TheMadFool

I hope and pray! The only problem is I'll have to arrange for a gun very soon! :lol:

My two cents. It's not an open and shut case that religion is wrong. Suppose it is wrong! A cult is wronger than wrong!

Here's an alternative point of view if anyone's interested. I won't say I had a normal childhood, I definitely did not but given my experience of huma...

You speak from facts (I hope)! I speak from hopes! Apples and oranges! Good point though!

Short answer, no! Long answer, oh fucking no! :lol:

Pedantry has its limits.

What's the role of the 10th man? I'll go first. A certain event that transpired in the Middle East sometime in the '70s convinced the Israeli top bras...

Incest-Beauty Paradox A man wants his daughter to be beautiful. Beauty is what sexually arouses a man. Ergo, A man wants his daughter to be sexually a...

A good question with no easy answer but definitely dives headlong into the meaning of existence itself. How, may I ask, dear Albert Einstein, paragon ...

X: (Most people) think TPF is such a boring place. Y: Speak for yourself - I like it! Jokes aside, that's why the moral rule that has the most appeal ...

Good! Thank you!

The assumptions from which the above statement follows doesn't appeal to me! G'day!

All TPFians are liars! Chew on that, god must be atheist.

If you don't mind me butting in, I feel non-euclidean geometry is important to non-classical logic. N. A. Vasiliev (father of paraconsistent logic) dr...

The paradox in the Delphic Oracle's words, "surety brings ruin" isn't as interesting or important as the honesty that it exudes.

.I just mentioned the Israeli government's strategy of always ensuring that there's someone who refuses to believe even if there's a mountain of evide...

The world would grind to a halt and from then on chaos. X: The UN will convene at 10:00 AM and the UN will not convene at 10:00 AM Y: WTF? From my own...

:ok: My bad. Ok, so for what it's worth, here's what I think: Nicolai A. Vasiliev (father of paraconsistent logic) is said to have admitted that he wa...

Speaking for myself, paraconsistent logic is a "higher form" of logic and contains, as a proper subset classical logic (sentential, predicate, categor...

Not true. The 10th man's job is to simply disagree whether or not he has good reasons to do so.

No I didn't. I stated the obvious. We're engaged in the enterprise of mimicking nature and quite badly at that. A simple proof that's the case: Birds ...

Complexity? Complexity Paradox 1. Complexity arises from simplicity 2. (Only) complexity can create simplicity

A sentence, to my knowledge, doesn't have a word limit. The convention seems to be to keep it short or rather short enough to understand. True, you co...

What do you think it is? Continuing with my example contradiction x is 1 AND x is not 1, what is the value of x?

I don't think that's correct.

Either all are simply definitions or are fragments of theories. Speaking for myself, single sentences are definitional in almost all cases and if not ...

Cherry-picking. Confirmation bias.

:lol: I'm not anti-science. I'm just the 10th man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62f-I0ni0oY The fossils are real no doubt but the rest of paleontology is imagination. This isn't a flaw as much as it...

:up: Your post was an eye-opener. Thank you very much indeed. I remember writing a long time ago about how people have this misconception that Thanato...

I like @"180 Proof"'s view of such claims :point: The Mediocrity Principle. Thanks 180 Proof. Which takes us back to The Mediocrity Principle. However...

Drift (gradual) vs Shift (sudden) kinds of Change. Which of the two types of change will occur depends on the speed of information transmission taking...

First, a confession: I loooove paradoxes a term in logic reserved for contradictions but in the vernacular also applicable to the counterintuitive, th...

The Coronavirus Paradox The coronavirus, though it itself doesn't discriminate races, has become a reason to discriminate races.

Phew! :sweat: :100:

Jaaaaccckk! Are you defending torture?

Both matter. In fact an intention is consequence oriented, something you already know of course, right? It's the intervening action/deed - the link as...

Definition Paradox X: What is a definition? Y: You know. X: I don't. That's why I ask. Y: You use the words, "what" and "is". If so, you know their de...

The love-evil paradox 1. To love is good. 2. To love to cause suffering is evil. Go figure! That's one of the reasons, truthseeker, why evil is unfath...

Zinloos Geweld (Senseless Violence) Evil is incomprehensible!

You make a good point. Many physical actions humans can perform happen, let's just say, in the background - much like phone apps and what we're consci...

It's like this. In my first post in your thread, I ran with the standard definition as it appears in the relevant Wikipedia page. You're astute enough...

Thanks Jack Cummins. I promise to do my best if this proposal comes through. G'day!

Indeed! The past (lived) in terms of questions, is filled with answers to questions like, what should I do?, what should I say? Whether the answers we...

:up: :fire: Always a pleasure to read your posts. In my humble opinion, in line with what you said, before one even tries answering a question (give t...

If I catch Meinong's drift, everything save contradictions of course exists, just in different ways or worlds. As far as I can tell, there are at leas...

That's alright by me but I'm only toeing the official line here.

Following is an anecdote the great Bertrand Russell relates in an interview: Old man: Winchester? Barman: Aye. Old man: The way to Winchester? Barman:...

WTF? :chin:

@"180 Proof" @"Jack Cummins" WTF? Zen moment for me. I don't know what evil is! :chin: :scream: