To be warranted, a belief needs rational justification. Justification means showing how the belief is inferred from other warranted beliefs. Ultimatel...
Not impossible, just not a live possibility. When your dog disappears, you don't seriously entertain the possibility he was abducted by aliens. What a...
I am doing exactly what sickens you. Here's my reasoning: Trump is a disaster, and it is of utmost importance to replace him. Odds of replacing him ar...
The problems with this claim is that the sources are not independent, the easiest version was written at least 30 years after Jesus' death, and they w...
Potential doesn't exist independently; it is a property of things that exist. So saying that reality has the potential to exist doesn't seem to be say...
A triangular object has 3 sides that are arranged in a certain general way. It's existence and structure is not dependent on a mind analyzing that str...
Everything that exists is a State of Affairs. It's constituents are; a particular, its attached properties, and its relations to other states of affai...
No, but one shouldn't conflate existential quantification with a statement of ontology. IOW just because we can do some useful math with infinities do...
OK, but that's just referring to a concept - a mental object. It is spatially located in your brain, unless dualism is true. Triangular objects exist ...
Fair point, although infinites appear in some physics equations, and they are treated ad objects in transfinite math. Regardless, from this viewpoint,...
Agreed. The question remains: do immaterial objects exist? If so, what does it mean to exist? Does Spider-Man exist? Do all fictions, past present, an...
Sets are abstractions. Creating abstraction just means conceptualizing. My point is that abstractions don't actually exist except as mental entities. ...
That sounds like Platonism. My problem with ontologies that include platonic objects is that they seem unnecessary. Why posit an independent existence...
It's a strawman that fits the Leibnizian Cosmological Argument proferred by apologist William Lane Craig: 1) Anything that exists has an explanation o...
In my view: Laws of physics are relations between types of things. Things can relate to one another in ways that can be described mathematically. That...
Your argument is implicitly circular. You assume you could take these photos in a finite period of time. If the universe is infinite, your photography...
One thing may not have been clear: Plantinga doesn't claim his theory of the sensus divinitatus provides an objective proof of God's existence. Rather...
Are there any specific issues you take with his analysis? Personally, I've always objected to the notion that contingent brute facts are impossible. I...
Right, he uses that narrow view of belief, but he considers perceptions (including the sensus divinitatus) as part of the belief forming process. Seei...
Being acquired as part of species development doesn't negate the fact these beliefs are innate to the individual, and that is sufficient for being bas...
That doesn't entail a basic belief, because it is LEARNED. Basic beliefs aren't learned, they are innate. Plantinga suggests we perceive God through a...
So what if it's a narrow range? It is a range that has been relevant to our survival- as one would expect if it is a product of natural selection. Dav...
OK, we get it - you're not a Bernie guy. For the sake of argument, assume Trump is not reelected: which Democratic candidate would you want to be Pres...
I think you're just saying that relativity doesn't entail an arrow of time, nor is it dependent on there being one. Nevertheless, relativity is consis...
I beg to differ. Here's a couple: - belief that our senses deliver a functionally accurate view of the world - belief that there is an external world ...
The one quality that is needed in a President is good judgment. Regardless of background, our job as voters is to discern whether or not a candidate i...
That "a fact is a true propostion" is a useful stipulation, the one I prefer, and to the best of my knowledge is the most common usage among philosoph...
Bear in mind that very few issue in Philosophy are settled, and the article is consistent with that. Nevertheless, the article shows that there are go...
Suppose, for the sake of argument, Bernie is unelectable. Would you agree that would be a good reason to nominate someone who IS electable? My point i...
Do you honestly think Sanders will be able to fulfill his promises, or is that beside the point - i.e. you just want someone with the right set of con...
Today, my favorite is the article on Nothingness. It's my current favorite because it was relevant to a debate I was having in another forum: is nothi...
It's not that the judges are leaning toward a party, it's about the respective judicial philosophies of the appointed judges. Republicans embrace orig...
I found it with google. You'll find this, and similar ads as examples of Russian disinformation that are referenced in many articles about the topic. ...
Sure- in an ideal world, all voters would understand this and other information pertinent to making wise voting choices. TV commercials would be a was...
Interesting article. What I'm struck by is the environment Trump has encouraged, by labeling real news as "fake", and sometimes retweeting what is act...
A materialist explains life as a consequence of a string of random events - and we don't really know what they are. Why should we expect life to be co...
General Relativity does not depend on block time, it merely depends on mathematically treating it in a manner analogous to spatial dimensions. That it...
It WOULD be a "legltimate distribution of resources" in the long run, and that's why I'm not opposed to it in principle. Regardless of that, there are...
Here's some of the problems: First, fear of the unknown. Most people have health insurance of some kind, and although they may grumble about it, there...
Fair enough, although labeling someone a "globalist", or any other kind of "-ist" suggests possibly making some unwarranted assumptions. Nevertheless,...
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