Where to start... Firstly, if you have read Strawson or any of the Ordinary Language philosophers you will have some insight into the conflict there e...
So, if I claimed there was a god and posited that this god was not all powerful, but was responsible for the laws of physics. He was entirely consiste...
An 'all good and loving' creator of cancer, malaria, Aids, famine, Hitler, Pol Pot, earthquakes... ? Sounds a bit disturbing to me. Is it some kind of...
I don't object to the logic of your definitions, but you are making an error in conflating your very logical, and specific definition of Theism/Atheis...
I don't think it's an exception, based on your initial proposition, that faith underlies every belief, it's pretty much something required on a daily ...
No, Position A is completely rational. Where there is no evidence but you need nonetheless to take some action requiring knowledge you must simply bel...
I;m baffled. You said I'm struggling to see how that's not a statement clearly suggesting that an accurate assessment of the Church's virtues is essen...
No, of course, someone brings up that Catholicism is benign... ... and its perfectly on topic, good point to make. Someone brings up some of the atroc...
Of course it refutes your points, you said I gave you examples of them existing before, or in opposition to, the establishment of the church. it doesn...
No, that's my point entirely, you can't have one without the other. Either the Catholic Church is no force for anything whatsoever, or it is a force e...
I still have a problem with 'demon' because of its anthropogenic connotations. Nothing in my understanding of the term 'demon' would predict such cons...
Why? I can list the horrors caused directly by Catholicism - The inquisition, the persecution of 'witches', the sanctioning (and more horrifically, la...
No, I did, it's my opinion of who Buddhists I've spoken to treat his words and how his words are treated here on this thread, as if they alone can tak...
Yes, I don't quite see how my having predicted the outcome of this discussion at the outset has any bearing on the argument. I'm not yet fully aware o...
You've entirely missed the point of what I was saying. There's nothing at all wrong with your interpretation, but how do we know it's the right one? A...
So, here I'm talking about the 'real' evil demon hypothesis, which results from what I said about the public meaning of words. The words 'evil' and 'd...
Yes. It might be easier if we split our terminology into 'hypothesis' and 'explanation'. The Realist hypothesis might be something like "if I open my ...
Yes. It might be easier if we split our terminology into 'hypothesis' and 'explanation'. The Realist hypothesis might be something like "if I open my ...
You don't even need to restrict your search to anthropological factors. Even in something as cold and unemotional as game theory, 'always cheat' basic...
To clarify; We assume we do not personally know what is 'true' (otherwise we would not be seeking the advice of Buddha) - I have no problem with this....
The idea that philosophy is a search for the truth is nonsensical. Bertrand Russell put it best "Science tells us what we can know, but what we can kn...
Well, that all makes complete sense, except for three major problems. 1. You mention confidence, peace, and stability as evidence that the prophet kno...
Is it 'fad'? Maybe 'fob'?... Mmm, 'Fake' has four, can't be that... 'Fraud' is far too long... 'Phoney' doesn't even begin with an 'f' really... OK, I...
OK, so 1. How do we judge soteriological claims then, because there certainly seems to be quite a lot of them around and most are contradictory? 2. Ho...
To an extent, yes, but there's a massive difference between 'sloppy' thinking to justify a position we've already decided to hold, and really good thi...
I'm not at all sure what you might mean by the first sentence. What does intrinsic mean in this context and how can a value be valueless? Wouldn't tha...
It depends if you're taking an ordinary language approach or an analytical one. Either 'moral' is the thing we collectively use the term to describe, ...
It's you who appealed to an objective truth by implying that that parable was definitely 'about something' which I must therefore have shown no insigh...
Can't stand her. No different to religious anti-realists in my opinion. She takes one very general logical truth (we are all rationally self-intereste...
So 'what the parable is about' is an objective truth which people can either have insight on or not. I thought you were set against being dogmatic abo...
So presumably you're comfortable with the idea that we can tell when someone is happy, sad, angry, even though we cannot 'read their minds'. We do not...
Firstly, you're confusing normative morality with meta-ethics. The issue of what 'right' and 'wrong' actually are is meta-ethics, the question of what...
No, of course not because the raft is definitely heavy, ideas aren't definitely heavy. The whole parable is a category error, he's basically saying - ...
No, it's easy to. Do (kill people very strongly suspected of murder) unto others (the others in this case being the population of society as a whole) ...
Do we? What does it mean to live our lives as if death were a certainty, how would someone who didn't think it was a certainty live any differently? D...
I think we're finally converging on a joint understanding which seems like a worthwhile achievement, but I'm not sure what you mean by "That premise i...
No, this is the major problem I have with the general argument (not your argument personally), I do not think that he is meaningfully different, it ha...
I'm going to just respond to this proposition for now because I think it gets to the heart of what I'm trying to say. If the Idealist has the concept ...
The figures you quote are disgraceful and I'm certain there are a hundred more such examples, but I'm not seeing the link you're making between these ...
Only a hundred years ago entire landscapes were planted which the owner would never see come to fruition, orchards, plantations, all projects which wo...
Not at all, 'remaining safe' and 'helping out others' are just two desires among hundreds, the top of which is always 'living in a healthy and co-oper...
Yes, unless we no longer rely on ecosystems for our health and well being (which I admit might be a technical possibility, but a long way off) then th...
No, our intelligence created the car, our stupidity drove it everywhere despite being fully aware of the consequences. Our intelligence devised weapon...
So first, I certainly notice you had mounted a robust critique of both proofs, I think I'm failing to grasp quite what it is about Plantagina's argume...
People have been doing so, though just not by name. gurugeorge's argument about the camera is the corroboration argument, no matter what device we use...
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