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Somehow? We have spectrometers that define the color spectrum. We can conclude that if someone defines a color different to other people and to result...
January 21, 2019 at 21:26
You see a blue pen. Someone says it's green. There's a definition of blue by measuring the spectrum of light bouncing from that blue pen. The spectrum...
January 21, 2019 at 20:52
If the argument is solid it's the argument that decides. This has been answered many times to you, but I'm starting to believe you don't know what a r...
January 21, 2019 at 20:01
Did the suffering lead to the individual growing a further understanding of life and gave them tools to tackle life in a way that is better than befor...
January 21, 2019 at 19:58
Because it's based on facts outside of Bill's and Joe's opinions, biases, and past down doctrines. That's why. If so, Joe might think the conclusion i...
January 21, 2019 at 19:35
Kind words are rare, thank you! And this is the challenge really. I think that a balanced and strong moral compass comes out of a balanced life in whi...
January 21, 2019 at 19:32
Deduction, making a rational and reasonable argument bypass disagreement. No, deduction bypass personal opinion, that's the point. If the deduction of...
January 21, 2019 at 15:53
By deduction of what the speech is saying. Or are you not able to break down what someone is saying to find if it's based on rational ideas or if it's...
January 21, 2019 at 15:32
Read the entire thing and you will understand that your fixation with "who" is irrelevant.
January 21, 2019 at 15:15
Point 1 is, therefore, pointing out that harmful speech isn't about hurting a specific person. By deduction of the validity of what someone says is me...
January 21, 2019 at 15:08
It's more of a starting point. As I mentioned, an evolving form is the most optimal form. But I would say that your example is an example of when it's...
January 21, 2019 at 14:51
It's only impossible to handle the balance of free speech vs harmful speech if you handle it as a binary system. If you are able to accept things to b...
January 20, 2019 at 14:07
No, it's not. You are taking one part of my text out of context and doesn't read into the nuances of the entirety of it. This is usually the way these...
January 20, 2019 at 01:12
Maybe that went into somewhat of a fallacy, but I think the general note is that people talk a lot about objective meaning to life or similar, but the...
January 18, 2019 at 01:30
The difference is that no scientist is saying that they are the truth. Because they are only hypotheses. Popular media have distorted these ideas into...
January 18, 2019 at 00:35
Can you see into the future? Do you know that humanity will never be able to prove them? Isn't that an assumption that demands you to know a lot of th...
January 18, 2019 at 00:13
They have a foundation in already proven theories and facts. They are hypotheses. Just like I said the Higgs Boson field and Gravitational waves were ...
January 18, 2019 at 00:03
A hypothesis is a qualified guess not yet proven. That is not the same as the type of guesswork that apologists do when trying to use philosophical ar...
January 17, 2019 at 23:51
It is sound, in describing that something must be the first cause of all the causality. It doesn't prove anything else than that. But one could argue ...
January 17, 2019 at 23:33
Scientific causes are based in hypotheses and theories and no one of them is concluding anything to be true. Faith and religion settle down with it be...
January 17, 2019 at 23:27
The video is deconstructing the argument in detail much better than me transcribing it here. If you really want an explanation on why the argument fai...
January 17, 2019 at 23:22
And you can't conclude a conclusion that doesn't have anything to do with the actual conclusion of the argument. Assumptions about what the conclusion...
January 17, 2019 at 23:15
According to your idea of what is meaningful? That is not an objective of what is meaningful, that is your own definition and cannot be applied to the...
January 17, 2019 at 14:44
Objective meaning can only exist if you can prove it to exist. It's like proving the existence of God. The burden of proof requires you to prove there...
January 17, 2019 at 13:54
This topic is a hot potato that should be a healthy meal of discussion since it's one of the most important topics of our current times. I think that ...
January 17, 2019 at 13:27
Why would meaning or purpose be of divine status when it objectively doesn't exist? Then again, why would we even define trivialities to be the meanin...
January 17, 2019 at 01:41
I think you are viewing determinism through the eyes of a human, meaning that you can't perceive the small causes and effects that in the end define t...
January 17, 2019 at 01:34
If light had a conscious perception of time, it wouldn't even notice the brief time of our universe's existence.
January 17, 2019 at 01:21
It's only a waste of time if the discussion is about pitching these values against each other. One could argue that you could do a normal dialectic ab...
January 16, 2019 at 18:43
There's overwhelming logical rationality to the conclusion that an objective meaning of life doesn't exist. So that leaves automatically the subject o...
January 16, 2019 at 17:07
This is not an argument for reincarnation. You say that our energy is our life force, it's not, it's just energy, as any other. It has no consciousnes...
January 16, 2019 at 13:42
No. This is a misunderstanding of how energy works. If you use your body energy to slide your palms together, the energy becomes heat energy and this ...
January 16, 2019 at 13:32
It was a corruption of Nietzsche's ideas. And it's an unnecessarily loaded question fallacy that muddies the argument of creating your own meaning in ...
January 15, 2019 at 14:07
The biological process of renewal of cells does not erase the information of the previous cells. It's essentially a copy. If you use the Ship of These...
January 15, 2019 at 13:23
@"Paul24": There is no purpose to life. It's the consequence of billions after billions of random dead matter clashing together into chemical reaction...
January 15, 2019 at 12:53
Why are you putting one person's meaning against another? Hitler might have felt a sense of meaning for himself, but why should that be set to a stand...
January 15, 2019 at 12:32
I think that a definition of the word "meaning" would be needed because I don't see any meaning in evolution. As I said, it's a function that, as you ...
January 15, 2019 at 12:29
Evolution is just the function of our existence. It's the form we have in the universe, just as a star convert hydrogen into helium and later dies, th...
January 15, 2019 at 01:11
Not to be blunt or insensitive, but that's a very meta framing of your "nothing has objective meaning"-comment. :sweat:
January 14, 2019 at 16:39
How can I entertain a question that is essentially impossible to answer? I can answer with what I might think is a subjective meaning of life, a meani...
January 14, 2019 at 15:10
What event has a 50/50 chance that is purely random? If you flip a coin, all the parameters of flipping the coin determine the outcome. Just because y...
January 14, 2019 at 14:52
In determinism, everything is essentially luck. But to be able to reward, we need to measure the amount of work that led up to the achievement. If you...
January 14, 2019 at 14:26
It cannot be, because there isn't any objective meaning. No argument can support any meaning of life without being biased to our own existence. We mea...
January 14, 2019 at 14:04
This has been a notion for many years but it's simplified and overused by people not knowledgable in psychology. It's like the Jung personality spectr...
January 14, 2019 at 13:40
IQ measures the ability to function in problem-solving. It also measures the ability to adapt. You can have low IQ and learn a lot of information, but...
January 14, 2019 at 13:34
Antinatalism is like when you take a philosophical conviction and stand by its extreme form without challenging it. It's utilitarianism taken to the e...
January 14, 2019 at 13:04
No, it's a misunderstanding of the actual biological science behind how our cells work. And be careful taking everything Peterson says as any kind of ...
January 14, 2019 at 12:54
Are you saying that the mechanics of making Lenin and Stalin into deity-like figures, following hard doctrines and mantras to make enemies of those wh...
January 12, 2019 at 15:34
Why does that scare you? Because you are religious? Or because you fear the consequences of religion in our world? I think the latter has already been...
January 12, 2019 at 15:11
People invent explanations when they can't explain things. Science and logical reasoning is a rather modern method and falsifiability was included in ...
January 12, 2019 at 12:16