Relativist

What's the basis for your claim that it makes no sense?

Infinity is not a thing that exists. It is a concept, and when it is applied to sets - it can lead to inconsistencies. There are infinitely many integ...

There are "countably many" integers. That doesn't imply they can all be counted, but one can map a counting process to the set of integers. In the rea...

Aren't all of its properties essential to it?

First of all, thanks for pointing out my error. Sorry about that. So at this point, I don't see any logical inconsistency in your position. I don't ag...

Sorry for the long delay in respoinding. I earlier brought up the fact that a paper cutter could be used as a torture device, even though it wasn't de...

Read about the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic properties here: "We have some of our properties purely in virtue of the way we are. (Our ma...

"Natural kind essentialism is a specification of the intuitive idea that there are some mind-independent or objective categories in nature." (Definiti...

As you said, everything supervenes on the ultimate foundation of physical reality. That doesn't strictly depend on physicalism being true, it just dep...

This contradicts what you said earlier: It's also absurd to claim that a function that an object can perform is its identity. It certainly doesn't uni...

You implied that, in this physicalist scenario, ONLY strings have an identity (and only strings have an essence). If only one thing has an identity an...

You previously asked: Per your paradigm, if physicalism is true, then horses are just strings not ontological objects in their own right. There is no ...

It seems to me that "solving the problem" entails rationalizing - showing it possible, not showing it's plausible, or better yet- that it's the best e...

The best explanation for laws of nature is law-realism: a law reflects a relation between universals. In simpler terms: they are part of the fabric of...

Omniscience is implausible to me. Yoy don't seem to agree, so why don't you explain why you find it plausible - addressing the objections I raised. On...

There is a Totality of Existence (TOE), and that is what I was treating as "existence". It's the TOE that could not have been created. The material wo...

Omniscience+omniscience has infinite explanatory scope - so it's certainly a convenient assumption. But it's an enormous assumption that's as implausi...

Even a God is temporally delimited if the past is finite. He simply exists at all times. The same is true of a material foundation. Regarding parts:wh...

It's logically impossible for existence to be created. Philosophers can only speculate. Physicists engage in speculations too, but then they test them...

They are "things" as I defined, and used, the term ("existent"). I don't think it's possible for science to establish anything as an ontological found...

"Thing" = an existent. A God would be a very different sort of thing, but it would still be an existent (a "thing"). It would have some characteristic...

The relevance is that God sans universe is not equivalent to nothingness. My point is that there's an implicit false dichotomy between a universe from...

Omniscience entails an infinitely complex set of knowledge, existing by brute fact. Divine simplicity doesn't deal with this.

If there is a God, then it exists. I believe the claim is that God is the foundation of reality - everything else is ontologically dependent on God, s...

It's the job of physicists to figure out why there's an imbalance between particles and antiparticles. It doesn't make much sense to attribute every u...

The argument doesn't prove a "God" exists. It proves there is an autonomous, bottom layer of reality. This is metaphysical foundationalism.

Divine creation is not "something from nothing". It assumes God pre-exists matter, but God is something. If there is no God, then there was no state o...

Abstractions do not exist independently in the world. They reflect relations between things that do exist; so they exist immanently.

But this means, that if physicalism is true, and strings are the bottom layer, then everything is "nothing but" strings - so nothing has an identity o...

This is supposed to be evidence of corruption!? Such evidence is admissible, per Federal Rule of evidence 415: In a civil case involving a claim for r...

That seems the most plausible explanation.

It makes sense to you because you believe God created everything. Here's a more general metaphysical perspective. Unless one accepts an infinite serie...

So you think intelligence, and knowledge just happens to exist uncaused? To your question: entropy is a measure of the number of different ways that a...

Has a judge or jury judged Willis as corrupt? The appellate court merely judged there was an "appearance of impropriety", and removed her because this...

There is no evidence that entails God. Your observations of the world are seen through the prism of your belief in God. The signs you see of intellige...

It's not a synonym. I think you're saying that an identity has a unique essence. But that still leaves "essence" undefined. You later said, "a being, ...

This thread is about "proving" God. I hope you can see that you're not doing that. I'm fine with people having faith-based beliefs, but they shouldn't...

Are you saying the "signs of intelligence" in the universe are...us? Either way, how does that imply "intrinsic intelligence" embedded in the universe...

From the article you linked: The court added: “We cannot conclude that the record also supports the imposition of the extreme sanction of dismissal of...

Another technicality that has zero bearing on Trump's guilt in the crimes for which he was indicted. Jack Smith will be out of a job soon. I wonder if...

I find it hilarious that you Trumpists consider the semantic distinction (rape vs sexual assault) a bigger deal than the fact Trump committed the sexu...

If RFKJr is confirmed as Secretary of HHS, we may see considerably more institutions taking silly claims seriously.

The notion that the government has been hiding the known presence of extraterrestrial beings/technology can absolutely be dismissed out of hand. The p...

To me, "essence" suggests a set of necessary and sufficient properties that uniquely identify an existing, individual object. Existence isn't a proper...

I expect there are some members of Congress who take kooks like Elizando seriously, but focusing on national security provides common ground, and lets...

Government officials are people too, so I think it applies even to them (perhaps a smaller percentage).

Aliens are a given to many people, and I suspect, others are apt to be easily convinced because they hope for (or dread) their presence. I've encounte...

Can you make a case for your belief, or is it an article of faith?

The survey showed that atheists were more likely than Christians to believe there was life elsewhere in the universe. That's probably because they bel...

UAP does not entail aliens; the concern is that a foreign government might be using technology beyond ours. That is potentially relevant, but that may...