Yes, but impossible in the current form. This is the biggest critique against democracy, especially representative democracy, that it is a paradoxical...
Example: An iron atom is not iron, but only a definition of the set of electrons, neutrons and protons together with their charge. So iron itself is a...
I'm not theorizing in any scientific matter, how can you make that interpretation? I was speculating based on what I've read about cannabis research f...
Physics doesn't just accept an axiom and form theories from it, the concepts work as premises in an argument, they need to be true and are measured an...
No, based on what we know in physics. Before Big Bang and within a black hole, we can only speculate since we don't have data and observations that ca...
We cannot know, how can we? How can you make a certain deduction without the certainty of the properties of pre-BigBang? You make an assumption that f...
We could go into detail on causality in itself, but I think the key answer to the question of causeless effects is that in our universe, no, not possi...
Did you read the entirety of what I wrote? Causality in our universe from Big Bang has mathematical precision, before it, we don't know. Therefore def...
It's not the point. The point, the conclusion I made was that because we don't have enough data and understanding of pre-BigBang properties we cannot ...
I'm referring to entropy, to causality for any large events (large being larger than quantum level, which means smaller than atoms, neutrons/protons a...
Which may be a key difference between a theist and an atheist. I can't speak for all atheists, there are undoubtedly those who have hate towards relig...
Every effect on large scales has a cause. In quantum physics, however, there are particles popping in and out of existence all the time. The famous ou...
To argue for a conclusion that has been decided upon before the argument is a basic logical fallacy. It doesn't matter if it's about convincing an ath...
Because it demands more than accepting something that is convenient or comforting. The methodology favors gaining more and more understanding and know...
Truth is difficult and may very well be impossible because we are humans lacking the perspective to see things as they actually are. But we have reaso...
It's not a belief. Atheism just accepts what we observe, prove and measure to be known, the unknown is fascinating, but there's never a belief like de...
But faith is rarely that. Faith, as in religion, is a belief in something very specific. Faith in the unknown, or rather a fascination with the unknow...
Of course, however, people use this as a cop-out in order to not have to scrutiny their theories. They misuse the fact that absolute truth might be im...
Belief can never be solid ground for a philosophical conclusion. Even justified true belief means a form of belief that has major support in reasoning...
The observations I've made is that it can trigger an experience of constant deja vu. I.e you experience something and you remember it happened before ...
Supposedly the forum rules here recommend following philosophical practice. I think mods accept way too many low-quality posts sometimes. I would like...
So back to your claim. If theism should deserve to be in the table of philosophy, it requires to be under the same level of scrutiny as every other fi...
You aren't adapting to the counter-arguments, you ignore them and continues to hold the same ground, defending your pure belief. Evangelizing is to ju...
My atheistic "beliefs" are not beliefs. I don't accept something as true without any support for it being true. That's not belief, it's the lack of be...
And abductive reasoning is a very weak form of reasoning that can't be used to arrive at truths. If you use abductive reasoning to arrive at true conc...
Really? You're pretty insignificant compared to his contribution to philosophy and you pretty much ignore him just because it's convenient for you. If...
Yet, what someone has done in life means nothing if they can't present an argument that is convincing and listening to the counter-arguments being sai...
That can be true for personal things, but I don't think it's preferable for philosophy. If people want trivialities, there's Twitter, Facebook, Instag...
Completely agree. I mean, anti-vaccers doesn't have to be religious and theists to possess bullshit ideas. The important thing is to just disregard bo...
This is the part that I, not necessarily object to, but which I mean muddies the waters for those who aren't knowledgable in philosophy. They use "kno...
No, I'm not. I'm saying that JTB is often overused as a counter argument every time someone talks about the search for knowledge. The use of JTB in ar...
Where do they teach post-modernism outside of itself as a philosophical foundation? By implication, it also means that some teach anti-post-modernism ...
What in "knowledge is information that you know", is unclear? Knowledge is information, just as in the dictionary you linked. I said that "knowledge i...
Knowledge is not truth. But the search for "true knowledge" or rather knowledge of truth is a virtue. That journey does not mean someone knows the tru...
It either does or doesn't need further qualifications in order to be true. Whatever someone thinks is irrelevant and accepting something because you d...
As I said, JTB is not in simple consensus. Just using the term without people knowing the complexity of everything around it makes the method overused...
Justified true belief is not in simple consensus due to the Gettier problem. It's not a modern method in epistemology by its original form. Knowing ab...
For anything to be claimed as "truth" it needs a lot of evidence, explanation, logical reasoning and demonstration. That is true. Accepting something ...
Theism isn't treated as a fallacy, the logic of many arguments by theists are not logical or rational. The inability to see the flaws in reasoning, th...
That sounds more like an oversimplification of atheism. Generally, the ideal is to commit to that which can be proven or logically and rationally reas...
The claim "there are no gods" is an unfalsifiable claim upon an unfalsifiable idea. The claim "there is a god" or "there are gods" must first be made ...
The burden of proof applies only to when someone makes a claim. You cannot add burden of proof to "there are no gods" since it would require there to ...
Maybe because most people don't understand post-modernism? And think it's something Jordan Peterson complains about, something vague that exists today...
It grew out of the aftermath of WWII. Started with many playwrights like Brecht who focused on questioning the form of theatre within the plays he wro...
Of course; here's a map I made for another discussion. Not specifically about choices, but as a guideline for how we think about society. https://i.im...
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