Brendan Golledge

Somebody asserting that something is logical doesn't make it logical. I'd have to actually read their arguments to be able to judge their reasonablene...

Yes, I really don't like the 16th amendment, but I decided to focus this post on unconstitutionality, and since the 16th amendment is part of the cons...

I think I got the basic idea. I've never seen anybody else say stuff like this before. You would think that this stuff would be fundamental to our way...

I had a very similar idea about existence itself being good, but from a totally different argument. I like the original post, because it does seem to ...

I'm skipping over the middle pages btw, because it's too much to read. I think there is some confusion about moral subjectivity/relativity/objectivity...

If noncontradiction is not an objective stance, then there is no logic. "Objective" as I understand it means that it's something that everyone can loo...

So what's the difference? One is a definition and the other is a logical equivalence? I don't think you can get away with any arbitrary definition. If...

I think these paradoxes can be solved by using a truth table on the definition. If you say, "X is false", clearly that could be represented as X -> F....

I believe this is the logic of humor: It is something we find both valuable and unexpected. This explains why a new joke is funny, but its funniness r...

Welfare is Unconstitutional: The 10th amendment says, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the ...

Slavery is legal: The 13th Amendment says, "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have b...

All wars are illegal: The constitution says, "The Congress shall have Power To ... To declare War ... " The last time the US declared ware was during ...

If definitions aren't subject to truth apt, then can I say, "Let 'X' mean a married bachelor," and that this sentence is not truth apt?

Is this statement false? If I've done the truth table right, then it means that the first line of the proof is wrong.

It seems to me that steps 1-4 are circular reasoning. You can't use a definition to prove part of its own definition. You can also do a truth table of...

I was curious about how it is possible that we can not be understanding each other, so I went to look up Curry's paradox. I was surprised to see that ...

If A is false, then B is not false. Given the definition of the sentence you are using, A is false (or meaningless) and B is true. "A" is not the same...

When you used text, I disagreed that a and 2 are equivalent. Just substitute a into 2 and you'll see that it's not. It's the difference between saying...

I have made very similar posts on philosophy forums before, with the same 3 choices, but I came to the conclusion that the only thing we know for sure...

Yes, I understood that just fine before reading this post. I am at the level where I can understand much of the formal symbols I have seen in this pos...

I am a lay person trying to learn formal logic, so this post is probably a bit of a lower level than the rest of the posts. Studying Russel's paradox ...

You are being even lazier, because I have made an argument, and you haven't. You are just asserting that I don't know what I'm talking about without p...

Because of this discussion, I think I have a better idea of what the ubermensch entails than before. Before the modern era (roughly starting in the en...

Admittedly, I don't know much of anything about Sikhs, Bahai, and Parsi. After doing a quick google search, it appears to me that Parsi are partially ...

So, there could be 1 million Ubermensch already, but we wouldn't know because they'd be minding their own business? My real desire in writing this pos...

I don't see the difference. Where is cruelty and predation outside of death?

If you look up "what is the ubermensch" the first hit is, "the ideal superior man of the future who could rise above conventional Christian morality t...

You are just wrong. I've seen interviews from multiple Jews who say that it is not a sin to desire something which is wrong, so long as you don't actu...

"We don't know X. It might be Y." I don't think this sentence requires much proof. It would require a lot of proof if I claimed that X was certainly Y...

My language is loose. But I know I have heard people say that grumpiness due to hunger is a part of their personality, and other such things, when I k...

I don't see how this is a romantic claim. It is factual. Jesus' top two commandments are how to love. In other teachings, he addresses issues of judgm...

I read Nietzsche when I was a teenager, which was admittedly over 10 years ago. It's not clear to me what you're trying to say in the rest of your pos...

I did leave many things unexplained in this post about God. I wrote another post about it, which is rather long, and which was poorly understood, call...

I think the main point of the Ubermensch is to be able to generate one's own values. I have shared a technique for consciously modifying one's own val...

I answered this in my original post: --> My views on God come from looking at nature first, and inferring God from that. It seems reasonable that if t...

I will describe in brief my moral system. I believe in principle that all values are asserted arbitrarily. I could assert that it is good to wear pink...

I realized after I posted this that I felt uneasy. I thought a bit and decided that it was probably because I positively asserted that I was the Uberm...

I really like this post. I hadn't thought about how Nietzsche was that important before, but I think you make a good argument. I also like Hume though...

If somebody wants to call the psychological aspect of their religious experience "Tao" or "The Way" or "Conscience" or some other such thing, where a ...

I saw that video shortly after it came out. It is probably one of the reasons why I came to view God this way. I do think that Dark Matter often respo...

It seems like you're not familiar with the idea that there are multiple personalities within the unconscious. This was the point I was trying to make....

I don't feel like your response to the geographic correlation of human beliefs doesn't seem to really address the point to me. The fact that different...

YES! YES! THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I MEANT! SOMEONE READ THE FIRST SENTENCE OF MY POST, THOUGHT ABOUT IT, AND UNDERSTOOD WHAT I SAID!!! YES! I suppose I co...

I've been thinking a lot recently about how it seems that most people are incapable of thinking outside of their social context. Reading these replies...

The "one" I was referring to was purely psychological in nature. It means that there is only one "I", rather than a cacophony of different Is (hungry ...

I'll repeat again, for a large part of the essay, I'm not concerned with God-as-such, but with God-as-experienced, which in one aspect means dealing w...

Thank you for your reply and positive review. You ask, "...would it not have been better, if it started with the definition of God..." The very first ...

I remember now why it has been several years since I have posted anything to an online forum. Most of the replies to the content show that they did no...

If you got to that part, you must have read quite far (or skipped ahead), which I appreciate. But I'm confused on how to reply, since the idea that ef...

Aliens make a better analogy than water if you are coming from the point of view that aliens/god may not exist. But if you had actually read the first...