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Joseph Walsh

['Member']Joined: March 13, 2019 at 18:43Last active: June 24, 2019 at 20:485 discussions18 comments

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Offence

March 14, 2019 at 19:05 36 comments Ethics

Word of God

March 14, 2019 at 17:06 19 comments Philosophy of Religion

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Have you tried reading all of philosophy and made notes on their work? You may have one solid and original idea. But you need to read a lot of philoso...
April 23, 2019 at 18:47
But I hear you. You can use them both depending on the situation.
March 25, 2019 at 16:32
In terms of truth deductive arguments are more certain but I found inductive arguments to be more useful in terms of science. It is just a personal pr...
March 25, 2019 at 16:30
I understand that but it has worked for me that way. I am not talking about facts I am talking about personal preference.
March 25, 2019 at 16:27
Thanks!
March 15, 2019 at 01:47
How do I like this? haha
March 15, 2019 at 01:46
You are what you eat.
March 15, 2019 at 00:49
Derrida looks like he is full of himself. haha
March 15, 2019 at 00:48
I need to get over a dislike of conversational writing. I am used to reading Hegel and Kant so my writing could be due to who I read. Perhaps I could ...
March 15, 2019 at 00:48
So construct context over what you know? Make logical structure? Remove tangents? And create smaller essays of a large controversy to break down ideas...
March 15, 2019 at 00:46
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Good answers.
March 14, 2019 at 20:50
Anything that an intelligent being did not make.
March 14, 2019 at 19:07
I don't think this conversation went well. We didn't have a very serious discussion. Oh well. It seems to be the cool thing to offend or to not be ser...
March 14, 2019 at 18:58
That's a good point. I do it out of respect for another person's view. You can't really stop people from doing things out of the nature of free will. ...
March 14, 2019 at 18:56
The cool thing it seems to do today is too offend for the sake of offending. If people offend without reason to offend, then it should be excused. Peo...
March 14, 2019 at 18:54
I do not have enough information to make a good assessment of God. There is so much history that I shouldn't even begin to deal with ideas that I don'...
March 14, 2019 at 18:53
Ya. The whole history of philosophy has a whole bunch of thoughts on God. The Greeks had some which were interesting. "There cannot be a single, simpl...
March 14, 2019 at 18:51
True. I just do it out of courtesy.
March 14, 2019 at 18:49