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To name is to divide or distinguish one thing from an other. Zhuangzi's Cook Ting (Ding) divides the ox along its natural joints. To divide things in ...

A few words that caution us about the use of words. Chapter Sixteen: Chapter 32: Ivanhoe translation Zhuangzi poses the problem this way:

There are different interpretations of what it means to be one. In the development of Christian theology it has been understood to mean one and the sa...

It is not as if living beings are an assemblage of parts that exist prior to or independently of the organism. We might say that the parts of living b...

I think the following metaphor is apt:

From On Certainty:

His remark is about the grammar of the word 'know'. It makes no sense to say that I have a toothache but do not know it. If it is not the kind of thin...

Two questions: 1. Where in the grammar of ordinary language do we find the idea that knowledge is justified true belief? 2. Where do we find Wittgenst...

We are talking about very different things.

Perhaps the pursuit of natural theology is to forsake wisdom as it is understood in the wisdom literature of the Hebrew Bible. Perhaps the attempt to ...

You are circling the drain. Repeating the same claims as if they are truths.

Short-term they will attempt to work as if the US is a joint business venture. People who do not understand how running a nation works might think thi...

. I think the decision was made by or with ABC's parent company, Disney. They are concerned with Trump's escalating weaponization of the legal system ...

No. When you say: that is an indication that you know the difference. What is natural means what can be explained, to the extent it can be explained, ...

Roughly, natural explanations do not introduce anything outside the natural world. It rejects the idea that the world is contingent and requires a nec...

We have been through this already. When natural explanations cannot explain why there is anything at all you resort to a super-natural explanation eve...

We could continue to go round and round, but I won't.

That is not what I asked. I asked which version says that it is contingent on our knowing that an event has occurred. Then you reject every version of...

And which of those versions says that it is contingent on our knowing that an event has occurred? Or is that your own contribution? How does our knowi...

I asked you: The closest you came to answering is: You say: but when I asked: your response was: Once again, whose version of the PRS are you relying ...

What is deduced from a questionable principle is questionable. Positing a super-natural being in order to explain what you cannot explain is question ...

I don't propose it. I cite it. Prior to the question of whether one agrees or disagrees is the question of what the principle is. The principle is not...

Up until this point you have been treating unknown as unknown to us. If God knows then even if we do not there is still a reason for all events, reaso...

Whose version of the PSR are you relying on? Where does it say in that version that the PSR does not apply to unknown events? There is a difference be...

Are you arguing against the PSR?

It is not a contradiction. An event is something that happens. According to the PSR there is a reason for it happening. Our knowledge of something hap...

Up until the point where it becomes a liability: When prices continue because of tariffs. When the US can't sell goods overseas because other nations ...

If the PSR is valid it should hold for all events whether known or unknown. If it happened then there must be, according to the principle, a reason fo...

Suppose a star explodes 10 light years from us. It will not be observable to us for 10 years. If the PSR only applies to observable,facts does that me...

This is an a priori abuse of logic. Positing something that has existence necessarily as an essential property is essentially a conjuring trick. Somet...

The reason we observed the rock falling is that it fell and we were there to see if fall. There may be various reasons why it fell and various reasons...

You did not address the problem. Observing that a rock falls is not a reason for why the rock falls.

What does this mean in terms of PSR? The observation that a rock falls is not a reason for or explanation for it falling. If explanation reaches a dea...

But gravity means more than that.

According to the original poster by reason he/she means explanation. Are you claiming that there are reasons that do not involve explanations?

From the OP:

In accord with the OP it means that there is an explanation. Did you mean 'petitio principii', begging the question?

This is question begging.It assumes what is in question, namely whether everything in existence can be explained. These three types of reason are base...

Maybe a superior intelligence might understand it, maybe not. In either case we do not, and based on our ignorance we cannot conclude that the univers...

The problem, as I see it, is the assumption that if one asks a question there must be an answer to that question. There are several conclusions that m...

I mean the reason why there is anything at all. A premise is the reason why there must be a reason for what is? Although we do employ reason in our se...

For Heraclitus the tension of opposites is essential. We may think of it is the function of reason to disambiguate, but logos holds opposites together...

What is the reason for existence? What is the reason for thinking that there must be a reason for what is?

Trumpian "conservatives" sound like the sixties counterculture. Perhaps the most significant difference is that the sixties movement was progressive, ...

For the most part, yes. He wanted to avoid accusations of heresy and atheism. He was, however, placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, the Index of...

If Trump was asked : "Have you no sense of decency?" he would just smirk and say: "I have the most decency, the best decency. They say no one has more...

Yes. He makes good use of the good book for his own ends. In Genesis 2 after man gains knowledge God says that man has become like one of us. God bloc...

Once again we see what Trump means by MAGA, a return to the time of his mentor Roy Cohn and McCarthyism, a campaign of fear and repression, with the "...

You ignore what Descartes says and impose your own inference based on your own opinion rather than on anything said in the text. A good question, but ...

Where does he say this? He doubts his body and his senses, but not that he exists. He posits a malicious demon that will do everything he can to decei...