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Not quite what I meant, apologies for being unclear. You're apparently referring to whatever you (claim to) know, i.e. epistemic, whereas (I think) wa...
July 19, 2020 at 17:47
Yet there is an assertion implicit in the question, "God", which I've inquired about for a bit now. (You could at least have posted "God is the all-cr...
July 19, 2020 at 16:38
Yet the claim is that this God of yours exists entirely independently of us and our interpretations, yes? Incidentally, also mentioned something about...
July 19, 2020 at 13:57
Evidence could be anything. You show, we take a look. (And we may also try to differentiate.) Evidence of ... what exactly? http://encyclopedia.kids.n...
July 19, 2020 at 12:48
(y) The CDC (US) concurs. About Cloth Face Coverings CDC; June 28, 2020
July 19, 2020 at 02:24
Poll: Who always wears a mask in public—and who doesn't? National Geographic; July 10, 2020 This is the US only. Seems the most pronounced differences...
July 18, 2020 at 17:04
Yet your response goes ahead and presupposes "Him" anyway. :confused: Presupposition does not make it so (and is not particularly philosophical in thi...
July 18, 2020 at 15:23
Grant me "divine superpowers" for a couple days, and I might just be convinced. Evan Baxter SceneBruce Almighty (2m:22s youtube) (The fun I'd have...)...
July 17, 2020 at 14:47
The scientific methodologies do not inherently (heck, you could launch examinations of "supernatural magic" if there was much to examine). They're jus...
July 17, 2020 at 13:41
, you're not really responding to my comment. Oh well.
July 17, 2020 at 05:27
*whooosh* ?
July 17, 2020 at 04:54
What would evidence for invisible garden fairies look like? Sagan's garage dragon? Fictional characters? Perhaps more pertinently, how would you diffe...
July 17, 2020 at 02:04
In general? Who knows. Someone may or may not become convinced of this or that due to some evidence, and change their minds later. Formation of belief...
July 17, 2020 at 01:25
"Before time" is incoherent nonsense, much like "a cause of causation". And the quote is self-contradictory, both asserting "the beginning of time" an...
July 17, 2020 at 00:25
Hmm. There's something suspicious or perhaps nonsensical about this. Removing “Annoying” Windows 10 Features is a DMCA Violation, Microsoft Says Andy ...
July 16, 2020 at 21:44
Not good enough. For X to be necessary in general, X must figure in all possible worlds. What do all possible worlds have in common? Say, R3 is a self...
July 16, 2020 at 02:54
, I think you might be referring to Nick Bostrom's argument. Simulation hypothesis (Wikipedia) The Simulation Argument (Bostrom) There are various det...
July 12, 2020 at 20:49
We go by evidence. Say, findings like planetary orbits, quantumatics, ..., whatever. The world doesn't care about our metaphysics or whatever we think...
July 12, 2020 at 20:29
But it doesn't. From memory, examples have been posted in some of these threads. Say, Lorentz transformations tell you about what other observers migh...
July 12, 2020 at 18:55
Can't we have both? Some things are deterministic, some aren't... Actually, this is what evidence suggests. (And perhaps with further nuance, sometime...
July 11, 2020 at 14:48
, I don't think my comment was scientific realism, just deflating some inflation, the apparently universalizing self-dependence (a hallmark of idealis...
July 11, 2020 at 01:37
Rocks are conscious and feel? Imagine the silent screams of the rubble in the driveway, when running them over with the car. :scream: (Any "defender o...
July 10, 2020 at 22:10
Might be more accurate to say that evidence suggests nondeterminism?
July 10, 2020 at 16:13
Incidentally noticed that one of the references had the wrong link. Fixed in the PDF. Quantification --- Forming Propositions from Predicates — Shunic...
July 10, 2020 at 14:59
Alternatively, experiences are part of what mind is. Thus homunculus-free deflation, "what appears" is sometimes one end of worldly interaction, yours...
