Actually no, if you believe he is an expert, and all the information you have about him points to him as an expert, you would still have no reason to ...
First, if I was to put forth the argument it would take the following inductive form: (1) Any human contrivance where the parts are so arranged that t...
This is more of a technical point, but I'm careful about using the term reincarnation, because of the religious baggage. That said, there seems to be ...
All you're doing is changing the scenario to where it makes sense to doubt. Let's say you know you're getting instruction from an expert chess player,...
Well, if you're sitting with an expert chess player, and they're teaching you the game of chess, and you start doubting everything he's says, without ...
The point isn't that you can't doubt, the point is that in some instances, like the example I gave, it makes no sense to doubt. The doubt is senseless...
Having no sense of time, and existing outside of time are two different things. We often have no sense of time even when we are awake. Besides it's no...
I don't find that a difficult question. Look at the shape of the sand in the dessert caused by eddies, or the random placement of rocks on the ground....
Good god, I just wanted to talk sports cars. If you want to talk ethics, start up a thread on the ethics of sports cars. I was using this thread to es...
Why does there have to be alternative proposals? The argument simply states that there is evidence of intelligent design in the universe. Why do I hav...
So if I haven't had the experience of going to France, as say, you have, then the reality of your experience would be meaningless to me? That makes no...
Do I need to have your experiences, of say, going to France in order for me to know that your experience is real? We can know that an experience is re...
You said the following: Remember, you said we can doubt anything we want, so I gave you an example of someone teaching the rules of chess, and the per...
Michael, I don't see how intelligent design is Theistic ("or amounts to Theism"), even at the metaphysical level. I know that Theists use the argument...
What can I say, I just like sports cars, always have. Some people like large homes, I could care less about having a large home. By the way, my body i...
The stated 0-60 times of the Mercedes AMG E63 S is 3.4 sec, the camaro zl1 is 3.5 sec. If you talking about the Camaro zl1 1le that's different, it's ...
If the universe has been around for over 14 billion years, why wouldn't it be more than likely that some civilization now has the ability to create re...
Your intuition that the universe show evidence of design, or at least seems to indicate design is correct. However, that doesn't mean that any particu...
What makes you think I haven't done things like this already. Besides who are you to give advice to me, especially since you don't know me. It's also ...
A belief is about something, true, but it doesn't necessarily have to take the form "I believe that..." one's actions can express one's beliefs. And y...
It's not meant to absolve me of anything. I'm just responding to your asinine comment in a thread about sports cars. This isn't a thread about the eth...
Whether there are things that are more fun than cars is very subjective, but I agree, I would much rather be with friends than have a sports car. Howe...
Are you saying that we learn meaning only by understanding that there is "the real Donald Trump?" (as opposed to the digital image) - or that there is...
The point is that we learn correct usage in a public forum, and that forum can take a variety of forms, including texts. There is a difference though ...
My point is that the meaning of the word pain gets a foothold in public expressions. The meaning isn't solely tied to my private sensation, which woul...
My understanding of the private language argument is the following: In PI 244 Wittgenstein talks about words referring to sensations, he doesn't deny ...
Everyone, to one degree or another, twists the evidence to suit their conclusions. Some more than others, but we all do it. None of us are immune from...
If someone believes X based on what they perceive as the evidence or reasons for their belief, it's not a delusion or mental illness. If this was the ...
When I say that language evolved from scratch that doesn't mean there wasn't anything there as a basis for language. It's like saying I baked a cake f...
It's an interesting question. It seems to me that when we say that logic is fundamental to the universe, then we're saying something about how we talk...
The Mercedes is actually faster than the Camaro Zl1, which surprised me. I've driven all of these cars except the Mercedes. They are definitely fun if...
The point that Wittgenstein would make (as I interpret him), and I agree, is that how we use language is not relative. There's a kind of logic of use ...
Who said anything about conversation, remember these beliefs are pre-linguistic. You're trying to stick what I'm saying into language, but it doesn't ...
You left out two key words that I use in conjunction with doubt, reasonable and generally. Is it reasonable for me to doubt that I have two hands gene...
That quote doesn't apply to what I'm talking about. The point in that quote is that the concept belief would have no meaning for us if it referred to ...
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