Come off what? Yes, I could have made the point in a less provocative way, but since when has whether or not there's a point depended on that? Are you...
And that was a serious point. Either address it properly or don't bother replying. That should be a rule of thumb. Whenever you get the urge to do not...
The floor wasn't clean enough, really, but I didn't eat the bits that were covered in visible dirt. I was also really hungry and there was also nothin...
A similar thing happened to me only a couple o' weeks ago. I bought a pizza from Aldi, and when I went to take it out of the oven, the base completely...
Fuck, lol! I just set the oven to pre-heat for 5 minutes, put my pizza in to cook for 8 minutes, then, once that time had passed, went to take out my ...
Yeah, and maybe those tin foil hat wearing folk have experienced the presence of extraterrestrials. I assume you've never experienced telepathy from e...
Nah, I wouldn't say that someone who believes that they have direct access to God is about as crazy as someone who believes that they're a fried egg. ...
For starters, my standard disqualifies logical fallacies, and your argument commits multiple fallacies. I've already told you what would be required, ...
I find that naive for a few reasons. There isn't an on-and-off switch, and there are other important things besides happiness. I'd rather be a little ...
Nah. I still think it's you. Why pick on science teachers rather than, say, math teachers? It would be just as inappropriate to be all philosophical a...
They don't amount to what you'd need to make your argument work. Well, I think it has, so you can go over what I've already contributed and raise a sp...
It's equally old and seems to have settled the matter for a very long time right up to the present. You haven't been able to overcome the objections t...
Yet you're clinging to an argument that was refuted way back in the 18th century. The main thrust of Philo's argument is applicable today, as it was b...
I think you're being uncharitable towards science teachers, and I suspect that the problem has more to do with your expectations rather than the way t...
It's worse than that. The PSR posits a necessity. Even if there are reasons for everything, that doesn't mean that there must be. There are reasons fo...
No, because that'd be a hasty generalisation. I've seen that this error has already been explained to you, yet you persist in making it. Why? Giving a...
The PSR is not a scientific principle. If it's true that there must be a reason, then that rules out the possibility of exceptions. If you assume it t...
Ironic. But in doing so, you're making the same error as do the theists you refer to above. You're pushing these flawed arguments, and at the same tim...
Wait, how can you reconcile being a proponent of the PSR and accepting that there could be exceptions? That's inconsistent. The PSR rules out the poss...
Your point about emotions and motivation. My views, and everyone else's, are most likely affected to at least some extent by emotions and motivations....
You'd need to do that with everything and every possibility. I'm saying that there are possible exceptions, and have referred to examples. I think I m...
I have already done so. I also said that that in itself means next to nothing, and that I find that possibility implausible. In this discussion there ...
Straw man. I'll just simply say that if you have a disregard for logic, then I do not have a serious interest in what you have to say. That's ambiguou...
Yes we can. I don't need to be Spock to be able to separate my feelings from my thoughts to the extent that I am able to avoid the fallacy of appealin...
Good for you, but this isn't the time or the place for that. This is a philosophy forum. If you want to share your feelings, but you're averse to crit...
It's a silly question, so it deserves a silly answer. Yes, logic is my God. I worship it five times a day and pray to it whenever things don't go my w...
Ah, so you've returned, and your false dichotomies have returned with you, I see. Your black and white thinking has been a recurring problem throughou...
I only went as far as claiming that they could be brute facts, not that they are. That's more warranted than either position unless and until there's ...
Any gap in our knowledge with regards to a "why" question would be an example. There's either a reason or there isn't. If you claim to know that there...
And don't think I haven't noticed what you avoided addressing, @"TheMadFool". That's bad form. It should be quid pro quo. If you need to more time to ...
Yes, I'm aware that the absurd, in that sense, doesn't imply falsehood. But we were talking about possibility, and then I brought up plausibility. My ...
That would not throw a spanner into the works, since there is very good reason to consider consciousness to be different from the universe. Not anothe...
No, ultimately, the argument, if taken as a whole, is aimed at the God of the scriptures. That I accept. But if you set aside that particular part, an...
Yes, I think that it's at least possible. That's a kind of default position. It hasn't been disproved, as far as I'm aware. But I don't find it plausi...
I don't think that it has, unless the fallacy of composition counts as a type of association fallacy, in which case Terrapin Station identified it, bu...
Actually, in the Dialogues, there is only one part which is about whether this designer is God of the scriptures, as the Internet Encyclopaedia of Phi...
I disagree. Your second paragraph doesn't support your conclusion in the first paragraph, and it actually seems to undermine or even contradict it. A ...
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