If this were true then there'd be no such thing as guidance counselling, and no such thing as the study of morality. Are you amoral? And there is no t...
The point of a good morality is to encourage the individual to seek one's own well-being. Morality definitely must start with the individual. But "ind...
This is incorrect, because a being with superior capacities might be able to do X. One cannot conclude from one's own inability to do something, that ...
This is not my job, it's my pastime. Oh cry me a river. Your boss made you wash your hands, so you quit the job because you thought that working in a ...
Huh? The fact that I cannot discern the difference between two things, does not necessitate the conclusion that the difference is indiscernible. Do yo...
The necessity to avoid having people get sick is of great concern within the food industry. It always has been, as long as food supply has been an ind...
The merchandise being thrown on the floor is packaged isn't it? You say it's in boxes. So the old ladies are not actually eating what has touched the ...
The fact that you or I, both of us, or a whole bunch of people, cannot discern one thing from another thing, does not necessitate the conclusion that ...
I would say that a presupposition is a supposition which stands as a sort of premise from which logic would follow. So in your example, a person could...
It's no joke. Jesus taught love your neighbour, even if your neighbour happens to be your enemy. That's why one of the primary principles of Catholici...
If you had read my entire post before replying, you would have seen that my objection to calling this a "presupposition", is that it is formed posteri...
Unless you describe life as an actual human being as being a brain in the vat, then the two are not the same thing. We generally describe life as an a...
If you were the source of your own presuppositions, how could there be any historical continuity? Contrary to what we have observed, that there is a s...
It's you who is being an idiot, talking about things like "atoms wandering around by themselves". I was comparing one type of molecule to another, we ...
Banno already elucidated this point. Some people, when someone tells them what they must do, will go and do the opposite, just to spite. So if thermod...
All your Wikipedia quote tells me is that if a chemical "system" (whatever that is supposed to be) is reacting with its environment, it is unstable. A...
It's easy to talk about such "presuppositions", but the question is really what these things are. What exactly are you referring to with this? Are the...
I wasn't making shit up, I asked you a couple simple questions which you did not answer. Do you consider one type of molecule to be more entropific th...
Why do you think it must be "most general"? If to be is to be a particular, then what defines being is what differentiates a being from others, not th...
I don't think it's right to say that metaphysics is a science. It is a branch of philosophy, and science is also a branch of philosophy. So they are t...
Poisoned the atmosphere? I'm sure you must realize that oxygen as an interceptor of harmful UV, was necessary for the development of "higher" life for...
There appears to be inconsistency between these two. If life is supposed to, or ought to, maximize entropy production, then how is establishing a "lon...
There is a problem with the principle of plenitude, which states that given an infinite amount of time, every possibility will be actualized. If there...
How can you justify this judgement? On what principles do you think that the changes we make to the planet, in our ever so short life spans, are harms...
Doubtful! Trump with his 'Me First' campaign, doesn't know the meaning of partnership, and tells everyone tp go f*** yourself.. https://www.bbc.com/ne...
This was not claimed by the media, it was claimed by one specific US government agency.. Sorry to disillusion you Asif, but I'm not one of those "folk...
As I said, there is a multitude of different, competing media sources reporting roughly the same thing. I could add to that, the fact that the various...
So when you tell me that hardly anyone dies from Corona virus, while a multitude of different competing media sources are telling me the very opposite...
Oh right, the USA has given the world so much. The extended war against communism demonstrates the exact opposite, the USA has been a taker, not a giv...
Let's see. Covid-19 has been killing people in America for about five months now, despite extreme cautionary measures of periods of shut down and phys...
In this discussion, all we've done is digressed, from the meaning of "number" to the meaning of "value", to the meaning of "meaning". I now think I se...
That's nonsense, meaning is relative to context, usage. For example, there are different types of animals. When I talk about this animal here, my cat,...
I never suggested that it did. I said there are all different types of values. Obviously, each different type entails a different meaning for the word...
The modern version of Heraclitus' fire, is the people who claim that the world is made of energy. Then there are those who claim it is all waves, whic...
Sure there is, and that's your vicious circle, which I just pointed out. Define "value" as number, and define "number" as value. Claim that they are s...
Clearly our disagreement is not in the meaning of "objects", but in the meaning of "value". You want to disassociate quantitative value from all other...
St Augustine has a lot of thought written on this subject. I don't think that it is fair to say that god's knowledge is independent of the universe, b...
My reply to your Wikipedia quote: That was four days ago. And, it's what I've been arguing for weeks. Did it take you this long to figure out that I r...
No! That's exactly what I've been arguing against for this entire thread. How can you not see that that is what I am arguing against, after all this t...
You obviously have not understood what I said. Oh well, I'm tired of repeating the same thing over and over, only to have it interpreted in some odd w...
Hold on here, you're jumping ahead of yourself. An object is one, so you cannot predicate any number other than one of an object. If you have a group ...
I have no problem with saying that a numeral represents a value. That is how we establish equality, by giving different things the same value. I do ha...
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