You wrote a lot. I understood little. Let's not bring in other theories to make sense of what I want to discuss. Not because they aren't relevant but ...
Agreed but I did mention that limitation to my thesis. The future is open-ended as far as I can see. What bears mentioning though is the way people ha...
How about a linguistic take on nothing. It simplifies discourse quite a bit you know. "I don't want anything" becomes "I want nothing" "All things are...
So, it's about energy expense vs return vis-a-vis efficiency. Nature, and we're part of it, is the most efficient system in existence and we simply ca...
I thought it was doubting Thomas who refused to believe in the resurrection. I really find the painting depicting him/Paul??? poking his finger into C...
I understand faith to be a method of acquiring belief rather than justification as your diagram seems to suggest. Perhaps people use the word "faith" ...
Agreed though it appears tautological. Begging the question. The word "never" is doing something odd. In the premise it expresses the contradiction ex...
I agree with you wholly about ". After all, heterosexual love is, by definition, an inequality. A man x who loves a woman y necessarily holds y in hig...
It's quite interesting that humans are considered virtuoso tool makers. We started off with simple stone axes and now we have lasers and rockets. We s...
I agree. There are concepts more fundamental than the existence of God. What does "existence" mean? What does "definition" mean? What principles do we...
This is one of the oddest things about humans. The entire structure of human civilization is based on predictability. For instance basic needs and the...
:rofl: :up: :ok: I don't mean to denigrate the intelligence and erudition of forum members here. However consider this from the perspective of the uni...
I was just trying to make sense of the intent behind the creation of the word "supernagic". It provides adequate room for scientists to enter into the...
Rationality is universal in scope. Are antinatlists just quirky, sad people or do their arguments make sense? I don't know how far you'll agree with m...
What I mean to say is that the problem may not be with language but with the users of language. Might we be mistaking ignorance/incomplete knowledge f...
An error in my post which I hope to "correct"... It isn't about ambiguity as I thought. Actually it's about multiple disparate rules that concur ONLY ...
Always fascinated by the subject of nothing. If I recall correctly nothing is defined as absence, a contraction of no thing. It's difficult if not imp...
I like philosophy and math because of present/claimed rigor. Exactness is great because it allows us to isolate a concept or theory in a sterile room ...
I think I "understand". Supernagic = supernatural + magic. The supernatural, by itself, can be invoked anytime a known law of nature is violated with ...
Sorry. Misread you. You did propose an add-on viz. merit. What about antinatalism? Where does it figure in your weltanschauung? I think people would p...
I think you're right - that life, in and of itself, doesn't have value of any kind. Isn't that what philosophers have been saying since its inception ...
Why doesn't Kripke "question" the validity in mathematics of th the '+' function? Is the mathematical function '+' so well-defined as to leave no room...
Yes, the logic is correct but there seems to be something missing - I'll call it relevance. The antecedent, tim isn't relevant to consequent the moon ...
That's about right because there should be no necessity in doing/being good otherwise it would contradict freedom of will which is the very essence of...
You raise an important issue that disorder is correlated with conscious being. However, the point is order is always associated with a conscious being...
I must humbly disagree. The whole question of efficiency, in this case of nutrition, must be considered in terms of which creatures we're talking abou...
Hello and thanks for the reply. I think crimes are committed for a variety of reasons and range from fits of passion to meticulously considered reason...
Are you saying determinism voids logic and rationality making argumentation pointless and thus belief meaningless? Can you expand on that a bit. Thank...
How about if we look at it in a different way: Let's say grass has 100 calories total and herbivores extract 10 calories from it (10%). This, at first...
:up: :clap: There is a need to prove that there exists an object in absolute rest because there are only two contradictory possibilites: 1. An object ...
Either all objects are in relative motion or there exists an object at absolute rest (relative to everything else). You all deny/critique that <all ob...
We could view the world as a system whose parts are out of sync. Science is progressing so rapidly that other areas of human concern, specifically mor...
So you agree that even if determinism were true, we'd still be able to recognize order in the universe and also be able to reason. If so then the argu...
You talk of god and meaning and contrast that to "facts" of death and meaninglessness. I struggled to understand how and why death makes our lives mea...
Does determinism preclude consciousness and the ability to comprehend/appreciate truths, two of which are the order of the universe and how we humans ...
Let's suppose determinism is true and we lack free will. However one thing is certain - we're capable of rational judgment and analysis which informs ...
The order in a watch or any man-made object is strongly associated with a designer (human). This connection (order-designer) between man-made objects ...
Whatever happened to prevention is better than cure? I guess punishment has the primary function of deterrence rather than exacting justice. Who would...
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