adding more needs alongside food and water does not make those needs meaningful. The commenter is saying that we deceive ourselves when it comes to be...
if life were not inherently meaningless no one should be able to believe life is inherently meaningless. The mere fact that life CAN be interpreted as...
Yes. Or else you'd never know it was true. All you'd have is an intuition that just happens to work very very well and I'm trying to ask where that in...
Yay you agree. I was simply pointing out that which axioms you choose to adopt cannot be determined without the use of other axioms so you ultimately ...
I'm not advocating triviality here. I am simply stating that you cannot explain why triviality is to be avoided without appealing to theoretical or pr...
That is a practical consideration. As I've said before all of your explanations as to why we should avoid triviality are practical explanations. If tr...
yayy someone who agrees. However, as I've pointed out in other comments, in order to reach the conclusion "logic is based on antecedent axioms that ar...
Why not? Why should we avoid triviality? Inconsistent wasn't the right word here sorry. I meant feasible People do use fuzzy logic in many many applic...
oh I'm fine with there being nothing like that trust me but I highly doubt everyone is. This post was supposed to bring together both the theists and ...
I just don't want to ground logic purely in practical survival value because then there is no stopping someone from saying "I'm going to violate the p...
yes but you'd never know that from studying the windows system. All you'd know is pixels that's the point. You wouldn't have access to the concept of ...
if plain language is so lacking why not show us exactly which part of great Banno's teachings is flawed in as many words as you like. I do agree this ...
the key here is that you'll never uncover such facts as you are describing them. This is because you can never tell once you HAVE reached the absolute...
the computer ur posting this on. The point is that logic seems to be just another man made invention that helped some of us survive and that's pretty ...
It IS entirely ragtag because any rule you choose to use as an axiom is by definition based on no other reasoning. Take the Law of non Contradiction f...
but isn't it really sad that there isn't one so far? :sad: I know morality is a fickle thing but why does everyone stick to so much if it's based on u...
This is an ancient paradox by pyrenean skeptics. But WHAT does logic explain? The paradox is that in order to answer the question "How am I going to e...
I had similar conclusions but the main problem I find with them is how they dethrone logic so much. We both seem to have reached the conclusion that l...
If all of your future actions being determined by the toss of a die (not deterministic but completely random) counts as free will then yes. I doubt th...
Dreams are often predictive due to brain processes and memory. For example, if you have a big test, don't study, dream about failing and then fail, th...
Patterns are not always the result of intellect though. A randomly generated sequence of numbers on a computer could write something like 696969696969...
I love this thread so much but alas all that begins must come to be eaten by a goat. (not if I can do anything about it by refreshing this page with t...
Correct. One brought us secularism and the computer you're typing this on and the other brought us the siege of Constantinople. I'll take the PC thank...
Incorrect. I know all the possible locations an electron can appear in a quantum system yet I cannot predict where the electron will actually appear. ...
Because people decided it did. Why does gold have value? Why does physical fitness have value? Why does productivity have value? The value we associat...
Dieties cannot necessarily trust. Trust is a human specific emotion that you have no reason to ascribe to dieties as we have defined them. Omnipotence...
Peace is not a new thing that emerges between them. It is a predicted behavior of both beings having omnipotence and omnipresence and nothing else. I ...
Did you switch accounts or something? I don't remember talking to you but nonetheless. Yes that is exactly what I'm implying. You have NOT reasoned ev...
yay. Wouldn't call it any specific God though. Not the Abrahamic, Nordic, etc.. It seems to me like you've proven the existence of existence which I'm...
I agree with everything you said. Atheism leads to nihilism and a lack of an objective basis for morality. How is that supposed to be a point though? ...
Supernatural just means: Supernatural for now. Imagine if the Abrahamic God really did come down and show us all his greatness, bending the laws of ph...
an external consistency exists regardless of my interpretation of it. A table exists whether or not I'm not looking at it. Whether or not the table is...
Ohhhhhhh. You make a distinction between existence and the universe. I get it now. My bad I didn't notice earlier. I was using existence and universe ...
Yes it obviously does. You can't tickle someone if you're not there. There is no difference between it and omnipotence. Also it shouldn't matter wheth...
Yes but in physics you never use "up" or "down" you use "vector". You don't NEED to define up or down. All you need to define is direction and you don...
Seriously? Ok then, I define a new word. Omniticklishness. An omniticklish being is a being that tickles all beings to death in whatever universe it i...
Oh really? Would you mind highlighting that difference between a dead body and a conscious being? That is literally impossible since you cannot confir...
HOW are they different? HOW is mind not matter and matter not mind? Every time I try to define them differently I fail. I'd like you to try Matter: An...
When I said external I meant "not you" that's it. As in "there exists something that is not under your conscious control". Whether you call that thing...
I concede that you need consciousness for knowledge but omniscience does not follow from omnipotence or omnipresence. We only agreed on omnipotence an...
You assume the existence of consistent, external entities. You don't call them mind or matter because it frankly doesn't matter (pun intended) what yo...
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