Ambrose Bierce satirically wrote: Religion (noun) A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. "What is your rel...
@"unenlightened", well, not exactly. :) So, the judge comes home after a tedious day of case laws, paperwork, etc, only to find disarray. Their law-st...
@"khaled", the three bullets were actually intended to be different expressions of the same thing. An example for one is likely to cover the others, a...
Sorry, I concocted that. Seemed an appropriate name for the topic. The is/ought gap of old also came to mind while I typed this stuff up (plus the ill...
, I just meant that reason, "the just and good" still refer back to moral agency/actors, so I find it hard to separate them. But, yep, gave a good ana...
Superior orders, a book, things snatched out of thin air, ... Refusal to take responsibility for one's own actions is a kind of moral cowardice (shirk...
Right. If knowledge acquisition is to be deductive, then we run into the diallelus (links below). Knowledge acquisition in general isn't purely deduct...
Or it hinges on what this "God" you folk talk about is supposed to be? It's not just about half a dozen or so quotes about obscure abstracts, but also...
Possible worlds is just a way of talking and reasoning about modal logic. necessarily p (holds for all consistent worlds): ?p ? ?w?W p possibly p (hol...
Emotive appeals aside, @"Wayfarer", it then seems a bit ironic that these enterprises have led to people surrendering moral agency to (man-made) scrip...
I'll toss some arguments in. Copied from elsewhere: Is your deity real? Everyone knows that not all gods can be real. ? Hence some or all gods are ima...
Sorry @"Pattern-chaser", the point was just that there can sometimes be other reasons (like morals) involved. There are all kinds of thought experimen...
Brush off or brush on? Surely there are sufficient reasons to brush off? 1. morality is social 2. solipsism is not 3. therefore there are morals imper...
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It's a model. Models are not the modeled. Unless you're thinking about thoughts, the thoughts are not that which you're thinking of. ... Shameless plu...
Why would anyone take the following samples as more than archaic, barbaric customs and stories, that we've since outgrown? (Quarrels about translation...
Yeah, but it's not a Christian fundamentalist preaching forum. You've been called out. Echo'ing @"Banno"'s comments above: Deferral to someone else (t...
Perhaps. Yet, that ? is what you meant, right? Not something else (non-identity), or the contrary (contradiction)? Otherwise, this chat will lose trac...
Scriptures...? :o Good luck with that, here's a list of maybe 50 of them. The Bible alone has tediously long lists of problems. But, hey, ambiguities ...
That may have been Hawking's sentiment, but the "edge free" model didn't originate with him. See XXXI. The Possibility of a “Finite” and Yet “Unbounde...
@"SophistiCat", @"andrewk", yeah, the fine-tuning arguments seem kind of fine-tuned (to an end) themselves. An assessment would perhaps have to includ...
How would we go about making such an assessment? These two seems partially at odds: observation: life as we know it seems somewhat rare, not a hospita...
I think it was Gassendi that brought the same objection up way back in the 1600s, @"Marcus de Brun". (y) When it comes to pure deduction, you don't ge...
A subjective idealist (and solipsist), then. :meh: Presumably you regularly experience other folks' bodies and gesturing and such? Not their self-awar...
Is this more traditional sketch reasonable? /uploads/files/oa/ia7d9ts1yiyrxh8f.png (the attached knowledge-traditional-1247x610.png is easier to read)...
Is the case for fine-tuned for life that good? The constants found in physics (and similar sciences) are but part of such an assessment. We'd have to ...
A hyper skeptic parsimonious solipsist weirdo may doubt anything beyond mere appearances (cf "esse est percipi"). Say, when taking a walk on the stree...
Red marks conundrum: /uploads/files/kk/lqgk52qxckbzvrra.jpg (from something I typed up elsewhere (can maybe reproduce here if anyone cares)) I suppose...
Have you considered what would come of things, if we were to reject identity, the 1st law? onto/logical: x = x propositional: p ? p You may consider i...
x and y are implicitly bound variables, so there's an ambiguity involved: ?x?S ?y?T p(x,y) = ?y?S ?x?T p(y,x) ? ?x?S ?y?T p(x,y) ? ?y?T ?x?S p(y,x) ? ...
Hm. Then it seems this God figure is no longer needed here. Falls out of the equation after a fashion. Anyway, if we go by the Biblical narratives (an...
Colloquially, infinite is a quantity that's not a number, |\mathbb{R}| \sim \infty \notin \mathbb{R}. But it's ambiguous (hence the \sim). As it turns...
Right, atemporal renders decision-making impossible or incoherent. Moreover, it seems that minds are strongly temporal altogether, meaning that an ate...
I don't think anyone demands anything here, do they? :) All there is to go by is a definition, there isn't anything to point at which makes us go "omn...
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Why some scientists say physics has gone off the rails Dan Falk NBC News Jun 2018 Hossenfelder might be a bit pessimistic, but the universe doesn't re...
Don't know. Maybe show up for supper on occasion? We're personable hosts, supper's on us. Oh, and grant me omnipotence for a bit, the fun I'd have. :)...
Well, it's not exactly parsimonious, and lends itself to a regress ... /uploads/files/t5/1hxx2jzelby87bo3.jpg Programmers of a simulation can do whate...
These folk suggest that octopus-ancestors came from space in time to participate in (or even spur on) the Cambrian explosion, and evolved in particula...
Instead of all the "Much Ado About Nothing", wouldn't it make more sense to be a bit more specific? "nothingness" = absence of anything and everything...
@"GreenPhilosophy", I think any answers to your inquiry may differ depending on context. In a civilized society, things may be sort of complex, but mo...
@"apokrisis", incidentally, I think the peculiar fractal'ish thing applies to self-knowledge in particular. (This coincides with documented (evident) ...
You'd then have to have the map being part of it all. Or, in other words, the map would have to include itself as a proper part. A bit fractal'ish I s...
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