Leontiskos

This is not a valid argument: I gave reasons above.

I know, and your argument is invalid. I explained why. We can agree with Nagel's quote, and yet your argument remains invalid. You are conflating the ...

This seems straightforward to me. There are no hard and fast distinctions between science and philosophy or science and metaphysics.

This is not right. You are trying to claim that it follows from your premises that there are truths which are both known and unjustifiable, and this d...

Sure. I think my last post addresses this topic, which is nuanced. commented on the different viewpoints at some length. We could clear away the nuanc...

"The bureaucracy will fight back." Yep. So what? The bureaucracy needs to be trimmed. Of course it will fight back. The national debt is not even a pa...

There is something to be said for the argument that the U.S. is more oligarchy than democracy:

- You're a sophist. That's all. We're talking about Acts, darling.

This issue is directly parallel to the earlier discussion about the nature of validity: A: "If the premises are inconsistent then the argument is vali...

I don't think this line is correct, but here is a short video which stays close to your OP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18K_28KAYKc

Yes, a good question. Fooloso is not aware of Peter's revelation, nor does he know where it takes place (he says it is in the gospels). Yet he continu...

Okay, but the context here is handwashing: (Note too that the Pharisees recognize that what is at stake is the "tradition of the elders." Jesus' respo...

Yes, and I always think Peterson would benefit from reading Plato. He is something like a wayward Platonist, and his open-mindedness often causes him ...

You could say that, but you would end up having to admit that "P does not imply Q" cannot be formalized in any way whatsoever, at least in proposition...

I opined on some of this earlier in the thread*, but I think you are talking about the argument of the OP, not merely the sentence (A?~A). * It depend...

There is no difference in terms of substitution. (The thread already linked goes into these questions in detail. <This post> would be one example of t...

You are talking in terms of the first premise of a modus ponens, and that is what the material conditional is in many logics. If there is a difference...

It has the same meaning in truth-functional terms, but it does not have the same meaning qua modus ponens (or modus tollens). See, for example:

That's a good example. The ritual washing of Second Temple Judaism is not mandated by the Torah, and it is likely that the Pharisees held to an especi...

I enjoy Peterson and see him as a force for good, but I don't agree with him on everything, and I often find his delivery unhelpful. I grant that he i...

- Thanks. Wonderful passage. I tend to think this idea of "tolerance" is what underlies many of @"J"'s meanderings. He worries about how he could ever...

- Yep. See also @"Count Timothy von Icarus"'s thread, "The Unity of Dogmatism and Relativism."

- I would certainly think he followed kosher, etc.

- Thank you. Good post. :up:

@"fdrake"'s argument is both invalid and self-contradictory, among other things. Odd that no one understands it well enough to see this, even though i...

So you would say that a reductio ad absurdum is not an inference in the proper sense?

It's hard to say in generality. Did you have a specific verse or issue in mind? I certainly don't think Jesus strays far from the Law. The Sermon on t...

:up: I'm glad you're taking due care when it comes to redefinitions of Christianity. Many would like to redefine Christianity away from Paul. But Paul...

- :up: The modern instrumentalization of science was probably the biggest shift for the "monozygotic twins," and it is probably why there are now tens...

Sure, and who are the enemies, according to the Christians? Sin and death (and the powers connected to them). Without the resurrection Christ is not a...

Fair enough. And I hesitate to correct a former Mormon, but I think it is spelled Mormon, not Morman. In any case, your break is now complete. :razz:

- Haha, makes sense.

I've never heard philosophy defined that way. I would grant that inquiry about inquiry is philosophical, but not that philosophy is inquiry about inqu...

Yes, and I am curious whether the OP is thinking along such lines.

Yes. Interesting. :up: I was talking to an elderly friend recently and they told me that the whole class cheated on the "Confirmation test" in their E...

Yes, I think that's right. I think even those who tend to oppose Christianity like Hitchens or Dawkins are right to take this line on the resurrection...

The OP is about Paul's words, which is why I commented on Paul. Did you read the OP? You are not a Christian, you have no formal theological training,...

What do you mean by "a belief in Christianity"?

Brilliant stuff here, lol.

So I am a Christian. I believe I am the first Christian to post in this thread. There are a lot of folk around here who are not Christians, know very ...

Fair enough. And I don't think it is necessary to reflect on what philosophy is in order to do philosophy. Perhaps the best philosophers are not self-...

But psychologists don't opt out of giving justification for their psychological theories of motivation. So it seems to me that we're talking about a f...

I think part of the difficulty here is that philosophy and science began as monozygotic twins. Given the way scientific specialization has occurred, p...

If someone thinks Socrates' gadflyishness captures a manner in which philosophy is highest or unique, then they should argue that thesis. They should ...

But that's a plane, not a shot. If the substance of philosophy is criticism then you're on the runway.

As I said earlier, he holds that theories of motivation require justification, so he hasn't opted out. Beyond that, philosophy doesn't have a single a...

I saw The Accountant with Ben Affleck. I get it. https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/a1WNmnP_460s.jpg You could broil it towards the end to crisp it...

Some folk need there to be more than two genders. Let's do philosophy instead of polemics. The question is whether beliefs have an impact on behavior.

- Rogan is a bit of a goon, but I do agree with the premise behind his long interviews. "If you want to understand who Elon Musk is, watch this 2-3 ho...