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I am not interested in making this thread anymore about you than it has already become.

Indeed! My question was rhetorical. It is evident that you do not have a PhD in philosophy. They could. Is that what you would do rather than tell the...

PhD in philosophy are you? From where? what was your dissertation on?

I often work under that assumption. Some people have a vested interest in things being as they believe them to be and will go to extraordinary lengths...

The trinity seems be a confluence of influences. Three plays an important role in Pythagoreanism, Plato, Aristotle, and Neoplatonism. It is not simply...

The distinction reflects an historical development. There are indications that cross-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary approaches will become more c...

Just so you know who you are dealing with. From Apollodorus: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/544386

I don't think such questions are ever really resolved though. While it may be that most today will understand this figuratively, the idea of God's pre...

Some use the term cognitive philosophy. The old divisions are not immutable.Some question the usefulness of such arbitrary divisions.

Sometime between the Babylonian exile and the Second Temple. But Maimonides thought it necessary to make such ideas clear.

This issue is not settled by restating the claim and insisting that it is obvious. The only thing that is obvious is that there are very many people w...

Are you claiming that cognitive science labors this paradigm? This is exactly backwards. Cognitive science does not leave out subjective appearances o...

Is this an explanation or a description? What is being explained? Why is it that the biological functions that give rise to the experience can never b...

An adequate explanation is one does not leave wide gaps still to be explained. You are right, we might not be able to determine whether it is complete...

I am not aware of any complete explanation of either physics or consciousness. If you have one or know of one we can start there.

That is because we do not have an adequate explanation for either.

Yes, that is my point. Polytheistic rather than henotheistic. As you say: a pantheon. It seems as though in time it because henotheistic and eventuall...

Incremental progress can lead to major breakthroughs. I think it is a mistake to draw conclusions one way or another based on the current state the ar...

I think that assumption is questionable. See Exodus 3:15: "God also said to Moses, "Say to the Israelites, `The LORD, the God of your fathers--the God...

Progress is being made every day. Consider, for example, advances in understanding the visual and auditory systems. Whether we will have a complete ex...

Many of the disputes that arise here are the result of the failure to distinguish between the commitment to find physical explanations and the prematu...

For citation: 2 Chronicles 36:23 Ezra 1:1 Isaiah 44:28 and 45:1

It is not as if incorporeal version are free of theological problems. It could be argued that "theology" is part of the problem. Why should God confor...

I think it is an open question if when Maimonides denied the physicality of God and interpreted all physical aspects of the divine, whether this eleva...

I want to use this to support some claims about hinges before: It is not that a hinge cannot be doubted, but that they are not doubted. So much hangs ...

Actually two questions, both about Moore's "Here is a hand". With regard to Wittgenstein, I agree that what is beyond doubt is only within a given gam...

Is that what he was doing? Is it only in certain games that it to count and not others?

I would only be repeating myself. In the builder's language "slab" means more than "This is a slab." Knowing what a slab is is requisite, but knowing ...

It seemed so, at least me me when you said: But you added a cute picture of a non-human primate, so I'll move on.

I did not mean to imply that he is not worth reading. But if one wants a better understanding of Kant, the old complaint applies: too much to read and...

@"frank" This is why I asked him to provide sources. He has not. The two different ways in which the term is used does not tell us specifically what w...

It is an explanation of what to do when you hear "slab!".

This is what Jesus' Jewish followers would have understood based on messianic tradition. What we find in the gospels is something quite different. Wha...

Strictly speaking, "block", "slab", "beam" are the commands. What to do when you hear ""Slab!". is not a command but an explanation. Both what a slab ...

As some here would say: :100: :fire:

A better parsing would be: "Bring me this when I call slab".

Believe whatever you want frank if that gives you some kind of perverse satisfaction, but the truth is far from what you imagine. You asked about the ...

A narrative must have a source. The idea that man invents narratives is not a new idea. Consider the problem of false prophets and false messiahs.

The expectation of the coming of the messiah does not originate with the followers of Jesus. His followers believed he was the messiah. What seems to ...

A narrative is not a post-modern concept. Either man creates narratives or they are given to us. Are you claiming they come directly from God?

Note that Heaven is in parentheses. Matthew is the only one who who uses the term kingdom of heaven. More common is kingdom of God, which Matthew uses...

The question is the extent to which these projection distort. The sayings attributed to him were all written after the fact of his death. To what exte...

This is what I am getting at. How much of what you say sheds light on the "Basic Questions for any Kantians"?

Thanks for the link. I took a quick look. Do you consider him a "Kantian"?

It is a claim that as part of the world we do not have access to other things in the world as they are in themselves. It is always as they are for us.

The Messiah was to bring about the Kingdom of God (Heaven) on Earth. Before the mission was completed he died. In order to maintain hope in the promis...

It is not a problem with hinge propositions but with what counts as a hinge. You asked: For something to be a hinge something must turn on it. "Here i...

This is where we differ. I am not denying the indubitability of what a block is. I am arguing that not doubting what a block is is not sufficient for ...

You claim that 'why' is incorrect, but it is commonly used in that way. Ironically, I see you were just quoted saying: In this case, you are staying s...

My understanding of a hinge is that something must revolve around it. In this case it is not enough simply to correctly identify a block but to do the...