Isaac

I still don't understand the distinction you're looking for. You're obviously not seriously suggesting that there aren't any deontologists, that no on...

Well, in the published works of the relevant philosophers, of course. You're still not being clear here about what you mean. I'm trying to be as chari...

How can a question possibly be a clue pointing to the existence of something? I can't even make enough sense of that expression to tell whether I disa...

Well yes, but we're clearly not talking about the same thing because it's absolutely obvious that there are - several brands of deontology, utilitaria...

Yes we are having unseasonably wet weather at the moment.

Yes, but theism isn't a quest for existential answers either, it's a belief in god(s). One might believe in a god whose nature is such that their exis...

For the sake of discussion, I could skip over the error that's already been pointed out here (atheism is not a category of system, it is a disposition...

Yes, exactly. The correct response to "God did it", I think, is "So what?"

This is the main reason why you're getting such incredulous responses. You've simply made a mistake here. Atheism is absolutely not "an alternative to...

The HDI is not a good measure relative to the things we're discussing here. 1. It heavily weights school enrolment (1/9th of the total score), this he...

It's easier for me to just re-post at this point. We can now add to that the fact that @"Coben" has brought you up on the fact that indeterminacy only...

Bollocks. The context was all about the mention of free will, here on this thread, in this forum, and then you say "forums like this...". If the no-fr...

I don't disagree with technology, but I do think there's a big problem in the "growth to solve" argument when it comes to unknowns. Past development w...

Yes, I did get that, I just didn't paraphrase it very clearly, my mistake. I disagree with this, I don't see how, on the face of it, more of the same ...

No, but it does mean that the behaviour is at least present here (that's a reasonable interpretation of what 'like' means in that context). I've read ...

Can't believe you're still trying to fudge this. You said... So it's not a claim about anything within your personal interactions. It's a claim about ...

Yes, and as has been repeatedly pointed out to you. No one in the no-free-will crowd has said anything like a claim that it is. Everyone acknowledges ...

OK, I get where you're coming from. Your third example is really what I'm thinking about, where some other factor in inextricably linked and so to ign...

Eh? Where are you getting that link from? Atheism is the belief that no gods exist, not the belief that no mysteries exist, that would be amysterism.

I'm not talking about a few exceptions. I can't recall a single anti-free-will argument where there's anything like an explicit proposition that all o...

You said "The idea is rather than the "there is no free will" crowd always wants to appeal to it being a standard view or implication of the sciences ...

That's the matter I'm taking issue with. I don't see how it makes any sense to say something is an improvement "in itself" where, by that, you mean "w...

Yes, and you obviously can because determinism (in the free-will sense) is about how the brain functions, unless you are a dualist, and science is of ...

Well that's as good an example of begging the question as you're going to get, you've actually described them as "improvements" when what is at issue ...

Not only that, but... 1. Stochastic processes are a modelling method, no-one is claiming that they actually are random, only that one of the variable ...

Fine, if the best you've got by way of intelligent discussion is just to label every disagreement as a reading comprehension issue then there's no poi...

Yes, this whole sub-discussion started when I asked you to support that assertion, and why you proceed with it (despite the complete absence of any un...

The matter which started this whole sub-discussion. And, in fact, most of our other discussions recently, which have all followed the same pattern I'v...

But other people believe that they are correct. What are you going to do, shout at each other until one gives up? You talk about ensuring things are i...

Right, thank you. So the issue I was getting at was not that your talk of reading comprehension was the same as your talk of degree-level students bei...

So, again, thanks for the personality advice, but just saying "it's obvious what I mean if you can read properly" is not really engaging in conversati...

Yes, I'm just asking which quote, you've quoted several. None of them seem to me to imply anything like the conflation you're suggesting. Simply sayin...

Fine, you think I'm an asshole who should have less 'attitude'. That's that issue covered. Now will you answer the question, or do we have more therap...

"Where?" was the question, not "how?". Tell me what comment gave you this impression and I can explain what I actually meant by it.

Maybe try answering the questions within the topic under discussion rather your opinion on my personality? You can either explain better what you mean...

Where have I said anything to the contrary?

Yes. What 'contextual clues' indicate is a subjective matter, just because you think you have given sufficient context for your meaning to be clear is...

So now academic achievement is a measure of relevant intellectual skills.

So? How does that have any bearing on the statement "Speculation is just that, meaning we don't know if it's right or wrong before we test it."? I mad...

Perhaps you should improve your reading comprehension skills.

A natural state of affairs is one where nothing is owned, and there are no rules. The moment people get together to impose rules on others they are fa...

How can any emotion be rational? It's not 'rational' to fear being chased by a tiger. It's rational to run away from it (presuming you want to preserv...

For a start, I thought you'd made it clear you didn't have any core tenets and everything was judged on a case by case basis. Second, I don't see any ...

Of course they are. Claiming that some garbage made up 2000 years ago is not the actual way the world is is not the same as claiming it is. If I claim...

It's not that complicated. What people want is a sustainable supply of all the stuff/lifestyle they've been used to. They can't have it because it was...

Sums up the whole thread.

How can you possibly judge the 'rightness' or 'wrongness' of the direction of speculation? The idea doesn't even make sense. Speculation is just that,...

The trouble is, students at your university were all epistemic peers and part of a community with a shared objective (understand the arguments well en...

Well if SATs are at that level then the answer to your question would be that I would have answered what the question was asking and not what it was n...

I didn't take Sat's but in the comprehension test we did have the answer would be that I provided an answer within the acceptable range to sentences d...