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No, I honestly cannot conceptualize this. A species is a concept, an ideal. It is an abstraction. For example, we have many existing beings which we c...
April 13, 2017 at 12:34
Do you recognize a difference between the using proper nouns, such as "Metaphysician Undercover", which identify a single object, and the use of a nou...
April 13, 2017 at 10:55
Are you sure it wasn't your mathematical skills that weren't up to the task? Maybe a little too much liquid incentives to the volunteers?
April 13, 2017 at 02:39
As I mentioned, there is a distinction to be made between correct use and incorrect use. So we ought not talk about "use" in general, because the kids...
April 13, 2017 at 02:35
The "Way of Negation" is specifically Frege's way. Why restrict yourself to Frege's way when there are scores of other philosophers? Honestly, I often...
April 13, 2017 at 02:14
There is no doubt that I used my hands to lay out the foundation, so my hands are the cause of the foundation. But I did not lay the foundation in any...
April 13, 2017 at 02:07
Well, I'm a philosophy graduate and I've been exposed to much usage of the terms. According to your link, your definition is provided by Frege, who de...
April 12, 2017 at 13:20
Well I probably don't agree with your definition of "abstract object" then. I just constructed a building. I used the Pythagorean Theorem (abstract ob...
April 12, 2017 at 13:01
You don't think that the concept of a circle, pi, the right angle, or the Pythagorean theorem have any causal efficacy? I beg to differ. I agree, this...
April 12, 2017 at 12:36
I've seen the trinity expressed as "Father", "Son", and "Holy Spirit". Holy spirit refers to the relationship between father and son. There is no fath...
April 12, 2017 at 12:16
God may not be revealed to you at the time of your death. I think the Christian notion, anyway, is that resurrection happens only at a later time. The...
April 12, 2017 at 12:00
If you listen to young children speak, who are just learning how to talk, you'll hear that they use some words in ways which demonstrate that they don...
April 12, 2017 at 11:52
Those cultures which are not monotheist don't believe in God, do they?
April 11, 2017 at 21:18
Isn't that fundamental to the idea of "God", that there is only one God. And despite what you might say about God, you are saying it about that one an...
April 11, 2017 at 12:03
Life after death is contradictory, unless we remove the individuality of living. We can consistently say that life itself continues after an individua...
April 10, 2017 at 12:49
How could it makes sense that morality could supersede survival? Since we all die, and there is a possibility that life may be eradicated from earth, ...
April 10, 2017 at 01:30
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April 10, 2017 at 00:05
Those are the things I'm talking about., the things with no internal structure.. If a thing occupies space, i.e. is spatial, dimensional, it has a spa...
April 09, 2017 at 10:52
I must admit, I had difficulty with this, and had to reread numerous times, because "function of" may be taken in numerous ways. I never did resolve t...
April 08, 2017 at 12:23
Right, that's exactly what I'm talking about. We can "treat" something as if it is zero dimensional, meaning that it occupies no space, has no spatial...
April 08, 2017 at 11:41
But don't you believe that not just human beings, but all living creatures have a soul, and therefore all these creatures "transcend the merely biolog...
April 08, 2017 at 02:24
Actually it's you who doesn't get it. If there is no correspondence between the model and the reality, it is a falsity. The point I was making, which ...
April 08, 2017 at 01:45
If the defining feature of the model does not describe the reality of the thing being modeled, then it is a falsity. If I state the defining feature a...
April 08, 2017 at 01:31
We have to face the facts though. We believe in evolution, we know that it occurred. We also know that we are biological beings included within evolut...
April 08, 2017 at 01:26
Your quoted passage clearly states: "Its defining feature is that it lacks spatial extension: being zero-dimensional, it does not take up space." So w...
April 08, 2017 at 01:00
So how would you answer my question to Noble Dust then? How would a relationship between morality and survival undermine evolution itself? As I said t...
April 08, 2017 at 00:34
You were critical of my attitude, as if I had no idea of the difference between a representation and the thing represented, without addressing anythin...
April 07, 2017 at 21:23
You seemed to have missed the point aletheist, so I'll try to explain better. We have immense, abstract, conceptual structures called fields. The fiel...
April 07, 2017 at 13:15
I think you've set up a division between what is known by human beings in general, and what is practised by particular individuals, and then you try t...
April 07, 2017 at 12:31
What do you mean by "classical astrophysics"? Do you measure the the Doppler shift of the CMB with classical astrophysics? What principles of measurem...
April 07, 2017 at 10:44
Are you going to make a point or just blabber?
April 07, 2017 at 03:14
"Moral" refers to the distinction between right and wrong in human actions. So if there is an evolution of moral concepts, then there is an evolution ...
April 07, 2017 at 03:13
What actual particles? That's the point. The representation is as a non-dimensional point, but what does this actually represent? It can't be a partic...
April 07, 2017 at 02:49
That's fine, let's assume that all physicists believe that fundamental particles, and virtual particles which are represented as points, have no real ...
April 06, 2017 at 15:44
Consider that in The Republic somewhere, Plato says that the same individual who is capable of doing great harm to society is also capable of doing gr...
April 06, 2017 at 15:35
The time of Christianity is past. There can be no such thing as a new Christianity because then it would not be Christianity at all, but a new form of...
April 06, 2017 at 15:05
That would be the word of God? Could we trust God's word, that it really happened?
April 06, 2017 at 14:26
If you believe in God, yes. If you do not, no. God is an immaterial existence, so if time is relative to God, then a change in time does not necessita...
April 06, 2017 at 12:56
I believe it is a certain philosophical attitude, which is described in the character of Socrates. It's a type of open-mindedness, a healthy respect f...
April 06, 2017 at 12:51
The change is relative to God. That's the issue, the proposition assumes a God to carry out this act, so we cannot just dismiss God now, to claim that...
April 06, 2017 at 12:15
The information received by Hubble is interpreted with the use of GR. OK, so this is what I mean when I say expansion is unintelligible. Imagine a poi...
April 06, 2017 at 12:08
If God moves time back, then God knows that time is moved back. If God knows this, then it is in principle "detectable". We need to allow for the poss...
April 06, 2017 at 11:30
I don't see how this argument makes sense. If time were absolute then God could turn back the time by 4 hours. But no time change would be detectable ...
April 06, 2017 at 02:40
Sorry for the delay in response Flux. What I meant here is not that we haven't defined what it means to be X (this or that type of rice, or whatever),...
April 06, 2017 at 02:04
This is where we have a difference of opinion. You think that assuming "spatial expansion" avoids great confusion. I think that "spatial expansion" is...
April 06, 2017 at 01:46
Right, I'm glad to see that someone here agrees with me to an extent anyway. And I agree with you about the obvious, that QFT has unified special rela...
April 06, 2017 at 00:39
I would say that the concept of free will was first given a formal description by St Augustine, and has since become a central part of Christian moral...
April 05, 2017 at 21:36
As I said, they proceed to this conclusion, from the evidence, which is spatial expansion. But spatial expansion as understood in cosmology is a nonse...
April 05, 2017 at 12:55
I don't agree with this criticism. For one thing, I think the disfiguring of the face is fairly represented. But more importantly though, it appears a...
April 05, 2017 at 12:10
I'm glad you have such a high appreciation of what I said. Until you can explain spatial expansion in a way which makes sense, I'll assume my top mark...
April 05, 2017 at 02:53