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In: Free Will  — view comment
Mulgere hircum, eh? Non sono mica Mandrake! For someone who seems willing to test his/her own limits, cognitive or otherwise, you seem a bit (too) con...
March 23, 2022 at 08:50
In: Sophistry  — view comment
Sophistry is this: gift-wrapped horseshit! Philosophy is this: pearls of wisdom, with/without a velvet-lined top-of-the-line case.
March 23, 2022 at 08:44
It just feels wrong. Your claims are not proportionate to your evidence is what I'd have said if it was any other day except you don't even mention an...
March 23, 2022 at 08:38
In: Free Will  — view comment
Flip a coin! Roll a die! Or something.
March 23, 2022 at 08:36
:lol: I like your confidence, misplaced though it seems! Break a leg.
March 23, 2022 at 08:31
I'm a bit troubled by the level of certainty in your pronouncements.
March 23, 2022 at 08:30
So god, nirvana, brahman, etc., are simply various ways of talking about the same thing or even different aspects of the same thing, this thing being ...
March 23, 2022 at 08:29
I don't know if it helps your case but belief isn't knowledge, it's just one of three conditions for knowledge (JTB theory) and that being so, proof i...
March 23, 2022 at 07:45
March 23, 2022 at 07:24
Darwinian sorcery! Should I be happy that someone at least pretended to love me rather than just not love me at all? As per fiction, no! Actors someti...
March 23, 2022 at 07:22
I heard it from you. Imprinting, sorry! https://youtu.be/JGyfcBfSj4M
March 23, 2022 at 07:14
Was William of Occam (novacula occami) a solipsist?
March 23, 2022 at 07:10
@"Wayfarer" :fire: Of late, I've been noticing that my ship seems to have drifted into the gravity well of Christianity. I'm left-handed and so the si...
March 23, 2022 at 07:04
At least someone's having fun around here! :up:
March 23, 2022 at 06:51
:sad: Double trouble. It never rains, it pours.
March 23, 2022 at 06:49
That's what a certain subgroup of scientists would say. Those who're in the business of description of nature. However, I believe there are some who a...
March 23, 2022 at 06:37
:up:
March 23, 2022 at 06:32
We should sail there immediately! :lol:
March 23, 2022 at 06:30
That's not the same thing. Freddy's madness would've percolated, like good tea, throughout his work and if his warped logic makes sense to you, someth...
March 23, 2022 at 06:29
You too! :sad:
March 23, 2022 at 04:46
Slave morality. Democritus believed that (modernizing his words) it's better to have the gun pointed at you than you pointing the gun at someone (cons...
March 23, 2022 at 04:46
:lol: You mean to say we're putting stock in the writings of a madman? Very good point, sir/madam! Does this mean @"180 Proof" that if Freddy makes se...
March 23, 2022 at 04:38
How? Agreed that it can't make the case that it's rational to be rational on pain of circulus in probando. I'm telling you, I'm speaking the truth! Ho...
March 23, 2022 at 04:34
All roads lead to Rome? Maybe not! Tim Toady? Yep, that fits like a glove. Religions, what unites them all? In my humble opinion the Platonic Form of ...
March 23, 2022 at 04:20
Ietsism/Somethingism. Ietsism, as far as I can tell, is proto-religion. Over the course of history, that something in somethingism was assigned the va...
March 23, 2022 at 04:05
Yep, blame Canada language. There are no (true) paradoxes and if anyone claims that there are, prove it to them that they're misusing language (semant...
March 23, 2022 at 03:49
Why? Am I now on your ignore list? :smile: Ask @"SophistiCat", s/he has a browser add-on that lets you avoid certain posters you feel don't contribute...
March 23, 2022 at 03:38
Hi Jack Cummins. Good to see you back in action. To the extent I'm concerned, I won't deny the law of attraction, but I'd like to tweak it a bit, you ...
March 23, 2022 at 03:27
Read the link. A good-enough-for-government-work explanation for why polytheism was swapped for monotheism: Dread (of more calamities, catastrophes, Y...
March 22, 2022 at 19:01
But I haven't failed monsieur! :chin: I rank/rate creativity highly, right up there with reason & knowledge. The reason it seems to have dropped out o...
March 22, 2022 at 18:35
One-size-fits-all meaning to life would mean all except one of us is a redundancy, it's overkill I tell you. Please do the needful, whoever draws the ...
March 22, 2022 at 18:29
:rofl: It wasn't me, it couldn't have been me! I was dead! I was on the moon!
March 22, 2022 at 18:21
That's all that matters, no? I could be wrong of course. Just curious, you mention two criteria 1. Knowledge 2. Reason Why these two only? Creativity?...
March 22, 2022 at 18:16
Thank you. :smile:
March 22, 2022 at 17:56
Beware of adopting principles which when applied to yourself will only get you an F-.
March 22, 2022 at 17:53
That's setting the bar too high in my opinion and your "website" will get fewer, even though high quality, hits if you catch my drift. Also you'll mis...
March 22, 2022 at 17:31
The OP is onto something. Despite my misgivings as to Wittgenstein's theory of language vis-à-vis philosophy at all levels, from the man on the Clapha...
March 22, 2022 at 15:59
:chin: No, no, he has a point. Atheism isn't something one simply picks up off a shelf in some cheap store. Most intellectuals worth their salt are at...
March 22, 2022 at 15:48
Hermes commits seppuku: Trust the guy who warns you that he can't be trusted!
March 22, 2022 at 15:13
God exists, that's for certain. Unfortunately or not, he's infinitely old and as we speak is self-treating (omniscient) Himself for senile dementia (c...
March 22, 2022 at 14:52
Anaximander! I recognize you! Don't eat fish, they're our ancestors. Wittgenstein, though he thoughtfully warned us of bewitchment of our intelligence...
March 22, 2022 at 12:10
You haven't made the case while I've repeatedly pointed out to you the mathematically relevant words "poly", "mono" and "a", all prefixes to "theism" ...
March 22, 2022 at 12:07
In: Free Will  — view comment
Can you not imagine doing the exact opposite to what you actually do? In the little experiment I performed on myself, tobacco, I don't touch that stuf...
March 22, 2022 at 12:01
It's hard to say but Hume did point out that creation could've been a team effort, and if memory serves, he didn't even call the members gods. There's...
March 22, 2022 at 09:20
If you say so EugeneW.
March 22, 2022 at 09:05
:lol:
March 22, 2022 at 06:34
:lol: Sabrá Mandrake!
March 22, 2022 at 06:32
Agreed, but that's a subtopic. What does all this have to do with what I said? :ok: However, I'm not saying that numbers (poly, mono, a, theism) matte...
March 22, 2022 at 06:31
:smile: Private languageish! Wittgenstein would approve/disapprove, can't tell for sure. @"T Clark" Well?
March 22, 2022 at 06:00
Go on... Polytheism vs. Monotheism vs. Atheism? Explain why, if quantity is not an issue, religions are classified numerically.
March 22, 2022 at 05:59