The way I see it, the "problem" (if it can be called that) with Anselm's argument is that it's too generic: it doesn't manage to conclude that God is ...
Feel free to not focus in this thread, you're allowed to go off the rails here. I think I can put the thread back on track if it gets derailed. Should...
A City Daddy then. Maybe Banjo Paterson would be the Bush Daddy then. I'm not trying to be offensive, nor am I trying to go off topic, I'm just curiou...
Yeah, but it's like, would you call the Rainbow Serpent a Sky Daddy? If yes, then can you really blame Aboriginal Australians if they take exception t...
Well, I mean, I can see where is coming from. Calling the Sky Father a Sky "Daddy" is like saying that it's a Sugar Daddy but in the sky, so it's unde...
I'd call it something like "logical reductionism", or something along those lines, something that sounds more "politically correct" but without losing...
Yeah, Bunge always cracks me up with those labels. He wanted to coin the term "logical imperialism" as a technical term. Obviously no one except for h...
:100: It's really difficult to articulate such things into words, but Norman Fischer is clearly talented in that sense. Nonetheless, one can detect th...
Very insightful. Well, but at least you can enjoy the aurora borealis, right? That has to have some positive effect on the mental health of the northe...
José Ortega y Gasset spoke of a distinction between what he called "biological life" and "biographical life". We humans are more or less similar as fa...
Is it? I'd say that it's an unnatural desire. It's a human desire. It doesn't seem to be the case that other animals share that same desire. So how co...
Well, speaking for myself, I happen to live in a geographical region that is not as climatically castigated as the region that you live in. And by tha...
The thing with religious experiences (speaking only from my own personal experiences) is that they sort of impose themselves upon you, whether you're ...
Are they really that different? Granted, they're not identical, as in, you and I don't have the same brain. But they're quite similar. They're human b...
Sure, no problem. Happy to help :up: Indeed. The predicate letter "C" means "causes", in this case. So, Cga means "God causes the act of creation". I'...
I'm trying to see how your argument could be formalized. Clearly, propositional logic is insufficient here. So, we need, at the very least, first orde...
Would you believe me if I told you that I more or less know what you're talking about here, and that I've had a similar experience? Especially in rela...
My opinion (and I could be wrong) on this classic problem is that it depends on how we formalize the problem. Consider a first case: 1) ?x?y(Ex ? My ?...
To me it sounds like Apus, the southern constellation that represents a bird of paradise. The "ti" part, I've no idea. The "melogist" part, could have...
And I'll add something that may surprise : I've actually had religious experiences. Under the use of psychedelic drugs (LSD, in particular), and to a ...
Why not? What would that "something" be, if not God? Yes, so would I. I'm not quite sure I understood this part. Could you explain it to me, in a simp...
Good question. I think that many philosophies are compatible with those conditions. For example, the ancient atomists like Democritus thought that the...
The parts of the human brain that are more or less similar to the parts of the brains of non-human vertebrates are the ones that are most "connected" ...
Of course. This is why some eliminativists are monists. They claim that there exists a single, giant thing, and nothing else. They differ as to what t...
Ok, I'll bite. A tautology, as I understand it, is a proposition that is true, and necessarily so. A contradiction is a proposition which is necessari...
I'd say that the antecedent is true ("things exist"), while the consequent (everything else after "things exist") is false. The burden of proof is the...
Sounds fair to me :up: It's a joking reference to . True, but I think there's a difference between God and the perfect unicorn, because some people ha...
Columbus died thinking he had landed in Asia (India, specifically). But he still arrived at the New World, even though he never claimed such a thing. ...
Fair enough. Let's get this Thread back on track, then. I find it odd that Christian philosophers only offer arguments for the conclusion that God exi...
The fully eliminative response (not van Inwagen's almost fully eliminative response) is that you and I do not exist. You are just a collection of atom...
But the problem is that the subset in question only contemplates two cases (T and T, F and F), such that both cases are necessarily true, while the la...
Not quite, because the difference between p ? p and p ? q affects their truth values. Consider the former case first: p ? p T__T F__F Now consider the...
In this case, if "p" and "q" are both identical to "God exists", then the structure is the following one: 1. p ? p 2. p 3. ? p There's two types of st...
Mathematicians also like to talk about mathematical beauty, but I reject that notion myself. Aesthetic notions have no place in a formal science. They...
You're both quite chatty in your most recent posts, but I'm going to need to ask you two if you have horses in this race, before proceeding any furthe...
There's nothing "degenerate" about such cases. That notion has no place in a formal science such as logic. Sure, that's an argument. It's a modus pone...
Again, I don't accept your notion of a "real" argument. An argument is either sound or unsound, there's nothing more to it. And since an argument is t...
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