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This is literally on par with saying that 99% of scientific professionals hold that such-and-such is pseudoscience, but, "I'm not obliged to apply som...

- When I talk about what a religious group believes, such as Catholicism or Mormonism, I am talking about what the bona fide representatives and schol...

Egads. Mormons would constitute 0.61% of Christians and UU would constitute 1% of Mormons. You are talking about tiny outliers here. And the simple re...

Er, but the councils that produced the creeds were painstakingly concerned with predicates and predication, as was the Emperor himself. None of the hi...

We can make it very practical: Flannel Jesus: Hello, I am already a Christian and I would like to join your Christian community. Church leader: Oh, ok...

I think that is an odd distinction in the first place, but it is certainly anachronistic to use "facts" in such a manner, contrasting it with the "bel...

I don't mean your strawman, but that goes without saying.

That is an odd line. The Nicene Creed affirms exactly what Lionino says, namely that Jesus is the Son of God, consubstantial with the Father. The Apos...

If that's the litmus test you would apply then it's clear you're not taking the question seriously in the first place.

It is true that only Mormons think Mormons are Christian, and this is a strong argument given that Mormons are a significant minority.* In Christianit...

I was recently recommended a podcast hosted by Glenn Loury and John McWhorter. So last night I listened to my first episode, which focused on the noti...

Ah, okay. I didn't realize that the jpeg was from a different article or website. My bad.

The article seems unobjectionable to me. In my opinion TPF has an ideological lean, especially when it comes to politics. Conservatives must tread wit...

Well genetics are not immutable, but here is the crux of the matter: Aristotle says that Greeks are fit to rule because they have x, y, and z characte...

Perhaps, but less unspecific than the original objection, which was my aim. Greeks are not immutably rulers. They need not have had the characteristic...

It would be hard to overemphasize the foolishness of these ideas. The logical conclusion of the classically liberal notion of freedom is the idea that...

- I would suggest starting with a dictionary and then looking up 'atonement' and 'propitiation.' Maybe after that you will want to find a confessional...

Propitiation is a denial of free will? I would love to hear an argument for such a claim. Whose free will is infringed? The one appeasing or the one a...

When it comes to vicarious satisfaction or atonement I would probably want to chip at the idea of monadic individualism. Things like reverencing and r...

Sure, and I don't really know enough about Peirce to engage these things. I tend to read Aristotle through Aquinas, although I recognize that in many ...

Aristotle recognizes that the differences between the master and slave are generated by contingent factors. They are not somehow predetermined or immu...

Yep, this seems right to me. Sure, I think that's a fair point. Sure, but it is helpful to remember that causality does not track intention. To take a...

The OP actually sets out two competing justifications for self-defense: double effect and forfeiture. In <this post> you gestured towards a forfeiture...

In that case the OP is a probing of the justification: How does the justification work? Does the justification stand? A justification needs to be more...

Yes, very true! I suppose my point is that someone who does not share Einstein's intuition will not feel any force from his claim. Such intuitions are...

We can agree that the negative can't be strictly proved, but I do not see it as a matter of theological unfalsifiability: Einstein had a great deal of...

See: What would it mean to "put slavish souls into a biological category"?

I think the latter appeal is less ambiguous than the former, but both would seem to be less ambiguous than the descriptions you have been giving. I th...

But could Lionino not say the same thing, namely that the child who does not feel the needle penetrating their skin is still being harmed by the needl...

Then it sounds to me that he rejects 2b, no? Were you reading "theological" instead of "teleological"? Oh, I agree that the structure is what is at st...

This is an interesting and culturally relevant topic. It is also a well-written OP. In general I think @"Lionino" has the right approach. Does it then...

Good points. :up:

Yes, and I have no reason to disagree with you even though I don't currently have a grasp on the full implications of semiotics, especially as regards...

(I've fallen behind and I don't know if these posts are still relevant) This is a bit like saying that we can dream about apples therefore we don't kn...

True, and I don't deny that. Right. One can think of color along the lines of a number of different measures, but I see nothing special about the wave...

Suppose you stopped appealing to scientific studies that do not seem to support the points you think they do. Would there be any arguments for your po...

Says who? Not the dictionary or common use. Certainly red is perceived by the mind, and certainly we have phenomenal experiences that include red-perc...

I'd say that the statement, "This pen is red," is opaque, in some sense simple or sui generis. It's not a scientific statement; it's not an anti-scien...

But I am not a Kantian. I do not believe we can know about things that we cannot know (noumena). But even here your example fails, because just as the...

Hmm? We could, by analogy, call the code white which causes the white image, but it is the image on the screen that is white, not the code. Do you thi...

...The idea here seems to be that we first state that the pen is red, and then we learn something about the way the eye or the mind processes color, a...

Color (Merriam-Webster) 1a. a phenomenon of light (such as red, brown, pink, or gray) or visual perception that enables one to differentiate otherwise...

I don't think you managed to read my post. When someone says, "This pen is red," they are not saying, "This pen accompanies a mental percept of 'red'....

I just read Myles Burnyeat's, "The sceptic in his place and time," (quoted here). His topic is "insulation": that whereby one insulates philosophical ...

In the U.S. criteria of efficiency and industriousness cater to "motonormativity," as well as a laissez-faire attitude where the smaller yields to the...

Nor are we saying that it doesn't, which is what you seem to falsely believe. We mean that the pen has a property of redness, and the specialist is si...

I have not given a great deal of thought to the philosophy of color. Like much of contemporary philosophy, it doesn't seem like it would be a great us...

So you say. Let's go back to your claim: If the pen has a surface layer of atoms that reflect light at with a wavelength of ~700nm then there is both ...

You are presupposing that "red" denotes the "color percept" and not the "surface layer of atoms..." Why do you make such a presupposition? When people...