In this world of globalized trade and international relations, within which we live, what kind of isolation would be required to secure one's regime a...
I don't think so, pregnancy will then be obsolete. The only babies being produced will then be designer (GM) babies. Human abortion will be enforced b...
Let me try again. Neither of these ideas, I believe, could resolve the problem. It appears like the problem which leads to a never ending abortion deb...
What do you think, we might implant the males with a womb, and make each one of them take a turn at looking after the unborn? Or how else do you propo...
If you think this way, why not go all the way? Once they express interest in sex, it's already too late. Better to make it a practise as soon after bi...
Those are the drones. They are born to be lazy. But they have perhaps the most important job, to fertilize the queen. I guess they are given the privi...
It's just a tricky way of saying, that there's a way that the distance between two objects increases at a rate which is faster than the speed of light...
Those are the words of God Himself! I'm sure of it. Look, He can alter the truth of fundamental arithmetic, He made the poll scores add up to 101%. He...
The uniqueness of an individual's behaviour goes far beyond the present capacity of the human intellect. Consider that the human being does not even h...
No, I think it's the inductive principle which justifies premise 2 as true. Premise 1 says that if a thing has a beginning, it has a cause. Premise 2 ...
I think the idea is that there is an inductive conclusion which is the first premise: "X is true for every thing". Then , "the universe is a thing". T...
So let me go through the problem again. I'll try to be concise and to the point, so maybe you'll understand this time. Suppose I believe both, that ev...
I don't see how critical thinking is relevant here. What paves the road to mathematical competence is the removal of critical thoughts. This is submis...
I don't understand what you are saying here. I asked, how can you say both, that causation is not logically necessary, i.e. that events can happen wit...
Your reference to "teaching strategies" indicates that you recognize that math itself is not the basic problem, but the way that it is taught may be a...
I asked you way back, weeks ago, if you minded me using "non-natural" instead of "supernatural". And you never objected to that. Now you've just confi...
Then how do you justify your other statement, that causation is not logically necessary? If causation is "the only way we can understand events", how ...
You don't seem to understand that when the term being defined is the negation of another, i.e. "non...", then we refer to the other to derive our defi...
This all depends on the way you would define your terms. You have three principal terms here, "event", "happen", and "cause". When we define "event" w...
I believe it is important to understand that logical necessity is a form of need. It is derived from the need to understand. From the need to understa...
As I said, the meaning of "non-natural" is derived from the definition of the root, "natural". Whatever demonstrates to us, that it cannot be classifi...
As you misunderstand philosophical use of "cause", you also misunderstand philosophical use of "contingent object". I provided the argument for this, ...
I agree with this, but I would go further to say that "physical causation", as conceptual, is a form of the broader category, "logical necessity". Fro...
Such an education is unavoidable. It's part of growing up, as the difference between a baby and an adult. The younger the baby, the more real is the d...
You produced the definition. Let me remind you: So, since "natural" is the things built with the building blocks, then this kind of thing which "exist...
What happened to the topic? I'd conclude that there is substantial disagreement with respect to the meaning of the principal terms "necessity" and "ca...
As I said, fiction. But regardless of whether it's fiction or not, your explanation is very clearly inconsistent with your referenced article. The art...
"Contingent" in the case of a contingent object means dependent on something else. I don't see the point in your denial. We can name thus type of thin...
It's an inductive conclusion, we've seen that things change as time passes, and things come into existence, and pass out of existence. You can deny th...
Tell me then, how do you make sense of the quote I took from your referenced page? How is "critical density" supposed to make a universe halt its expa...
I don't know if "autonomy" is the appropriate word here. Each and every one of us depends on others in some way or another. We were born into some sor...
Not when the things involved are contingent objects. Balls and cushions are contingent objects. A contingent object requires a cause for its existence...
There's a lot of standard cosmology which to anyone who takes any amount of time to think about, will be apprehended as fictional. Look at Haglund's e...
I don't think that's a proper description. When the ball got placed on the cushion, this act caused the dip in the cushion. Once the ball is there, an...
This is Bartricks' insistence on incoherency. Bartricks claims that this proposition, which I claim is incoherent, just appears as incoherent to me. N...
My direct quote is a misrepresentation? "The Cosmos is deemed to be flat because it has the critical mass..." The problem is that the concept of "mass...
I actually think we are moving in the opposite direction to what you suggest. It's much more productive to cultivate a good disposition and attitude i...
Way back, when I first engaged you, and accused you of contradiction, in saying that space was both curved and uncurved, I gave you the option of expl...
We can't even begin on this question, until we first figure out what is matter. It's not really a "non-explanation". The vast majority of human beings...
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