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I think Eccles is saying that to deny freewill due to determinism is presupposing a choice to make the denial, hence contradictory, therefore irration...

Yeah, I must admit that my info is possibly from five years ago. I forget that these telescopes are updated periodically. Cheers for the read, interes...

I agree with this, theoretically speaking. Measurements so far have density equal to the critical density(mass needed to stop the expansion) which sho...

I heard of a theory that, from a fifth dimensional perspective, the big bang and the big crunch as come and gone and positrons are electrons travellin...

To me, mind is a form of matter and it is actually due to physicality, being what it is, that we get these mistaken views such as idealism, dualism or...

Sorry I can't stay around and chat, have to get out early to avoid the xmas shopping rush, But I promise I will mull over your posts and hopefully hav...

Boring?!! Never!!

I'll try! :up:

You've given me some food for thought here, I'm going to have to come back to you on this one.

Damn sign, you just made my brain hurt! Am I not being open-minded by declaring metaphysical ignorance as axiomatic?! :joke: Yeah, it does seem that B...

Yep, my thinking also. How do you unchange what's been changed? Interesting thought. Makes me think that somewhere, really advanced aliens are sharing...

Wayfarer forwarded the idea that we are not in error in what we perceive, it's our judgements that are in error about what we perceive. And as I've no...

Thanks :up:

I appear to have a reply that I made earlier deleted on me. I'm guessing that linking a youtube video is a violation of the ToS which wasn't my intent...

Thanks for that , but what does God, the arbiter of actuality, see? Why would he present such an illusion to us if not just the mere behaviour of phys...

Yep, I admit that my definition was somewhat vague and general (hence my disclaimer of being opinion) but throwing words in such as understanding, ful...

Will do, might take me a day or two (or even a week to fully digest). I'm not the brightest bulb in the christmas tree! :sad:

I'd say that defining intelligence as a capacity to understand is rather anthropocentric and a better definition is a capacity to deal with theoretica...

We shall see! :wink:

I admit that I haven't read his Dialogues, only Principles of Human Knowledge and even then, that was a while ago. But cheers for the heads up anyway,...

I have, I've read all posts. I guess that I'm not included when it comes to principles of charity! :worry: But anyways, about Berkeley and his subject...

So asking people to ignore someone who doesn't hold your views and doesn't conform to how you think a philosophy discussion ought to be is doing philo...