I'm sorry for not making this clear: I'm withdrawing my argument, because I lost faith in my interpretation of your view. Any argument I make is neces...
Yes, and the consequences for the blender will probably be quite harsh. Then how is it that you agreed with what I wrote here: So the agent doesn't ha...
More likely we would express it like "a blender should be able to purée fruit", in particular we might be quite disappointed if a blender failed to do...
To my understanding, Leontiskos objected that you can't "do philosophy" without already "having a philosophy", and so to him this distinction doesn't ...
It makes no sense to make this about "rational norm-following" (which I assume means following a set of norms because it is rational to do so) when di...
My point is that it's easy to "reverse-engineer" a normative framework just by observing how some entity tends to act (humans, ants, clouds, whatever)...
That they would be "good ants" if I judge them according to my framework, and that this does not require that they have any understanding of said fram...
So If I invented a normative framework for say, ants, with rules like "ants should protect their queen", "ants should walk in a line", "ants should ut...
Is this necessarily the case (i.e. do they need to)? It doesn't seem like it if you look at norms in general. I could unknowingly be acting in accorda...
I have to say don't quite understand why you would ask me that. Sorry, "no, I disagree" or "no, there is no need"? Do object to me characterizing norm...
Obligation sounds very "heavy" so maybe that was a poor choice of words, but I don't see how this distinction is made strictly speaking. I have read t...
That seems unnecessary to me. All I have to do is explain have math involved, and the child will understand if able. What essential role does the obli...
So, since I am a member of the rational community, I must believe that "I ought to believe 2+2=4", and if I deny this I am implicitly contradicting my...
I think you successfully show that we can't make a sharp distinction between moral and non-moral norms such that anti-realism closes the door on only ...
So by "making sense of such beliefs" you mean something like achieving coherence i.e. exposing the contradiction in denying it? I think that's a step ...
Two questions: 1. Are you making the claim that naturalism undermines reason per se? Because that does not seem to be Plantingas claim in the paper. 2...
Why is that a requirement? What a strange thing to demand of a scientific theory. Why do we have to sit around and wait for for an origin story to lif...
And I don't believe any of that so arguing for it is not my intention, I just think that claiming that suffering is sometimes good is a logically vali...
I think when there are issues of miscommunication, there is no fact of the matter on whether the speaker or listener is at fault, and debating it is u...
I think the way you write is muddled and this just tells me you have limited interest in clarification. Okay: I take this to be saying that humanity h...
At first I thought you were saying that "suffering is bad" is a priori true. Then I thought you were saying "suffering is bad" is a universally held b...
Yes, absolutely. And why not? That's not a problem, because unlike you I never made any assertions on behalf of humanity. An insurmountable flaw, in m...
That's not quite what I'm saying. I'm saying that in a sense the masses are the ones telling their church what kind of God they want. And the church r...
Neither do I really, but I'm sure someone, somewhere put in a decent effort and deserves a pat on the back. Or at least that's what my intellectual hu...
Yes, this is the face of atheism to me as well. The idea that atheism works like an organized religion, with Pope Dawkins preaching his dogma to the f...
Let's not overstate things, I'm not saying New Atheism has had no effect on the discourse. People definitely do pick up some unfortunate attitudes, ar...
The idea that Gods will necessarily aligns with what is good is one of "our" notions of goodness, people just don't necessarily get that it implies th...
But it works as solution to the problem, and for a philosopher that is all that matters. My point is that I find it hard to blame a these more politic...
I don't find that plausible. I think people get these ideas independently, then they flock to Dawkins or whoever because he gives them validation. New...
I think if you read it more you would find a lot of your own ideas reversed and turned into horror. Lovecraftian enlightenment amounts to confronting ...
Atheists generally get their idea of God from elementary religious education, from interacting with casual believers and from listening to sermons in ...
Well, any philosophical problem can be solved if you're allowed to re-conceptualize the terms involved as you like. But I don't understand why you're ...
That's an interesting perspective, but it doesn't really address the point. The point is really just that it is impossible to improve upon a perfect a...
But that is what I mean by a greater purpose. This is a lesser "pseudo-evil" in the service of the greater good of free choice. In this case, the real...
What I mean is that God might allow suffering in the service of some greater purpose, in other words he would regard suffering as good in certain circ...
But is a view that really seems to struggle with the problem of evil. God is supposed to be the author of everything, something that he sincerely oppo...
Yes, exactly. Its something I've always had trouble with, why would a perfect, infinite and self-sufficient being bother with such a thing? Seems comp...
This is a bit of an understatement, if God is understood to be the creator of the cosmos he is also the creator of all suffering. He didn't merely "al...
Recall that this was what I originally said was the problem: you argue from the position that your view is intuitive, but when people do not share you...
But I don't see what makes our ability to reason relevant here, other than that it a unique ability to h. sapiens, just like the the pistol shrimp has...
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