Perhaps we have different ideas in mind when we hear (or read) science. I was speaking strictly about science as an empirical method for making predic...
But given the goal I have stated, science is the most useful method. Are "Alchemy" and "Christianity" methods? If so, how do they work? Is the goal of...
Well it's a truth, but it's not an objective truth, is it? Formal logic does not point towards some object somewhere, nor does maths. Though physicist...
Oh, I see. But other methods, e.g. magic, do not work as well for the same purpose. You could make a general argument that what is "more useful" is en...
If you want to do better though, you have to change the form if your argument and hence the type of value judgement you make. Your judgement on X and ...
If we are taking about empirical science then I think the scientifically correct position on God is atheism. God is not part of any scientific theory ...
The answer seems rather self-evident, given that you are asking the question via an Internet forum. But the answer is because the scientific method pr...
Where do you take that argument from? The argument I know is that you can divide a quantity up infinitely. That is, an arbitrarily high amount of time...
A method that generates functional predictions about the relations between events The questions "how should I expect this to behave", "what should I e...
I am probably just repeating points I already made in your other thread, but I'd like to answer anyways. If thoughts came about without causes, how wo...
Thanks for the interesting essay. Not much that I would fundamentally disagree with. I wonder whether radical constructivism holds that there are a pr...
Well it implies that all information was always present in some form, yes. Conservation of energy and conservation of information. I don't think the b...
Oh and I think that, if one is going to ignore large parts of a post and only reply to a single point, it's nice to at least note why one is only inte...
Overusage of the quote function can also be bad though. One should avoid to take posts apart sentence by sentence, because that can cause you to miss ...
We can call it a child, if you want. I am not squeamish about the terms. But I think the reason to use technical terms in a discussion such as this on...
Not if you saw them as points in a multidimensional space you can travel in several directions. But if you imagine being on a train that travels a sin...
I don't think that this is accurate. Not understanding that you are even dealing with an argument is not a judgement of the content of that argument. ...
It's possible because phenomena are still related to noumena. The phenomena are in some way related to the noumena. So, if we establish a relation bet...
But in order for that to work, they need to have a similar ability to reason. They need to understand at least how the other's reasoning works in orde...
Well for a being moving through time in one direction, the connections between events would appear as cause and effect. Or perhaps more accurately: Fo...
So, what is it they, or we, compare statements, or an argument against when we make that judgement? It seems to be more than just the question whether...
You may think that, but there is no evidence for it. And when we talk about the physical reality, evidence is all that ultimately matters. Schrödinger...
Their responsibility isn't the issue though, is it? They just need to make a value judgement. If you're going to say their judgement is wrong you are ...
Ah, okay. No disagreement here. This whole line of argument is only really relevant if you want to base the morality of the decision for or against ab...
Causation would still be a valid way to determine the relation of events. I don't think the nature of time impacts the debate much. Events are connect...
Would you say that there a way to judge "good" reasoning and "bad" reasoning that is distinct from just determining wether the statement is logically ...
Huh? I don't understand what you mean. Arguable counterexamples to what? My theory of responsibility? I am not rejecting the responsibility involved, ...
Atoms are just another model. In quantum physics there are even smaller building blocks. Or rather the blocks disappear and turn into wave forms. As t...
"Democracy Now" is a left-leaning news channel, and Richard Wolff from "Democracy at Work" is a left-wing economist who makes YouTube videos about the...
No, I was only establishing the boundaries of responsibility in general. Which, thinking about it, might have been confusing. I think a case can be ma...
What does it mean for a rule to be 'objective in it's intention"? I think you have a point when you say: Making moral decisions is about using moral r...
Sure, but if I need to think exactly the same thing, in the same respect, for the same reasons, the difference between "dislike" and "immoral" disappe...
I am saying that I can dislike things and not consider then morally wrong (e.g. abortion). And I can certainly like doing things that I consider immor...
I think this is a possible brain state to have. It might just be cognitive dissonance but I feel (heh) that at least the inverse of your statement app...
Agreed. And since we do not seem to be getting anywhere, I think it's time to quit for the time being. I cannot seem to get my point across to you, an...
If the results are direct and predictable, there is no problem with responsibility. If they are neither - like a butterfly effect - then there is a pr...
If the consequences are direct and predictable, then one is responsible. It's when the consequences are neither that there is a problem. Well what els...
No. I already tried, including in the very post you are quoting from. Without further input, I have nothing to add to that. I don't realize. I suspect...
Is the idea here that all my knowledge is interconnected, and I therefore have no way to label the lockers, other than simply label them all "knowledg...
There seems to be some basic misunderstanding between the two of us on what consent *is*. Not on the definition, because I have no issue with the defi...
Admittedly, my wording was imprecise at best. What I mean is this: Events in the universe are connected, the way we perceive this connection is as cau...
But it seems like this approach can not account for sentimental value, or can it? And I don't think you can get around a judgement of some kind. You s...
I did no such thing. Implied consent is a valid concept. I disagreed with your application of the concept. The reasons are right in the bit you quoted...
I don't think you need a notion of "past change" in order to hold that when you change 1)A to B, 2)B to A and then 3) A to B again 1) is not identical...
Someone with a better background in physics can probably answer this with more certainty than I can, but so far as I am aware the answer for empirical...
Not that I can see, or are you saying you gave them earlier in the thread? No, my answer to the question you initially proposed is that implied consen...
An obligation means you should behave a certain way, yes. I use the term to signify that the mother should behave that way regardless of her personal ...
Thank you for elaborating. Would I mischaracterise your position if I summed it up as: A mother has a moral obligation to carry a child to term, unles...
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