If atheism is fallibilistic + probabilistic, I have no issues. It's just that some/most atheists don't make that aspect of their position explicit. He...
Oh! So, we assume no connection between God and existence (H0) and then try to disprove that assumption i.e. prove that there's a connection between G...
I wasn't clear enough then. Let's say we're going to assess whether a certain phenomenon (p) has a reason or not. I first think of a list of possible ...
You're too quick to pass judgment. The precision is there, it's just that your way of looking at math (without infinity and infinitesimals) doesn't al...
You got me! Just a hunch. Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris seem happy and late Christopher Hitchens seemed most pleased with how he rocked ...
Well, this is hard to explain. I'll give it my best shot. Suppose there are things that happen for no rhyme or reason. How would we know? We'll have u...
Can you please expand and elaborate on the Null Hypothesis. Is it like assuming there's no God and then making an attempt to prove God's existence, fa...
How much of meaning do we depend on the divine for? Atheists seem as happy as theists if not more. Where is that void in the hearts of unbelievers tha...
I never could wrap my head around the claim that atheism is a lack of belief and therefore, these very same atheists go on to say, the onus probandi f...
As emancipate pointed out, one possibility is the PSR's axiomatic. However, I suspect there are empirical grounds for the PSR: at a minimum, 99% of th...
Originality is not something I'm known for. Plus, why reinvent the wheel. Tried and tested theories are preferrable to novel ideas that haven't been v...
What's so different about a terrified woman trying to prove to disbelieving cops that there's an invisible man who's framing her and a priest claiming...
Everybody has a picture of the life they want to live and compares that to the life they're living. That's normal, rare are those for whom the two are...
I was thinking more along the lines of... and and Chance as a manifestation of God. God intervenes by manipulating chance. The objective? Probably not...
I concur, the light that once was, of some metaphors, has clearly gone out. Panta rhei: it's an ineluctable consequence of the larger process of chang...
Yep, I remember how I tried to modernize Plato's Allegory of the Cave and simply couldn't find anything in today's world that could replace "shadows" ...
Indeed! Maybe metaphors occur as systems e.g., I juat found out, theatrical metaphors ("All the world's a stage..."; Shakesepeare) could limit one's u...
Metaphors are, as presented in the OP, basically analogies - comparing one thing to another, emphasizing how they resemble each other (so much). The p...
Immanuel Kant, if accounts of him are accurate, was averse to God as traditionally understood, an idea we could mentally manipulate with the aid of lo...
Sam Harris: Mostly focuses on the ills of religion (terrorism, oppression of women, and so on) Christopher Hitchens: Ditto Daniel Dennett: Haven't see...
Gandhi demonstrated the falsity of the ol' adage fight fire with fire. Violence has a tendency to spiral out of control i.e. it eventually devolves in...
All I'm saying is, it just dawned on me, alcohol (and tobacco) is/are (a) WMD(s)s, you just don't realize it. Like nuclear power, it has its pros (man...
I did come across that view before; it was Socrates/Plato/Aristotle who said that the body is a prison for the soul, trapping us in the imitation, fla...
:lol: God is a conspiracy theory, oui? There's an invisible, bearded ol' fogey who's pulling all the strings - we're mere puppets and YHWH is the pupp...
So, 1. Information is fundamental to your philosophy. 2. Your aim is to develop a framework or system that allows you to make sense of the world and n...
I dunno why you're trying to say alcohol is not (that) bad, at least not as bad as a WMD. It (alcohol) does have a soothing effect though and soldiers...
Would you say the following is an accurate characterization of your Both/And Principle.? Theism: God Atheist: No God Deist: Yes God but not in the the...
Goals! I recall a video clip in which Daniel Bonevac (philosopher) claims that a goal-oriented mindset may not be the best way to live life. Did he me...
:lol: Not in the least sense interested in the live fast, die young crowd, eh? Look at how Mayflies live (life expectancy 5 mins for females - 2 days ...
:up: I like what you did there. Declare a variable (x) and delineate its functions (job description). The audience is free to assign any value to x. G...
Life is, much to my dismay, one helluva funny joke! My suffering, alas, all for nought! We're straw dogs (chogou) in front of the Tao! X: We need to h...
Weapons are ambiguous in that they can be used both for defense and offense. This rather simple fact underpins the rationale of the arms race. Don't f...
Well, if we view philosophy as simply a conversation, then it doesn't matter much whether we agree or not, right? If, on the other hand, we deem philo...
:up: This takes us back to what Wittgenstein said about ostensive definitions. Suppose X has the "essential" features a, b, c. I point to a coupla ins...
Well, I could never wrap my head around Wittgenstein's "meaning is use" statement. How does one explain the overlap zones that aren't empty? People ha...
Disjunction instead of Conjunction? Yeah, that explains a lot, but, sadly, it amounts to violating the rules of good definitions (as a list of suffici...
Polysemy is necessary, our memory can't handle so many words as there would've been if it were not a feature of human language. Ambiguity, a result of...
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