It is an important feature of 'political correctness' that it is not a 'movement' (for want of a better word) initiated by oppressed groups but by int...
It's not my black and white view. It is double predestination as taught in extremist Calvinist churches. Though I do concede that 'before' was probabl...
I've got God in this box, you know! The Navy contract was for an entirely different device. Of the 26 supplied under the contract 19 did not work at a...
What utter twaddle! This statement is almost completely falsified by the remainder of the text if interpreted properly so I really shouldn't need to s...
Really? I'm not aware of any credal or catechismal statement to that end. Nor am I aware that the only definition of 'perfect' is the Platonic Ideal. ...
Even if that weren't patently and trivially false (by what experience do you know that you can't know if there is anything other than your experience ...
Correct Incorrect (and for a Christian as heretical as it is possible to be!) Even if we leave God out of it altogether the one simply does not follow...
It can't be resolved. Simple economics. Demand outstrips supply both buying and renting. Builders and letters must make a profit. Housing associations...
Anybody who says they understand process logic doesn't understand process logic! But your whole post is predicated on Whitehead's assumption (presumpt...
Firstly, historically inaccurate. Secondly, circular argument. If your hidden definition of monk is celibate individual then it proves absolutely noth...
The alternative, of course, is that it's just pseudo-scientific gobbledegook masquerading as philosophy and the reason that nobody understands it is t...
The NASA tests have not been submitted for peer review because nobody at NASA is confident that the results are directly attributable to the 'drive' a...
Fortunately for the human race moral and legal codes concern themselves much more with the consequences of actions than the cause of them. Determinism...
But that's an entirely false dichotomy. Preferences are an expression of the individual. They are not somebody else's preferences, nor are they commun...
I am seeking an explanation of the meaning of 'comfortable' in the key statement ... To me it implies both voluntary acceptance and a contentedness wi...
Evidence? What evidence? Evidence of what? And what has any of this to do with quantum mechanics? I'm really getting fed up with people saying 'quantu...
No, they don't. Not even close! The physicists are still very much at the stage of arguing about whether it works. In a perfect Universe in which mate...
How on Earth do you not notice that I put 'happy' in italics to indicate that its meaning was intentionally open to interpretation and conclude that t...
Quite apart from the small fact that there aren't a lot of trees in the desert and the degree of change of temperature which the shadow of a tree in t...
What about it? Everybody knows it's happening and is an accident not an act of aggression. The chances are that it will pass off without incident anyw...
So where does irony, the use of literal language to express the literally opposite meaning, fit in this analysis? It is neither literal nor metaphoric...
But the alternative is incoherent. What would it mean to be able to like something this morning and then not like it this afternoon because we want to...
How is it not? The entire Arab world had to be rearranged ad hoc to establish Israel.in 1948 in what was already an area destabilised by previous atte...
See, the thing about being a grammar nazi pedant is that it's a really bad idea to be wrong. The OED has ... .. with a first citation from 1802. And i...
But the concept of 'set' is just another product of the logic system. That's precisely the point. Within the logical system we know as mathematics the...
As it is not always true in this world I would have thought it perfectly obvious that it is not. Dealing with numbers as things in themselves is the d...
So if I give my billion dollars to a charity and the charity treasurer then embezzles or straight out steals a chunk of it am I not responsible for th...
Neuroscientists have discovered that brain activity is identical (or as near identical as makes no difference) for both conscious and unconscious (ie....
No it isn't. The whole of Ryle's argument is predicated on the ability to distinguish between counterfeit and real but that's patently absurd. Counter...
As Ryle's counterfeit argument has pretty much been blown out of the water by any number of critics I can only conclude that you are either attempting...
So you're just not going to bother with the very clear distinction that I made and you're just going to go on playing semantics? Whoopee! Well I suppo...
You cannot possibly be certain of that. Just because you haven't yet 'woken up' doesn't mean you won't and certainly doesn't mean you can't. Maybe tha...
Again, this would be a lot easier to argue if you actually identified the country so that I can pinpoint the relevant law. I am a little mystified at ...
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