Is this the sort of argument you're promoting, @"Devans99"? 1. if the universe was temporally infinite, then there was no 1st moment 2. if there was n...
So? That's not what it means. Check the link, or some of the other online resources. As an aside, these sorts of things are used all the time in physi...
, \mathop {\lim} \limits_{x \to \infty} \frac{1}{x} = 0 has a concise meaning, defined in terms of the universal (?) and existential (?) quantifiers f...
What's the difference between consciousness and simulated consciousness anyway? Simulated suggests crafted intentionally by someone else. If that's th...
:roll: ... teleology ... "ends in nature" "final states" ruled by the lonely photon in deep cold, for unfathomable amounts of time (even compared to 1...
Anyone see the verbiage used about Trump, and he's alive? :) Anyone is free to defend Muhammad (and Trump), using the same thing: free speech. Jerks c...
As an example of knowledge versus freedom (albeit somewhat distasteful according to some), consider: 1. if Trump knows that he'll run for president ag...
Sorry, yes, I hadn't gone through the motions (and it's a bit old). It's just that, among the things having come out of the White House, it seemed lik...
Not really about Anselm's ontological argument... I guess, in this case, omniscience is not so much about causation as it's about truth. 1. suppose, f...
Stochastic terrorism as characterized by the Rolling Stone article below: 1. a public figure with access to the airwaves or pulpit demonizes a person ...
How about telepathy, telekinesis and black magic? :D List of prizes for evidence of the paranormal. Right, Clarke's 3rd law: any sufficiently advanced...
I know dreams and hallucinations and such, like this discussion. We already have verbiage like imaginary/fictional versus real, and the likes of that ...
I don't know of any purely deductive argument. Wittgenstein's language argument is pretty good though. Novelties indicate a larger world. I'm not omni...
Well, I can generally differentiate dream and awake when I wake up (? time). I don't hallucinate often (I think) :) in some cases I can probably reaso...
Solipsism isn't "clearly the truth", more like radical parsimony, haphazard reduction. They do not; your sentiment is towards the bottom. /uploads/fil...
The sensed? It's how I know about our neighbor. Would be a bit rude if I walked over and said "Hi neighbor, you're just my sensations". /uploads/files...
Welcome to, @"Dexter". Teaching children is among the most important parts of civilized societies. (And, recalling how I was at that age, what a rough...
Just FYI, the dialogue is (adapted) from Annie Dillard. /uploads/resized/files/fv/3ua5p8s4sqo559im.jpg Eskimos weren't/aren't particularly bad as far ...
Sometimes by means of sacrifice I guess (even human). We aren't quite born a tabula rasa, and we aren't exactly perfect. We're subject to a rather ted...
Well, does "being" (implicitly) include abstracts (in particular), relations, processes, things that are conserved, ...? Or, conversely, does "being" ...
(y) Actually, instead of definitions, maybe just ensure we know what each other are talking about. I've become wary of always insisting on definitions...
My emphasis: In a very broad sense of the term "gods" perhaps, though I think that could be misleading. Animism (Wikipedia) Panpsychism (Wikipedia) Pi...
Wouldn't it be, say, Brahma, Ganesha, Yahweh, Quetzalcoatl, Allah, Jesus, Ridhu Bai, ...? Those are some names used by adherents anyway. I suppose the...
Or more formally put, for a proposition p, p ? ¬p is a contradiction. If we're talking an ordinary full hotel, yes, which isn't the case here, hence t...
Appeal to ignorance is fine, while keeping in mind that not just anything goes. People have vivid imaginations and can, and have, come up with a lot o...
Here are two of the typical arguments against an infinite past, and why they don't hold up. (Some basic mathematics required.) Last Thursdayism Assump...
Hm. What is there to challenging atheism other than promoting theism? Theism is the name of this game, exemplified by Vishnu Yahweh Allah Vedas Bible ...
, I'm going by the formal definitions. The formalities are in that other thread. Starts with ordinary logic (consistency), then extends with necessary...
, it's really not so much about a/theism as it's about general necessity. I'll hypothesize that the only general necessity is consistency. As shown, n...
Old post: The Bare Necessities 1. anything necessary in general holds for all possible worlds 2. possible worlds are consistent, non-contradictory 3. ...
Indeed, Everything is a Goat (Bill Capra, Philosophy Now, 2009). Furthermore, Nigeria police hold 'robber' goat (BBC, Jan 2009), and then there's Rick...
Right, I seem to recall the current Pope has declared a less stringent admission to heaven. :) That said, there are people on this forum that has decl...
Why should Catholics declaring that Muslims go to hell be taken more seriously than Hindus saying you'll be reincarnated? They shouldn't. This stuff i...
Right, , we could probably come up with a couple *isms just for this thread. :D Yep, babies are implicit atheists by this colorful diagram: /uploads/r...
, you know, theism is the name of this game. If theists didn't promote and obsess about Amun-Ra Zeus Vishnu Yahweh Asherah Allah Vedas Bible Quran etc...
, right, yes, the Euthyphro has been used to question the existence Gs as defined. Going by definitions only is already suspect in itself, and the Eut...
Here's one angle in brief: "Torquemada" — moral agency and in/consistency "Nuremberg" — responsibility and in/action Referral to "Sin" (as per some Bi...
Elsewhere, @"Marcus de Brun" asked: Should Religious Posts be banned from the forum? There are way too many full-time professional religious apologist...
Right. And history is a great teacher, has real life examples and everything. :) Some things we'd like to repeat should the occasion arise, others not...
Nah. Rather that such textual passages do not define (or install) moral agency, but of course may (or may not) exemplify morals like other stories. No...
@"unenlightened", in our two stories, the judge and the father act inconsistently if their actions at work go against morals and they're aware of that...
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