How much do polls reflect the actual state of affairs? I guess there are many stages in a poll where mistakes can occur and the common ones have alrea...
:up: Magnifique! Predicates, essentially properties, entail certain, specific observables. For example if John is good (predicate) then he should be a...
:up: Another qualification that I failed to make. So, my thesis is improving, won't you say? With help from you all of course. Arigato gozaimus. Yeah,...
@"180 Proof" clarified the matter to me in the clearest of terms. There are two kinds of arguments for god(s). 1. Non-scientific arguments e.g. the on...
If I do things faster, I can fit in more activities than before in the same length of time. If you look at individual items in my to-do list, time has...
Update In general, should people be happy or sad, given how the world is and how it works? If the world is predominantly evil, then people should be i...
Darwinian take: only things that are good for evolutionary success (basically reproduction) would have found their into our brain reward system. Ergo,...
Well, it seems I got the wrong end of the stick. The world is, all things said, melancholic! It's all good guys & gals. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem...
What's a lack of belief? Either God exists xor God doesn't exist. There are just two options and we know what theists chose. Atheism claims it didn't ...
So, you would be happy to get an F (0 - 59%) on your report card? :chin: It doesn't make sense, something's off, no? First, how is the tertium quid cl...
No, no, I'd like to do some exploring, I hope Possibility doesn't mind a little "probing" :grin: I'm not a man and neither am I woman, something in th...
The max score is 10. The average is 5.53. What am I missing here? Something surely! If you had a class of students sit for a test and the average scor...
Good call! The average happiness score is 5.53 out of a maximum of 10 (see here). That's like scoring just a little above 50% in an an exam. That's an...
The West has perfected the art of planning, Nothing is left to chance! The Orient is catching on/up. We're atheists with respect to Tyche/Fortuna. The...
I don't know...I don't know. Something doesn't add up here, oui? Why would an all-loving God command heinous acts like that? Didn't those who were com...
:up: To formulate a theory, assumptions are necessary. To make assumptions, one needs a context (a theory). Which came first, assumptions or theories?...
It does (to me). People are identified by their ideas; he's a theist, she's a physicalist, that guy over there is a nihilist, that girl, a realist, so...
Is a news reporter who provides an unbiased account of Nazism a Nazi? Does the mention of eugenics in a book imply that the author advocates eugenics?...
Hitchens' razor! So, you mean to say no one, no philosopher, has even attempted to prove dualism? I didn't know that was allowed in philosophy. What a...
:smile: :up: Isn't that the way it really is? Real people tend be an assortment of ideas - the objective then seems to be not truth, rather coherence,...
What about the necessity for coherence? Any philosophical theory must necessarily jibe with/square with other existing theories, including scientific ...
Well I'd think science has a big role in the proof/disproof of dualism, it being the apogee of materialism, no? :chin: Thanks for the tip though: inte...
Good question. To the extent that I'm aware, the total energy in a system (here the brain) must be explained in physical terms. If dualism were true, ...
Oh, you agree! That's great to know. Just think of it, we put our lives in the hands of abnormal people (AI) every day - everything from internet sear...
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