So, here, an additional premise about existence is required for a conclusion about existence, yes? But what if the conclusion in the horsey argument i...
No. That only contradicts the conclusion if the conclusion implies that winged horses actually exist. But that alleged implication is exactly what I'm...
You're seriously asking me that? My goodness, of course I agree that a nation (or a union of which a nation is a member) should set and enforce standa...
There's no real comparison to be made, since an objective meaning to life is a chimaera. The subjective meaning is all we have. So, by default, it's m...
No, on the contrary, if the premises are true, it follows that the conclusion is true. There is no counterexample to the conclusion of the argument un...
That's not how validity works. Soundness is about actual truth or falsity. Validity is about assumed truth or falsity. In your example syllogism, unde...
Mighty, powerful, a force, a creator of the universe, able to manifest itself in ways which can be experienced and studied by humans, universal law, t...
You both seem to be conflating communism, the political ideology, with communist states. To my knowledge, there's nothing in communism which says that...
There's no contradiction. It's a paradox at best. All it takes is a little bit of analysis into what is meant, and you should find that there are actu...
No, not to the contrary. I didn't say that the world wasn't complicated. The world is extremely complicated. You're twisting my words. I was saying th...
:lol: It took me a while and several reads to figure out what he was saying, but I think I got it, and it's a lot clearer if you break it up: No, the ...
What? It seems to me that if the premises are true, then the conclusion must also be true. It logically follows. Having read a little more of the disc...
First of all, you need to stop saying that it's unknowable if you're going to tell me about it. That's a blatant contradiction. Second, I'm not saying...
It's not a religion. The best you'll get from me is that it might be like a religion in some ways. Although I think you're stretching it. Scientology,...
It doesn't have to be so bad. It's really simple. There are two options. Option A) make the most of it. Option B) give up. You're constantly overcompl...
Sure. Claims about a concrete God are false or at least unsubstantiated, and claims about an abstract God, even if true, are trivial. Atheists believe...
Or, as I rhetorically asked, should we ban people? And the answer is obviously no. It doesn't have to be a slippery slope all-or-nothing kind of thing...
What a person says reveals how a person thinks, and how a person thinks gives us an insight to how they behave or how they might behave. When I descri...
But what about all the other big mammals? Elephants, hippos, giraffes. And red isn't the only colour. There are other colours too. My favourite colour...
What makes it worse is going into lots of unnecessary detail. You could tell me all kinds of things about astronomy or music, but if the meaning of my...
What I don't get is why you don't just have faith, like you do with God. Why do you bother studying and thinking things through at all when it comes t...
Yes, are you? I can barely believe the lengths to which you're willing to drag your apologetics. (By the way, you can quote someone by highlighting th...
No, that's a misuse of terms. They were ideological, not religious, and their ideology was anti-religious. Communism is not a religion, it's a politic...
Okay. Those sort of statements are ambiguous enough to potentially lead to error, and it doesn't have to be about colour: it could be about virtually ...
No, we do feel the water. We also hear noises and see images. You make it sound as though you do not know what it means to feel water. When we say tha...
Then you must simply not be looking hard enough. Hmm, what possible similarities could there be between a white, male, racist, xenophobic, authoritari...
My thoughts exactly. It's a pet peeve of mine, too. Although it can be of interest to examine what might have gone wrong. This isn't the first time th...
I loathe this kind of thinking. I think that it's one of the biggest fallacies in philosophy. It's an example of begging the question. It's bad form t...
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it already has been. For example, in the Russian and Spanish revolutions. But it pales in comparison to the i...
This is the same bad logic that gun advocates use. You can kill someone with almost anything, therefore we shouldn't ban guns. Guns don't kill people,...
Found it. How many more times do you want me to make it? My point has been made multiple times, and you can find it in my previous comments. If you va...
Methinks you're avoiding the question. I wonder why. You fall under a general category, yes. I'm in the same category. It's the category of residing i...
You're from a developed, first world country in the West, or central Europe, correct? That's all I need to know. I forget where exactly. Austria? Some...
It's not complicated. You said that you wouldn't advocate forgetting theism. I pointed out that you're saying that from a position of privilege, and I...
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