TheMadFool

Are mathematicians/scientists/philosophers dumber than the average person you walk into on the streets? What was Socrates doing? Being rational or int...

Ok. What is the flaw in rationality then? Can you think of anything? If you can't then it implies you think rationality is perfect. Are you willing to...

(Y) See! Rationality has a moral shortcoming. Of course one may say that of anything. After all tools are only as good as the craftsman. I'm just a bi...

Design is based on laws - some constant pattern that forms the backdrop for matching entities. The pattern together with the matching entity (the flag...

I don't think I'm wrong in defining an equivalence between intelligence and rationality. What is the basic structure of an IQ test? Logical ability ri...

Mathematical definitions and what's derived from them are timeless. So, you're right time doesn't matter. But consider the statements A=God exists and...

X-) I like to take one step back and talk about order/pattern because it is the source of the so-called design theist's talk about. Without order (law...

X-) I think I see your point. It takes intelligence to do both good AND bad. Is this what you're talking about? If you are then that's what I want to ...

A few things I want to say. We can't escape our own minds and that comes with many presuppositions. ''Intelligent Design'' is a human perspective on t...

Thanks for the poem. (Y) My main goal is to find a flaw in rationality. Rationality seems to have acquired a reputation that is impeccable. It is beyo...

What I'm saying is that the concept of contradiction is meaningless when time is relative.

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But rationality has questioned God's existence and where does that lead to? A moral vacuum that can't and hasn't been filled since God was put on the ...

I was thinking about this and I realized that it takes more brains to be good in this world which isn't deficient of evil. It takes tact, patience, wi...

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It's a very common metaphor. I don't know why you don't get it. Just see the movies. Villains are always depicted with high IQ. Get the hint?

Please read my OP. I've given the references. I don't see how there can be a contradiction when time isn't absolute.

Rationality serves evil better than good. A very simple example. Rationality claims there is no God (Atheism) or, at least, that we can't be sure of G...

LOL(Y)

I don't know. Some here have mentioned that rationality is a tool and, therefore, has no moral status. That's right but it's a tool that works better ...

Accepted. So Wittgenstein isn't that injurious to philosophy as I supposed. One member, I think it was Banno, said that everything is a game. I wonder...

I'm of the view that evil requires more planning and strategy than being good. In other words rationality is the servant of evil

please read my post above

One needs a heart to be good. One needs brains to be bad.

You're right but think of it. Being bad requires brains and doing good requires heart(not brains). That's as simple as I can say it.

I'm looking for a blemish on the idol of human worship viz. rationality and I think I found one. Rationality is morally deficient.

Objective reasoning is difficult. That's why there's a dearth of it. I don't know if that's a good thing but objective reasoning can lead to situation...

You're right. Propositions are ''about'' the world but doesn't that require that they concur with the actual goings on in the world? If I say ''God ex...

Aaaaaaaahhhh! I get it. Assume P and ~P...one single contradiction Take any other proposition Q 1. P & ~P.....premise 2 Q..............premise 3 P.......

You're so right(Y)

Thank you for the explanation. I'm not sure if I understand all that but I feel much closer to the truth than before. T = consistent mathematical theo...

Can you show me how that is implied? How do you prove it?

Thanks for the informative post.

I don't fully understand you. However, your thoughts on ''interpretation'' make sense but doesn't really refute the LNC. If A and B both interpret ''d...

That's another thing for Buddhists to think about.

Thank you. Ge = a god that exists in reality Gi = a god that exists in imagination Ge is greater than Gi....sure That doesn't mean Ge actually exists ...

Indeed that is the best option. Metaphysics is a dud. Take it as a game. Assume Buddhism is true. What then? I ask because Buddhists are very fond of ...

I'm taking a different approach to this right not to be offended. It's quite confusing this whole issue. One might say that if one has a healthy sense...

Fine post. I see some interesting connections there. Thanks.

Thanks. I watched a video on it and the reasoning was... Assume a consistent theory T G is a statement in T G = This sentence isn't provable from the ...

Thanks for the illuminating post. I tried arguing against the ontological proof in terms of a hidden premise viz. E=Existence (being) is greater than ...

(Y) Thanks

"God exists" is a claim about our physical world isn't it? Why else would there be so much debate on it? Relativity destroys the notion of simultaneit...

I hold similar views. Logic, at least in its useful form, must conform with experience. Does this "middle-world" you speak of violate the LNC? It does...

My personal view is that logic is learned as opposed to it being innate. Take the famous Pavlov dog experiment. Dogs were trained to associate the sou...

I'm only giving due importance to both sides so to speak. We do it in practice actually. Say a person does something bad. If we are to be good judges ...

I think we still resort to prelinguistic questioning. A perplexed look, for example, is very similar to one that a dog/cat sometimes expresses. Can yo...

I know ethics is a philosophical subject but have we made any real progress in it? Can we, very clearly, distinguish good from bad; a necessity if one...

In Buddhism, ignorance is a prime evil as it leads to craving, a source of suffering. In Christianity (man was forbidden to eat from the tree of knowl...

I see.. Existence is part of the definition of God as the greatest being. So there isn't an argument at all. God is being defined into existence. Am I...