great lengths as it were, to make a point. You have to prove incompleteness ...

@"Olivier5" @"Srap Tasmaner" 1. I'm experiencing this particularly unpleasant throbbing sensation in my head, H. 2. H is, from my interaction with oth...

Good call but that's I was hoping other, more knowledgable, folks would do. What is, after all, a negative claim and what do we mean by proof? To me, ...

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Update 1. If world X is not actual then there's a proof why world X is not actual. 2. If there's a proof that world X is not actual then necessarily w...

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So? Where's your solution?

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You had to come up with the solution.

I don't buy that. How can modal logic (about possibilities and necessities) ever even claim there is only one actual world. I believe you're barking u...

Let me get this straight. 1. Your cat (in the actual world) is black Therefore, 2. The possible world in which your cat is ginger is not the actual wo...

Update World X is not actual. Why? Reason R Argument A1: 1. R Therefore, 2. World X is not actual However, given argument A1, 3. Necessary that world ...

I have no idea what you're trying to say here. My argument is rather simple. Suppose X is not an actual world. There has to be an reason why it's not ...

I suppose I can say at this point that I finally got it. Free will was bestowed upon humanity (Adam & Eve too) so that we could be good or bad (sans f...

We don't know if consciousness if physical or nonphysical. A p-zombie is a hypothesized being physically identical to a human but bereft of consciousn...

If we have free will, God shouldn't have penalized Adam & Eve. Disobedience is part and parcel of unrestricted volition.

Read my reply to tim wood I'll repeat myself at the risk of boring you but it's quite exciting to say the least. If a possible world X is not actual, ...

Suppose a world Y is not actual. Why? There has to be a reason why that is. That reason becomes an argument the conclusion of which is Y is not actual...

To All First things first, what we agree on. 1. If X is an actual world then X is a possible world. Now, the sticking point, 2. If X is a possible wor...

Of course, it's an analogy. You got it, right?

How can you say that? What's not logical about it? Why do you say that it's "...not two way"? If there's a gap between point A and point B, it doesn't...

@"Banno", @"Bartricks", @"180 Proof", @"I like sushi"@"DecheleSchilder", @"khaled", @"jorndoe"@"Jack Cummins", @"tim wood" Possible 1. If X is possibl...

:ok: I'm mainly interested in what follows from the claim that a possible world need not be actual. Suppose X is a possible world and that's all we kn...

To all Suppose X is a possible world and is not actual. Ergo, the following statement is true. 1. X is possible & X is not actual If so, the statement...

What's bothering me is the claim that the following statement is true: 1. X is a possible world & X is not an actual world. If 1 is true then the foll...

Update To all the above posters: If a world x is possible but world x is not actual is acceptable then there's something not possible about an actual ...