Relativist

I'm not me, given the elapse of time between entering "I" and "me". I know this sounds silly, so I'm having fun with it, but consider the alternative:...

Before I made my first complaint about your semantic nonsense, I searched a number of sources (SEP. IEP, Blackwell,...) to see if your usage was commo...

I complained earlier: You responded: But you had. And now you're doing it again. You're arguing semantics, and insisting that your usage of the word "...

Point me at a work of epistemology that uses the term "reject" in such a manner.

I'm sympathetic to your view, but it sounds almost like a conspiracy theory. I'd say it's about power: Republicans latched onto the Jerry Falwell insp...

I hold to the identity of indiscernables and indiscernability of the identical. IOW, iff A and B have identical properties, then A is identical to B. ...

You didn't. I was responding to this: I was explaining why he doesn't "need to" do anything. You come off as overly aggressive. You can ask him to jus...

So you seem to believe there has to be a reason for everything. Why think so? To be honest, that seems to me to be an assumption rooted in theism.

Sure, but that's not a problem. If you've used p to try and convince me that q is true, it suffices to tell you "but I reject p". You are then free to...

A "claim" is a statement made by a person; it is a statement of a belief held by the person. The person (not the statement) has a burden to defend it,...

It is a statement of my attitude toward p: i believe p to be false. Why is that a problem?

I'll defend Hillary (a bit). He is free to hold irrational beliefs. He is free to hold rational beliefs and decline to share his justification. We are...

It could, but it's ambiguous and leads to misunderstanding. There's an active thread on the Kalam Cosmological Argument (KCA). The KCA is purported to...

I think we agree on most of the issues we've discussed. But to be clear, when I say "I reject p" (where p is some proposition), it means I believe ~p....

This is why I object to saying anyone has some abstract "burden of proof". If our goal is rational beliefs, the beliefs must be rationally justified, ...

That's not a view consistent with Quantum Field Theory, which holds that quantum fields are fundamental, particles are quanta of quantum fields, and "...

I recommend reading about Artificial Neural Networks: Neural networks learn (or are trained) by processing examples, each of which contains a known "i...

By "Universe", I'm referring to the entirety of material reality. I accept the assumption of a finite past (just as the Kalam does) - so there is no "...

If at some future point, it becomes possible to artificially gestate a zygote, then abortions will be obsolete if the pro-lifers are willing to pay fo...

In that case, your first premise is based on this unstated premise that a God exists, which makes your argument circular. No, because an initial state...

This article may help: "The constitutional right to privacy protects the liberty of people to make certain crucial decisions regarding their well-bein...

We're discussing propositional attitudes developed through judgment. I don't believe there's anything controversial about my usage: In simplest terms,...

What I reject is your terminology. I explained what I meant, and you seem to insist I use the words the way you choose to use them. Sure, but the stan...

A I said, we're using the words differently, particularly "reject". You use reject to mean "reserve judgement". A judgment in a criminal trial is a bi...

I don't understand what you're saying. If I accept a proposition, that means I believe it true. Rejection means I believe it false. I neither accept n...

That's a small fraction, and I would guess many of them are malleable/educable (e.g. the survey shows the fraction was reduced from a 2007 survey). A ...

Yes- in general, things exist irrespective of people believing they exist. But faith entails an unjustified belief. Belief in God can be unjustified e...

Not true. One can reserve judgment. e.g. I reserve judgment as to whether there is life on Europa. On the other hand, I do not reserve judgment as to ...

Numerous problems with your argument: 1) We have not actually found such a cause. 2) A first cause isn't necessarily irreducible 3) Assertion without ...

Some physicists (e.g. Sean Carroll) have suggested that time may actually be symmetrical, such that there is a mirror universe to our own, with an arr...

Of course, but the establishment clause prohibits laws that force a particular religious view on the rest of us. That's what abortion bans do. There's...

It's true they were being disingenuous, but almost everyone knew which way they leaned - that's why Dems opposed them and GOP supported them. Anti-abo...

But if their view on this is rooted in their religion, then it shouldn't be the determinant of what is law. There are reasonable approaches they could...

I'd call it more of a fuzzy concept: having a vague set of vaguely defined properties. One (fairly popular) vague property is the ability to grant wis...

[ Bingo. It was inevitable, considering their laser focus. Left-leaning people were far too complacent, taking their successes for granted, and not re...

I view "agnostic" as an internal epistemological-psychological belief state of "not knowing", where "knowing" is in the strict philosophical sense of ...

Isn't there at least agreement that God had the ability to create a life-permitting universe?

If life is found, the first question will be whether it is directly related to life on earth. It's possible life originated on Mars, and came here via...

Less than 20% of all women want an outright ban on abortion, and yes - they may get what they wanted- at least in some states.

The funny thing is, I came to the forum today to see if the leaked SCOTUS opinion was being discussed. I found this thread, but didn't notice that it ...

Bear in mind that Craig believes the past is finite. He has traditionally argued that the big bang confirms this (he may have abandoned that, by now),...

I assume this will result in higher than expected turnout in the mid-term election, and this will help Dems a bit.

It sounds like you are vehemently anti-choice, but not for religious reasons, based on the comment.

Despite there being plenty of deviation by individuals, if someone tells me they're Catholic, Evangelical Christian, LDS, or Jehovah's Witness, I can ...

"Forms? "Systems"? Sounds like a post-hoc classification scheme. I label myself "atheist" because I don't believe in a god of religion (I believe such...

A first cause didn't "happen", it just is (or was). It couldn't "pop into existence", because that implies there is an existence (experiencing time) i...

Compatibilism is a view of free will that is consistent with determinism. To understand compatibilism, and how it can be considered "free will", first...

The outcome of a quantum collapse is random (not to be confused with uniformly distributed). Here's a white paper by a company that produces a true ra...

My thought is that an individual's beliefs are too nuanced to be fully captured by a label. In a sense, I'm an agnostic-deist - I think it's a live po...

OK, then when you said: "is there a difference in the subjective experience of the believer who tends to believe in true beliefs, versus one who tends...