You seem to misunderstand the facts Agustino. The charge against him was indeed a charge of claiming to be the Son of God, but when asked if that's wh...
It is quite common in the Old Testament to see God referred to with the name "Father". It's actually in the Lord's Prayer. I think it's quite a stretc...
OK, suppose we remove this distinction then, between what is internal and what is external, because it is ambiguous. How would anyone justify any clai...
I really do not think that Jesus ever claimed to be Son of God. To my knowledge, he referred to himself as Son of Man. There are two distinct claims i...
Some might wish they were in your shoes, where 50K wouldn't even pay for the additional work of lifting a finger, but I'm happy to flip the bird for f...
OK, so planning, thinking, conceptualizing, contemplation, and things like this are not waking experience, because they are not perceptual experience....
The op is concerned with the difference between "true" and "truth". The difficulty with correspondence theory is that as much as it is concerned with ...
Yeah, I know you, we've been through this before, money doesn't motivate you to do anything, only force does. You don't lift a finger without being fo...
In my waking life there is a logical continuity of happenings. If I am walking down the street, in the next moment I will be continuing to walk down t...
The lucid dreamer I spoke to claimed to have some control over what was happening in the dream. When we go to a movie we do not even consider the poss...
Suppose that in a regular dream, what is being experienced in the dream is taken by the dreamer as being real, what is really happening. In a lucid dr...
What do you mean by "parallel to waking experience"? Daydreaming occurs while one is awake, it is an awake experience. I've done it many times and it'...
I don't agree that dream content is real in this way. The images in my dreams appear to be completely made up, and nothing I've ever experienced in my...
How could you not believe your dreams, while they are going on? That's the thing with dreams, they are apprehended as real, when they are going on, bu...
No, I don't think that's reasonable. Laws are put in place to protect the defined rights and freedom of individuals. Therefore they are not intended t...
That's about it, "nothing" has many different meanings dependent on the context in which it is used. In context, it always seems to mean something, so...
What makes a counterfactual true, is the same thing which makes any proposition true, how the words are defined. In most cases, correspondence is inhe...
I would say that nothing is impossible. Clearly we have something, and to create nothing from something is just as unlikely as to create something fro...
I'm no physicist, but what the quantum vacuum principle demonstrates, is that within the context of a real world situation (i.e. within something), it...
In no way does the quantum vacuum state indicate that something comes from nothing. It indicates that what some people might think of as nothing, the ...
I think Michael's claim is that the counterfactual is true by virtue of some sort of logical principles. If you had two apples, and got another two ap...
. Well, I distinguish between thinking and reasoning, as reasoning, I believe, is a type of thinking, described by the definition I provided, "conclus...
No. I don't think most people would say that other animals reason. Animals think, but to reason is to think with the use of logic, which animals do no...
The problem is that you create ambiguity by using "mode of being" to refer to both "having and being". Having and being are distinct, as "having" refe...
To me, enforcement means forcing one to follow the rules. Payment for following the rules is not enforcement. Neither is not paying the person who doe...
Ok, so let's take this example then. In the work place, you can get people to do what your boss wants of them. Isn't it the case that the people are f...
You haven't given me much to reply to, Agustino, because you are changing what you have said, as you say more. You're a shapeshifter. And that's very ...
Do a google search under "climate change", you're sure to find it. I have no contempt for statistics, just the way that some statistics are produced a...
I can agree with this, but I would proceed to distinguish between reason and experience. If experience is limited to phenomena, then reason must be se...
Climate change is a very good example of the misuse of the word "science". The field consists of a vast body of material built upon unscientific premi...
I think that where the biggest problem lies is in the misuse of the word "science". Science has been so successful, it has a reputation of being nearl...
Actually, I didn't see Tim's reply to my post at the time, and I was sort of busy. Maybe I'll make a stab at a reply right now. How is it that an onio...
He's not a good business man if he invests so much that losing it will leave him unable to feed his family. These are all signs of bad business, and a...
We're talking about the risk which is directly related to the person's occupation. Those risks which you claim the owner is involved in, are unrelated...
Well, it could be relations between words and other things, what we call reference, or it could be relations between words and other words, what we ca...
No, I think meaning ought to be reified, and it can be reified so long as it is not understood to be any particular thing, it is more like relations b...
You two have a very twisted concept of "risk". The worker may be injured or die on the job. The owner of the business stands to lose some money, of wh...
How is it that putting up a whack of cash is called "risk"? If the money's lost there's no skin off the back of the billionaire, it's just a number in...
Since we know that we understand words with ideas and concepts, the real question is do the physical things which we refer to with words, exist, or is...
Yes, I think you're right because you are asking whether it's possible to know that you know. But this implies that you must also know that you know t...
As I recall the purpose of your thought experiment was to demonstrate a change which could be occurring without being relative to something else. If s...
Yes, you observed my behaviour. Then you have a memory of my behaviour. The memory is an interpretation. You may use this interpretation when you make...
I explained it all to you, though you refused to acknowledge. You couldn't give me an example of a change which wasn't related to some other thing. Fi...
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