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I'm thinking of transcendental idealism for Kant where he said we had to start with epistemology and that we could never see things-in-themself which ...

I don't think our thoughts have any causative effect on anything external to us. It seems like an induction problem. I would say there's a general "po...

I think an issue is with treating Truth/Falsity like an objest as Frege did. It creates contradictions by asserting the existence of false things (and...

I get what you're trying to say but the way you're wording it makes it seem like you're making evolution equivalent with existence. It's hard to answe...

Pythagoras coined it right?

I'm just seeing this. Are you saying evolutionary realism is just reality which is non-mystical? Then definitionally that's what it is but there's an ...

What's an evolutionary realist? The nature of causation and definition of evolution is still undefined which is partially why it's a theory still. As ...

There's an issue both ways as in it's "weird" for either position validly. Until a metric is developed so where sc nominees are picked more "objective...

Sometimes the word used is epistemic such as epistemic priviliege (where one is privilieged with a unique epistemic set, or way to deal with reality, ...

I would agree with the distinction between temporal sequentialism and logical sequentialism. I think I'm trying to capture sequentialism in general an...

Yeah that's fair. I think for me causation doesn't inherently need time in order to speak about cause. To me cause is solely the "why" something "is" ...

I agree with the inherent ontological and ethical necessity of man to have an action such as christ did. I don't even mean politically in that we need...

I think perfection is a bit of weasel-y word with no real address one can speak of. I find arguments involving "omni-" prefixes to similarly have issu...

If you want to know why then you can't use quantity to properly divide them. It's self-defeating. A lot of answers have gone over specifically or hint...

If those two people are developing a conception of theism and both are catholics who agree in every other issue except purgatorism, then the fact that...

How much, in that scenario where two catholics disagree on purgatorism vs infernalism, do numbers get involved when they're both monotheists and of th...

You made the claim that polytheism + atheism can equal monotheism and it seemed to be the only measure you offered to arrive at monotheism but intuiti...

I can only say I think using a quantity explanation can't explain the qualia of picking any conception of God (especially if it's the same God per se)...

There's not a problem with it but you demonstrated a naturalist theory of religion and I was saying that it implies anaturalism even if you only use m...

To what you wrote yes.

So religion can be, unsurprisingly, valid with reality and can even inform and intuit how the world fundamentally works. I would say, being charitable...

Also certain religious positions informed math. The astrology which the sumerians developed for farming etc, showed around 360 days a year. This seeme...

I hope you don't mind a slight digression. I think the naturalist/meteorological theory of religion (that man sought religion to explain natural/meteo...

I'm not a continentalist at all but I believe the distinction was between phenomenology (there are objective ways to understand viewpoints, so requiri...

I could give an example in joystick controllers. It requires more than two inputs in any direction. You can use fuzzy logic which gets rid of law of n...

I'd appreciate it if you don't reply to me.

He said at the end of tractatus that "what one cannot say one shouldn't speak of". This was confused by carnap and the austrian school that he was a l...

If being bad at something doesn't preclude admission then it seems to be a general will that allows identification.

I think etymologically we use senses to convey knowledge in general just as a biological derivative. We rely on our senses a lot. If it's prevalent in...

I mean as anybody has said, the issue is clearly meta. There's nothing in even the most perverse of interpretations of Putin that suggest getting rid ...

I think I've got a feel for what you mean.

I agree with this. I think all religions have been developing towards a monotheist conception of Hod because that's what he is and we still have a few...

What's an "OOOO-god"?

The hebrews took a similar henotheist/monolatry route that the greeks did with their patron gods. It allowed a better metaphysical foundation for ethi...

I think it's been over-said that your conversation topic being limited to the 5 essays will never answer your question and that you should've been cle...

Quantity has never meant a change in quality. Monotheism wasn't about getting rid of many gods, it was about having a single foundation. Plato and Ari...

I can go the opposite route. In histories of philosophy they generally include freud who either did detest philosophy or would have detested the label...

Political philosophy is not what politicians practice. I think a very easy finish line is saying you have your own metaphysics which can derive a phil...

Would an ozone generator help? I've got a 24/7 one I use that kills flies or any bug that's dumb enough to get trapped here.

I think he's saying if you have to "pay your dues" to be a philosopher then how does he know if he's paid his dues? The example was studying over a li...

Sure but perspectives would be immaterial here to the question of God's existence or not. For lack of exhaustion, this link deals a bit more into the ...

You said math can be informed by anything and I showed an example where calculus, which is really close to arithmetic, still can't inform arithmetic. ...

I think maybe a more concrete example is how arithmetic informs calculus (you need arithmetic to do calculus but not vice versa). Whether you use a du...

Maybe a distinction between spirituality of your culture and spirituality of you as an individual may help. We would say spirituality of your culture ...

It runs into an induction issue by trying to account for ontological assertions simply through culture (family or macro-cultures). For instance gender...

For theists this isn't a big picture at all (and sometimes ever) for how they deal with religion or spirituality. If it was all they focused on they w...

I think fear can lead to it and I think death is the best expositor of fear for all creatures mostly. I personally don't think "death" is a thing so m...

"Good evidence" is doing a lot of work - the wiki says empirically unfalsifiable which can be reworded as unverifiable here. Belief entails "good evid...

The point, for Russell's teapot, is whether it's verifiable or not - not whether we have reason to believe it's there or not (which was the point of R...

That people can arrive to the concept of theism, but also spirituality, without death. They can use love or sex (as in tantric sex which is spirituali...