:up: Sounds good. I just wanted to highlight an aspect of belief that I often see overlooked on this forum. I don't find the OP question very interest...
I think you are creating too strong a separation between knowledge and belief. Beliefs are very often taken to be propositional, cognitional, intellec...
We actually see a symptom of this pragmatization of scientia in recent philosophy of language, for example: ...Speculative claims are thus reframed to...
Rather, the objection is that any solution which requires that a small minority maintain power indefinitely will eventually fail. Governmental solutio...
I think that's probably right. From above, "logical reasoning or inference utilizes identifiable, deterministic patterns, and we are able to order the...
Those who cannot read English cannot tell the difference between a letter-change and a serif-change, but I used the example precisely because you can ...
- "Change" is applied to the meaning of (written) words insofar as the letters change, not insofar as the serifs change. The meaning of a word superve...
- Another question here asks how rational processes can be represented in non-rational systems (i.e. How is it that the correct answer can be "both"?)...
- No, just an explanation of why I have had you on ignore for almost a month now. I made an exception given that you responded to a video I posted. Ad...
- So are you saying that a fact which claims to be nothing more than a belief is better than a fact which claims to be something more than a belief? (...
- An explication of the relation between facts and beliefs in itself does nothing to distinguish better facts from worse facts, so I don't see how you...
Now I'm curious. Did you move to Australia a couple of generations ago, or did your ancestors merely live in England? I'd love to be half-right. :grin...
If science is just a means to technology, and science is funded almost entirely by a desire for technology (or other forms of power), then science is ...
- The scientific method derives in large part from Francis Bacon and the desire to manipulate nature. Modern science was a shift away from speculative...
Because almost everyone today is a Baconian, thus, "scientia potentia est" ("knowledge is power"). "Science" in our modern lexicon often just means, "...
Yes, I realize you are thinking along the lines of liberal individualism, which is why my last paragraph began, "Prescinding from liberal individualis...
We've seen this claim over and over, and O'Connor makes it as well. The claim is, "That's not a moral claim, and I am unable to define what I mean by ...
One of the key disagreements here relates to the idea that there is a universal human end (happiness). If all humans ultimately desire happiness, and ...
The traditional Judeo-Christian Biblical view says that the demons give humans precocious knowledge so that the human race will destroy itself. The we...
Well, like I said, the God of Abraham is more "jealous" than the pagan gods, but you are inferring from this that Abrahamic religions necessarily impo...
- :up: I think it's a fair thesis to say that theistic personalism derives from the univocity of Scotism. There is a rather good philosopher who lever...
- I don't think either of the two are very good philosophers in general, but I think Harris trounced O'Connor in this discussion. If you watch from ab...
I thought Sam Harris did a good job arguing for morality as a form of well-being, along the same lines as this thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
I would be wary of pushing this too far, and doesn't this just end up in the Originalism debate? Even if we say that all rules are malleable, it will ...
Well I'd say you are omitting the fact that the Christians, once separated from Judaism, were no longer allowed to "avoid the homage demanded by the R...
- No, that's fair. I don't have any strong objections to the arguments you have offered. I think they are reasonable. I think the difficulty is relate...
So on the one hand I think there is a bit of begging the question with respect to the "plain meaning of the text." On the other hand, I think you are ...
Arguing from Catholic dogma does not work against non-Catholics, and it does not work on a philosophy forum. Instead of appealing to Catholic dogma, w...
Yes, "bumping up against" involves noticing. Note that you asked how someone could discover they are bad at reasoning. They could do so by noticing co...
Banno began the debate and set the tone, making claims such as, "Faith is obedience even to committing abominations" (). His thesis goes far beyond th...
"Peshat interpretations also note the importance of context, both historical and literary." I think the point here is that the literal meaning of a te...
Where does your virtue of tolerance come from? The American Revolution? The French? Romanticism? The Enlightenment? The humanist revival? Christendom?...
Exactly right. It doesn't bother me much that modern atheists balk at the binding of Isaac, but modern atheism does seem to be the flip side of Christ...
- Makes sense. One aspect of this has traditionally been called natural theology. In the West we do seem to have a difficult time distinguishing natur...
Interesting. I actually think that is a helpful video for showing why Hart does not follow Hick. I am not familiar with the term "perennialism" as Har...
- As far as I know, Hart does not hold that all religions worship the one infinite source. He certainly does not believe that all religious adherents ...
It seems to me that if there is only one "sacred" then everyone must be worshipping the same god; the phenomenal elements of each religion each derive...
And how is it that you believe Gideon's test does not do this? Do you believe that the natural phenomenon of dew will affect a fleece and nothing else...
I think this is a good point, and there is also the fact that religious pluralism universalizes a move that had already been localized by various reli...
In some ways we might say that, but in general I don't tend to view Kantians (like Hick) as relativists. The reason is that the noumenal will impose s...
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