EricH

I refer you to the following sites which explain why your usage is incorrect (there are many other): https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/whe...

No offense was given.

Please forgive a possibly insulting question - are you a native English speaker? If not, then your confusion is understandable and I would be glad to ...

In the minds of many religious folks, the notion of a first cause is tied in with their religious beliefs. Yes, you've been saying that this discussio...

So here's a question for ya. Assume for the moment that everything you say is correct. Does this have any bearing or influence on how I should live my...

It has been demonstrated that causality does not happen at the atomic & sub-atomic level. What is the prior event that causes a radioactive atom to de...

I already gave you the link. Here it is again. Sub atomic particles pop into existence with no prior "cause". There are also many, many other quantum ...

OK - that's where I thought you were going with this - I just wanted to make sure. Your point is well taken. I'll re-phrase: To the best of our knowle...

I am not seeing any contradiction. You'll need to be a bit more specific.

What is the prior cause that causes these sub-atomic particles to pop into existence? Answer that question and you'll get the Nobel Prize for Physics.

I was a physics major in college (albeit not a very good one). i can assure you that the expression "cause and effect" never came up in my 4 years of ...

That line of reasoning will not work with Bart, since his version of God is not bound by LNC. Bart's God can lift the un-liftable stone and create a f...

I'm a fan of Barts. I find his musings bizarrely entertaining.

I did my best to be be polite and respectful while trying to throw in a little humor - obviously I did not succeed. You may be correct about being ung...

As I (along with several other people) explained, this is wrong. L cannot take a truth value since it has no semantic content that can possibly be ver...

What a wordy response. You could have conveyed the exact same information with your first paragraph plus one more sentence. I added in that last sente...

A while back I engaged in a conversation with someone who was clearly making a basic mistake in set theory and formal logic (what you call squiggles)....

Principle of Sufficient Reason falls apart at the atomic and sub-atomic level. Events happen randomly with no prior cause. Particles randomly pop into...

There are two separate and distinct definitions/usages of the word truth and its derivations. The Correspondence Theory of Truth This is the plain lan...

It would be disingenuous of me not to state up front that I find your writings entertaining & bizarrely fascinating. It's not merely the things you sa...

If I'm following correctly, B would disagree with #4. I believe B would say that God could make such a stone AND lift it if (s)he so chose - since (s)...

If I'm following you, since God is omnipotent (s)he is not bound by the Law of Noncontradiction. In other words, God can create a stone (s)he cannot l...

Clean living and a pure heart - pays off every time . . . The SEP Fitch article is here: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fitch-paradox/

Just for the record I was merely describing this account of mathematics. I have no opinion/thoughts one way or the other - it's way above my pay scale...

I'm jumping into the middle of this conversation, so apologies if I missed something, but isn't there a third option: "Tidal Flat is shared between la...

As I read the article in Stanford, Fitche's Paradox is using the word "truth" in the sense of a statement about the real world (reality, existence, th...

There are two meanings / usages of the words "true" or "truth." @"TheMadFool" gave one definition from Wikipedia a few posts back, I'll repeat it: "Tr...

This is so bizarrely wrong I can't tell if you're being ironic - but I will take your words at face value. Anekantavada can work if there are reasonab...

Ah yes. So when the Nazis come to take me to the gas chambers I should try to see things from their point of view.

What I find interesting about the corresponding theory of truth is that it corresponds (for want of a better word) to the way we use the word "truth" ...

I don't have the time to read this through (and likely wouldn't understand most of it): How Can We Know that We’re Not Brains in Vats?

I solves the problem of TPF being cluttered up with conversations about the nature of consciousness. :razz:

I haven't seen you in a while - enjoy your stuff. :smile:

I could be wrong, but I believe there are folks out here who would strenuously disagree with that - e.g. @"Bartricks" (my apologies if I have misrepre...

From where I'm sitting, it isn't necessary to invoke mathematics. As several folks have pointed out, the expression "greater than" must be based on so...

It was done by the same people who trucked in all those illegal votes for Biden.

If you were to go outside to an open space, hold your hand out in front of you, take a flashlight and point it upwards from underneath your hand, ther...

Likely this is a naive materialist response, but for the example in the OP, the word "hole" identifies a collection of physical objects occupying a pa...

I got that part - what I'm not seeing is how this ties into the materialism vs. idealism debate in this discussion. Sorry if I wasn't clear on that. M...

I skimmed this discussion but didn't spot anything relevant to my question. Could you point me to a specific post?

I have a question for the good folks on both sides of this discussion - does any of this makes a difference in how I should lead my life? If Idealism ...

Perhaps instead of intelligence, maybe self awareness or consciousness might be a better choice of words? In either case, what you're saying sounds a ...

I prefer his poetry to Bart's poetry. it scans better - and makes just as much sense (maybe more).

I don't have the time to read through the OP, but just on a superficial level it reads like something out of Existential Comics

You're a cock-eyed optimist.

Perhaps my reading skills have declined in my elder years, but I believe the original topic had something to do with this Einstein fellow?

"The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive le...

This is just to thank everyone who contributed to the discussion. As I expected, there is no mechanism to neutrally resolve these issue. It appears th...

I thought it was clear that I was asking "Are there any rules?" but obviously not. My hope is that you are wrong in saying (in essence) "might makes r...

Just to be clear - what is the basis for the "rightfulness" of these claims? Is it solely based on the ability to demonstrate to have inhabited the la...