You are right. I wasn’t careful enough and my unicorn “argument” fails. That’s twice you said I don’t know what an argument is. Do you really think th...
So do you want to talk about logic, or about whether Jesus is God? If you want to talk about logic, you could have said many other things for “p” and ...
I am a Catholic. I love God, as Father, Jesus and their Holy Spirit. But I am sure I won't be able to convince anyone about Jesus or God through argum...
That inquiry would be instructive, because we are animals. Contrast our own impulsive responses with our own deliberated, reasoned, chosen responses. ...
If.....God is identical to Jesus....God is identical to Jesus. That's not an argument. Nothing to digest there. "If we had ham, we could have ham and ...
I'm just saying that, in a conversation where we are trying to make sense of a person's behavior, trying to make some sense of using language to expla...
It doesn't. I am saying I have no idea how I have ideas, and discussing this as the inscrutability of reference. Why would the actions of a dog, or an...
We can't tell what is actually happening in another person's head, or our own head, when we are believing or are knowing. Why would we think invoking ...
We string together samplings of NOW and construct of these TIME as the string is said to refer to PAST and NOW as if however it is that NOW might exis...
It is a mystery to us how we are able to KNOW anything. Despite that we seek to summarize everything in a tight, simple bit of KNOWLEDGE, that we can ...
If you are going to say time doesn't exist, but space and objects do, then you should go further and realize that if time is a construct, so is space,...
By creating, God becomes change. So God wasn't change until God created, and now God moves in and with what is created. So in a linear way, I agree wi...
It's both as much a salvation as it is a burden, this philosophy thing - hopefully more salvation. Philosophizing is one of those purely human things ...
Hey Rob - love it. (Love that.) I like to think I'm an artist - I wrote songs, played them for years in bars, really wanted to be an artist. Had a bun...
This conversation is the heart of philosophy. Or the inscrutable meaning of “philosophy.” The object of thought here that prompts us to communicate wi...
Yes. This conversation is at once one of physics, metaphysics, and epistemology. And if we do not address all three at once, and focus only on one of ...
Simply put. No. You place the essence of a thing apart from the thing in order to form your question. The thing is its essence; it is what it is to be...
I would ask “Is there (in the same form as you said above) an experience you call “makes it” without making a “what it is?” There is the motion that u...
Somewhat interesting, frustratingly annoying thread. I’m still stuck on how one can speak to another about anything, and uses more than one word to fo...
I think saying “have” creates the issue for people who try to deny essence. I agree things have essences, but at this rarefied level of universality, ...
Hey - hang in there. You seem to know what love is and it’s worth all the heartache it brings. You aren’t wrong. You wanted a girlfriend, to share wit...
My individual experience IS my body - this is the “cord” that there is to “re-cord” so to speak. Talking about it is recording it. Thinking about thin...
If there is no room in the universe for freedom to reason, judge and choose our actions, then each word of this post is not from “me.” Seems absurd to...
Who is this “one” who “knows the truth” of a “significant matter?” I want to be that guy. The “integrity of free will” - doesn’t that rely on truth? H...
I have trouble right out of the gate. I don't see that evolution occurs outside of life. The earth doesn't evolve. We can use the word "evolve" metaph...
My question was actually where ethics resided before persons. You seem to be saying ethics is imbedded in evolution, or more generally, in life. Looki...
Like I said, conservatives have to confess their evil, lying hearts before anyone who is reasonable would believe an “honest” dialogue on the issues. ...
That is true and that’s a shameful failure of philosophy. The way I see it, wisdom can and does come from anywhere, from anyone at any moment. It’s al...
The void is often misinterpreted as monstrous, instead of just being. The one. See, interesting, This conversation (these words) sits on an edge betwe...
Interesting conversation. I liken it all to a jigsaw puzzle. Some like Parmenides worked to put the puzzle together, not seeing the pieces once he saw...
But when it comes to the main stream legacy media (three major networks, all major newspapers, oldest cable news company) and their rockstars in Holly...
The dems will beat repubs every time the Dems offer a clear framing of a clear problem the majority faces, and a reasonable, realistic solution to tha...
I take it evolution is a word reserved primarily to describe living things. We could say that the earth evolved from star dust into a fiery ball, but ...
I disagree that Republicans destroy any more so than any other ideological movement destroys. Conserving by nature seeks to preserve the status quo, s...
I agree with that and have grown very interested in Buddhism these past few years. “Not my will, but thine be done.” We cannot become filled with God ...
Interesting discussion. I certainly recognize that philosophers attempt to address everything and anything that was, is, will be, actually or potentia...
I agree as well. People can certainly believe what they choose (that’s the nature of belief), but it seems to me the most important difference between...
What are those qualities, besides Caucasian, and hair? If Caucasian and hair matter at all towards a definition of person, all people from India, Asia...
Come on, let’s stay with you for a bit more. I don’t want us to have to talk about my crappy reasoning yet, I’d rather we get back to your crappy reas...
We can’t use “Caucasian” to identify a person, because what about other non-Caucasian organisms? Making “caucasian” have anything to do with being a “...
I absolutely agree with that. I don’t think that is enough, but “sense of self” is a good one when talking about “person”. The phrases “I regard” or “...
Let’s be careful and precise. We are philosophers here. So an instance of a “new born human baby” (which can be depicted as you’ve depicted it), equal...
Absolutely not. Probably a bottomless pit. But, won’t you just say, whatever the qualities are that make whatever a person is, a newborn baby is (or i...
Your question about two identical twin human zygotes and whether they can both be persons if there is no way to distinguish them is a good one and int...
No. I relied on it to make my point and ask a question that hasn’t been addressed. I bolded it so you wouldn’t miss it: How is that not consistent? Ba...
Am I being unreasonable or something? Is this forum only a verbal boxing ring? Everyone more interested in connecting with punches. Can’t we make some...
Here is what is so difficult: how do you know they mean different things? Can’t you use words to define them in some way? I hate to say it, but this i...
Are you saying immortal equals unchanging? Why is that? But doesn’t seem relevant to essentialism either. Do you think essences immortal or something?...
Can you say this without using the word “things” because that makes me think you might be able to point to a person, and separately point to a human b...
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