Why did you switch to talking about falsification rather than falsifiability? Here is what you said earlier, when you were still on topic: (Again, thi...
@"Count Timothy von Icarus", @"boundless" As far as I am concerned, there are two basic questions here: 1. Is it philosophically demonstrable that the...
If I give my kid a choice between broccoli and a candy bar, and I accept his choice of the candy bar, does it follow that I don't care about his best ...
An oath is an example, yes. It is the language of "means" and "ends." So you might say, "I am going to go to the grocery store today." That would be a...
But that's just nonsense. I don't understand the naivete which claims that the liberal state does not interfere with value judgments. Do you actually ...
Apart from Calvinists and some Lutherans, no Christians really believe in total depravity. Calvinists don't accept a bidirectional potency, and it is ...
What do you think it means to "fix one's end"? Or even to fix an end? Are you familiar with this language? One could argue for annihilation from philo...
We are talking about falsifiability, not falsification. Scientific theories can be falsifiable even if they are not falsified. Again, in that case it ...
How does this add anything to the conversation whatsoever? Did you think Wayfarer was using "inadmissible" in some other way? That's what the word mea...
- Right, and if Simpson is right then Rawls himself admits that he has no non-subjective basis for the intuitions that ground his theory. The reasonin...
I don't think this is right at all. I think the word "falsified" would make your claim true. It is not only inaccurate theories that are falsifiable. ...
It is worth noting that this is your whole project: Pyrrhonian skepticism in the service of non-rational "metanoia" towards some end. You are saying, ...
These look like thoughtful posts. I am aware of many exceedingly able-minded theists who are capable of defending the traditional doctrine of Hell, bu...
So your response is to say that scientific theories don't need to be falsifiable? That doesn't seem like a promising route. If you are making an unfal...
Yep. It is swapping out "good" for "harmonious" and ignoring the fact that you have the exact same problem that you began with. This is of course beca...
- I think you actually did fairly well in this exchange. But here is the error: "Ought to be chosen" != "Obligatory" If it did, your argument would be...
@"Count Timothy von Icarus" Consider a list of concepts: Bad Truly bad Actually bad Bad as a matter of fact It looks to me that these all say the same...
In what sense? You haven't truly specified a sense at all. What is occurring is hand-waving. If the anti-realist wants to actually abandon the concept...
Okay, understood. I think I see what you are saying. But when you say that the efficient cause is their speaking, you are getting at my point. Namely:...
Yep. :up: I tried to get at the same idea . @"AmadeusD" claimed that food isn't good, it's just necessary for survival. I pointed out that a primary r...
@"Count Timothy von Icarus" It looks as though everyone in the thread is in at least general agreement on the nature of X (whether it is good or bad)....
Sure, but that's just a societal observation. It avoids all of the crucial questions of the OP. My post <here> addresses the things you are talking ab...
Okay, great. Okay, fair enough. :grin: I think you may have misread the sentence, or that instead of "reject" you read "accept." Let me press you from...
That's actually from Paul. :razz: In my opinion what is so admirable about @"Jamal"'s post is the courage it takes to admit a deep mistake. Namely, to...
But I don't recognize your usage. As I said, it cannot be found in dictionaries, among philosophers of religion, or within religious bodies. So it see...
See, but that's just not how an argument for falsifiability works. Suppose a scientist comes up with a theory that seems unfalsifiable and you ask him...
This is sort of like saying, "The racist has the burden of proof, not me." We've agreed that it is probably right, but it's not a very rigorous argume...
Haha, that makes more sense. :smile: Yes, those are good analogies. Right, and thus some are intentionally creating bad habits of mind and society. Th...
Let me try to preempt something before addressing such posts. If we are going to do real philosophical work then we have to have real definitions. Wha...
Yes, and I love those images, particularly project/invention vs. garden. Another image here is Martin Buber's I and Thou. A Baconian mindset tends to ...
Fair enough. I saw you as trying to pose a dilemma between evil and monstrosity, but I thought the tenor of your posts favored the monstrosity route o...
Yes. As an Aristotelian I think that's right. :smile: I don't think it requires a relinquishing of the ideal. I was just pushing back against what I s...
Let’s use your notion of divine commands to take a step back. Why does the OP care about rationality in the first place? The OP is thinking of cases w...
I was actually making an empirical observation. Is it being beaten down? Perhaps, much like when the aging lion can no longer defend his territory, an...
I actually don't know what it means either. I was just trying to throw a bone to the people around here who talk that way. :sweat: Okay, good. I agree...
Thanks! I wrote the OP late at night when I was tired and it has gone in all different directions, which is great. Okay. I think limited time is an im...
Yep, and it's also pretty potent in Judaism, for example in their focus on hospitality. Yeah, that's really well said. :up: It also occasions some of ...
They don't consider themselves communists, but they are flirting with the idea. So the question is sincere, "I'm not sure if there is anything wrong w...
Yes, and we could apply this to liberalism itself. What is often meant superficially by liberalism is something like, "A tolerance for different ideas...
Okay, so it sounds like you now think there is something other than divine commands which support this prohibition. That something is morally wrong do...
It's interesting that you continue to speak about the Original Poster in the third person as you face your audience. That sort of tactic reads a lot l...
I think that's right, as long as you meant something like "disapprobation" rather than approbation. I think what you say is exactly right, but I think...
But you've already deviated from the text. The text says: "A man is said to have sinned in his own eternity also because, from the very fact that he f...
That's it. A surprisingly large number of threads have search problems because of this. I actually removed the characters from my Anselm thread title ...
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