TheMadFool

I disagree.

How do you know?

Why is it stupid?

It appears that the idea of possibility is more nuanced than I thought. A possible world: A world that can be real. There's nothing about a possible w...

Are there no novels of life as an animal...a bat?

I have a poor memory but here's what I managed to get ahold of :point:

Yes! To say something is possible means that that something is in at least one possible world.

Possible, yes but do keep in mind, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. The English were wise folks.

God is supposed to have endued us with free will. That's the solution to the problem of evil. He also (the Fall of Man) has a zero tolerance policy to...

Very Gnostic in spirit. I read about Gnosticism yesterday on Wikipedia and this - matter & flesh as evil, the spirit & soul as good - figures in its t...

I wouldn't be so sure. :grin:

Nirvana is, at its simplest, liberation from moral causation. After one has freed oneself from karma (good & bad) there is, in a sense, no debt to rep...

Oh! Well, if He's within time, then of course, being all-powerful, He can generate contradictions! My question would be, what else can generate contra...

:lol: No, He can't if He is beyond time. The logical AND (&) operator becomes meaningless. Therefore, p & ~p is also undefined.

Let's start with a statement. G = God exists. If I deny God exists then ~G = God does not exist. If God is beyond time and since time plays a crucial ...

McTaggart "proves" time is not real by showing it leads to a contradiction. If time isn't real then there can be no contradictions.

1. Then he can't be described as immortal whatever that implies. 2. God's omnipotence is related to His beyond-time nature. Contradictions don't apply...

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What about the so-called "hard" problem proves that nonphysicalism is true.

Sapere aude!

Then you're irrelevant because it describes your position, not mine. There's more than one way to skin a cat.

You're selling I see. Unfortunately, I'm not buying.

A coupla points: 1. Yep, there's a what it is like to be conscious we can't ignore. This is inaccessible to another person. So, if I were a scientist ...

:up: I wonder how that differs from the what is common knowledge viz. exploring perspectives, points of view? Does phenomenology offer something immen...

Update 1. The Liar Paradox The Liar sentence: L = This sentence is false. The liar argument: 1. L is true (assume for reductio ad absurdum) 2. If L is...

I'm out of my depths. :grin:

:up: Thanks a million.

1. The nonscientfic relation between existence and physical: If X is physical then X exists. 2. The scientific relation between existence and physical...

There's something physical about irrationals in the sense that there's measurement (geometry) involved: length of a square's diagonal (\sqrt 2), lengt...

When I have a headache, I know I have a headache.

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The liar sentence's problem is precisely because of self-reference (namely itself) which the Gödel sentence also repeats/reenacts.

When we began, you said it was only obedience that mattered - the morality of what was being commanded of zero relevance. I objected. Then you set up ...

Possible but not necessary.

You're begging the question. You're assuming God's commands will always be good. I'm not making that assumption and hence reserve the right to defy Hi...

There's a what it is like to be conscious - what it is like to think, smell, feel, taste, see, and hear - and this aspect of consciousness is known on...

Fine by me. To each his own I suppose but I wouldn't call disagreement comprehensive or broad with respect to knowing what happened in the Garden of E...

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Thanks for that gracious walkthrough of David Bentley Hart's essay. It was helpful. Really gave me that 10,000 foot view of the essay.

:up: You say it better than me but electrical storms remind me seizures/epilepsy.

@"Wayfarer" This user-illusion concept really interests me. From a physicalist perspective, true, what's really going on are nerves and synapses switc...

@"Wayfarer" Reminds me of @"Alexandre Harvey-Tremblay"'s theory of everything (he has a thread on it if you're interested). I asked him whether his th...

@"Wayfarer" I couldn't grasp this so-called aboutness. What is it exactly? Thanks.

@"Wayfarer" Morality has an other-worldly feel to it! The laws of nature are not aligned with morality. In fact morality goes against the grain - why ...

Good day Janus

So it seems, so it seems.

Implied irony? Where?

Too bad Wikipedia ain't good enough for you, Janus!

I think Hart has misunderstood the problem of causation for mind-body dualism as first set forth by Elisabeth of Palatinate. It's not that only that t...