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PT is about the framing of an item of news. On the twittersphere many people have concluded that Muslim men groom white girls On the bare face of it t...

This is not a response to what I was saying.

In a really important sense all our most cherished beliefs concerning social realities are PT in the sense that they are rely on the acceptance of oth...

"Probably it was only a matter of time before the practice of "political spinning" found its way into every crevice of our little world. Request for 2...

For my money Post Truth (PT) has more to do with the establishment loosing the ability to push their own version of truth. This has very little to do ...

We have an obsession with cultural structure. Breakfast is breakfast. We divide raw and cooked; male and female; black and white; gay and straight; de...

"How do we prove PUN to give a solid foundation to induction? Note1: We only have access to observed events." Well yes this is 'the problem'. Inductiv...

So you have evidence of immortality? LOL

That's just the problem - I already have.

There is no logical reason to honour a dead body, yet the body is the direct object of perception of those we love, and logic has very little to do wi...

Try and THINK about it. You've not ever asked the question you think you have.

That's all fine, but that is not "soul".

I think you are shooting you self in the foot with your parenthesis; and your evidence is evidence of the things you mention, nothing suggesting a sou...

The same goes for you too. If you have a theory of soul then present it. You will get nowhere with childish strawman arguments. You have all your work...

Yes but you can blather on and on about your neolithic myths as much as you want. You have no evidence and present a theory that does no work. You mig...

This is a painfully simple answer. Without the unconscious you could never play tennis, a piano or drive a car. What we think of as our conscious perc...

You are trying to pretend that I agree with you that nothing follows from perennialism. I'm telling you that your query makes no sense at all.

Science does not explain, it describes. Since there is no such thing as a soul there is nothing to describe here. It's just a feeble minded attempt to...

Please run along and consult the term "strawman".

"If there is a concept such as "soul", which has persisted since the infancy of human thinking, why would you think that it is highly unlikely that it...

"humans" have not improved. In fact I do not think that the species has evolved towards any more intelligence or capability. What has changed is that ...

No. I was not agreeing with you but damning you for your childish framing.

Misanthropy is not a thing that is true or false. There are examples of it, sure, but evidence of it does not amount to answering your question.

If your choice is free it is worthless. Unless it is determined by your present condition; your motivation; your education; your experience, none of t...

It is highly unlikely that a concept of "soul" which we have inherited from the infancy of human thinking, is a valuable concept nor is it likely to b...

"YOU" are making choices. Those choices are based on your learning and experience, and are therefore determined by them. You cannot be free of yoursel...

You have reality backwards. "Perenialism" and any other set of -isms are not the sort of thing from which a description or exposition of which "LEADS ...

If a person can make a free decision without reference to ANY experience, would prove false the notion that free will is an illusion. Such is conceiva...

Not over moderated so much as a Forum full of jokers. Or should I say morons? yes, morons would be more like it.

Argument A: Premise 1: All dogs are mammals Premise 2: No dogs are fish We can draw a perfectly reasonable conclusion: No fish are mammals FALSE. No s...

Define 'race' then demonstrate an example!

Premise 1: All dogs are mammals Premise 2: No dogs are cats Because these are just two statements about dogs that are not connected.

Is you handle "Mad Fool" more than just a name?

There is no conclusion here. The premises may be true but nothing further can be draw from them.

Both premises are false. That being the case it is not worth persisting. A tree is alive. A tree does not suffer. A tree does not want. Even for livin...

Nothing qualifies as a race, least of all Jews as the term reflects not only a religious group, but an assumed "ethnic" grouping.

You have completely missed the point. Mind is physical. any move towards a dualism which suggests otherwise is just question begging nonsense. Only ph...

Seems to be your fallacious answer to everthing. Sadly your obsession answers nothing.

Evolution demonstrates the value of co-operation and the discovery of skills and potentialities in the most unusual places. The fact of evolution by n...

Rubbish. Physicalism is not than just measurement. "Description" goes far beyond measurement. Havce you nothing else to offer?

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"How does Physicalism explain why there's this physical world which, according to Physicalism, is Reality itself. ... independently, fundamentally-exi...

There is nothing 'mere' about material. You are just underestimating the potential of material and energy to describe reality. Energised matter gives ...

Claiming that non-conscious objects have a purpose is, in English, an abuse of language. For Aristotle you can get away with it, since "purpose" can b...

If you define yourself by race that makes you a racist. Racists attract other racists. That does not mean that the category is viable or useful.

The idea of a race is a bogus category. So there is very little point trying to pretend that "semitic" means a thing it don't mean. No one self identi...

"I don't see how this explains the difference between "the plant intends to produce seed" and "the plant will produce seed". Are you saying that the f...

"Planet" conforms to anything that has an erratic movement in the sky, but looks like a fixed star other wise. All visible stars can be shown to rotat...

None the less the concept of acquired characteristics is included in both the Origin of Species and the Descent of Man, and taken as read. His 'empiri...