But what if we actually spoke about assertions rather than circumlocutions that may or may not indicate assertion? What about: "The cat is on the mat....
That's right, and this is precisely why one of @"J"'s heroes contradict themselves: Relativistic "stances" undermine dialogue and knowledge altogether...
This is @"J"'s underlying approach in the vast majority of his posts. It is a "search" for the stone of infallibility: 1. Either the stone of infallib...
- :up: - Why is that a problem? Or rather, how do you determine that every claim is made "with equal rationality"? What you always end up saying is, "...
This is related to Srap's observation: These two moves are very similar: Scientist: "My observing the electron could not possibly have an effect on th...
:up: Two of Aristotle's basic criteria in identifying the kind of regime in question are: "Who votes/decides on the rulers?" and "Who is eligible to b...
To distinguish an act from a performing of is to attach oneself to a very strange doctrine of human action, where acts are somehow reified and can eve...
Teacher: "What do you think, Michael?" Michael: "The cat is on the mat." Is that different than, "I think the cat is on the mat"? The notion that mate...
Yes, and this is Kimhi through and through, as well as Rombout's paper on Frege. The point that Kimhi makes successfully is that it is more unnatural ...
Quickly, I would not say that the doctrine which holds that God always creates the best is a heresy, although it isn't characteristically Christian an...
Yes, exactly. :up: I was thinking about the way that the legal context tries to avoid over-committing to metaphysical or causal doctrines by using "bu...
Were you responding to that? It is usually not a single person. I don't know if you follow American politics, but supporters of Bernie Sanders know th...
Chiming in on the topic, using a point of departure from a different thread... Further, we could also try to avoid all doctrines of causality and just...
One of the reasons I think the Stephen De Young is because it addresses your approach as well, specifically at 1:00:17, where De Young considers using...
And again I ask, is this what @"Bob Ross" is doing? Are you representing him fairly? Is his argument a "declaration"? Is he merely "considering himsel...
- But this is little more than a quibble. Neoplatonism is heavily indebted to Aristotle, and therefore ' counterpoint was perfectly valid. Clearly Ros...
Well that is precisely what I am disputing, although I want to leave children to the side for the moment. It seems like part of your argument is <The ...
Okay, so it looks like on your view there is "scientific knowledge" and there is "everyday knowledge," but there is no such thing as "philosophical kn...
I think there is a lot of ambiguity in such formulations. For example: 1. The cat is on the mat 2. I think that the cat is on the mat 3. "The cat is o...
Okay, and do you say that science involves knowledge? And if you know that scientists have knowledge, then is your knowledge of this philosophical? Ca...
A Christian heresy is only a problem for a Christian. To accuse a non-Christian of heresy would be a form of begging the question. Okay, good. But I w...
Yes, good. And the presupposition is that the certitude in question must be justifiable, and therefore disagreements must be adjudicable. Science is t...
Well what is "pretty clear" to you is not at all evident to Christians. Here is the heresy I spoke of: So when you claim that Christians would say "Am...
You are the one coming across as clueless, Frank. You make weird, contentious claims about neo-Platonism and then fail to substantiate them, gesturing...
Do you think Christians would say "Amen" to the claim that "God in the OT is not really God"? Because that's what you said above. The OP is surely pre...
But like so much of your posts, this is simply not true at all. Christians accept that the OT God is not God? What silliness is this? Marcionism is a ...
It's worth seeing how there is a way in which Frege and Kimhi are correct in seeing judgment as syncategorematic or unembeddable, and this can be seen...
It's confusing because if you just say it plainly it is seen to be silly, so it has to be dressed up in a lot of cryptic language that one must then r...
Okay, fair. First let's clarify that the ban on the Amalekites was a religious or cultural form of genocide, given that their cultic rites required th...
It is interesting, though, that Banno thinks Frege's judgment-stroke is a functional symbol that can simply be nested contextually. So his difference ...
Okay, and what are the questions that are at stake? I assume there must be quite a few different questions. (I wrote a bit about the general topic in ...
This is tricky because you say we need not worry about Frege, but then you immediately introduce Frege's notation (which Banno was using incorrectly i...
Your whole OP revolves around a highly unclear quote that you in no way attempt to clarify: On top of this, the quote is itself a response to an objec...
According to Aristotle, prescribing which candidates are on the ballot is central to determining what kind of regime one has. For example, if voters a...
Okay, so let me try to sketch Fr. Stephen De Young's approach. Note that he gives lengthier treatments elsewhere and especially in his book God Is a M...
Great, thank you for the synopsis. :up: That helps jog my memory. William Lane Craig had proffered a strong version of option (1), which is what ignit...
If you really think this is "ingenious," then why don't you try to explain the argument in your own words? I will help you by providing an option: 1. ...
Why not? Does Williams have any argument? The multiplication of these threads looks like wishful thinking and prejudice. There is something approximat...
Okay, good. I was trying to revisit some of Fr. Stephen De Young's work, and I noticed that he did an interview yesterday. He begins talking about the...
Okay. Can you remind me of the view that he takes? It's been awhile since I watched that, and I was trying to use it to highlight some of the differen...
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