Sorry, I don't buy it. It seems a contrivance to lead to some desired conclusion, or the product of naivetee. But of course, I haven't yet seen your a...
My understanding is that Einstein believed in a non-personal, non-anthropogenic "law giver", and denied there existing a life after death. I suspect h...
If time is continuous, there's no gap. If time is discrete, it still doesn't entail a gap, so it's an unsupported assumption. What is "substance"? If ...
When I think of "spritual" I relate it to my childhood Christian faith. I was told to interpret various feelings a certain way, and I bought into it. ...
Quantum indeterminacy can be interpreted as probabilistic causation: effects are still the consequences of causes, and the range of effects still pred...
Actually, change occurs. What exists is the present, and its propensity to change - arguably because of laws of nature. What's your basis for claiming...
I'm a materialist, and can't accept that a thought (nor abstraction) is truly a part of the furniture of the world. I don't insist everyone agree; I'm...
I assume my car has an individual identity. Suppose my neighbor has a identical make and model, and we gradually start swapping parts. Eventually, the...
Identity (i.e. true identity, consistent with Leibniz' law) doesn't endure over time. Rather, we can identify a perduring identity, as a causally conn...
Yes and no. I am saying that there is an ontological relation that is being identified, but not claiming the semantic conventions are relevant. I'll a...
The statement "It is not the case that ("all bluebirds fly" implies "Fred is a duck") IS true. But you're right that it's not equivalent to : ¬(A?B) B...
Thanks for this - I haven't read Heidegger. I did find this description of his use of the terms: The ontic concerns concrete properties and characteri...
I concede your point, but what you have proven is that: ¬(A?B) Implies A (Which I confess seems counterintuitive - see below*). You had said: If A doe...
Pretty much, except that under physical determinism, it is (in principle) possible to predict all future decisions given perfect knowledge of initial ...
Are you familiar with Molinism? William Lane Craig is a Molinist, insisting that we have LFW despite the fact that each choice could not have differed...
I'm late to the game, and I'm sorry if this has already been brought up. But just in case it hasn't, here's my response to the Op: No, your conclusion...
Do you agree that the best case you could possibly make would be an abductive one (i.e. an inference to best explanation)? In earlier posts, I've accu...
Fair point, but it only points to the logical possibility that something nonphysical exists --and that's insufficient to justify belief in it. I'll ad...
I'm not just referring to the prevailing scientific models, but also to an individual justifying a belief. The relevant belief we're discussing is lif...
I'm discussing an ontological theory: they are truly different, irrespective of what we perceive. This was intended only as an example of an ontic pro...
You'd have a point if this were a deductive conclusion. It's not. It's abductive: it's the best explanation for the set of known facts. Abductive conc...
No. I'm referring to David Amstrong's use of the term. "State of affairs" is the term he uses to refer to any ontic object. If X exists, then X is a s...
These conventions are semantics, and do not erase the fact that there is a ontic relation. An object with the relation labled 90 degrees is logically ...
Are you saying the relation of 90 degrees, that we measure, does not describe an objective fact? Of course, we define "degree" and "90", but the relat...
I believe we perceive a reflection of the actual world, one that is functionally accurate - i.e. it enables us to successfully interact with the world...
I think it's useful to consider a "soul" as a person's essence: that core of a person that actually persists over time throughout life and possibly be...
My view is mostly consistent with (physicalist) David Armstrong's metaphysics: everything that exists (an existent) is a "state of affairs" which is a...
I'll defer to your knowledge of Aristotle, but that still doesn't make it so - that abstractions have actual, independent existence. It's unnecessary ...
That is a platonist view. The alternative (and my preference) is immanent universals: they exist exclusively in their instantiations. Example: a 90 de...
You misunderstand if you think I believe that. I don't. My point is simply that IF one gives credence to those handful of NDE+OBE claims, wherein the ...
Non-sequitur. In 100% of cases, there is still a functional brain. An optimistic (yet debatable) interpretation of the evidence is that sensory input ...
No, they didn't. Clinton was presented information purported to establish a secret communications link between Trump and Russia's Alfa Bank. She appro...
I believe I've reviewed the facts with you before, but nevertheless I'll go over it again. The law firm of Perkins-Coie represented the 2016 Clinton c...
Typical Trumpist propoganda, which I've previously disabused you of. That's laughable. Are all investigations unjust when hindsight shows the person w...
I didn't watch the video, but I've read his book - so I assume it's the same message. It appears to me Sapolsky deals only with the dichotomy: Liberta...
I haven't read through all 22 pages of this thread, so I'll just ask this question: has the subject of Dialetheism come up? From the Stanford Encyclop...
Durham makes no allegation of a "two-tiered" system. What he said was this: Although the evidence we collected revealed a troubling disregard for the ...
Yes, Crossfire Hurricane led to Mueller. And despite the fact that you consider the investigation inappropriate because of mistakes made on 2 FISA war...
On the contrary, I read the Mueller report, the IG's report, the Senate Acitve Measures Report, and the Durham Report. You seem base your view entirel...
Setting aside the fact that Manafort committed serious financial crimes, DOJ often threatens to prosecute "process crimes" to induce the witnesses to ...
So it's just paranoia toward the FBI (hmm. I wonder where that came from ;-)) that induces you to assume the worst about them.... ...but the paranoia ...
How do you square your admiration with his immoral character? In particular, the numerous instances of fraud. I can (kind of) get overlooking his sex ...
I read your argument, but it does not support your conclusion that consciousness survives death. You call your argument "inductive"; I think it would ...
Turley is definitely not a "liberal". The article you linked doesn't actually analyze the decision, it just asserts that it is correct, and then proce...
You make too much of the definition. People who have had NDEs have not experienced brain decomposition (clearly a point of no return), and the absence...
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