Don't be so quick to dismiss the galaxy as worthless. You know that life on earth evolved in an environment that includes galactic influences, be it m...
:lol: I forgot what testosterone does to the body. I believe it increases muscle mass (bodybuilders), makes you (hyper)aggressive, hairier, horny, etc...
I knew some really good-bad people who could've made offers I couldn't possibly have refused. They never put me in a position that could jeopardize me...
:lol: :lol: Now that I think of it, I should really consider a reevaluation of me values and overall direction of my forum life. I'll treat the suspen...
True, true. Then there's something different about crypto. Does it bypass some regulations? It must otherwise it's just a geeky way of doing regular b...
Methinks the reason why there were no police & laws in the past is the very same reason why we need police & laws now. The morally-challenged were evo...
It's just a matter of time before regulators swoop down on alternate banking systems. A coupla million is peanuts, but let the volume of cryptos hit t...
I wonder how the concepts of lumen naturale (reason alone), lumen fidei (revelation), and lumen gratiae (divinely assisted reason) are related to Plan...
Logic is basically, as one author so eloquently put it, the art of thinking well. The point, as far as I can see, to logic is establish a connection b...
Confiteor, I've been suspended thrice. I feel like Puss in Boots against :death: in the new animation The Last Wish (released 2023). This is me last l...
God has been compared to a Leprechaun by some very clear-headed thinkers who were puzzling over the fact that there's no aleprechaunism (as a label fo...
Can we not use a variation of Euthyphro's dilemma against Plantinga's insightful argument? Is our logic reliable because God wills it OR does God will...
Science & economics have made living easier, not better. Is this advancement/progress? In a sense yes - why burden 100 people with 1 bulldozer's work?...
God is merciful mon ami! :death: :flower: I don't know how the system actually works, but there's a price to pay for everything - some are willing to,...
I believe you're close to the truth. From an evolutionary standpoint, it (selfishness) seems critical to survival, but from ethics, it's a prime evil/...
I blame all our problems on the wiseguy who, 10,000 BC, went "hey guys, why not grow our own food?" My personal opinion is that human individualism th...
God is merciful! El Rachum! :fire: :up: Evolution may be blind but we definitely are not (re Gregor Mendel and his peas, dog/horse/sheep/cattle breede...
The site you linked me to requires authorization which I don't know how to get. Can you provide more, a paragraph or two, for me to work on. I know Ar...
Downloaded the file. Gracias. True that determining/assuming the truth value of a proposition requires semantics - only after having understood the me...
Like you keep reminding us, logic is grammar i.e. syntax (rules) are its stock-in-trade; the semantics is either ignored or is secondary e.g. I believ...
:up: Superb! Like you've said countless times - your philosophy, despite borrowing some ideas from religion, doesn't offer salvation or succor from gr...
@"Banno", do you notice any issues having to do with the fact that logic in the context of the issue being discussed in this thread is pure symbol man...
Those are good questions. I guess it would depend on, inter alia, the studier's goals and/or, colloquially speaking, brains and/or circumstances. I'll...
Permit me to take a stab at that. Properties 1. Essential i.e. critical to identity e.g. the 3 sides + the 3 angles of a triangle. 2. Incidental i.e. ...
Apologies, as you can see some philosophical terminology are new to me and now that you explained what it is that you were trying to convey, I concur ...
@"Banno" Perhaps @"Mww" doesn't agree that once x = y is observationally confirmed, \Box (x = y) (tautology). Does s/he mean that if, observationally ...
First, thanks for the awesome link. I'll need it. Does the site also explain the rules and latest notations of natural deduction? Second, yep, it's a ...
I understand and just a suggestion, if the aim is to bring science and religion under one roof, you must pay heed to objections/criticisms/opposition ...
I have a feeling superposition means something more than uncertainty. Is it that simple? If I think there's a 50% chance that it'll rain, I don't usua...
@"Gnomon" COMPUTER ALGORITHM (Information as the arche) Start 1. Plan 2. Material, acquire 3. Build, with material & as per plan 4. Purpose End Chicke...
:up: On target mon ami. It's quite odd that a few of these scientists write so badly, leaving the door wide open for misinterpretations of all and sun...
:grin: I understand. I was especially moved by how science, as demonstrated by you in your last post to me, can so effortlessly and so heartlessly red...
From a fractal POV, our problems will be of the same type, only this time a hundred or a thousand fold magnified. Our resources of course, of course, ...
You mean to say our universe is the radix of all other universes and so, if something violates the laws of our universe, it can't exist in any of the ...
Precisely. The Athenians were well-aware of and allowed, even encouraged, philosophy & philosophers (how else did it floruit and spread all over the g...
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