Leontiskos

Here is a useful distinction:

Strong points. :up: It looks like we would have to engage in "extreme cherry picking" to try to construe the effects as unrelated to liberalism. On th...

"Belief without evidence" and "We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence" seem like pretty standard claims of irrationali...

See for example and the claims that began this part of the thread.

- :100: You are enunciating the actual idea (as opposed to the common strawman). Good to see that happening. :up:

- Generally love would be seen as non-rational, not irrational; independent of reason but not contrary to reason.

Yes, good stuff. :up: When claims that Wittgenstein and the "time-honored view" both dismiss the question at a bedrock level, it seems that he is plai...

- Okay thanks, that helps me make better sense of the OP.

Harsh? Is that supposed to be an argument? Try reading again:

Yes, very good. That was an impressive connection. :up: And the sensory analogue is salutary. What @"Janus" wrestles with with intuition is more clear...

This applies again: The basic starting point here is that human knowledge is both public/shared and private. The idea that because some human knowledg...

Yes, but I think you were on the right track when you pointed out to Janus that he is taking the LNC as read. The same thing happens whenever one trie...

Yes. :up: What do you mean by "self-evident" and what do you mean by "intuition," and how do they differ?

I think you need to try to figure out what you are referring to with the term, "different objects," or the term, "two phenomena." Is a law of thought ...

I think @"Fire Ologist" is correct in claiming that the issue is not stipulation: Word meaning is not actually stipulated, in the sense that meaning i...

Humans are capable of both rationality and irrationality. Does that fact imply something about Evolution? Presumably you are saying that it does imply...

I think your posts are very much on point. The other bait-and-switch that usually happens in these contexts is that, when you ask someone what they me...

One thing I am interested in understanding are the cross-purposes involved in more minor dismissals. When people aren’t engaging rationally, what exac...

- :up: There are a few posters who engage in a pretty wild form of definition sophistry, and this is how they manage to get away with irrational posts...

Anti-religious bigotry has now taken on a life of its own, but the underlying tradition here is Enlightenment Rationalism. It was the Enlightenment's ...

Yes. When Christians talk about the virtue of faith they are not talking about generic faith. They are not saying, for example, that every act of fait...

Let me give my diagnosis, which is more general. When we draw a conclusion we require premises. In this conversation we have to be mindful of where th...

Yes, there are definitely those cases, which is part of why we don't give up hope for the living. What is decisive, if not experience? What evidence d...

I want to say that this is the truer statement: Faith is always resistant to certain things that direct inference is not resistant to, whether it is r...

Okay, fair enough. I would agree that if humans are not eternal by nature then Hell doesn't make sense, similar to the way that it would not make sens...

Okay, but that seems to fly in the face of the weird caricatures from New Atheist types (or their historical antecedents, such as Carl Sagan and Bertr...

(Offline until tomorrow - take your time.) Okay. What I'm trying to do is figure out what your position or argument is so that I can interact with it ...

:up: Some of them will involve things that are worth thinking about or arguing about, which is of course what true inquiry should involve. No, that's ...

Okay, fair enough. I think that's the false inference, though. "The preacher said God loves us therefore he has an undeveloped notion of God." The voc...

Tell me if this is this a fair characterization of your view. You seem to think that values (or else moral premises) are brute, in that they cannot be...

Right. I guess Banno's argument would be pretty good if faith-based assents were never altered. Except to believe that you would have to be living und...

Okay, but I don't know of any theists who hold that God artificially extends human existence in that manner.

It seems like the same conclusion would follow even if the text means that it would have been better for Judas to have been aborted. I think that's ri...

The question is not what percentage Wayfarer represents, but what percentage the object of his critique represents. I actually think Wayfarer's critiq...

We haven't been focusing on that question as much, and I think it has more to do with rights than expedience. This is because the trans woman in the w...

- Okay. :up: Are we agreed that the prison question should be evaluated in terms of expedience and not rights? Or at the very least that criminals hav...

Okay, interesting. To be honest, I was not at all expecting you to admit that you possess a “moral system,” and therefore I had not thought to ask. Yo...

- Okay, interesting. Thanks for the answer. :up:

Ding ding ding. :up: See also:

What is your answer to the question?

Believe me, it is easy to see that you don't read in this area. From a historically conscious perspective, the whole notion of calling the Christian G...

You should find a theological treatment of the problem of evil and actually read it. That way your appraisal will be based on at least one piece of re...

I'm pretty confident in my ability to persuade someone regarding moral truths (I might begin with things like pain, suffering, empathy, the Golden Rul...

Okay, gotcha. :up: Yeah, I have a feminist friend who has dealt with that sort of thing. She is "old school" in that she gravitates towards Sartre and...

This is a bit like saying, "All teh theists are Westboro Baptists!" It's an irresponsible strawman. Reformed theology is problematic.* Also, the Refor...

I'm not quite sure what you meant by this. I am sure there are bad actors on both sides. I'm just not convinced that "bad acting" is a good basis for ...

Everyone who has faith in an authority has reasons to believe the authority is credible. No one who has faith in an authority lacks reasons to believe...

You seem emotionally invested in casting your opposition in a bad light, which is why your construal of the lobbyists lacks prima facie credibility. T...

- Very clear. :up:

Part of what that thread is getting at is this. Everyone takes themselves to be doing and seeking things that are right and not wrong, good and not ba...