Relativist

We certainly know more about Trump now that he's been in office awhile. We know that his "fire and fury" comments are B.S., and that he's committed to...

Not true. Newtonian physics is strictly deterministic. Quantum mechanics is not. That's true but imprecise. Quantum mechanics is probabilistically det...

Lazarus was dead, then Jesus "woke" him up to life. Paul also speaks of dead people as "asleep". Resurrection in the New Testament is about BODILY res...

I did a search fit "soul" on biblegateway.com There are references to "soul" in the Old Testament, and none in the New Testament. None refer to a soul...

Then they have no good reason to deny an extension. UK just has to ask.

I understand a no-deal Brexit will be bad for the UK, but is it also bad for the EU? This is relevant as to whether the EU is motivated to grant anoth...

I would love to hear some predictions about what will happen, particularly (but not exclusively) from UK residents. Not what you want to happen, but w...

I'm just describing my account of accountability. You don't have to accept it. My account treats individuals as causal agents which makes them a nexus...

Here's what I was referring to: Contrast chains of logic with causal chains. Where Pi are propositions, and Ci are causes: P1 =>P2=>P3=>....=>Pn (P1 i...

I bring up agency to provide a locus for accountability/responsibility. and to highlight the difference between a causal chain and a chain of logic. T...

Determinism does not entail incorrigibility. You become a different "you" when you learn something. A person can learn from his mistakes; he can learn...

I erred by saying "could have chosen differently". Do you agree with what I wrote if I change that section to: Should they just excuse it because he h...

You are just arguing against a straw man. I never made such an argument. I never once said I am I wasn't arguing against you, I was trying to get you ...

You're going in circles. You also said: "I haven’t disputed any of your links." "Telling yourself little fantasies like that is the biggest hand wave....

You said it was false to suggest Trump tells many untruths. Here's what you said: Yes, it’s called card-stacking. ====================================...

Here's an interesting thing that Trump tweeted today: The New @FoxNews is letting millions of GREAT people down! We have to start looking for a new Ne...

I provided a link to a fact-checking site, and this provides a rational justification for my beliefs about Trump. What's your rational justification f...

The two AIs DO have a causal role, just not a conscious one - since they aren't conscious. The critical issue is that there's no basis for holding the...

You're making a hand-waving dismissal, since you've falsified none of the claims made by fact checkers. Trump has hypnotized you into believing everyt...

To be clear, I think we have "free will" in the compatibilist sense, consistent with determinism. If you deny free will, you also deny responsibility ...

You've gone from just saying you don't think we should word police, to acquitting him of ever being wrong. Please show that the charges of falsehood d...

You're evading the issue. Of course he says some true things, but how is that relevant? Are you claiming it's false to claim he tells so many untruths...

If true, that's contrary to faithfully executing the laws. Yet another valid article of impeachment.

There is zero doubt that Trump lies. I just acknowledge that some of his untruths are a product of ignorance, compounded with arrogance. I haven't bee...

Vision produces beliefs about the world; some of the beliefs may be false: illusions. Why think the perception of deliberative control is an illusion?...

There's been quite a lot of neurological research like this. Puzzles remain. One thing is clear: memories are in the brain. They disappear from injury...

Your post seems like a rhetorical declarative sentence: you asked no question, but you're expecting an answer. Sorry to disappoint you with that obser...

The "automated process" consists of mental processes; they are performed by a mind. The output of this process would not come to be were this specific...

IMO, if we seem to deliberating, then we ARE deliberating. Similarly with the act of making choices. Please explain how the SEEMING can be an illusion...

I was generously treating Trump's many untruths the same as the right treated Obama. Obama was not intending to deceive, but the reaction from the rig...

It's not "unprecendented" to react to lies. Obama's "lie" that you could keep your health insurance after the ACA resulted in quite a lot of backlash....

You aren't engaging with what I said. I'm explaining to you why the response to Trump is unprecedented. You seem unable to think beyond your own parti...

Trump's behavior is unprecedented. Review this list of lies (which is but a small subset). He personally contributes to the spread of fake news includ...

The stuff you pay no attention to, because you don't care what people say (except when aggregated into what you label a "mass hysteria" backlash again...

Historically, racist rhetoric has led to racist policy: Racism is not a Distraction, It's Policy We buck the trend by calling it out the rhetoric when...

Trump has read denouncements from the teleprompter, and I don't ignore it, I applaud this. But I also call out the bad behavior, and this bad behavior...

I don't believe it appropriate to judge people, including Trump, because we can't see what's in their heart. However, judging behavior is appropriate ...

That's political hyperbole that both sides use. Everyone always wants the opposition party to fail to enact the policies they don't like -policies the...

What does "anti-Trumpism" consist of? How does it differ from "anti-Obamaism"? Politics always produces reactions. What is different with Trump is tha...

Does nature create art? No. Nature produces things that have an aesthetic appeal to humans, but nature itself has no aesthetic sense. Artificial intel...

You ARE making an issue of people's comments, then. This is hypocrisy.

Sorry, you're right. You used the term, "mass hysteria." Still seems a negative characterization.

OK, thanks. (You should have said, "you would be right"). But you earlier referred to "Trump Derangement Syndrome." Why a negative characterization of...

How is this not hypocrisy? One avoids hypocrisy by identifying a principle and applying it consistently.

I trust you weren't one of those Trump zealots who made an issue of Hillary's comment about "deplorables", nor at Omar's comment, "It's all about the ...

Trump supporters embraced Trump's disdain of political correctness. They should have expected reactions like this - it's not treating Trump differentl...

Are alternatives even logically possible if there is libertarian free will? Reflect on some important decision you made. There are reasons you came to...

There are certainly some inappropriate reactions to Trump, and I don't rationalize or excuse them. However there's a lot of appropriate, negative reac...

Here's a hypothetical possibility: there exists a quantum system whose quantum state is zero energy. A quantum state consists of a superposition of mu...

Trump's words both anger and scare people. They inflame emotions on both sides.Trump supporters applaud Trump "fighting back", no matter how low he go...