"All religion(s) are united by a belief in immortal deities. Immortal deities are by definition capable of magic." I agree, but philosophy of religion...
Presidents rarely have any real impact on the economy, but that's beside the point if people (irrationally) attribute the state of the economy to the ...
There are two levels to this. It may not be unreasonable to suggest the Democrats have made some choices driven by politics (such as failing to notify...
Poltics is....political. Why lament this fact? It SHOULD nevertheless be relevant what the facts are, despite the political theater. It's still good t...
So I guess my question to discuss is this: Is there some crucial, essential meaning to words or concepts (whatever) which, if you ever define differen...
" I'm hoping Blasey Ford remembers a salient detail about Kavanaugh's anatomy and he's forced to drop his pants. " ROFL. Are you thinking what I'm thi...
I don't know if he'll be reelected, but if he's not reelected, it will be because of his crazy behaviour. Look how poorly he's doing in the polls desp...
Relativist: Consider the future: it doesn't exist. Sophisticat: Neither does the past, whether finite or infinite, according to the A theory of time, ...
This just in. A former Yale classmate of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Deborah Ramirez told Ronan Farrow of The New Yorker that he allegedly ...
"We don't know what actually happened. " I agree. I'm just asking if you agree IN PRINCIPLE that 1) if he did lie, he ought not to be approved; 2) tha...
We don't know that he lied, and I certainly don't think a mere accusation is sufficient reason to assume he did. But the possibilty that he lied shoul...
You didn't address the issue of Kavanaugh possibly having lied. I suggest that IF he lied, it would be inappropriate to approve his appointment. Even ...
First of all, please refrain from calling me stupid. I could very well be mistaken, and you are welcome to identify flaws in my reasoning or to just d...
'Your "conceptual mapping" of a finite past was a semi-infinite number line. You say you cannot think of a corresponding "conceptual mapping" for an i...
Re: statue of limitations, there has been a trend to remove these in instances of sexual abuse of children, so Maryland is not exceptional in this reg...
I think we can agree that mere accusations ought not to be sufficient grounds for assuming the guilt of the accused. On the other hand, the testimony ...
A "sphere" (or "ideal sphere") is an abstraction, not an actually existing thing. You bring up another abstraction: the number of possible paths being...
"Sexual assault and rape are among the least reported crimes in the United States." I'll bet the President is carefully studying that report as we wri...
I was addressing the specific issue raised by Bitter Crank ("How far back should we go to hold people accountable?"). So while one might argue that a ...
I generally agree with Dfpolis, but I suggest that one COULD devise a language with qualia. This would entail mapping various qualia onto other concep...
There is a mathematical relation between the various transfinite numbers, and these relations are analagous to size and quantity, but these are not "q...
"Conceivability, the way you are using the word, is nothing more than an attitude, an intuition, a gut feeling. " No, I outlined a mapping of a possib...
"All we factuality have is the memories of 3 people of an act from 35 years ago. That is it. Every thing else is speculation." A couple days ago, I mi...
Moral judgments and moral behavior are the product of moral beliefs. This is true irrespective of whether or not "objective moral values" (OMVs) exist...
Why would Ford make up a story that places a witness who is likely to be against her at the scene? To me, that one fact alone brings a lot of credibil...
Relativist: “The "purpose" of religion is to provide a context for consideration of the other, beyond the self, and an inter-subjective understanding ...
"Well, inconceivable is a subjective assessment, it's a far cry from being provably impossible. If you just want to say that you don't believe the pas...
"'Successive addition' implies a starting point, which obviously precludes an infinite past. Your argument simply begs the question. An infinite past ...
" if anything in reality is infinite or not is an empirical matter, there's no strictly logical argument against it being instantiated." I don't see h...
How else could you explain 1/3 = 0.33reapeating if not with infinity? That's indeed how you explain the mathematical relation between thirds (which ha...
Ryan - You're engaging in a false dichotomy between libertarian free will and absence of choice. A compatibilist account of free will gives you both f...
I just think it's misleading to say, "addition and multiplication can still be done with transfinite numbers" , and that's because (as you say)- it's ...
The "purpose" of religion is to provide a context for consideration of the other, beyond the self, and an inter-subjective understanding of our place ...
It's not true that the "normal operations" can be performed with transfinite numbers. Analogous operations can be defined, but the are not the SAME op...
I voted "no." One of the problems is that "infinity" has slightly different meanings depending on the context. In terms of future time being "infinite...
The name for this type of argument is: valid logic. I'll demonstrate: Where A is the non-preferred theory, B is the preferred theory, and x is a resul...
Can you describe how you think the classical world (with apparent particles and large scale structures) emerges from the quantum world (of wave functi...
Thanks for the description. Do you agree with the Quantum Field Theory view that quantum fields (waves) are fundamental, while particles are "disturba...
You seem to be talking around the topic, but not addressing it directly. Can you please succinctly tell us how you interpret the results of the double...
An infinite past seems impossible, because that would entail a completed infinity; it would mean TODAY is the conclusion of an infinite series of actu...
All of the properties you have is what makes you YOU. This includes the genetic makeup that started you off, and has changed over the years (yes, our ...
A "nothing" cannot exist. Nothingness has no referrent, because a referrent is something that exists. Nothingness is not a state of affairs- a state o...
False dichotomy. The NT provides a basis for inferring the development of Christian beliefs, including the belief in a "resurrection." The basis of th...
"Or maybe they saw the same events, and that is why they are similar..." That does not explain the identical wording in Greek. This provides an exampl...
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