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Interesting. I definitely agree about the Malick. Just wanted to throw in the homage to Mohammed Ali, when he begins to exercise in the pool Ali in pr...

Those who do admit that. Well, you'll need to tease out a complete argument for why this means there wouldn't be a god. I mean, what's time to a God? ...

It's more like if you steal that wallet it won't be you who enjoys the fruits of that theft. Death is not the quintessense of impermanence, there is n...

I like Zeno's paradoxes. I am not convinced there is no motion. Perhaps it's a quantized universe. The fractions add up to one. Those are two rebuttal...

You're welcome. (if you'd said either Parminides or Heraclitis was wrong I would likely have come in to their defense).

There were likely indigenous people who understood the connection between predator mammals and prey animals, and again, I'd want their knowledge over ...

I am pretty sure the sculptor would know it was the same stuff. The geologist would have, in a certain way, more information about what that stuff is....

Did I say something disrespectful to you? Or am I misreading the parethetical?It seems to me there has been quite a bit of disagreement in the thread....

I guess I see not reason to assume, when writing generally to people in a philosophy forum, that one should assume they are in a torpor. And if we loo...

Thanks. I guess there seem like other possibilities. I don't think Janus' clarification was a dumbed down post. IOW there's no need to apologize, but ...

I responded by saying, amongst other things, that it is not a coherent category. it covers all sorts of phenomena, some rational, some not, some intui...

It has nothing to do with premise one. I think it is clear that this came out of premise two. That's what lead to our discussion of rational appearanc...

sTo me those are quite different ideas. One is that believing in something CAUSES it to become true. The other that a good heuristic for deciding some...

And I never said that anything in your posts had to do with a flat earth. However lots of people went by rational appearances that it was. I was showi...

So, now we have a clarification accepted by Mww Which means we can see if it could have been clearer from the beginning. Note that Janus' explanation ...

I only meant in relation to S's example. I am absolutely sure there are cases of what you mean going on here and in other forums. That's why I think t...

I think there are some assumptions in the OP here. Such as: it was the only purpose, efficiency was necessary or wanted, there cannot be reasons for h...

Yes, it was like threading needles, many, without my reading glasses. Though easier then Derrida.

Thanks. I've read it a few times. I wonder if it might be a failure to communicate well rather than obfuscatory discourse. Now, those are not mutually...

Could you edit in a link to the context. And it did make me laugh and my eyelids got heavy reading it. I think the hypen in the middle of correctness ...

Sure, and that's where cases can help. Especially here where people with some expertise are conversing with others who have little and then others hav...

I don't think the link is right.

Well, that too yes. Sometimes fancy ass words actually represent a concept that is not easy to put in other words and/or saves a lot of time. It can b...

makes me think of relationship. Two people are in a relationship, I mean this in the romantic sense of relationship. But each of them are certainly go...

A suggestion: turn the thread into case studies. While reading other threads come back with what you consider obfuscatory language in a quote, plus a ...

I don't know what you mean by 'rational apprearances' I think it would be good if you define that. And also if you respond to my examples in my previo...

Right that's what I'm saying.But then you face the problem of saying that set X is based on this faculty and sey Y is not, like the importance of the ...

It's not a coincidence that the discoveries in QM and the steep rise in the divorce rate correlate.

I agree. That was an aside on my part, but I think an important one, since some people, not that I asssumed you, think that if there is no moral respo...

Not aware of any of the polytheisms and what their gods are like: look into the Greeks or see what Odin has to deal with. Or even the God of the old t...

It's in the post where I talked about people attributing mathematically infinite and perfect qualities to God- rather than expressively using superlat...

Are we entitled to sex with willing partners and obligated to use birth control`? If yes, and no that we would seem to be entitled to have children. A...

And then there is the age old, maybe what we think we can deduce is not correct. That our limited intelligence/knowledge/perspective can make us judge...

Yes, not morally responsible, however, it would still make sense, for example, for others to note your behavior and, avoid or incarcerate you, for exa...

Not on my part. I do think the other perspective/field will catch things, sometimes, that other scientists might not. I have no position on what most ...

Of course. But in the context of my remark to someone else, my point was 'what is the risk?' I was responding to someone who couched the options in ut...

Sure. But then even that is ok. Especially in the context of the post I was responding to and the one it was.

make sure this is not the only place you give this information out to. Family, friends, a professional, face to face. You may need to protect yourself...

Hopefully you'll one day be able to use the quote function so you don't have to make up so much bullshit. I know you find it hard to believe, but appl...

I am not sure anyone thinks Jabberowockies have any abilities. But, the main issue with your earlier post is that no one is debating the kinds of math...

If what's not my point?

Are there people who believe Jabberwockies are omnicient and the like and a-jabborwokiests have been arguing that omnicient Jabborwockies lead to para...

Sure. I believe what I said was it was not so simple. You couched the issue in utterly simplistic binary terms. The alternative is when discussing the...

I thought you might know where, thanks for the charitable interpretation of my question not request and the sweet message, role modeling future discou...

Oh, sorry. what page is it on?

I don't think it's so simple. You gotta word that law and then the courts wil interpret it and it will change over time and interpretations will vary....

Right. It is precisely to explore ideas and even up to and including speculating is and should be a part of what we do. In that context or course thin...

That's the same false dilemma. and let's go back to the two experts you brought up: Patricia Churchland and Susan Greenfield. The first is a philosoph...

I think that's a false dilemma. And one thing that can be done is for people to take with a huge grain of salt assumptions, even amongst scientists, t...

These are not mutually exclusive arguments. Further the Big Bang, often, or, really it used to often include the idea of a beginning which was part of...