That's something I overlooked. Happiness has many physical benefits, probably hormonally induced. That gives a very good reason to be happy for its ow...
I don't know. Moral theories, at least the ones I'm familiar with, all seem to have one interesting objective - to frame a set of rules that are unive...
I guess we have acceptable limits of accuracy. Really? I thought time was part of A (acceleration)? Were Newton's laws theoretically derived? Let me i...
Thanks. I was thinking too that there's some physics law that proves some physical durations are fixed and constant. I remember in high school I read ...
What a nice thing to say. I was of the opinion that faith is a bad thing, rationally speaking. I think it does have a place in our belief systems to s...
Yes, this is a good point. Reason may be a poor tool to examine the ''transcendent'', as you put it. Somewhere inside me I think that there are aspect...
I don't mean to say that such a view is right. I'm just trying to fit morality with science - may be it didn't work. Why is morality so difficult? I m...
We need to. For example we need to check all rulers/scales to the standard definition of a meter or a foot. In the case of length we don't have to wor...
Why? How do we know that the length of the day is going to be constant, as is required? Is there a physical law that proves that the day length is con...
Bottomline, there's a struggle between altruism and selfishness. Both have evolved in us. Perhaps there's no contradiction in it. Both altruism and se...
Well, these are the most appealing versions of the two theories, right? To me, sameness is a universal language which all life, from the microscopic t...
That's really interesting. @"Wayfarer" and you seem to be saying something similar. Wayfarer, if I understood him, thinks scientific reasoning (I assu...
To me, reason is a tool and morality is the material we use reason on. Isn't that the working analogy for philosophy? If I understand you correctly, y...
Why complicate the issue by going a step further than you need to. If I can see the pendulum swinging in sync why calculate the difference? The assump...
I'd be grateful to know how our ''modern conception'' of reason is defective. But there is an ought to logic, presuming of course that the aim/desire ...
Well, regularity is absolutely necessary and you agree on that. I'm still not convinced about this so please be patient. I'll stick to pendulums for n...
I see. So we can simply take two objects that are ''in sync'' and take that as a measure of regularity? How do we check for synchronization? I think i...
I don't think we like reason without cause. Reason is key to survival and look at all the scientific truths we've discovered using rationality. Desire...
Can you flesh this idea of ''two measures are in sync''. Can you give me a concrete instance of this ''solution''? I'll give it a try... Take two pend...
How do you know you get the exact same result? By applying a specific standard to both to confirm repeatability of measurement. The next question, of ...
You're not wrong in assigning a 50% chance for God's existence. Nobody knows the exact probability and we're ''free'' to bet as we see fit. I say ''fr...
To fight without the slimmest chance of victory is foolish, don't you think? Yes. The fallen angel Satan. Why do you ask? The Devil as the prime evil ...
At first glance, it may look like atheism loses a very strong pillar of morality - divine authority. However, examine God and you'll see it's not real...
No further discussion only because we all accept the Devil is evil and this doesn't affect my argument that he is impotent and a fool. Would you bring...
I don't know how to answer your question but I'll try... Love is generally accepted to be good but I'm sure you must've heard of the expression ''love...
I want to believe that there's objective morality. Your Nazi example makes the point well. Indeed, what the Nazi's did and a lot of our ancestors did ...
Philosophy and people in general are very "knowledgeable" about the definition of God. They argue about it but everybody circles around omnipotence, o...
Few things... Objectivity doesn't entail God, does it? Science is, supposedly, objective and nowhere do they invoke the divine. What does it mean to s...
Well, I can show you that such a being is indeed a moron and also powerless. The omnimalevolence part is obvious and needs no further discussion. To f...
Well, it's not that truth (of existence) that has emotional relevance, is it? Life is truly complex. We seem to think we know something when in fact i...
Classical logic can be understood as an approximation of reality. Just as Newton's physics is an approximation of Theory of Relativity. I see no probl...
An eye. The faculty of vision, the ultimate sense organ; used as an analogy for understanding, comprehension. The importance of perspective. At close ...
I fail to understand you. Nothing is better than sex. $1 is better than nothing. So, $1 is better than sex. Your point seems to revolve around the abo...
Well, IF we're in the same frame of reference, we can achieve simultaneity. However, from another frame of reference you may arrive at 9:15 and I at a...
This is a stretch but thoughts, propositions included, are, so far as we know, matter-based. Is it too much, then, to say that the ToR applies to prop...
I don't know. Can we play with the definition of truth like that? It's odd how the paradox depends on fixed meanings of truth and fiction and your sol...
That's what I think too. Our emotional responses are triggered by, loosely speaking, the permutation of people, objects and events. A person in a part...
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