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Anything but theism is “irrational,” in the strictest meaning of the word. Logic’s a-priority highlights, & doesn’t, rather can’t, falsify, theism’s t...
September 08, 2023 at 22:21
This argument isn't technically a modus tollens, but it can definitely be converted into one; in which case, it's most definitely valid; & its rightfu...
August 25, 2023 at 20:47
"Illegal"? No. Yet I don't have the burden of proof by an example for something I that didn't assert. So, to be sure, not "illegal," but illogical. I'...
August 16, 2023 at 01:16
My quote that you're referencing there, when I say that "a thing may be the former without being the latter," isn't about precession & succession. So,...
August 15, 2023 at 23:15
I can't 'cause I neither observe causes nor effects within it. Although, honestly, I'm not sure that I get what it's that you're asking. So, if you ju...
August 15, 2023 at 06:56
Well, seeing as, at https://www.dictionary.com/browse/continuous, "continuous" is definable as "being in immediate connection or spatial relationship,...
August 14, 2023 at 09:40
... & therefore, according to you, a "mathematical" object isn't a "physical" object. Okay, thus, 'tis Platonism for you, mister professor. Got it. My...
August 14, 2023 at 09:23
I was looking through my old comments, & I came across this. You replied to my first post, & I never noticed it. Pardon this extremely late reply & re...
August 13, 2023 at 17:43
Sure, since seems to ignore questions intentionally, let's consider what you have to say. You didn't seem to answer my question, which is/ was a simpl...
August 13, 2023 at 15:48
You know, I read some of the information "about" you on your profile page, wherein, from the first line or so, I think, it reads that you're a retired...
August 13, 2023 at 06:28
Now is that a fact?
August 12, 2023 at 12:18
Most people (talking about the U.S. here presumably) are theists & believe in creation, & so they wouldn't say that "nothingness," that is, a total ne...
August 07, 2023 at 16:24
Okay, well, in that case, I'll thank you another time, & this time for your offer. :up:
August 06, 2023 at 18:55
What have I written that denies or is inconsistent with any of that? Nonetheless, I've noticed that you've made a few posts within this thread, Leo, s...
August 06, 2023 at 18:46
Hello, Bob Ross Well, some people might define "nothingness" in a unique way, which may make their assertion valid, i.e., words aren't absolute. Yet i...
August 06, 2023 at 18:30
Is a "concept ... in reality" anything other than words, i.e., do you talk of "concepts" nominalistically? It's self-evident that "not apples," i.e., ...
August 06, 2023 at 00:48
I’ve already addressed this point when someone else (either intentionally or not) misquoted me. So, allow me to reply to your comment with one of my p...
August 02, 2023 at 17:16
L.o.l., that’s cute. Only someone who’s not familiar with (or just now happened to look up) the fourth section of the third chapter of the second book...
August 02, 2023 at 17:11
Bottom Line: The latter, ultimately. For, according to the good ol’ bishop, without the divine mind, there would be no human perceivers, & so neither ...
August 02, 2023 at 06:13
Thank you; & that’s all that I’ve been maintaining throughout my thread, all of Kant’s verbosity & abstruseness can’t hide the fact that a simple cons...
August 02, 2023 at 05:36
Sorry, I missed this post & last question of yours. As to it, I’d affirm it. What’s imagined exists, as non-existence can’t be imagined.
August 02, 2023 at 05:28
Thanks for insisting on providing some useful information, for anyone who’s in need. Yet I think that the crux of the problem can be addressed here. I...
August 02, 2023 at 05:06
Which is exactly what’s the problem with philosophy today. It’s troubled by over complications, especially when it comes to terminology & definitions.
August 01, 2023 at 06:22
Sure, but that’s beside the point that’s in question, which is: can actual existence be denied of a thing? Kant, & Russell, I believe, answered negati...
August 01, 2023 at 06:09
I honestly don’t know what he may’ve have meant besides what it means on face value; & on face value, denying that actual existence is a predicate, un...
