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In: Why x=x ?  — view comment
It's kind of self-evident, isn't it? Meaning auto-supposes self-identity. When talking about the soccer match, thinking of the neighbor, etc, we autom...
December 25, 2019 at 00:17
What the...? Trump rails against windmills: 'I never understood wind' John Bowden TheHill Dec 2019 Incidentally: On Bullshit
December 23, 2019 at 14:51
Any such mathematical object always has zero Volume in higher dimensions (here I'm using generalized Volume): A point has zero length, a line has zero...
December 22, 2019 at 20:19
Just some folk are. :) There are a bunch of areas in computer science on computability and such, e.g. ... Computational Complexity Theory (Stanford En...
December 21, 2019 at 22:21
How are abstracts externalized in the first place? Compare: Some are loved, some are hated, many have known love, many have known hate. After an extin...
December 19, 2019 at 17:50
@"Devans99", you should know that the extended reals is not a semigroup, a group, a ring or a field. There are certain contexts where such (sort of "a...
December 15, 2019 at 21:45
You could say that. Reminds me a bit the the Olympians. Once someone took a good look at Mount Olympus and didn't find them, they had relocated to :sp...
December 15, 2019 at 21:35
How is that different from atheism?
December 15, 2019 at 16:54
Disambiguation is what mentioned definitions do.
December 14, 2019 at 15:59
Say, \sum_{n \in \mathbb{N}} f(n) is not a process like going shopping and returning home, it's a mathematical expression. Convergence and divergence ...
December 14, 2019 at 15:25
@"Devans99", how about just treating undefined as a predicate, rather than a value (if you really must remain technical about it)? 1/0 = undefined (n)...
December 13, 2019 at 23:01
Are we talking Dunning-Kruger...?
December 12, 2019 at 06:27
Good question. I'm sure any almighty universal deity can come up with something quite good (if there's something sufficiently important to impart). Ar...
December 12, 2019 at 05:18
And with that you're now just declaring that your story (Catholic style?) is the be-all-end-all really real truth, incidentally contrary to ... That's...
December 12, 2019 at 04:30
The topic isn't so much spirituality as such, or ... As an aside, I think Papal infallibility is perhaps taken with a grain of salt these days (in pra...
December 12, 2019 at 04:00
Nope. Feel free to assume so, and respond to that, though.
December 12, 2019 at 02:27
Of course not. I readily admit ignorance. Preachers, on the other hand, ... Or, say, Shiva, Yahweh, Allah, ... Except:
December 12, 2019 at 02:26
Learning context matters lots (as far as I can tell). Incidentally one of the reasons why I think good, accessible education is important.
December 12, 2019 at 02:21
Let me just remind that this stuff isn't just about Yahweh and the Bible.
December 12, 2019 at 02:17
@"Pfhorrest", you seem better at reading than some other commentators. (y) You forgot the rest. And authorship, self-legitimization, disproportionalit...
December 12, 2019 at 01:53
Some evidence, observations and such (some mentioned prior): no reports of Yahweh having informed a group of people of Him and the importance of the B...
December 10, 2019 at 23:09
Right. Per my comment a bit earlier, this stuff is more about the preachers. (Apologies for any confusion on that.) Compare this list (Wikipedia) with...
December 08, 2019 at 17:37
Some related inquiries, exemplifying the topic of the opening post: Did Yahweh inform you (the preacher) about Him and the importance of the Bible, or...
December 08, 2019 at 16:54
Thanks for the comments. Having scriptures self-legitimize/authenticate/authorize/certify doesn't quite work (especially not if there already are ulti...
December 08, 2019 at 15:10
Just to clarify, the opening post is about authentic legitimacy of preachers (indoctrinators proselytizers), not so much about whether Yahweh is real ...
December 08, 2019 at 14:50
, at least all the others are taken, you can't be them. When you think of "self" as mind, experiences, all that, then "self" is temporal, process-like...
December 04, 2019 at 05:51
Right. John Chau might have raised such a reason when going on a preaching mission to the Sentinelese. I think there is tension with ... • Yahweh has ...
December 03, 2019 at 14:12
I suppose you can just take my response to be
December 03, 2019 at 05:21
Hm it's simple enough, isn't it? • the Biblical Yahweh is only known from manmade scriptures • Yahweh has not authorized Christians to speak on His be...
December 03, 2019 at 05:18
Removed. No. Nothing here is about me. It's about the argument in the opening post. Could in principle have been posted by anyone. Poster irrelevant t...
December 03, 2019 at 03:52
Apologies in advance for not having read the whole thread. Why not start simpler? Something like: true and false are properties of propositions. Relat...
December 03, 2019 at 03:43
Oh, , voting definitely not mandatory. It's just running an argument about proselytizers/indoctrinators. , story-telling is great. This is more about ...
December 03, 2019 at 03:24
Yeap (y) , I'd just refer to the scientists that study such things, and then perhaps ask: What's the worst that can happen if we (try to) do something...
November 30, 2019 at 02:50
It doesn't seem that quantum mechanics can downright bridge the gap (Levine, Chalmers). How would that work? Suppose, for the sake of argument, that t...
November 28, 2019 at 02:07
Incidentally, I've witnessed something vaguely similar: I grew up in rural, small-town America — and I can tell you the real reason why people love Do...
November 27, 2019 at 17:39
Regarding the post above... Sample reasoning: 1. think of rocks, small and large, different shapes, multicolored and dull-colored 2. individual specim...
November 27, 2019 at 14:33
You grandparent was born that year. How does you knowing or not make any difference to that?
November 15, 2019 at 00:25
Isn't the philosophical verbiage (meandering) a bit misleading here? Perception depends on the perceived either way. /uploads/files/rq/oczns6a1whrabwf...
November 14, 2019 at 01:27
Of course you will miss some, most actually, but not all. You can't miss examples thereof. So, that's moving into exactly what various things are, not...
November 14, 2019 at 01:17
Maybe this is a bit better, or at least closer to what I was on about ... spatial - objects (left-right, top-bottom, front-back, where) temporal - pro...
November 13, 2019 at 04:02
I'm not sure that insisting on such a definition is fruitful (or feasible). If you insist on defining the term "exist" by other terms, then you've jus...
November 13, 2019 at 03:42
Some of the typical categories that seems to come up regularly ... real and fictional maybe existentially mind-independent and mind-dependent (qualia?...
November 12, 2019 at 05:11
A general theory of everything (not just the unification thing) — a model — would have something like a one-to-one mapping with the world. If we had s...
November 08, 2019 at 22:30
US politics: Paula White: The White House Is ‘Holy Ground’ Because ‘Where I Stand Is Holy’ Kyle Mantyla Right Wing Watch Jul 2019 Trump: I'd like some...
November 05, 2019 at 17:44
This could turn into a long side-avenue all by itself. :) @"Ying" might have some insights on Meinong's jungle.
November 04, 2019 at 16:52
Doesn't this stuff fall under "don't know"?
November 04, 2019 at 16:44
Right. This would be ignorance. Clarke's three laws:
November 04, 2019 at 16:29
So (per Feynman), magic = don't know ? That at least confirms the argument in the opening post, then (except for the implicit baggage that magic carri...
November 04, 2019 at 16:14
, I guess, for the purpose here, real can be contrasted by fictional. So, your Harry Potter model is real, and Harry Potter is not.
November 03, 2019 at 18:39
Let's not pretend to know what we don't. :up:
November 03, 2019 at 16:22