BrianW

If it is all subjective, then what are you trying to explain when you know your explanations to be subject to fallacies just like all laws, as you put...

Instead of future explanations, please direct me to the source of your information. Perhaps that would more readily resolve this conflict.

Pi is a relationship. It is not a line. The value 3.14159265359 may be applied to a dimension of length but the length or the line does not become pi....

Violations of the law of identity result in the informal logical fallacy known as equivocation... In everyday language, violations of the law of ident...

etc, etc Since the above quoted information has no basis in any existing mathematical or scientific laws and even seems to contradict them, doesn't th...

Mathematics is a science with its own accepted rules of expression. If you are not going to adhere to those rules, DON'T CALL IT MATHEMATICS! OR SCIEN...

I came across this book in my library (long forgotten it was) and I thought to peruse a few pages for nostalgia's sake and then this hit me: 2. For th...

It seems like the theoretical isn't definitive enough without empiricism. Don't all theories aim at providing practical value? If so, is that what giv...

Is Elon Musk (or any of us) part of this simulation? If so, then it's that real. That is, a simulation is real to its objects/subjects. Right...? And ...

Me, personally? I prefer the principle of absoluteness. To me, Reality/Existence is absolute. Everything else is relative. However, even my concept is...

Christian, Islam, Judaic deity/deities - are presumed omnipotent. Brahma, Shiva, Vishnu - presumed omnipotent; other Hindu deities - not so much. Nors...

Exactly. That's why we worship our own deities.

Depends on your conception of God.

If he asked, I would answer by saying, if the laws of nature were subject to whims instead of being based upon definite and unyielding directives then...

Neither God, Reality and/or Existence is the sum of all the aspects. They contain everything but are not defined by those things. If such was the case...

As to the terms form/formless, cause/causeless, something/nothing, etc, if they are to be a dichotomy of polar opposites within a given continuum, the...

This is the point of this thread: I have this friend, who says, "if God is omnipotent why doesn't He end all suffering?" I reply that, we humans are t...

Didn't expect you to argue this. I mentioned it to you earlier about numbers being both. I thought there was something weird about your arguments and ...

At this point, I raise my white flag and call an end to this unyielding argument. I will have my previous statements stand in their own merit as to wh...

That's a very compelling argument.

Unlike you I'm not predisposed nor inclined to follow his directive. And last I checked, Bertrand Russell is not the definitive authority on what phil...

What point is it supposed to relate? Anyway, I would readily indulge you if you reciprocate by reading, "Your Mind and How to Use it" by William Walke...

Every experience has to be interpreted through the mental faculty for it to qualify as an experience. The mind is the faculty or tool that processes e...

Philosophy encompasses all fields of knowledge and information. Try not to get caught up in the details, instead, understand the message. The mention ...

The concept of God comes from many different sources. The ones you've mentioned are neither the earliest, most prominent nor most favoured. Religions ...

The fact that you are aware of your experiences means that it can be expressed to others through familiar points of reference. This means that others ...

What conclusions?

I find your perspective unique and somewhat interesting, however, it seems deficient in several ways: 1. I think you're creating your own abstract mea...

By symmetry, do you mean rationale? To me, 'This replication of symmetry, as a reflective or mirroring process', is a part of the perception of phenom...

When is an axiom evident to others? And how does it relate to facts? For example, 'women are inferior to men' has been a self-evident truth for many p...

For now, I'll settle for just playing my part. This is not an easy nut to crack.

This is not a paradox, it is just another way of representing your 'failure to compute'. There is no logic in it. First, the relative scale is out of ...

I would define the self as that point of reference which is fundamental to awareness or consciousness and from which it is operated. Also, the point o...

Not quite. Thoughts, feelings and actions are expressed by a person but do not constitute that identity we may refer to as self. I think it's because ...

Would you want it done for you? Then, I think you know what you ought to do.

I don't believe in this. I think our perspective is clouded by pain and suffering. Maybe out of fear, maybe out of weakness or maybe it's just plain i...

There's a degree of rationale which gives a person the capacity to extract value from every experience. However, the mitigating factor can be expresse...

It's not about comparisons but ends. The kind of ends which should determine means. Science tells us that there's an average amount of calories that t...

I think, ideally, economics is or should be the science of utility. However, there are too many deviations due to flawed human practices (competitions...

This is the answer I had in mind. For me, it represents the right perspective.

Quite an interesting point of view. I will consider your perspective. Unfortunately. But, a man can hope.

Well said. However, is there any part of the OP that contradicts any logical proceeding on the topic. I should hope I have neither over nor under esti...

I think in this argument ignorance or an exercise in ignorance would be imprudence, disregard, carelessness, ineptitude, etc or any other description ...

Nothing is being negated. I'm just saying that the argument needs to be represented in the right perspective.

Couldn't have said it better. Thanks.

Sorry, I got a little dramatic with the title. I should have said, "an end to the 'proof of God' debate."

How is the experience acquired? If conjured up by the mental faculty then it is a concept. If from an external source (external to the identity of sel...

Hi, I think your approach to the idea of life after death is decent. However, I was wondering, if you avoid the religious/spiritual point of view, wha...

It's not a perfect method but my hope is it could prevent from a lot of misunderstandings and unnecessary deviations in the arguments.

Not just any strawman. Perhaps a jolly strawman named Bob as opposed to the clown strawman of many mocking faces. That 'if' is my point. Any further c...