TheMadFool

Hmmm. Never say never, Never say always but Spartacus wasn't Greek was he? He was Thracian. No need to answer that question.

I need your opinion on something. Let's say Platonism is true. That would mean math exists, because they're mental objects, in a mind, God's mind. Gra...

Any theory/definition of truth in which the correspondence between what's truth-apt (propositions) and what we call reality is weakened or nonexistent...

Indeed, the word "fact" seems to be an endorsement of the correspondence theory of truth.

You can't tell where science ends and poetry begins! Ancient works on proto-science used to be written in verse I believe.

Why couldn't my parents name me Xenophanes? Greek names give one the impression that whoever the name belongs to is going to either say/do something a...

What would the alternative be? We make shit up? :chin:

Facts are truths about something, an event, an object, people, so on. When they're discovered, they become knowledge. Facts are independent of a knowe...

:rofl: I remember an argument made by one atheist, I think it was Sam Harris, about how a Jain terrorist is a contradictio in terminis, an oxymoron, a...

Yes, I get that.

I guess we could chalk it up to two things: 1. Misunderstanding (communication gaps). Not getting the facts straight. 2. Religious zeal. Some believer...

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So, you see the hand of religious types in the invention and perpetuation of the myth that the big bang is about the origins of the universe. Come to ...

Any ideas why space would need to expand?

Petitio principii.

Great! So, I've been wrong all this time. :roll:

The physicality of the mind isn't as cut-and-dried as is necessary to matter. Too, God being material is absolutely fine by me.

:up: My bad for not thinking/reading before posting but it was such a satisfying explanation for me.

Remember, the Big Bang, despite the imagery it evokes of matter flying apart in an expanding bubble, is all about space i.e. the Big Bang is simply th...

What I find very thought-provoking is that, all things considered, mathematical objects are mental objects. So, if they exist like say a chair does, t...

The problem of induction! The world of sounds, you mean.

Thanks for relating your personal experience with psychedelics. My point is, if color intensification is part of a trip, why not color perception itse...

Therein lies the rub.

The letter combination "th" is the most common two-letter (each distinct from the other) pairing to appear in the English language. Does this mean tha...

I went too far, huh? Apologies! G'day.

A drive-by of Wikipedia indicates there's been an attempt to draw an equivalence between logic and hypotheses and just as the latter is subject to rev...

Why does life want to live? I think it'll be hard to answer this question if only because life precedes the question, temporally speaking. It's kinda ...

Bah!

There was a big bang because we can't divide by zero. https://youtu.be/WgQl8T4W4Ws

@"180 Proof" If knowledge isn't justified, true belief then it has to be unjustified and/or untrue and/or unbelief. What you seem to have a problem wi...

:up: I finally get it (parts of it at least). First things first, for the reason that empirical claims, being inductive logic at work and thus probabi...

I dunno what kinda parameters were used in the experiment conducted by Dunning Kruger but my best guess is there are many reasons why one might think ...

In my humble opinion, this is a case of extreme ad hominem. Wilhelm Reich, RIP, whoever the hell he was was disliked for who (he was) and they, whoeve...

In a pantheistic sense, yes - looks suspiciously like the prime mover. In a theistic sense, no - energy isn't sentient, it doesn't think nor does it f...

My take on the issue is rather simple I'm afraid bit for what it's worth I'd like to share it. There are two realities/worlds and it behooves us to co...

At a solary system level, it's gravity that keeps the planets in orbit At an atomic level, it's electrical charge that keeps the electrons in orbit. A...

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Two wrongs don't make a right? :chin:

I expect you to cut me some slack here because I can't make heads or tails of knowledge divorced from propositions that are justified and hence believ...

You can say that again! It appears that few or no people ever practice what they preach because deep down they know their philosophies can't be tranls...

I don't know how exactly to phrase this but haven't you answered your own question? I understand philosophy, not in the sense just the academic discip...

You, my friend, have finally given me the clue that I needed to solve this mystery. You said, "...philosophers need to put food on the table too..." a...

:lol: That's killing two birds with one stone: money for wisdom (damned sophists!). Thanks for the video and the link.

Troll (definition): Someone who provokes OR abuses others esp. on the internet. On the internet. Check! Are you provoking and/or abusing others? @"Ban...

An interesting paradox herein. The US is a country where claiming to be an atheist is a career-ending move for a politician but once elected what do p...

There seems to be a difference between knowledge and wisdom. You can mint money out of the former and no one will bother but if you try and mix wisdom...

This is both funny and somber. Funny because no one in faer right mind would ignore danger like Pyrrho is said to have done and somber because here wa...

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