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To be warranted, a belief needs rational justification. Justification means showing how the belief is inferred from other warranted beliefs. Ultimatel...
February 27, 2020 at 16:10
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...
February 27, 2020 at 16:00
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...
February 27, 2020 at 15:40
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...
February 27, 2020 at 13:55
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...
February 27, 2020 at 06:28
That's exactly what a basic belief IS.
February 27, 2020 at 06:04
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...
February 27, 2020 at 03:39
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...
February 27, 2020 at 03:23
Yes, and thus we get into metaphysics. A topic for another day.
February 26, 2020 at 21:53
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...
February 26, 2020 at 21:29
Sorry. I agree with that. They are useful fictions.
February 26, 2020 at 21:25
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 ...
February 26, 2020 at 21:24
Time exists a a relation between states of affairs. I don't believe abstraction exist independently of states of affairs.
February 26, 2020 at 21:03
Fair point, although infinites appear in some physics equations, and they are treated ad objects in transfinite math. Regardless, from this viewpoint,...
February 26, 2020 at 20:44
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...
February 26, 2020 at 20:40
Sets are abstractions. Creating abstraction just means conceptualizing. My point is that abstractions don't actually exist except as mental entities. ...
February 26, 2020 at 20:29
That sounds like Platonism. My problem with ontologies that include platonic objects is that they seem unnecessary. Why posit an independent existence...
February 26, 2020 at 20:24
It's a strawman that fits the Leibnizian Cosmological Argument proferred by apologist William Lane Craig: 1) Anything that exists has an explanation o...
February 26, 2020 at 18:27
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...
February 26, 2020 at 18:00
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...
February 26, 2020 at 14:55
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...
February 26, 2020 at 14:48
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...
February 26, 2020 at 06:57
Right, he uses that narrow view of belief, but he considers perceptions (including the sensus divinitatus) as part of the belief forming process. Seei...
February 26, 2020 at 06:53
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...
February 26, 2020 at 06:44
Has anyone, other than me, read Plantinga"s "Warranted Christian Belief"?
February 26, 2020 at 02:27
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...
February 26, 2020 at 02:26
As I said, our sense of the world is FUNCTIONALLY accurate. We do not walk off cliffs; we do not eat rocks; we perceive and avoid predators.
February 26, 2020 at 02:17
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...
February 26, 2020 at 02:12
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...
February 25, 2020 at 21:44
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...
February 25, 2020 at 21:39
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 ...
February 25, 2020 at 21:31
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...
February 25, 2020 at 16:08
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...
February 25, 2020 at 15:52
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...
February 25, 2020 at 06:09
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...
February 24, 2020 at 23:56
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...
February 24, 2020 at 23:27
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...
February 24, 2020 at 23:20
Who do you think appoints Supreme Court justices?
February 23, 2020 at 19:18
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...
February 23, 2020 at 18:57
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. ...
February 23, 2020 at 18:45
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February 23, 2020 at 17:56
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...
February 23, 2020 at 17:38
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...
February 23, 2020 at 16:56
That power was recognized by evangelical Christians - that's why they voted for Trump, and will do so again.
February 23, 2020 at 16:48
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...
February 23, 2020 at 16:41
General Relativity does not depend on block time, it merely depends on mathematically treating it in a manner analogous to spatial dimensions. That it...
February 23, 2020 at 16:20
The President appoints federal judges. That is a tremendous power, with the potential to have impact that lasts decades.
February 23, 2020 at 16:07
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...
February 23, 2020 at 15:26
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...
February 23, 2020 at 06:56
Fair enough, although labeling someone a "globalist", or any other kind of "-ist" suggests possibly making some unwarranted assumptions. Nevertheless,...
February 15, 2020 at 22:49