m-theory

At no T absent of minds is it true that there are no truths. If it is true that there are not truths at T then this is a contradiction. The point is t...

Saying that there are no minds is equal to saying P is not true.

So to say that truth is mind dependent is true means that it cannot be a truth in a world absent of minds. So where there are no minds there are no tr...

P = Truth is mind dependent ~P = The world is absent of minds

The contradiction is that in the statement "There is no truth because there are no minds" is not a truth about the world absent of minds if truth if m...

You can't have truths about the world if truth is mind dependent, that leads to contradiction.

So it is not a truth about the world, that truth is mind dependent. If the statement "truth is mind dependent" is true, it is not a truth about any wo...

You can't make mind dependent claims about the truth of worlds if truth is mind dependent. At least not without arriving at a contradiction.

This is also a contradiction you might notice. It cannot be a truth about that world that there are no truths

If truth is mind dependent, and there are no minds in the world, then there are no truths about that world.

Futile relative to what? Suppose I decide to pursue one of two goals. To spin gold from straw Or To get a glass of water from the tap Obviously one of...

The problem is this cannot be a truth about the world without minds by definition.

Sigh I just hate the idea that people can content themselves that they were outright censored because they were heretics. With a banned threads area t...

That is too bad. I guess that is the price you pay for letting some one else go through all the trouble of starting a social forum where philosophy is...

I think there is a place where deleted threads go right, at least with the old PF they did not outright censor dissenters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEb_epsuLqA

My mistake.

I did address something you claimed. You claimed that faith is infallible. But then you failed to demonstrate that this is in fact true.

Knowing is different from beliefs. Knowledge is demonstrable, beliefs are not necessarily so. So this is where atheists and theist often clash. A reli...

You give examples of something that has not been disproved relative to some given personal belief. Not an example of something that cannot be altogeth...

Amen to this.

And I pointed out that saying that something is not yet disproved is not the logical equivalent that therefor that something is necessarily infallible...

There are plenty of people that do not believe in the existence of chi that practice tai chi, and become better at it's motions, simply as a way to re...

That is so cool.

I feel like you have changed the subject. I am not saying that different personal beliefs do not lead to different life experiences. I am asking if yo...

I feel like you are splitting hairs. Do you have any evidence that if person A believes in chi they will become better at tai chi than person B who do...

No becoming better is a consequence of practice, not belief.

I believe we have different criterion for justified beliefs. It is a fallacy to say a claim is true as long as it has not been proven false. This is c...

That is not so. The speed of light is universal, it applies to any particular photon.

So it would be interesting for you to explain how there are consequences but that there is no fallibility.

.Are the physical constants examples of universals or particulars?

I am a pantheist.

Units of measurements are particulars?

I believe that if god does exist. It is no accident that we have a capacity for reason and rationality and it seems to me that if god exists then god ...

The same is true of a war on christianity though. People of that religion could be persuaded to abandon their faith and we could prevent their religio...

Sure, let me know your thoughts.

Well I agree, if your declaration of war has no real consequence, then there can be no controversy. It does raise an interesting question though. If y...

I disagree, I think it is important. Again I value reason and rationality though, and like I said before I don't see these things as something that mu...

If this is true then no faiths, even those that are different from your own, are wrong or bring about spiritual consequences.

So who endowed humanity with the capacity to reason and be rational if not god? And if god does not will or intend for us to use this capacity then wh...

That appllies to you as well. Do you believe your faith is infallible, that you know fully the scope of god's intent and will? Or is possible that you...

No, I am presuming that if I am reasonable and rational it is a capacity from god.

So you begged god to save you? Doesn't that seem to imply that the fate of your soul is a thing which god, and not yourself, ultimately decides? If so...

My main point is that the wager fails if god is unreasonable and irrational and that if god is reasonable and rational the wager is not needed. The wa...

The common definition of this term applies. If some group declares war on a religion it will likely be seen as a controversial thing, unless that decl...

Who get's to decide what is good for god, you? What makes you think that it is not good to be reasonable and rational? The wager fails if it assumes t...

Who, besides yourself, claims it is not controversial to declare war on a religion, never mind if that religion is islam or christianity?

I did not presume this, I presumed that if god exists, then we are endowed with these capacities by gods intent and will.

Just because you say so?

You actually did not answer my questions. I asked what if god also values reason and rationality? I also asked what power does god have over me if I c...