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I need some kind of reason or justification for assigning probability to the value P(H), P(E/H) or P(H/E). I have no good reasons or justifications fo...
December 27, 2022 at 17:43
Entropy always increases in a closed system. Life is not a closed system - it is interacting with the other parts of the universe all the time. For ex...
December 27, 2022 at 17:35
I put forward that the base on which Wittegenstein has learnt his language, was itself formed through ostensive definitions. Watch how any very young ...
December 24, 2022 at 14:21
Isn't this the difference between what is, and what we know is? And (apart from in some philosophies), those two things are not the same. As far as I ...
October 27, 2022 at 22:59
I disagree, I think it is necessary that it is a fact that makes a proposition true. But I think that is for another discussion, perhaps a "what does ...
October 27, 2022 at 19:32
I don't see two humans having two different beliefs as contradictory. They are two different people, and thus there is no contradiction if they have t...
October 27, 2022 at 19:28
Is not a preposition that is true, linked to a fact? That fact really objectively exists, if nothing else. I don't think you can have a true prepositi...
October 24, 2022 at 12:27
The issue I have with logical arguments about a omnipotent/omniscient/can make contradictions true God can be seen using an (imperfect) analogy. I hav...
October 24, 2022 at 11:13
We would have to accept our ignorance and either give up, or look for another tool other than logic to analyses the statement. But this confusion come...
October 24, 2022 at 11:06
Is there a truth value to "Objective reality is not a question of fact." If there is a truth value to the above statement, does that not show objectiv...
October 24, 2022 at 10:49
I thought about another piece of logic that may help (or may not!) Premise 1: God is capable of making contradictions true Premise 2: X is unjust Prem...
October 18, 2022 at 20:33
To be clear, my issue is with your statement: " He could make any two contradictory things possible at the same time if he so desires." If this is tru...
October 18, 2022 at 20:11
Just because we use the donkey logic, and it makes sense to us, doesn't mean it is correct. We could still use a broken system and happily accept the ...
October 18, 2022 at 20:03
But our system of logic cannot cope with contradictions. See my above post with an example.
October 18, 2022 at 18:43
True that scenario could happen. Or indeed some mechanism where the ignorance is time limited. A question I have would be, can anyone else in the posi...
October 18, 2022 at 18:39
Here is an example of a piece of logic. Premise 1: I get letters if and only if the postman visited Premise 2: I got letters today Conclusion: The pos...
October 18, 2022 at 17:26
We would not know they are the correct outcomes, as the system we are using to understand and evaluate it is faulty. I.E what you or I think is the co...
October 18, 2022 at 17:15
But a world in which contradictory things can happen, is not the world described by logic. So if contradictory things can really happen, then there is...
October 18, 2022 at 17:00
No I'm saying the system would be faulty. Using a faulty system, you can get results that looks correct in the system, but are not actually correct.
October 18, 2022 at 16:59
It would just mean that our logic system is faulty. What we use as a logical system, is a flawed system. I don't think our current logic system can su...
October 18, 2022 at 16:51
But if we take that God can make contradictory things happen, Then that we see "donkeys are grey" and "donkeys are small" can both happen at the same ...
October 18, 2022 at 16:38
But in this scenario, God is not really powerless, is he? For he has the power to take back his all encompassing powers, otherwise he will be stuck fo...
October 18, 2022 at 16:23
The issue I have with any arguments that attribute these kind for characteristics to God, is that those very characteristics then render moot any foll...
October 18, 2022 at 16:06
And this is not as science fiction as one might think at first. They did some experiments where they artificially stimulated mice brains to give them ...
October 18, 2022 at 14:24
It makes sense to explore scenarios, sure. What I have explored has not led to any reason to believe in a God, but who knows if I may one day find som...
October 16, 2022 at 19:19
You are right. As it is, this is all an academic discussion for me, so I can afford to ignore the bitterness of the pill. However if I did believe in ...
October 16, 2022 at 18:52
What I am saying is that if you are starting off with an omniscient God (as you did mention in your OP), then by the very attribute you ascribed to Go...
October 16, 2022 at 17:48
In that framework, we would have to assume that your and my understanding of who is an asshole is wrong compared to God's superior omniscient understa...
October 16, 2022 at 17:31
I am well outside my comfort zone on religious philosophy and I am not even arguing for my own view. But I will give it my best shot. If god is omnisc...
October 16, 2022 at 17:21
I am not religious. But to play devils advocate (in a post about God!), if you take God to be omniscient then God has a better understanding of what i...
October 16, 2022 at 17:06
It is better than the alternate - rule by the few that control the best army. At least we have rule of the few who have to be selected in a ballot by ...
October 16, 2022 at 16:30
And we learnt from history and have democratic government, as least in some places. But I also reject your notion that history does not look kindly on...
October 16, 2022 at 16:25
And if you were to look at history, it is pretty clear that there are plenty of people out there who would be happy to take over your home, by hook or...
October 16, 2022 at 16:20
And what if I reject your justification? Well today we have a government, a court of law, a police to arbitrate between the two of us. In you vision, ...
October 16, 2022 at 16:01
I would agree with this most of the time. It is well known among teaching circles that getting a student to explain their understanding of a concept (...
October 16, 2022 at 14:53
Einstein's explanation is the best we have, but I'm not sure we have reached the most fundamental understanding of gravity yet.
October 16, 2022 at 14:44
I have thought previously about what exactly comprises a mechanism of causation. And I keep finding that the mechanisms of causation are themselves cl...
October 15, 2022 at 15:06
Oui. An analogy of one interpretation is to imagine a wave in a pond. It makes no sense to say the wave is at one particular location at coordinate (x...
October 15, 2022 at 14:40
I agree that it represents our ignorance, but I would say it is about our ignorance of what it means to be located in a place. Our macroscopic intuiti...
October 15, 2022 at 00:04
Ok, maybe I misunderstood the argument you were making. When you started with "Modern ethical principles," I took that to be the dominant ethical prin...
October 14, 2022 at 22:23
I guess the crux of this matter is to what extend everyday human ethics should also apply to animals. You take the position that it should apply almos...
October 14, 2022 at 21:37
Causation is fiendishly difficult (or is it impossible?) to directly observe. Most (all?) of the time we observe causation in some process, what we ar...
October 14, 2022 at 21:31
Something that perks my curiosity, is the possibility (or is it a certainty?) that future generations may view us as savages for something that we can...
October 13, 2022 at 21:00
I get this. But how do I know other people are also not just an illusion simulated by my mind? For me experientially, it is only my consciousness that...
October 13, 2022 at 00:05
Yes my understanding of Descartes is similar to yours, though I too am by no means an expert on this. I am not a solipsist in any way. However I am cu...
October 12, 2022 at 23:11
Yes, If the source of all certainty is "I think therefore I am," then all there is, is what I think. But there is no reason for me to infer from that ...
October 12, 2022 at 22:47
Exactly. And I experience other people through the material world the same as I experience a boulder (light, sound, etc). If I doubt that material wor...
October 12, 2022 at 21:59
What I don't understand is why all idealists are not also solipsist. My interaction with all other people is through the material world. I can't direc...
October 12, 2022 at 21:24
Are you not saying (if you allow me to put it in my own words): "Idealism is true ... to an extent! You really don't want to doubt the external realit...
October 12, 2022 at 21:18
Certainly, and given the title of the poem, I think that is what the author intended as well. Mind you, the beauty of "No news is good news" is it can...
October 06, 2022 at 21:09