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Walter Pound

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Well, I figure that this is how they will respond to your objection: God's thoughts are eternal and unchanging and therefore timeless; all of God's th...
December 17, 2018 at 02:22
If God creates time and even if he always in the state of creating time, then God is eternally creating time. Just like a person who is eternally crea...
December 16, 2018 at 06:27
Well, I imagine that some theistic philosopher has tried to make sense of it and I was curious to know how god remains changeless if god also creates ...
December 16, 2018 at 06:02
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sWHd3b8Y68&feature=youtu.be This too is a good video to spark some thought.
December 16, 2018 at 04:12
Also, in most faiths, God interacts with humans and this would seem to suggest a God that is in time; consider the Christian doctrine of the virgin bi...
December 16, 2018 at 04:07
https://youtu.be/5P6dQy9NmM4 This video and some of its comments sparked my curiousity.
December 15, 2018 at 20:48
It was probably said already, but science assumes methodological naturalism and actively tries to answer questions with natural explanations, but meth...
December 15, 2018 at 02:27
Nope, I said that there is a claim that miracle x occurred while many eye-witnesses were present. Never did I say that miracle x occurred and many eye...
November 29, 2018 at 00:41
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rz9J6qXIzc The statistics argument for the belief in miracles is refuted by this mathematician here. The burden of pr...
November 28, 2018 at 06:06
My point is that just because x is irrefutable, it does not mean we should believe it.
November 26, 2018 at 22:31
Even if we took this for granted, it does not mean that idealism must be true- perhaps some form of dualism is true. Even we took this for granted, it...
November 25, 2018 at 13:24
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJdlO6esWr8 This is a debate that people should watch.
November 24, 2018 at 11:26
If eternalism is true, then the argument from motion won't work, but perhaps the theist will try to use the argument from contingency and argue that t...
November 24, 2018 at 09:07
Where are you getting your information from?
November 22, 2018 at 22:04
A paradox is not a contradiction.
November 22, 2018 at 22:00
This is the problem, you are thinking about infinity in the same way that a toddler might count her fingers. Here is a wonderful summary of why that i...
November 22, 2018 at 21:46
They want to show that there is no logical problem with an actual infinity
November 22, 2018 at 21:18
https://www.skepticink.com/reasonablyfaithless/2013/03/25/infinity-minus-infinity/ What do you think of this mathematician's defense of actual infinit...
November 22, 2018 at 20:57
What reason do we have to think that an actual infinite is impossible? It can't be logically impossible since the statement "every natural number has ...
November 22, 2018 at 20:31
So what is the metaphysical nature of the mind? Is it physical or not? So he sounds like a nominalist. If dennett is a nominalist, then he will not de...
November 22, 2018 at 05:11
I see. So what theory of the mind do you subscribe to?
November 22, 2018 at 01:43
Does an immaterial mind make the hard problem of consciousness any easier? It seems like it has its own difficulties. Consider that when you walk from...
November 22, 2018 at 01:38
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen_Strawson It looks like Prof. Strawson is a panpsychist.
November 22, 2018 at 01:33
Suppose that the experience of color was the result of an evolutionary adaption and that color was not a feature of the universe, the person who is di...
November 22, 2018 at 01:27
is dennett a nominalist in regards to the self? I think that however one views the self- as a real thing or not- will determine how they explain the e...
November 22, 2018 at 01:03
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl3uoCi9VjI @15:02 Prof. Feser argues otherwise.
November 18, 2018 at 05:06
I don't think that is correct. Feser has stated that his argument is unaffected by whether the universe has always existed or not. If the universe is ...
November 18, 2018 at 04:32
Yes, you are correct in your suspicion. Aquinas, who Prof. Feser has been influenced by, also thought that essence and existence were two different th...
November 18, 2018 at 04:23
Premise one can be coherently denied though; eternalism is such a philosophical view of time that denies the existence of change. It seems like what p...
November 18, 2018 at 03:45
Can someone please define what potentiality and actuality are?
November 18, 2018 at 03:38