July 10, 2020 at 12:48
Aren't there always prior assumptions in everything we do? In some cases at least, I think we might differentiate metaphysics and epistemics like so: ...
July 09, 2020 at 22:19
Hang on a sec, you're not trying to avoid those old record long threads of yours getting beaten? :) Yeah, the comments here (one sub-thread in particu...
July 09, 2020 at 16:33
If we were to experimentally verify a theoretical value of ? millijoule, 2½ millijoule, or ? millijoule with infinite precision, then we'd be in the s...
July 08, 2020 at 03:14
Yes, they're both Coopers. :) Woman who called cops on Black man birdwatching in Central Park faces charges Melanie Schuman, Theresa Waldrop; CNN; Jul...
July 08, 2020 at 00:58
Who knows. Are, say, relativistic quantum fields "godlike"? Depending on some details, I wouldn't say so.
July 06, 2020 at 22:38
Yeah @"PhilosophyNewbie", you expose a special pleading fallacy. What you list is W L Craig's argument. Craig then proceeds to somehow make this cause...
July 06, 2020 at 20:35
I'd completely forgotten this old thread. I'll just toss another comment in. I'd think your mere existence is independent of my mind (might be a bit r...
July 06, 2020 at 18:22
So you're not talking mathematics, or even logic for that matter, don't understand the formal expressions. (Which was observed earlier I guess.) Still...
July 06, 2020 at 17:35
It is. "the procedure proves what the procedure is supposed to", here, here, ... Inconsistent. Recycle. You're right. Isn't the adventure into @"Metap...
July 05, 2020 at 17:51
:D Seems Trump both "kills the messenger" and "sticks his head in the sand"?
July 04, 2020 at 18:27
I guess it's nothing new, but see for yourself: • Visual evidence of how face masks work • Visualizing Speech-Generated Oral Fluid Droplets with Laser...
July 04, 2020 at 15:54
Your previous side-track doesn't really matter much here; it's about the numbers, 1/9 ? ?2 ... By rounding them off, you've already admitted them. Den...
July 04, 2020 at 15:15
Not much to it. What exactly are you rounding off to decimal notation...? 1/9 ? ?2 ... You already acknowledge those numbers that you round off, only ...
July 03, 2020 at 16:40
, so neither convention nor honesty works...? Now what? Meanwhile, we all understand that half a dozen is six, and what's meant by a third of the area...
July 02, 2020 at 14:17
Earth's biosphere rides on sunlight, and disperses energy just the same, from photosynthesis, through food chains, ever onwards. While the Sun blazes,...
July 02, 2020 at 13:12
:D We're no longer talking mathematics. (An acute case of ?-phobia?) Maybe we could call it metamathonomy or something. As an aside, ... doesn't seem ...
July 01, 2020 at 23:12
Something could be "conscious of more" than we are.
June 30, 2020 at 12:17
Postmodernism is good for showing what not to do. ;) Might have some utility in literary commentary I s'pose.
June 29, 2020 at 15:29
And yet 1 is deductively provable. even went through the troubles of outlining the start of a proof by induction. Thus, your disagreement ain't right....
June 29, 2020 at 15:21
So, @"Metaphysician Undercover", am I to understand that you agree (or understand) that 1. the arithmetic procedure gives 0 decimalpoint and endless 1...
June 29, 2020 at 07:36
Hmm... No pattern recognition...? Odd. Nope. Arithmetic works fine regardless of notational conventions. Intuitions and conventions aside ... We can p...
June 28, 2020 at 14:23
:D
June 28, 2020 at 03:24
It would seem so. Your comments are still off topic. Back to the topic here: We can prove that all the procedure does here is give us 0, decimal point...
June 28, 2020 at 03:20
, FYI, you can link directly to twitter as well, nifty https://twitter.com/veryann0yed/status/1273466022528348160
June 27, 2020 at 13:36
You misunderstand — this is about the procedure, not about writing. Go back, think about the procedure instead. In fact, we can go much further, thoug...
June 27, 2020 at 13:03