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Walter Pound

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Can you explain what you mean by "different forms"? In that video i linked, the person makes a comparison to how some people may think of Superman as ...
December 27, 2018 at 01:37
The issue I have with that is if you consider the father, son and holy ghost to be only a part of God or are they all each fully God?
December 27, 2018 at 01:34
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_WPuPdFsIg @ 1:44 the following stated about the Trinity: 1. The father is God, the holy spirit, and the Holy Spirit ...
December 27, 2018 at 01:32
Hey noah, how exactly does the Christian theist even fit divine simplicity with his doctrine of the holy trinity and of Jesus Christ who is both fully...
December 27, 2018 at 01:28
alright, so can you go ahead and explain how the Trinity is indeed logically coherent? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_WPuPdFsIg Here is this video ...
December 27, 2018 at 01:20
methodological individualism is hardly equivalent to calling anyone a child molester. I am repeating how particular leftists and liberals/progressives...
December 24, 2018 at 16:09
okay. Yes, you offer a good intuitive answer, but if you say that to a socialist or a social democrat, then you will be accused of engaging in methodo...
December 24, 2018 at 15:55
How do you propose we treat people fairly? Do we do it as the libertarians want to do it or as the socialists would like to do it or as social democra...
December 24, 2018 at 15:48
There are entire political philosophies whose founders spend hundreds of pages arguing for their own brand of justice. These different kinds of "justi...
December 24, 2018 at 15:30
If I said, "only leftists do x" then you would have a point. Thank goodness I never said that only leftists beg the question. When did I say that I wa...
December 24, 2018 at 15:00
if there are no numbers that exist in reality, then mathematical fictionalism is trivially true. What you are trying to say is that if numbers doesn't...
December 24, 2018 at 14:46
you are confusing two important things. Mathematical platonists will argue that numbers are real entities. Mathematical fictionalists argue that they ...
December 24, 2018 at 14:24
When did I ever say that only the left begs the question with definitions and loaded terminology? Actually, I believe that people must first defend th...
December 24, 2018 at 13:35
Are you just not familiar with the definition of social justice? If you didn't know, it is inherently left wing and with it comes only left wing defin...
December 24, 2018 at 13:22
I see, so I state a fact- leftists support a politically loaded definition of justice- and you think that that is an example of complaining? Oh boy, y...
December 24, 2018 at 13:18
Explain?
December 24, 2018 at 13:11
Anyone who espouses racial justice, economic justice and social justice is not simply fighting for "justice." Their brand of justice is always hiding ...
December 24, 2018 at 12:08
I don't think that it is that simple. If you tell people that simply because they are white that they have "white privilege" and that the only solutio...
December 24, 2018 at 08:27
Is this even related to philosophy?
December 24, 2018 at 08:02
The question is not on whether the doctrine of the Trinity is true, but on whether the doctrine is logically coherent; thus, the question is within th...
December 24, 2018 at 04:23
thanks for the reply. Yes, I also was worried that some of the supposed answers are just abuses in language.
December 24, 2018 at 01:05
2 = 2 is true without 2 being a real entity.
December 23, 2018 at 21:01
Yes, I was wondering how anyone could still be a Marxist or Freudian after Popper. It seems like the only way to do that is to challenge falsification...
December 23, 2018 at 08:29
Andrew never made the claim that Prof. Plomin was in favor of Prof. Murray's policy recommendations. Prof. Plomin doesn't disagree with you there eith...
December 21, 2018 at 20:25
Yes, it is a great book.
December 21, 2018 at 19:01
Yes, people like Robert Plomin and Richard Haier should be cited instead since they specialize in the field of genetics and focus on intelligence.
December 21, 2018 at 18:42
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A48zsMFodG4 Here is a debate between Prof. Ahmed and Prof. Feser over two different arguments for God. The first half ...
December 21, 2018 at 18:36
No, mathematics would still be something that mathematicians could engage in. Numbers don't have to exist for a mathematician to say that the square r...
December 20, 2018 at 22:05
If numbers didn't exist at all, it is hard to see where any logical contradiction would arise. Mathematical fictionalism would be dead in the water if...
December 20, 2018 at 14:51
I am guessing that you want to say that we can only judge a society by its own social-cultural-moral standards?
December 20, 2018 at 14:40
The problem is that one must also be ready to explain why the chosen moral theory is correct. Thus, the question of moral epistemology and moral ontol...
December 20, 2018 at 14:35
The field of political theory and economics are their own academic disciplines and if you are not a specialist, then you will make mistakes- just look...
December 20, 2018 at 14:23
Okay, so is his argument hiding a hidden premise? Is it the case that he believes that for knowledge to be possible that one must be able to have libe...
December 20, 2018 at 14:18
The original prime mover argument was about a non-contingent changer, who was unaffected by anything, who was responsible for the secondary changes in...
December 20, 2018 at 14:06
Well, thanks for your input, I am sure others will come in and add their own commentary soon.
December 19, 2018 at 02:58
yes, it is hard to see how his argument works, even if we grant him whatever theory of the mind he would like. If all thoughts and actions exist tense...
December 19, 2018 at 02:53
I am sympathetic to this argument. It sounds like your argument is the following (but correct me if I am wrong): 1. The past, present, and future are ...
December 19, 2018 at 02:34
Okay, so can you explain what you mean?
December 19, 2018 at 02:21
Yes, and the theist will respond in this manner: Just because God knows that you do X, does not mean that he determines that you will do X. Maybe this...
December 19, 2018 at 02:11
There are two responses that I can imagine that the theist will respond with: just because you create something does not mean that you determine its a...
December 19, 2018 at 01:57
I highlight that God is claimed to be omnipotent, meaning that he can do anything logically possible, and since there does not seem to be anything ill...
December 19, 2018 at 00:35
what is the standard for a belief to be rationally justified anyway? It sounds like that word "rational" needs to be defined before we even talk about...
December 17, 2018 at 10:11
Here is a theist that thinks God is temporal. https://www.reasonablefaith.org/writings/scholarly-writings/divine-eternity/timelessness-and-omnitempora...
December 17, 2018 at 10:08
I don't think that many epistemic positions can provide absolute certainty about anything though.
December 17, 2018 at 04:19
okay, well I think that many people treat empiricism and science as identical things, but they are not; science is a method of studying the universe a...
December 17, 2018 at 04:15
I know, but is that what you are trying to prove that naive empiricism is self-refuting?
December 17, 2018 at 04:11
Is this your argument: 1). Empiricism is the only way to learn about anything. 2). But empiricism can't prove that empiricism is the only to learn abo...
December 17, 2018 at 04:07
The thing is why is bringing absolute certainty a job of science?
December 17, 2018 at 04:02
Science should be understood as a method to learn about the universe; science's job is to describe the universe's behavior, why do you think that scie...
December 17, 2018 at 03:53
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDKDuvhXNME Genes have the primary influence on intelligence.
December 17, 2018 at 02:45