When I get all my ducks in a row, they take up more space than when they are not in a row, because the row takes up extra space, just as when I put th...
A decent analogy is a computer game. Within the game, everything is fully determined by the programmed flow of information, and every move of every ga...
On the menu is tea or coffee (2 different possible outcomes). My momentary long term desired outcome is coffee. The decision is coffee. Where is the a...
Yes, that is the simplification I mentioned. But the distinction I want to make clear is between if you like, choice as the number of items on the men...
The virus is a ball with spikes like the pictures, and the spikes stick to living cells that it contacts, but only some kinds of, in this case, human ...
My point was that your definition is already contradictory. One more time... A chess player on her turn is free to make any legal move. Her will is to...
No, it is ironic parody. DNA has no aim, no feelings no awareness and makes no effort to achieve anything. But it is entirely natural for the human mi...
Yes. A great definition since there are no identical situations. for example, I have coffee in the morning every day. My wife always has tea. The cruc...
Really, DNA is always trying to end its miserable existence, and eventually, almost all strains and strands achieve this. What we see and what we are,...
It's an addiction philosophers suffer from to conjoin the concepts of freedom and will. They are radically opposed in a way that leads to contradictio...
Yes. The mentalist approach is upside-down. Banno's belief analysis is incomplete; "I believe in justice." does not mean that I believe justice is rea...
this definiteness assumes that the believer can articulate the nuances of their own beliefs in a way that makes them coherent and understandable to th...
There are alternatives apart from the man or the state. Partnerships, cooperatives, not for profit enterprises, charities, etc. that can be found in r...
It is surely obvious that there is no line. What is unacceptable is defined by folks not accepting it. What folks will not accept varies. What is acce...
I cited an article describing the current pope's view, in the very first response to the op. It was dismissed thus: Bish bash bosh, Christians not act...
This is the problem with the thread. It purports to be a criticism of the doctrine of eternal punishment, but the title is"The moral character of Chri...
Rewards and punishments in this world are instruments of governance intended to incentivise moral behaviour in those inclined to immorality. They do t...
War, famine, plague, and wild beasts human bestiality. The four horsemen of the applesauce. But in case that's not enough, we can add in the flood, an...
I sometimes liken personal identity to the identity of a cyclone in the atmosphere. One can identify features of the atmosphere, eg jet streams and hu...
I just wanted to re-quote this because Christmas is a time for dangerous wisdom. I say dangerous, because those of us who do not love may still think ...
Perhaps, but I did read the article. I think "demonising" is a fairly accurate characterisation. Generally, in my examination of any religious traditi...
Only a philosopher could believe such nonsense. It is like the suggestion that the Germans ate babies or that martyrs will be rewarded with virgins - ...
It's a common to mistake argumentation for philosophy. Argumentation is indeed a game of let's pretend some premises and see what conclusions we come ...
I think you have to except the pope from this Christian belief, along with the crowd of his followers. This is a old story that may have passed you by...
Allow me to recommend an alternative. Personal Construct theory is a meta-theory of personality, in that it classifies people according to the structu...
Philosophy is like a snake pit; try not to fall in. If you have fallen in, don't expect much consensus about the best way out; even the snakes don't k...
Ah-bov-men-tchyn-ed) as in Bless-ed not Blest. as in op-ed not opt. Come now, don't pretend you don't know the difference between singular and plural!...
Threads I have not started. To what extent are legs and standing identical? How useful is the concept of useful? What are beans? What is the title of ...
I surmise that the ed suffix was pronounc'd at the time as an extra syllable as standard, and contracted for flow. Such apostrophe'd d's would be like...
I think you have misidentified the culprit. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/dec/13/david-baddiel-social-media-anger-and-us-review-the-tw...
Do some more research, maybe. The main driver of deforestation in the Amazon is for livestock and feedstock. National statistics can be misleading; ca...
One doesn't always get what one deserves or deserve what one gets. Tant pis. It may or may not be the case that one has another life, or many others, ...
Should my arguments follow? Some fictions have fictional value? Is adaptive utility unreal? Well if you insist, I will concede that truth has real uti...
That's the great thing about a prize like that - you can do what you like with it, even including nothing at all. In fact that's a great idea for a st...
Once upon a time there was a boy called Robert. He was named after the character in Struwelpeter because Hanover was there and he could fly. But he ne...
You were there! Should I have mentioned that? Once upon a time there was a boy called Robert. He was named after the character in Struwelpeter because...
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