I do like the judicial approach of submitting an argument, a response then filed, and then a final reply. The judge (or, better yet, a panel) then hol...
If God is a necessary being, his existence is entailed by the rules of logic. Such is the meaning of "necessary." The statement "God is a necessary be...
This is a different question that what's in the heading. In the heading, you ask if subjecting someone to unnecessary stress is wrong. I think "unnece...
The problem with this thread is that the articles you posted don't conclude that intelligence and happiness are inversely related. Point out specifica...
Your clever reply would have been to quote Genesis 11:1 to 11:9 to me. Should we speak the exact same language, directly without confusion among speak...
Wittgenstein says if the answer cannot be put into words, neither can the question be put into words. Proposition 6.5. See, https://en.m.wikipedia.org...
It would be difficult to distill a consistent Republican philosophy from Nixon to Reagan to Bush Sr., to GW, to Trump, domestically or in foreign poli...
This is a legalistic suggestion, demanding a procedure of its own. Typically precedence doesn't begin ground up from just pure judicial rulings (excep...
Then that's wrong because you just said it, right?, and that was wrong, right?... Truth as we can best say is the best I can say. The noumenal is not ...
Well, I believe in transparency, especially as it relates to public matters. The comments weren't of a personal nature. So we disagree there. It is co...
1+2=3 is a deductive logical construct, obviously differing from empirical truths. Do you not mean that true is what corresponds with reality? But you...
You're too sensitive here, almost a political correct language you're demanding. He uses ensoulment where secularists would refer to it as the moment ...
For full disclosure, the issue regarding procedure arose in the PMs between 180, me, and Banno, especially as it related to who got last close. The ot...
As a kid, on the way to the Georgia coast, we'd drive through Brunswick, with the billowing smoke from the paper mills. I couldn't see how anyone coul...
I lived near a Hormel plant, and when you drove by, it smelled of smoked meat product. Some days you'd get a better dose of it than others, but always...
Procedurally, this debate degenerated into nonsense, due to a lack of a good faith effort by my opponent to debate. He never presented any meaningful ...
You wrote a sentence without a subject and you're asking me to just run with it. Interesting. Maybe I'll dispense with pesky verbs. That like a good i...
I do agree with you here, but don't see this as peculiar to religion and it's not a dispute over theology. You're talking about the violation of other...
There are really solid empirical and scientific reasons not to believe in God. There are also really good personal reasons to believe in God. The syll...
That makes no sense. When you struck out "explanations," you removed the subject from the sentence rendering it meaningless. When you put "I just fed ...
Silence is a choice, but I'm not certain what you're getting at. It's too cryptic for me. EDIT: This conversation about God with an odd interplay with...
I just fed my dog. Give me the 2 complementary explanations of that so I can know what you're talking about. Are you now advocating emergent materiali...
You're saying omnipotence limits God's omnipotence because he's limited in that he can't be limited. We can either say omnipotence is a self contradic...
Oh. I get what you're asking. Can God create a rock he cannot lift? It's the "Is God subject to the rules of logic" question. https://en.m.wikipedia.o...
Lakeside High, suburban Atlanta, named after General Beauregard Bodacious Lakeside, the only man to fight in both the Revolutionary War and the Civil ...
Keeping this very simple, there are two critical parts to property dualism: (1) property and (2) dualism. Your position doesn't involve either. As to ...
Do you think it reasonable? Could be both. Utility can be measured by happiness as well. That's how that often works. Nah, I'd be a persecuted Jew. An...
I had a question go unanswered, which was whether you were an epistemic dualist or pluralist? I'm trying to figure out if you think there are exactly ...
This sets up an argument for being a theist from a pragmatic point of view. What is learned from considering the various "proofs" for the existence of...
From your description, it sounds pretty disgusting, but you made it and were too cheap to throw the shit out, so you ate it and are still trying to co...
That seems like a pretty different question that then original debate. My position was of "substance" dualism, so how can we avoid the question of wha...
1. That the compatibility of the non physical substance with the physical substance does not require that they be essentially the same, avoiding the a...
Total number of theists / total membership of TPF = Really low number Maybe the religious ramble on a bit. They are a passionate bunch, not motivated ...
Most theists ignore this forum altogether. I'd say the general sentiment of the atheist is probably apathy toward religion, not really spending much t...
After tremendous effort we are to learn you're not a PD, but an identity theorist, holding that mental states are physical states with all the same pr...
Calling PD an epistemic stance is a corruption of terms. Property dualism directly references properties, and properties (assuming we're all realists ...
I agree generally with what you said, but I think you underestimate the significance of bargaining power and that complex interactions involve complex...
We set up a debate where we were going to debate how SD prevailed over PD. You interpreted that as meaning I was to tell you how SD prevailed without ...
Your presentation is so broad and vague, it's impossible to respond to. In your post you tell me your position is that of Spinoza, modified by Kant, S...
Great, no longer in the Shoutbox. I can't digress and talk about my goats and shit anymore. And I see @"Ciceronianus the White" has joined us. We did ...
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