Oh, OK. Well, the semantics thing (earlier in the thread), Husserlian (reductive) phenomenology and such, seems tangential to Craig's argument, but su...
According to Craig God is personal, according to Armstrong God is not; according to your alternative, one end of God is personal, and another end is n...
I guess the word "God" apparently is up for grabs. :-} The majority of contemporary theists would disagree, or at least speak of a different God/god; ...
The diallelus. Unless...are you insisting that Krauss start talking about "nothing" (here, here), or make things up, or ...? I once ran into a fellow ...
@"John", nah, I wasn't thinking of strange Platonic realms, just contrasting real with fictional. Like Superman isn't real, but he does exist as a com...
Thought I'd just add an extra post here, to increase the count. :D As mentioned, a scientific response seems to involve virtual particle pairs, quantu...
What objections are they? (That was part of the intent with the opening post.) By the way, please feel free to present your own argument, if you have ...
Re: Briefly on the old contingent versus necessary thing. Quoting the British theologian from a 2009 interview: Rather, this would have to proven (aft...
That would be your reading, not Craig's argument (at Leadership University, at Reasonable Faith). there are temporal things, therefore there are non-t...
@"Metaphysician Undercover", I'm not going to plead specially to supernatural causation. The kalam/cosmological argument appeals to causation as we kn...
Briefly on the old contingent versus necessary thing. /uploads/resized/files/5v/olkdgor10135j1cu.jpg How does "nothing" categorize here? It doesn't, i...
Expressing temporality with tensed verbiage can be difficult; the word "to exist" has a past tense, for example. Our language can express things "exis...
Who the heck ever Forney are, they've now released a "Stud Master" record, that'll destroy your record player. Stud Master /uploads/resized/files/or/i...
Did the discussion turn religious? Regarding the subjective versus objective thing, let me just ask what it's like to be you, the reader? You may desc...
So, in summary, human existence is objective, our moral attitudes and sentiments are part of us, thus our morals are objective? If ought (pre/proscrip...
Anyway, with this thread I intended to shed some light on the odd gaps reduction to self-interest versus social behavior subjective versus objective M...
Well, why do we have (secular) law? Why wouldn't suppressing an impulse to punch my boss be authentic anyway? :) Indoctrination can also play a role i...
Right. Analogous to this old document (translated to English): Social (or societal) sustainability, and a degree of cooperation, is kind of implicit f...
Maybe? How can you have a thing already, except it doesn't "have existence"? Predicate ontologization or existence as ground? Something's amiss. Forma...
@"Metaphysician Undercover" ... which is to assume some sort of "free will" and that they're first causes. That's fine, you just have to sufficiently ...
Let me just expand a bit upon from the opening post, like creatio ex materia (or creatio ex deo). An act is temporal, speaking of "to act" is only mea...
Yet another side-track in continuation of some previous comments. In the NPR article below, Devinsky (of NYU) mentions the example of love. Consenting...
To seek "otherworldly" supernatural explanations, is to extend causation for the occasion. Causation is temporal, and spacetime is an aspect of the un...
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