Indeed, you're right. What was the OP talking about though? Inference or reporting? Anyway, radical doubt has a way of thwarting any attempt at certai...
:ok: I just think atheists are trying to gain the upperhand by unfair means. Why? Saying atheism is a lack of belief relieves them of the burden of pr...
This is shadowy territory you're talking about. The Big Bang theory is itself just a simple backward tracing of what we see - an expanding universe. I...
I think it shouldn't be considered as atheism because, to be fair, the 0 state isn't a claim while atheism is one - that God doesn't exist. Everyone's...
Justified? Isn't it an axiom? I guess it's a question of degrees. Radical skepticism undermines all philosophy but if one is to ignore it many things ...
Can't two minds come up with the same idea without having to attribute origins to either? That two philosophies match is no indication that one is a d...
Interesting point. I agree that philosophy is about providing as many perspectives to a problem as is possible or required. Science sits in contrast t...
Leave the future alone if you're looking for certainty because certainty isn't possible for even the present or the past. As Bertrand Russell once sai...
When people talk of the future they aren't dead serious about it. After all, who can predict so accurately as to be true prophet? They do it out of cu...
Why didn't God choose to make the stone even God can't lift? Why didn't God choose to make unicorns? The point of the stone paradox lies in the differ...
Reminded me of superorganism. The diversity hides a unity. Let's just take humans for my discussion. We all have an individual identity; at least that...
How is it that you provide reasons to the effect that logic is NOT trustworthy. Haven't you shot yourself in the foot? After all, providing reasons (i...
Let me at it from another perspective: Unicorns don't exist. The stone that God can't lift doesn't exist. God chose not to make either of them. Is the...
Well, the way I see it the phrase ''doesn't'' implies choice which should be free. However, in this case God doesn't create the stone because God's fo...
I still think Taoism is more about passive acceptance rather than active doing. Why else the emphasis on, somebody was saying, Wu-Wei? The negation of...
It is invalid. However, if one were to use math then we have x=even number = 2n The square of every even number would be even of the form 4n*n So imag...
When someone talks about omnipotency it's my understanding that we're discussing about what someone/something can/can't do. Your defense that God does...
Omnipotency, or even plain potency, is about what can/cannot be done. Doesn't is not about power and the limits of power. It's simply the act of choos...
I think we see the situation quite differently. In terms of hierarchy of importance my list looks like this: 1. Possibility 2. Choice First there has ...
I guess it's some form of passivity that the Tao is referring to. To not do and yet do. To speak not and yet teach. Self-realization is what this is p...
If God can create a stone that he can't lift then He's not omnipotent because now there's something He can't do viz. lift that stone. You say God does...
The issue you're raising has no simple answer. My opinion is logic isn't perfect. It can't fully describe our experience. I think it's safe to say tha...
I don't know sounds interesting. I did a bit of thinking and as far as God or any claim is concerned we have 4 states 0. Never even considered it 1. A...
We're not just animals. We're thinking animals. If a tiger were ever able to feel the pain of the animals it kills and ever possessed of a human-level...
The stone paradox may be considered a thought experiment. It's a rational argument against the concept of omnipotence. An argument needn't necessarily...
Well, all I wanted to show was the thing that everyone knows. If one is to be held morally responsible then one must be capable of free agency. If som...
Well, let me ask you: Imagine four people A, B, C and D 1. A had no choice (it was necessary) in killing C 2. B had a choice not to kill D but did so ...
If I can't kill you then what is the value of me saying ''I won't kill you.'' ''God doesn't'' implies an ability to choose but the stone paradox demon...
Yes omnipotency negates all inability and that's what the stone paradox is about. Omnipotency is impossible. What I meant to show was that God's abili...
Biologically, we fear death. No animal other than humans commits suicide. Even among us those who fear death vastly outnumber those who kill themselve...
Why? If it's necessary and, hence, recommended for me to eat 300 gm of meat everyday then I have to to stay survive. That means eating more than 300 g...
That, I think, is correct. "Probability" doesn't mean "Free will". I don't even understand the non-deterministic nature of the quantum. Is it a fundam...
I think the nuclear war issue is a red herring. I agree that a nuclear war could be an apocalyptic event - destroying all life. Yet, it's the so-calle...
The stone paradox rests on something God cannot do viz. either his inability to lift the stone or inability to create one. My point is we begin by def...
I don't know. Perhaps the notion of life being a ''gift'' from God or, in the Buddhist sense, the best opportunity for nirvana might explain why suici...
Why does anything have to ''transcend'' anything else. Everything has its merits and demerits. I think the thought experiments and empericism compleme...
I agree that our biological makeup may not allow us to be complete vegans. Isn't this an is-ought fallacy? We eat meat so we should eat meat? Of cours...
Another possibility which just crossed my mind is that we don't have to be in a virtual world to be a simulation. Simulations may be done in the real ...
Indeed if it's like the Matrix movie and it's possible to ''really'' die in the Matrix then the distinction virtual-real matters less. But, it's possi...
The point is we don't know if this ''reality'' is or isn't a simulation. As Nick Bostrom (did I get his name correct?) argued simulated worlds would e...
The middle term “valuable things” isn’t distributed. This is the simplest logical fallacy for me to understand. The argument is: 1. All beautiful hous...
For me, intelligence is the ability to see structure rather than content. Some call it pattern-recognition I think. We use logical arguments daily but...
I don’t know. I call it a fortunate coincidence. You make money and save lives. I guess most doctors are in it for the money and not any ethical consi...
For me, moral "superiority'' entails the existence of choice. If one has no option but to be moral then morality has no meaning. A man or woman who is...
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