Agent Smith

Yep, if history is a reliable record.

No specific issue I want to discuss; just thought it might be an interesting convo piece.

Why are the miracles comprehensive as in touches all the major branches of science + math and also anticipatory in re them? It's as if Jesus knew he h...

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I wanted to copy that predicate logic statement. It can't be done! :lol:

\forall x(Lx \to \exists y(Py \land (Gxy \lor Fxy)))

:up: I'm unaware of the reason for the inference from improbable to agency (god/man behind the curtain). Improbable doesn't imply impossible. Now if a...

Deus misericors est.

You decide for yourself Jack. :smile:

:rofl: In @"180 Proof"'s case time has taken something, but not its usual ... toll! Awesome! El Rachum!

@"180 Proof" & @"Gnomon" Corrigendum (of sorts) In Christianity and by extension in religion as a whole, there's ample room for the skeptic ( re Doubt...

Your honor, I believe the trick to good health is to get the right disease. :lol:

Those are tough questions your honor :smile: The struggle against Foolery (re 180 Proof) is a lost cause, you know that. Simple math based on the fact...

When we combine these various worldviews, we're in essence trying to harmonize the rational with the irrational; let's face it, irrationality plays a ...

:up: Good move o grandmaster. So Enformationism basically brings together the various strands of worldviews/philosophies out there, two major ones bei...

Harm has (classically) been defined in terms of suffering. So if you cause suffering, you're harming.

You made a claim and it seems possible. How did I miss the point and I couldn't possibly be begging the/any question because ...

Proof for modal realism (courtesy St. Anselm of Canterbury) 1. All possible worlds is "that than which nothing greater can be conceived" 2. If all pos...

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I haven't been able to get me hands on arguments for modal realism - I assume it's just a position one adopts, kinda like how one believes in God sans...

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We're all in the same boat mate! The song is like a website - you havta know how to listen to it!

My destiny is to have no destiny?! :chin:

:smile: You mean to say Gnomon's reading The Book of Life backwards! Awesome! :cool:

:smile: @"Gnomon" is no fool. If anything his website which I visit on occasion and his posts indicate erudition, intelligence and experience . I can'...

Well, I would have to agree.

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Given that we're doing metaphysics, I suppose my and others' very non-metaphysical criticisms are out of place. Reminds of @"Bartricks"'s rule: it has...

:up: I don't consider myself destiny material mon ami! A person who has a destiny is a great person and no, I'm not an ape. :cool:

What? Me thread has been moved to the lounge? How depressing! We aren't making any progress Jack - you seem to concur with my views, more or less that...

I was asking for your views on Moore's argument; didn't mean to say you were a subscriber to Moore. I read the Wikipedia article. His argument is basi...

The more the merrier, eh? I'm not ruling out chance in phenomena, I just don't think it can be a cause.

It is what it is! :cool:

C'mon guys & gals. Principia Ethica was written/published in 1903 (120 years ago). Have we learned nothing in 1.2 centuries?

I would like to ask you why a perfectly serviceable definition based on joy/suffering is circular (re Moore)? Does Moore mean that good is bringing jo...

Interesting. But I wanna know why Moore thinks good is (just) good? What are the implications of this claim for ethics? Carrying an empty sack?

Good can't be defined? That's a really nice place to start a discussion on ethics, oui? Good is good? :chin:

You're on a roll! :cool:

:up: I agree. Consider the following then. Take a die, any die (do you play Ludo?), and roll it n times (don't waste yer time actually doing it of cou...

Predestination - what criteria do we lay down for it? Does it mean chance, no such thing?

:grin: The article is quite clear - genetic mutations are random. However mutations have specific causes - mutagens. Chance is not the cause of mutati...

Superb! :clap: :clap: I believe your arch foe is William of Occam; metaphysics was always a bit superfluous. What if I told you that Enformy is a phan...

So, you can predict evolution's selection pressure parameters and the mutagen-mutation correlation is +1? Can you explain ... please? :up: The point i...

Ok, does that mean you concur (with what I said)? Why? "I don't know" is a legit answer. @"Harry Hindu" once edified me as to what probability actuall...

Alice is an archetype and what does she possess?

Mr. Anderson is mad of course, but shhh, don't tell anyone! :cool:

My heart goes out to the chicken! :rofl: :pray: :death: :flower: Beautiful story @"180 Proof". :up:

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:smile: Pepe (Asterix in Spain)

God has been equated with chance (re Marcus du Sautoy/mathematician). The Greeks had a goddess of luck (Fortuna). However the Greeks never, to my know...