“The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.” — Thomas Huxley Refraining from belief without sufficient evidence is ...
What you describe seems to be a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_problem. It is dealt with in computability theory. (That is computer science, d...
I don't know how you connect your examples to philosophy as they are easily (and only) solvable by mathematics. For each possible action you simply ad...
It is that we want to keep the axioms in the most basic form possible. ~A != A (or ~A = A is false) are derived statements that can be simplified to A...
Such an opinion can only be formed through extreme bias. Of course, malicious actions stand out but that is the bias. You don't read it in the news wh...
Of course we should - but not by committing suicide. Humanity is destructive through its numbers, its ignorance and its inability to elect honest lead...
Sure, humans are destructive, but humans are also currently the best bet to leave earth and expand into space, securing the continuation of life after...
So the logically correct formulation of @"creativesoul"'s answer would be "anything" according to the ex falso quodlibet principle. The moon would con...
Wow, heavy stuff. I don't know if I understood what that was all about but .. "Just as, in axiomatic formulations of logic (“Frege systems” or “Hilber...
Have you ever studied formal systems? Every formal system needs a set of axioms which can't be proven within the system. Mathematics relies on the "be...
I have a few thoughts about existence. I made an OP about them on another site. They may exceed the topic of this thread but may fit into your older t...
According to Catholic theology the Trinity is "God". Neither of it's components are. And when you try to diverge and say that "The Father is God" and ...
That's why I wrote "at least". We are not talking about absolute certainty or even only 1 ? certainty. In the example we have at least 90% uncertainty...
That, of course, assumes faithful actors and a will to share and gain knowledge and acceptance of equality. But given those, it is not a matter of tas...
Even if you are right, it is irrelevant to the topic at hand. We don't deal with the last man on earth, we deal with a myriad of god claims and the po...
That's enough for my purpose. The lack of consensus is a symptom of an unsuccessful hypothesis. Imagine the following scenario: on a conference 10 exp...
That is right. I think it is fair to ask the believers to come to a common definition among their "in-group" before they address the "out-group". And ...
Yes, it does. If not theoretically, then practically. In science we see a theory as accepted when there is a consensus. We don't require 100% acceptan...
Do we? There have been a plethora of gods in the past (and some in the present) that are claimed to be real. We don't have to look farther than Christ...
Someone once defined knowledge as "justified, true, belief". Not the best definition but it will do for the argument. The other important thing is tha...
That question somehow didn't come up. I guess they would have agreed about that god could or did create the universe but they were already fighting ov...
How so? Don't they believe in a god? What makes them unfit to partake in the debate? Which religions and/or denominations are competent to define godh...
The inability of god believers to come up with a consensus of the properties of "god(s)". There are 41,000+ denominations in Christianity alone. I did...
Even with that hypothesis (which I don't ascribe to), you haven't justified your preference for economic liberties over civil liberties. In fact, for ...
Correct, it seems we are on one page now. It wouldn't directly disprove Agnosticism but it would deprive me of my best Argument. The obvious existence...
I'm with you so far. And here we may depart. Who do you think "the state" is? Yep. True again. But if you want to have roads, someone has to build and...
But then you are interfering with my right to sit on the street and the company was interfering with my right to bathe in the river without getting po...
That's the problem. Especially in QM the second option of the OP is valid. Everybody is wrong. Models only ever describe part of reality, the better m...
Not all of them (though from my point of view, most people are normal). We have our share but by far not as many as the US has. We make up for the num...
"As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itsel...
If there are no structures of control, the wannabe plutocrats are going to create them. Once you have riches, you want them secured lest the masses co...
In addition to the good advice by the other participants: Know your audience! Using termini technici can shorten and thus clarify a discussion among y...
Why is it so hard to give up on the arbitrarily invented traits of an imagined entity, even, or especially, when they have been shown to be impossible...
At t1 and that has been shown. Measurements in decoherence experiments like the delayed quantum eraser are done by computers (the effects are much too...
Whoever said that was misinformed. It is the measurement that collapses the wave function, no consciousness necessary. And the measurement is any inte...
What can we do? Assume an unfaithful interlocutor and put them on ignore immediately? That goes against Hanlon's Razor. So we try to teach them logic ...
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