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Angelo Cannata

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Your premise is wrong: monotheism was not born after reasoning that one God is able to do everything. Monotheism was born because one God prevailed ov...
March 21, 2022 at 08:18
You are confusing knowledge with possibility of knowledge. For example, you can get knowledge of how to play the piano, but the existence of this poss...
March 20, 2022 at 21:21
Self-criticism. This is my way. If a person practices self-criticism, that person cannot be so destructive, because that person will continuously ask ...
March 20, 2022 at 19:01
Every religion has different ideas about God, and even inside the same religion there are commonly different and even opposite ideas about God. To wha...
March 20, 2022 at 15:24
This objection works if we consider relativism in a static way, as it was something conclusive, like a system of ideas, an ideology. I think a lot of ...
March 20, 2022 at 00:32
Both positions are subjective and both are relative: they are both relative to your evaluation and you are in both cases the subject who evaluates thi...
March 20, 2022 at 00:05
We cannot analyze our brain without using it at the same time. So, how can we consider it as an object, since, as soon as we try to do this, we are au...
March 19, 2022 at 23:44
Math problems and logic are thought by our minds, then we attribute them to the world and we think that they are universal, as the world is shaped acc...
March 19, 2022 at 23:20
In philosophy there is not more or less universal. If something is universal it means that it is able to prove itself the same to everybody, everywher...
March 19, 2022 at 22:44
Talking about particular domains does not imply the assumption that there is a universal domain. Nothing is universal for relativists. Rather, referen...
March 19, 2022 at 22:25
It is just because I had read Wikipedia that I made my question: the quoted entry of Wikipedia - doesn’t say “Relativism doesn't deny "objectivity" - ...
March 19, 2022 at 21:58
Can you mention any source saying exactly what you said?
March 19, 2022 at 21:54
If I say that “flying horses” do not exist, this does not mean that for me “flying horses” means something different; on the contrary, exactly by sayi...
March 19, 2022 at 21:25
You are confusing criticism towards objectivist philosophies with the meaning of the word “objective”. Of course relativism is a philosophy that think...
March 19, 2022 at 21:22
Can you mention at least one philosophy or one dictionary, apart from your exclusive one, that means the word “objective” as “dependent on the subject...
March 19, 2022 at 21:02
This is not what you find if you look for “objective” in any dictionary. See, for example, here: “In most of its common uses, objective is contrasted ...
March 19, 2022 at 20:36
You can say this in everyday life language, which is a language that doesn't need to be exact, precise. But, if you want to talk in a proper philosoph...
March 19, 2022 at 17:35
Whatever objective you think you found is interpreted by you, so how can you say that it is objective?
March 19, 2022 at 10:08
Even our idea of natural selection, however we describe it, is a human interpretation. Even when we support our ideas with scientific evidence, it is ...
March 18, 2022 at 22:12
It looks like you are confusing how things work when we try to explain nature by logic. When we are able to predict the behaviour of an object, or an ...
March 18, 2022 at 15:45
Any argument in this world, including theistic and non theistic arguments, can be easily demolished with some criticism. For example, no argument is a...
March 16, 2022 at 19:33
According to Lewis’ argument - the planet earth is flat, because those who believed it was flat weren’t lunatics, nor liars; - the ancient Egyptian Ph...
March 16, 2022 at 19:33
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I would like to understand what you are arguing about.
March 14, 2022 at 12:25
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I think that Descartes failed in finding something able to resist the attack of doubting. His reasoning is exposed to a lot of criticism, it can be ea...
March 14, 2022 at 09:37
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I think that any agreement or disagreement from other people can’t set any ultimate support abot reality, because, ultimately, whatever they say is in...
March 14, 2022 at 01:58