Unstructured sets don't have such relational properties. And even if they are structured, they can be structured differently from yours, as evidenced ...
"Darwin's doubt" is a nickname that Alvin Plantinga gave to the idea that you sketched in your post (in his book "Warrant and Proper Function"), altho...
You can only talk about how moral beliefs are interconnected with and depend upon other beliefs after you put them into a theoretical framework. But w...
And how can you argue that some moral beliefs are broader and more fundamental than others? How can you even argue that there is such a hierarchy of m...
Not entirely undermined. I said that one could try to argue that retributive punishment is conducive to the reduction of suffering, but it wouldn't be...
Actually, it is trivially false that all commonly held moral beliefs can be construed as being aimed at minimizing suffering. (I am including the "com...
That's nice, but for this to be of interest to anyone other than you, you need to present a coherent argument against moral relativism. And before tha...
There is no mistake in what you said (other than some questionable choice of words). The mistake is in your misplaced expectation of certainty. Scienc...
But if no one believes in this purely hypothetical "moral relativism," then (I keep coming back to this question) what is the point of railing against...
And who would those people be? I mean, who would be the people who actually believe all the stuff you say they believe? Your mistake, I think, is in a...
Not if you adhere to at least a very modest type of physicalism: supervenience physicalism. I don't understand what you mean by physical laws breaking...
Well, you lost all physicalists right here (and a good deal of others who wouldn't even describe themselves as physicalists). That's another way of pu...
And you are saying that Dennett both believes that God is possible and denies the same? Show me, I am not taking your word for it. And in any case, as...
Previously stated - where? You are right that it's hard to imagine someone actually holding all the outrageous beliefs that you attribute to "true mor...
It's a very legitimate question that has received plenty of attention from mathematicians (who invented the concept) and philosophers. Have a read: In...
Now why would I not want Her to exist? :pray: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Egyptian_-_Statuette_of_a_Standing_Bastet_-_Wa...
Only if we are talking about social belonging, and even then it's true only of some groups, some of the time, but not all groups all of the time. But ...
I am not sure about that. Race boundaries aren't so clear-cut (which is why there is no true race science, only pseudo-science); ethnic boundaries - e...
Why do you believe that "it probably really did happen this way" if you also think that it's "impossible" and that it's all a "mystery?" Who are the m...
Still not answering the question. Yes, countries are not races and nationalism is not the same as racism, but we knew that already. The question is: w...
Well, you are just reiterating the received wisdom that @"unenlightened" is questioning. And the question is normative, not anthropological. Racism is...
I don't really get the point of the poll. On the one hand, "ethical hedonism" is mentioned at the start, which refers to a metaethical position that I...
That's an odd way of defining determinism: it is more like a conclusion or an intermediate result. Determinism in this context is usually assumed to b...
I went to some pains to explain why. No, it doesn't. Our best cosmology hasn't delivered a verdict on whether the past is infinite, and it likely neve...
If you agreed with what you quoted, you wouldn't have excluded (1) for the reason that you gave: That's what I've been objecting to, because it's mani...
And yet here we are, measuring time all the time (as it were) with no regard to any such existential beginning. So this can't be true. All we need to ...
I guess by this you just mean that the past is infinite. The objection doesn't make a lot of sense. We choose the starting points for our measurements...
To describe gravity is to make it more intelligible - to understand it. In describing it we acquire an understanding of some of the whys and the hows....
So, we must presume that the question makes sense, because otherwise we couldn't find a satisfactory answer to the question. Well, yeah. One can't fin...
The very premise of this exercise is utterly clueless. Physics equations don't prove, much less disprove the assumptions that were built into them. LO...
One quibble here: What is reasonable for one to believe depends (uncontroversially) on one's epistemic situation. For example, it is reasonable for yo...
This is one of those bad old philosophical questions that should be dissolved with analysis. There is neither right nor wrong answer, because the ques...
Yeah, people ought to tag their responses with tags like "derail," "derail, but worth reading," "crap post in every respect, don't bother reading," et...
Collision is a notoriously messy scenario - both physically and mathematically. Better to think of a ball in Newton's cradle at its highest point: at ...
Replying to one sentence taken out of context (only to repeat what you already said several times) is pointless and misleading. If you are not interes...
No, that's not the OP argument, that's just one of your favorite refrains. The OP denies that reason can be explained in terms of naturalism. He says ...
That's not at all obvious. You can't conclude anything from a paradox. As you yourself just acknowledged, you have undermined your own reasoning. Any ...
I can point you to a comprehensive SEP survey of compatibilism. There was so much to cover there that a supplement was made just for the most recent d...
Why not learn more about compatibilist arguments then? Your position is what is sometimes referred to as classical incompatibilism - classical because...
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