Sam26

I haven't made my YouTube video yet, so the wording may change a bit.

He only puts an end to ethics in the sense that there are no ethical propositions that state what is true or false in the world, i.e., no facts to pic...

Continuing with a summary of the Tractatus. Post 3 So, Wittgenstein’s picture theory of language is his attempt to demonstrate how it is that a propos...

Continuing with a summary of the Tractatus. Post 2 So, what is the structure of the proposition? And how does the proposition’s structure connect to t...

Post 1 I'm currently making a video for YouTube that summarizes Wittgenstein's early and later philosophy with an emphasis on On Certainty. I'm going ...

Ya, you've got me figured out, you're a regular genius. Grow up.

Sorry, but I'm just not going to engage much more because I'm working on other projects, and that's taking up much of my time. I'm currently going bac...

Okay, I'll bite. The first link is not an argument against anything I've said, it's basically a definition of a hallucination. There's nothing in that...

You obviously didn't listen to all of the videos where I addressed the issue of objective evidence — Sam26 -Correct. I am not going to watch a video p...

The problem with what you're saying is that "subjective experience and personal conviction" doesn't translate to knowledge unless there is some justif...

It always amazes me when people discount testimonial evidence, as not evidence. You obviously didn't listen to all of the videos where I addressed the...

This is the final video, the third video on my argument for an afterlife based on NDEs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2pRtbEfb0Q I will next be doi...

A better way to say it is this: instead of purpose one could insert "to accomplish activities of a higher order," that would be more precise. So, in t...

The fallacy of incredulity includes what I said, but it also includes other things. Sometimes it takes the form that you can't imagine how a propositi...

It's not a matter of just choosing to see similarities, as though there aren't objective things that make them similar. It's that there are objective ...

I understand, and by the way I never spelled out my argument, I'm just responding to what people generally mean by ID. I don't think the argument agai...

I'm thinking of a particular artifact that I can't find at the moment, but I've come across it many a time. It's metal, but we have no idea who made i...

Man you have some good replies. I wish I could make such great arguments. :yikes:

I generally agree, but there are things that we've found that defy this, and yet we know they've been intelligently designed. And we know just by look...

Well, you can dismiss what I'm arguing, that's up to you, I really don't care. Your requirement that ID needs an explanatory model is just silly. If I...

You had me up to this point. I don't understand. You seem to use reason, then you seem to want to dismiss it. Of course reason (logic) isn't the only ...

This is your answer to my question? The first link is a strawman because I wouldn't make that kind of argument. He's arguing against a particular bran...

It's not a matter of trying to make intelligent design fit, it's a matter of taking other possibilities into account and not limiting intelligent desi...

Is this supposed to be reasons why intelligent design doesn't make sense? Doesn't it depend on the goals of the designer? The goals of a designer may ...

The way we use the words intelligent design in our language gives us some guidelines as to what we mean by intelligent design. So, there are some fami...

So, what would count as evidence of intelligent design? In other words, what evidence would you require?

If we're asking if there is evidence of intelligent design in the universe, as far as I can tell the question of who designed the designer is not the ...

If there is only one mind, your mind, then language is an illusion. Especially if you believe that there can be no private language. If language is an...

What do you mean by proof? Usually in logic we refer to deductive arguments as proofs. However, sometimes people refer to inductive arguments as proof...

I agree. The foundational issues I'm speaking of have to do with what it is that makes murder, stealing, lying objectively immoral? I believe one can ...

There's no definition of good that will satisfy every context, and probably not one that will satisfy most contexts. The best way to answer the questi...

What are you looking for when you ask the question, "What is good?" I assume you'll say, "A definition," but there is no one definition that will sati...

One could easily argue that ethics is both about how things are, and how one should then act.

I think trying to find a theory that will help resolve moral disputes may be admirable, but it's the wrong place to start. It may be that the best mor...

I'm going to return, hopefully, to On Certainty, but I'm going to create videos for YouTube. This is all contingent on my health holding up, which is ...

That's nonsense. I've read various studies on hallucinations, and what I've said is accurate. In fact, anyone who gives hallucinations even a cursory ...

This is the 2nd video in my series of videos on NDEs and the argument for an afterlife. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm70wGXenpw

There is only one answer to this question. The origin of any philosophy arises out of some belief or set of beliefs. I take a very broad view of philo...

I think we agree on these points. I'm not so sure we disagree here. There are private experiences going on all the time, but in order to talk about th...

I didn't say that it was.

Agnosticism is saying that the person doesn't know if the concept God has an instance in reality. They're not sure if there is a fact of the matter, o...

It seems to me that if consciousness wasn't publicly observable, then what in the world would it mean to say that someone is conscious? You seem to im...

I came back because I did my video over for a third time. Third time is a charm they say. So, since I'm here I'll give a short response to your reply....

I'm only going to be coming to this thread from time-to-time to add a few comments, then I'm leaving to work on posts to Youtube. You're asking some g...

My own study isn't dependent on what a group of scientists say about this or that, although obviously it helps. My study is more of an epistemological...

True, but if you want the complete article you're going to have to pay a minimum of $15. It's at the following link: https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wi...

"Researchers publish consensus statement for the study of recalled experiences surrounding death" "A multidisciplinary team of national and internatio...

Come on, that's not an ad hominem. Fallacies are related to arguments, if the argument uses a personal attack, say, in one of its premises, then it's ...

That's correct, when there is no measurable brain activity, the brain is not capable of forming new memories. So, the conclusion is that either the me...

This is the 3rd recording of this video in an attempt to make it better. I recorded it on 1/11/2023, so the first two were obviously deleted. https://...