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The opposite position is just as sensible, perhaps even more: All good books in their correct interpretation are a communication from God. God may not...
January 14, 2019 at 11:01
Whether something is controversial is in the eye of the beholder, it's a subjective qualification, not an objective one, unless you are taking an argu...
January 14, 2019 at 10:28
Thanks for the compliment. Though I didn't actually come up with that idea myself, all I can take credit for is the way the statement is formulated, t...
January 14, 2019 at 09:54
Just as time is relative, so is perception. So why not both, from the perspective of the totality of humanity the first goes and from the perspective ...
January 12, 2019 at 14:23
From the perspective of the foton, no time has passed, does that mean fotons (and thus light) doesn't exist? time is relative, so sure it can exist fo...
January 11, 2019 at 16:33
Thanks you for your compliment, I guess this discussion forum is my debut then, though I may have expresses part of the idea in youtube comments befor...
January 11, 2019 at 12:07
The beginning of human consciousness. One possible interpretation is as you say, evolutionary, but it can also be seen as developmental (as in how an ...
January 11, 2019 at 11:59
I didn't mean to imply that there must be something else when I said minimum. Though if you can think of something else, I'm open to suggestions. 'the...
January 11, 2019 at 11:55
Ah yes, but whether a text should be interpret literally, figuratively or metaphorically, or perhaps even all three at once is something that can derr...
January 11, 2019 at 11:31
I'm abit lazy, So I didn't read the rest of the comments, hence on the risk of repeating something already said: Where does it say that god is the cre...
January 08, 2019 at 14:57
I'm still hoping for the moment of someone actually prooving me wrong. This may sound arrogant, but when one has dealt with as many strawmen of my pos...
January 08, 2019 at 14:30
It's not the quote that matters, it's the interpretation. People who dislike biblical quotes unfortunately are so poor of mind in that regard generall...
January 08, 2019 at 14:25
The water consisting of two hydrogen and one oxygen atom you describe isn't always fluid, it can also be solid or gasious and even viscosious if mixed...
January 08, 2019 at 14:20
Not saying you are incorrect, but if you claim my approach might fall short, please do state what is missing. I merely mentioned some obvious requirem...
January 08, 2019 at 14:16
The truth that makes most sense considering it's context. Words by themselves are meaningless, words get their meaning by the context they are placed ...
January 07, 2019 at 11:22
Sorry for responding abit late to this part. No disagreement on my part. What you stated makes sense as far as I understood it correctly.
December 25, 2018 at 10:24
Perhaps I should have stated it as: "3 Are ideas about the universe with predictive value more usefull than ideas about the universe without predictiv...
December 24, 2018 at 21:45
So what about the 3 more specific follow up questions? 1 Is it real? 2 Is it possible to learn something about it? 3 Are ideas about the universe with...
December 23, 2018 at 16:52
I assume you didn't watch the video, or you would already know the answer to this question, but I'll be more specific: What do you believe about the u...
December 23, 2018 at 14:24
I share your observation,I like to discuss with atheists (not debate), and it often bogs down in the atheist unable to clarify wich of the 3 positions...
December 23, 2018 at 14:08
I don't play any sports is a valid answer for someone who actually doesn't play sports. But 'not soccer' is not a valid answer to the question when gi...
December 23, 2018 at 13:43
Since to a pearlist, the scientific method is the god to believe. It's the god of scientific naturalism at least. Supernatural proporties are optional...
December 23, 2018 at 13:36
I'd like to add that when I said subjective I didn't mean to reduce the concept to just feeling-based. I intended to make it also include logically de...
November 27, 2018 at 11:31
I'd say that in order to recognize anything, one needs to have at least some familiarity with the subject to be recognized. For instance in order to a...
November 23, 2018 at 11:10
This is nor the goal nor the interpretation of iq test results. Yes what you suggest is a stupid idea, but I know of none who actually knows enough ab...
November 13, 2018 at 12:45
It depends wether you plan to monetize what you learned by studieng or not. If it's just to satisfy your curiousity, sure just do philosophy. If you p...
October 29, 2018 at 13:04
Because it's the same unconscious mechanism that causes someone to lift ones foot before becoming aware of the pain when that someone steps into somet...
October 29, 2018 at 12:48
No you don't know, you may believe so, but you don't know. If a meteorite falls through your roof and kills you before you can take a sip you don't. Y...
October 08, 2018 at 11:31
Not even so drastic, just some sleep deprivation or malnourisment is enough to perform significantly lower on iq score tests. Indeed, hardly any one i...
August 27, 2018 at 20:11
It is hard to raise intelligence, however there are numerous quite easy ways to drasticly lower intelligence. Hence the base IQ range level isn't that...
August 26, 2018 at 13:19
If you have problem with this example because it involves a device like a car, then just think about the theoretical exam for the driving test, wich m...
August 26, 2018 at 12:59
I used a simular example to attempt to explain differences in ways to measure something (since I do play guitar and not the violin I opted for a first...
August 26, 2018 at 12:42
You seemed to do so when you stated: My example clearly demonstrates that the act and the proces can be undistinguisable, hence they are not by defini...
August 26, 2018 at 12:30
I don't think I was ever in that hole to begin with, since I already gave some examples of that, but you didn't seem to recognize them as such. So per...
August 26, 2018 at 11:50
You can state this, but you didn't demonstrate it to be truth, nor do I agree with this assumption. I did attempt to demonstrate the contrary with an ...
August 26, 2018 at 11:30
I pointed out the invalidity of the question, since it assumes that the activities must be conscious, wich wasn't stated in the definition I gave. As ...
August 24, 2018 at 20:28
teachers mistake: openness, better he had said " the number of sheep is defined as x" Pupils mistake: disagreeableness, not willing to participate int...
July 28, 2018 at 10:32
'social intelligence' is more correlated with personal trait agreeableness than with intelligence. Computers are not intelligent, they just execute th...
July 28, 2018 at 10:24
Just like how driver tests provide excellent meant of ascertaining how good people are at taking driver tests. That we can say for sure. However, you ...
July 28, 2018 at 10:22
The fact that you had enough practice so you can recognize most words by just reading the first and last letter of a word and a decent estimation of t...
July 28, 2018 at 10:15
Thanks for confirming you are just here to troll and not to be actually discussing philosophy.
July 28, 2018 at 10:09
Poisoning the well now Metaphysics? I answered several direct decent questions on this forum, in order to make that statement, you should have checked...
July 10, 2018 at 09:15
yea.. tell me about someone able to recognize wich letter is wich without engaging into the intentional activity of reading the letters. The fact that...
July 10, 2018 at 09:11
No, what I mean when I use the word 'measuring' is measuring, the fact that I might mean something else by it than when you use the word 'measuring' d...
June 30, 2018 at 09:03
The reference was to the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale vs. Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale especially when applied to less median groups. I see ...
June 30, 2018 at 08:43
I don't think humans can really avoid projecting, though it can be quite usefull to be aware of doing so and realize that meaning is in the eye of the...
June 29, 2018 at 15:38
Not really, its more about the neccesity of providing a definition on the words used when their meaning is not clear to the receptor. Of course a set ...
June 29, 2018 at 15:28
Well, if you refuse to talk to the biologist himself, you will have to do it with the explanation of the 3 year old, you shouldn't blame god for that....
June 29, 2018 at 15:22
Why assume it's god who failed and not the people? I failed explaining it so you can understand, you failed to understand, it doesn't nessesarily need...
June 29, 2018 at 15:18
not from where i stand. I can move my arm as an act, wich includes several chemical processes within my muscles. It's impossible for me to perform tha...
June 15, 2018 at 16:03