August 01, 2023 at 06:04
There’s no sensible or empirical phenomenon as such; if that’s what you’re asking? Now, if it’s claimed to be defined, in any way, then it’s made up o...
August 01, 2023 at 05:06
So, your line isn’t of matter, since it’s infinitely divisible unlike matter. Good to know, as that itself ultimately lets me know where the problem i...
July 26, 2023 at 06:06
... which means that they’re related to each other in the same way. Now, since that’s the case, how then are a special case and a general notion relat...
July 26, 2023 at 06:02
L.o.l., man, that’s hilarious. So, you didn’t say... ... ??? Yeah, bro, it’s cool, man, l.o.l.. Leave it alone, man, it’s cool.
July 26, 2023 at 05:50
So that means that you accept that “x = not-x,” or “a tree = not-a-tree.” I’m sorry but there’s no greater reduction to absurdity than that, being led...
July 26, 2023 at 05:38
It’s quite simple actually... do multiple things make up a relation? If so, what’s the fewest amount of things that can form a relation? If you don’t ...
July 26, 2023 at 05:22
L.o.l.,, why won’t you just (simply) define “assumption”? It’s actually quite funny that you won’t & avoid it by referring to a single reader for the ...
July 26, 2023 at 05:03
What’s the qualitative difference between a straight line in the former & in the latter world? If there’s none, how aren’t you guilty of a false dicho...
July 26, 2023 at 04:35
A lot of this turns what you mean precisely by “polar opposite,” & yet that’s ultimately unimportant, so allow me to ask you: does the definition of “...
July 26, 2023 at 04:29
Sorry, but, no. I mean exactly what I asked: according to you, is there a relation wherein the number of members can’t possibly decrease, i.e., a “sma...
July 26, 2023 at 04:08
According to you, is there a smallest possible relation? If so, how many members comprise it?
July 25, 2023 at 07:51
No problem, but that ultimately wasn’t what was up for argument. Anyhow, again, that’s not really a problem.
July 25, 2023 at 07:45
I don’t think that you’ve rightly understood what was meant by my previous posts’ only question, perhaps I wasn’t clear enough. Would you like me to r...
July 25, 2023 at 07:33
They actually do, just no novel information. There’s no way to argue that “X = X” can’t express “the nature” of “X,” granted that it doesn’t express a...
July 25, 2023 at 07:28
So, the thinker is assumed but the idea of thinking isn’t? What makes it that the latter isn’t but the former is? Doesn’t the fact that those people t...
July 24, 2023 at 18:09
How don’t these two parts of your latest post’s first paragraph contradict each other?
July 24, 2023 at 17:38
Not complicated, just unclear. So, if you oblige me a little longer, I’d really appreciate it. Uh... measuring from one thing to another includes both...
July 24, 2023 at 17:34
Does something being a tautology make it false, if it’s really so? A tautology, just because it’s one, isn’t a falsity. How do you understand the term...
July 24, 2023 at 05:58
A universal negative judgment is absolute.
July 24, 2023 at 05:58
Does what’s present change?
July 24, 2023 at 05:41
... & the hips don’t lie, am I right, Torus? L.o.l.. ... thanks, & you too, Torus.
July 24, 2023 at 03:53
Can we “measure” a dimensionless thing? If so, by what means? L.o.l., that’s funny. I get what you mean, ha. You see, that’s where I think a line shou...
July 24, 2023 at 03:41
That you spoke of things “in the Platonic realm” as opposed to them “in the mental realm” is why I thought that you affirm their dualism, i.e, “the wo...
July 23, 2023 at 17:48
What a humble admission, I flatter myself by thinking that I may have lead you to it, l.o.l.. Yet, I must ask, so why talk or make declarations withou...
July 23, 2023 at 05:40
You never answered my question in post #3. Why didn’t you answer it, if I may so ask in addition to asking you again to answer it?
July 23, 2023 at 05:08