It would be nice to know whether or not QM is actually deterministic, but it has no bearing on the question of free will. Randomness in mental process...
I disagree. I don't see any reason to call this a "degenerate scenario". Everything that exists, either exists contingently or necessarily: they are t...
That's not my reasoning. Your buying milk was contingent iff the purchase was contingent upon something. If your purchase was the product of libertari...
This doesn't imply that an object has "necessary" or "contingent" as an intrinsic property. You're still just equating a definition with essence, defi...
You left out this part: "Whatever the number in a second Trump term,the recent immigration surge has probably ended. Mr. Biden’s crackdown since the s...
This "economic revolution" can only have negative effects during the foreseeable future, as domestic laborers will need to be paid more to pick crops,...
Triangles are abstractions, and don't exist in the real world. Rather, objects exist that have 3-sides. What you're calling "essential properties" is ...
Potential is a characteristic of things. You seem to be reifying it, suggesting it exists independently. That seems unwarranted. False dichotomy: some...
Grounds and explanations intersect: if X grounds Y, then we can explain X with Y. In terms of causation: a cause grounds it's effect. Causes are one k...
I think you're right. I'll add this about the majority of Republicans in Congress: they embraced Trump in order to enhance their own power (better a R...
Why think "necessary" is an ontological (de re) property of any being? The concept of "necessary" applies to logic: e.g. in a valid deductive argument...
OK, set aside "proposition". My point is you're describing something in a series of sentences. The sentences are ABOUT something going on in the world...
I'm not a fan of using "facts" to refer to existences, but I am a fan of using "grounding" instead of "explanation" because explanations are propositi...
Princeton philosopher, Shamik Dasgupta, uses the term "autonomous facts" to refer to the bedrock, you guys are discussing. All other facts, are "subst...
The PSR is a reasonable epistemological principle (up to a point), but in terms of metaphysics, I think grounding is a more suitable term. Reasons are...
Oh, so you "know" this to be the case. Based on what? Mental lapses that we all see on video? We also see videos of him speaking rationally, and demon...
Obviously. I've had to repeat myself multiple times. I'm not going to continue doing this. If you want any more responses from me, read through my res...
To infer design depends on the premise that there exists a designer. As I've discussed (and you failed to respond to) the qualities a designer must ha...
Even if that best case scenario comes to pass, he will be able to do a great deal of damage along the way. He threatened to release all the national s...
I define "evidence" in the broadcast possible way: a set of facts. I do believe that no complete set of facts actually entails teleology. I acknowledg...
No, but I browsed it. It appears she suggests there may be a greater disconnect between laws of physics and true laws of nature, than is commonly beli...
The fact that the (human developed - and limited by our perspectives ) science of physics doesn't have explanations available for mental activity does...
Excuses? So...you are assuming the worst about Martin, and the best about Trump. Why didn't Trump's attorney ask Martin about the comment when she was...
Trump's attorney tried a trick: he introduced Martin's text messages into the evidence, but when he cross-examined her, he didn't ask her to explain w...
I've never seen a physicist refer to a "brute fact", but Sean Carroll proposed a cosmological model that entails a finite past (he proposes that time ...
You're just repeating a line of attack by Trump's defense during the trial. This line of defense depends on the unsupported assumptions that both 1) t...
I don't see that dualism has a better answer than physicalism. I was just thinking that mental life is best understood on a basis other than physics. ...
You're making excuses. The litigation was funded, not the allegation and witnesses. You have poor understanding of both the law and epistemology. Lega...
That doesn't refute what I said about modern physics being "better" than the Aristotelian paradigm, nor that physics isn't still the best available me...
That's not correct. Physicists believe they have a good understanding of the state of the universe as far back as 10^-13 seconds after the mathematica...
My belief is based on reasoning from conceptual analysis, in the manner of most metaphysicians. I infer the past is finite, because an infinite past e...
Focusing on a single action can never suffice;it is the collective set of activities that establish his crime. The superceding indictment (here) outli...
Repeating Canon's ruling a million times doesn't make it either authoritative or binding, or relevant to his guilt. You love to obsess on red herrings...
The appellate court rulings on the constitutionality of the special counsel statutes remain binding within their jurisdictions, while Canon's ruling i...
You're reaching. One lone district judge claimed an AG cannot appoint a special counsel, a judge who's pro-Trump rulings have been overturned on appea...
An actual jury is forced to review all the evidence. Few (if any) Trump voters actually considered the evidence against Trump. NOS4A2 is a good exampl...
Your position is beyond ludicrous. There's abundant evidence Trump committed crimes, but you refuse to consider it* and proclaim him innocent. By cont...
As I said previously, I believe the past is finite, and this entails an initial state (=first cause), which exists as brute fact. I also believe that ...
I disagree with almost everything you said, and you haven't really refuted anything I said, so I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. Thanks fo...
Apparently, even this has a 5 year limit. However, Smith works around this by suggesting that Trump's time in office should be "tolled", which means t...
The cases have been dismissed "without prejudice". This means they can be reopened in the future. Had they been dismissed "with prejudice", the cases ...
Your speculation referred to a "world-causing mind", and you also suggested it has intentionality. Why think this unknown state of affairs is a mind a...
Nope. There may, or may not, be a multiverse. Either way, it has no relevance to anything I've said. Perhaps you misunderstood my use of the term "thi...
Are you suggesting the world came from nothing? This would entail a temporally prior state of nothingness, which is metaphysically impossible. I sugge...
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