Here are a couple discussions on Stevenson's stuff, with both pros and cons: '20 cases suggestive of reincarnation' (2007); International Skeptics For...
@"Wayfarer", you don't have to be a "die-hard materialist" to come to such conclusions. :) (Not that it matters much here, but I'm not in particular, ...
@"Wayfarer", there are also many reports of alien abductions (and who-knows-what else). None independently confirmed though, like abductions being exa...
Not sure I could say ahead of time. The alleged miracles of Lourdes? Noah's flood? It seems a prerequisite that a mind, and perhaps will, have to be b...
Honesty. It matters. (Y) (was about to hit "Like", but this will have to do) And the freedom to entertain such beliefs are non-negotiable (in my opini...
Yeah, some of those supposed explanations tend to be arguing from ignorance, and this is also where mentioned personification of the unknown can play ...
You're right, as also noted by @"Michael". The central part of the argument is 1-3, which has the form of an ordinary syllogism. 4 should have been se...
Neither naïve, nor eliminated, respectively. Paraphrasing someone I don't recall, perhaps alluding to magical thinking: Looking through the history bo...
Excellent, thanks. :D We need more samples for the experiment. I found that honest belief in the elephants didn't come about as a matter of exercising...
I thought the task was to show a (unique) first cause, like Craig, and then (perhaps) that the first cause is necessary? The principle of sufficient r...
@"Wayfarer" Neither modal realism (Lewis) nor the many-worlds hypothesis (Everett) are particularly necessary, and remain more controversial than "pro...
(quick comment, while on the move) @"Metaphysician Undercover", spatiality and objects are related much like temporality and processes, and they're al...
I think the takeaway from the article, in this context, is that some chemistries (or whatever else we find in nature) cannot evolve life as we know it...
In that sense, it would then be false, as exemplified prior. the principle of sufficient reason cannot apply to existence (everything) without circula...
In general, formation of beliefs can be fairly complex. And not a mere matter of exercising (free) will, though sometimes exercising intellect will ma...
The principle of sufficient reason cannot apply to existence (everything) without circularity, since otherwise the deduced reason would automatically ...
The subjunctive modalities, and Anselm's ontological argument, are separate arguments. Stitching them all together may not be trivial. I suppose you c...
I'm not sure that makes sense... The terms "instantaneous" and "cause" are already temporal, and "before time" is incoherent. So, if said "first cause...
As an aside, the kalam/cosmological argument is sort of common out there. I know a reasonably intelligent, mild mannered theist, that would vote "Yes"...
Right @"Michael", only 1-3 is deductive (a syllogism), whereas 4 is Craig's eventual conclusion/goal. Don't think he's going for an ordinary, natural,...
It seems to me that the fine-tuning arguments tend to exemplify the diallelus. Can there be answers that do not admit further questions, even in princ...
@"Wayfarer" The fine-tuning argument is different, though it might presuppose some kalam/cosmological argument. But, as best I can tell, these apologi...
Can't help but think you're on to something. There were, and are, examples of discrimination. However, the heavily intellectualizing, reality-removed ...
If "anything goes", then apparently denying anything goes. If "nothing goes", then apparently that doesn't go either. Hrmph. I conclude that only just...
Right, there is a point to be made I suppose. Also, as far as I'm concerned, the medical consensus isn't really replaceable, but can (at most) be supp...
In my virtual travels, I've come across a few varieties of views/arguments. Some appear to be motivated by a general distrust, an anti-establishment s...
:D Isn't Cantor's night shelter just one infinitely large, continuous room? With regularly spaced signs giving directions? Never visited, but fortunat...
Hi mcdoodle (apologies for my absence). Yes, you're right, my rendition definitely tend towards realism of some sort (perhaps physicalism). There may ...
Typed the musings in over on wordpress, with a bit more detail: https://aniarasite.wordpress.com/yet-another-mind-body-hypothesis/ Comments welcome of...
Assume I've gotten myself a headache; I'm sure most can relate, unfortunately. No aspirin at hand. Instead I go scan myself, fMRI or whatever the late...
Hey mcdoodle, thanks for the comments. The mentioned "boundary" (in lack of a better word), is inherited more or less directly from solipsism and Chal...
Leap to Hypothesis Central to these musings is identity, be it as reasoning (logical), or worldly structure (ontological). The hypothesis can now be e...
The Hard Problem of Consciousness The Chalmers style mind-body problem derives from a dichotomy: the format of 1st person phenomenological experiences...
More on those pesky dichotomies and dualities and what-not At a glance, it seems there are a few somewhat related dichotomies, that crop up in various...
Okiedokie, let me resume a bit with this stuff; first a summary of identity, because the dichotomy already shows up here. There are two important sens...
For some proposition, p, using standard notation Kp = I know that p (is true) And let's define the following proposition ? = I'm omniscient Then, by d...
I think it might be worthwhile extending "emotive" with semi/intuitive as well. On my part, disbelief in the claims of a God of theism does not really...
Yeah, by and large, some of those books are in-depth on very specific topics. In general, I find that making such material available to anyone, is a g...
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