" where is your evidence he did either of those two things? — Baden The text messages? Corroborating his testimony with that of Lisa Page? " Are you j...
" the solipsist cannot logically doubt." I'll need to see your definition of solipsism. By my definition, a solipsist is someone who believes his mind...
"I don't know that my experience of sitting at my PC writing is not an illusion, but I know that I am currently having an experience of some kind." I ...
No, creating a strawman does not help. Respond to what I said in my immediately prior post. In particular, this comment: You agree that I am justified...
You agree that I am justified in believing there is no evidence. Therefore I am justified in making the assertion "there is no evidence." "There is no...
The belief "there is no evidence" is justified by the fact that I am aware of no evidence. Similarly, take any ad hoc possibility X: I am aware of no ...
Relativist:There is no evidence of an offsetting good to the evil of the black death, so why believe there is an offsetting good? That is not a statem...
but mere possibility is insufficient grounds for rational belief in something. — Relativist i disagree with this, depending on the level of evidence, ...
"Because we can not perceive something with the tools we have, is not a very good reason to deny it's existence." We shouldn't deny the possibility of...
Insert Trump's crime here >........< and then there is something to discuss on this topic. I listed some crimes that Trump has possibly committed. Cri...
"My question is this: what is the basis on which we can make the judgement that God's goodness is incompatible with reality? Do we have the knowledge ...
“Anyway, when the "problem of evil" is stated, there's over-emphasis on this physical world and its importance. Sure, this life matters, in the sense ...
"Time is a perception of our minds," Physics has time dependent equations, such as the Schoroedinger equation, which describe how a physical system ev...
You seem to be saying that it is possible that all this evil exists for the greater good. I'm not disputing that. What I'm saying is that the "best ex...
" Red does not exist in the Physical Universe. That which gives rise to red being seen by a human definitely does exist in the real world. " Humans ar...
"Somewhat of a pointless exercise. But hey, whatever grabs your interest." Is it completely irrelevant to you if Trump actually committed a serious cr...
Although I think it's a good idea to refrain from hyperbolic statements against Trump, and at the risk of committing a reductio ad hitlerium fallacy, ...
Trump's tactics seems consistent with the following: "The art of propaganda consists precisely in being able to awaken the imagination of the public t...
But there’s something different about Trump than any other major politician of recent history. Just near impossible to pin down, and I think that is i...
Not sure what you mean by this. I’m most interested in what others think of Adams application of cognitive dissonance theory to Trump derangement synd...
"Adams says that liberals can't believe that someone like Trump could be elected "just by having policies people like" and so they're forced to contri...
I have not persuaded anyone on TPF (so I voted no) but I did persuade someone on a forum once. The issue was: should we allow foreigners to come to th...
"I suggest that what Putin wants Trump to do is to not want war." Putin does not want war, but he wants to gain advantages (economic and influence) wi...
Again, I'm not declaring he's necessarily guilty, but here are a few of the laws that he might have broken: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18...
"None of this is really defensive of Trump as much as it's just an acceptance of politics being politics. " I don't disagree with much of what you sai...
"Relativist: that you can't even conceive of the possibility he did something wrong" raza: "Wrong with regard to what? Everyone has done something wro...
"I think desire plays a role, for sure. But it has to be a certain kind of desire. " We often choose to believe things despite an absence of rational ...
"Mueller is the current face of a protection racket. To protect "business as usual"." Do you have any facts that support your claim? What about the ma...
What must be the case in order to successfully lie to yourself? Quite simply: motivation. I want something, so I manufacture reasons why I should have...
I'd love to believe that, but I don't think it's realistic. Trump does not like to be pushed around. I expect he'll use every tool imaginable: challen...
How does this make sense? The meeting was not arranged by the Democrats, so who is it that was trying to entrap him? For that matter, what's the relev...
Michael Ossipoff: “I suggest that a physical world is a logical-system, consisting of abstract logical implications that just 'are'.” Relativist: “Tha...
Omnipotence entails that God can lift all objects that can possibly exist. An object that God cannot lift is therefore (broadly) logically impossible....
" I suggest that a physical world is a logical-system, consisting of abstract logical implications that just 'are'." That doesn't make any sense. Logi...
"Metaphysically impossible" depends on "broadly logically impossible", which depends on how the terms are defined. So "metaphysically impossible" is d...
My argument does not depend on the non-existence of mental entities qua mental entities. I resolved your original issue when I replaced "logically imp...
"The entire Mueller process is a political stunt for the midterms." How do you account for the fact that Mueller (a Republican) was appointed by a Rep...
" isn't the meaning of the proposition part of reality as well" Meaning is something that exists only in the mind. It constitutes relations among othe...
" How do you account for the existence of impossibility?" Impossibility is a property of propositions, not of the elements of reality that may be desc...
OK, contradictory semantic constructions exist - but they have no referent in the actual world. How's this?: 1. An object that is describable as a log...
"the beings in heaven have had that ability and, by the decisions they chose to make, have qualified for entry to heaven" Yes, but God set up this pro...
Thanks for your comments - I agree with everything you said. If I decide to put this into an essay, I'll try to be more comprehensive. For now, I'm wo...
The PSR may commit a category error by asserting there are "reasons." There are causes for everything, and when we understand the causes we can label ...
Asimov's robots have positronic brains which give them full consciousness (self-awareness, intentionality, etc). They think as we do, except for being...
OK, Thanks. I agree that my argument is tied to that premise, but if the premise is false this just changes the problem. Assuming the souls in heaven ...
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