What primary or secondary Kierkegaard sources do you base your argument upon? So far I've only seen you quote Wittgenstein as if his words were simple...
- Fair enough. I realize I may have been too curt, both in my haste and because I know I will not be able to respond for a few days. On the other hand...
- I'm actually out for a few days. I just wanted to submit my responses. If your idea is as "interrogative" as you claim, you may want to ask yourself...
The preacher who thinks he has to make his listeners believe something that they cannot be made to believe is faced with a contradiction, yes. But to ...
But is the problem preaching, or is it a particular kind of preaching? Someone whose preaching attempts to connect someone with something that is dead...
I think this is the same error, but with beauty instead of faith. So we could take my claim and replace "faith" with "beauty": "The temptation is to t...
Okay sure, but although the OP's complaint is a bit vague, I suspect that the counsel is not motivated by these sorts of ethical considerations. I don...
Great OP. :up: I think the idea that the preacher testifies is essentially correct. How does Moses preach in a fundamental way? By the light of his fa...
This becomes rather subtle, but what I find is that people who tell themselves that they are merely using AI to generate candidate theories which they...
Okay, but part of the lie that kept the USSR afloat was the idea that it was flourishing inside its walls. The lie was that it was out-competing the l...
- I think "personal conviction" usually cashes out as individual conscience, and this is how I see 's original comment. There truly is something about...
If faith is correctly defined as assent based on an authority, then the last sentence is problematic. But perhaps there is some other definition of fa...
- And that's great for someone who already knows what the existentialist version of Nietzsche is, how to identify it, and how it generally contrasts w...
Perhaps that is the best policy, but does it already involve the falsehood? If AI a stranger, then AI is a person. Except we know that AI isn't a pers...
Why isn't anyone trying to do anything about it, despite the problems predicted? Maybe. Maybe not. Why can't we ever consider whether there are some t...
Your essay gets at the difference between humans and computers, which is something that the Analytic-leaning Anglo world struggles to understand. A be...
Welcome to the forum. This is a thoughtful OP which will hopefully gain some traction. I would highly recommend the historian Tom Holland on this topi...
I think the crux is that whenever a new technology arises we just throw up our hands and give in. "It's inevitable - there's no point resisting!" This...
I made a similar point . I think the ethos of the forum could discourage AI in the same way it discourages other practices. Full prohibition would be ...
Right. There wasn't. Kind of an odd definition there. "Any nation not fully reliant on a god for its authority is somehow secular." Religion is not de...
The problem is that you don't think you are required to give a falsifiable reason for why the claim fails to demonstrate the presence of X. You are re...
So someone can't objectively identify when X is present because to do so is impossible, but you are able to objectively identify when X is absent? Aga...
If you are making a claim that says, "no, not tout court inferior," and the racist is making a claim that says, "yes, tout court inferior," and you sa...
Why is it unsupportable? You simply ask the claimant what they mean by "superior" and go from there. - Regarding the original claim: Or the simpler cl...
Good, that's the closest you've come to admitting that your claim is not falsifiable. So consider two charges: "Your position is unverifiable." "Your ...
How so? Give an argument. People respond with violence, yes. What does this have to do with anything? What does this have to do with falsifiability? A...
Your recent posts provide a great deal of evidence for the thesis that your reading comprehension is very poor. But what's wrong with being a racist? ...
Okay, but I find that "faith" is a much more problematic and nebulous term than "religion," which is why I opted for the latter. "Individual faith" wi...
That's all correct, but I would say that what's at stake is a secular state religion. So it's not religious freedom of the individual over and against...
Okay, fair enough. I think that's right. Regarding these points, let's look at (1) (emphasis added): Suppose object X is essentially conscious and ess...
- That's all understood, and I appreciate the information, but it seems to me that the problem is that as soon as the individual's religion becomes th...
For what it's worth, there are a lot of anti-religious and a lot of mind/body monists on the forum, and both groups will view your OP with some suspic...
Wonderful - thank you for this. Yes, that clarifies the point for me. It's a good argument! (A minor thing is that you have two 5's - you might fix th...
I would say they live on because they do not believe their lodestar is a fiction. An example where the lie was found out and the social order collapse...
You could give a clear definition of deduction and then persuasively argue that, given the large number of beliefs each person holds, very few of them...
These are interesting points, but I don't think the otherness is protected in an autonomous Israel, is it? I think that's the rub: the state has a "re...
I agree, and even at the beginning of the modern period when freedom of religion was being pursued, what was at stake was not the freedom of the indiv...
- At every step of the way if you just starting doing some philosophy and presenting some arguments for your positions the ridicule would dissipate. T...
Okay great, thanks for this elaboration. This paragraph presents the tension I am worried about. First you say that your premise "is consistent with ,...
- There's definitely something to that. At the same time there is a less nefarious element, namely the way that online costs have increased over time....
I think this is an interesting argument that could be reworked to be valid and even sound. The idea is something like, "Our moral value does not deriv...
Okay, I agree. If everything is an IBE, then what sense does it make to exhort someone to engage in IBE? Or to argue in favor of IBEs? Let me put it t...
Okay, I will have a look. I generally don't watch conspiratorial material because it causes the algorithm to give me more of the same, and this muddie...
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