Okay. :up: Silly examples are helpful. So what is your "microscope"? Why do you say a Buddhist claim is unverifiable? I am saying that if you achieve ...
Okay. Is that what is being claimed? The question here is, "Why was Gold charged with a 20-year evidence-tampering sentence?" That looks like a straig...
Hmm, okay... I'm still not getting a lot of traction on this stuff. I would say that if someone ignores the spirit of an obligation and clings to the ...
I'm glad we agree on this. Okay, but it seems like these fold right back into the problem of what to do. Yes, I can definitely see that. I agree, but ...
Does that bolded sentence contain a typo? If a Buddhist says that her claims are verifiable, and the skeptic remarks that they are not verifiable with...
Right, which is to say that something can be verifiable even if it is not verifiable according to some particular metric. For example, a Buddhist clai...
What is she lying about? Quote her lie. So the surveillance video that was shown was just edited? That's your solution? What is missing in this discus...
- Short on time, but I would say that if either of you think it makes sense to have special abilities or special knowledge which is unverifiable, then...
- The Search Algorithm knowest thee better than thou knowest thyself. It knowest thy needs even before ye asketh. :razz: --- - I have not, but thanks ...
Yes, that's basically it. And I think you end up with a critique similar to Chesterton's critique of the slogan, "You just have to grin and bear it." ...
I've pointed to the psychics that the FBI uses any number of times now. Sure they are. I've already shown that. You just keep asserting the contrary. ...
Yes, I agree. :grin: That’s fine, but I see it as secondary. Either God aligns with the world as it now exists or he doesn’t. If someone thinks that G...
Harris' point here is salutary. It is that just because there is disagreement does not mean there is no truth to the matter. If there were no truth to...
But you're begging the question of your own paradigm again. The question is whether you would think they have knowledge you don't understand if they c...
- I am saying that if you were living in the ancient world you would be the guy claiming that no one has special knowledge and eclipses cannot be pred...
My point is that the sage who has insight into the true nature of reality will be able to do verifiable things that most people cannot do. This is exa...
Who's to say that he doesn't know it directly? I could have direct knowledge that some future event will occur, and this would in no way preclude the ...
If someone claims to have special knowledge, and that knowledge is in no way confirmable by any other person, then their knowledge cannot be confirmed...
The person who claims to have that sort of knowledge propounds theses that are not accessible to the current paradigm, and if those theses are verifie...
That's fair, but I am not convinced that arduous acts like "taking up one's cross" are compelled, unless we are talking about Christians: So I want to...
I think you mean "deification," not "supererogation." They seem quite different. Twice now in this thread I've wondered if I simply don't understand t...
What does "capital T truth" mean? I hear that phrase a lot but I never know what it means. FYI, Eckhart was a Dominican, not a monastic. The monastics...
Very cool. Individual Franciscans are hit or miss for me, but I do appreciate their overall ethos and I have met some remarkable individuals. I'm an o...
Allow me to reframe it. Your monstrosity depends on the relation between volition and compulsion. Here is Aristotle: No monstrosity is occurring in an...
A friar, a gyrovague! That takes me back. Dominic and Francis were only ten years apart. Okay, but what are these "things" that cannot improve without...
It is interesting that 39% of the references to the molecular structure of water on TPF are given as 'H20' (H-twenty) rather than as 'H2O'. It makes t...
It happens constantly, and it's not against the ethos of the forum. What you could do is, instead of asking for a special stricture in your thread, pr...
I read you as saying that things cannot improve without (compelled) supererogation, and that is what I was responding to. Do you say that things canno...
It can count as (natural) evil, but it can't count as a doer. So when you go on to say that an ideology isn't an agent, you are simultaneously saying ...
Yep. But what does part 2 achieve in relation to part 1? It achieves a form of philosophy which more fully incorporates the subject. There are lots of...
Making a separate thread is no help. You could make a million threads on geophysics and flat-earthers could post in all of them. And yet you're faced ...
Yep. If you make a thread on geophysics or evolution, then posts from flat-earthers and creationists would be on topic. I'm glad you're figuring this ...
Denying the Holocaust in a Holocaust thread is not against the philosophical ethos of the forum. It is against a rule of the forum. Just because it is...
- It is a pre-judging of the issue at the time of the dispute, and unless the basis for that pre-judging is understood the discussion is futile. Note:...
- Klima's article seems more up your alley, but I think it's more important to figure out why folks are prejudiced against essences. Did they read an ...
Thanks, that is helpful in clarifying the OP. Okay, understood, but does it? Couldn't we also improve by better understanding our obligations, or by b...
- :up: --- Because you are thinking of it as a proposition, not as the definition of a term. If you make it a definition like so then it has no truth ...
As I understand it the OP wants to critique (compelled) supererogation without critiquing obligation. My point there was that I don't see how obligati...
This is a thoughtful and stimulating OP, @"fdrake". :up: I often find myself saying on TPF, "I'm not convinced that there is any room for supererogati...
This is a good topic which I was looking into awhile back. See: - Foreign actors who are not citizens do not have a right to free speech in the United...
Maybe petition for a thread called, "New Thread Skepticism," and ask the mods to enforce a rule where everyone who disagrees with Mikie must post ther...
- At this point I would usually take the trouble of demonstrating that you're an idiot, except for the fact that it is already well-known and this thr...
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