I do not know your mailman, but my mailman is not an mediator between my daily word and the world beyond, the superhuman world of spirits and supernat...
Don't be so obtuse. "Canda" is above all a set of institutions: a constitution (if this country has a constitution), a set of laws, administrations et...
A shaman is always religious because she or he is by definition a mediator between 'this world' and the entities (spirits or forces...) of the superna...
It is simply a "non sequitur" because in 1. you talk about Jesus, in 2. you talk about the Church. Although there is a historical connection between t...
Wrong. "Canada" is not just a name for a piece of the world 'out there'. Your argument would be valid if I had used "Stuart Lake" or "Mount Robson" in...
Appeal to authority is not a common feature of religions of small-scale societies (hunter-gatherers). Even a shaman is not an authoritarian figure in ...
The object "salt" (with all its features) does not vanish even if you stop believing in it, or if we give it another name. But entities like "Canada" ...
NO, you cannot see or smell or lick at Canada. You can visit a certain region of this Planet, and do all these things, but that is not "Canada". How c...
Being an atheist myself, I do not see any fundamental difference concerning the ontological status. It is funny because a lot of fellow atheists are a...
That is not what I said. I said that the basic moral preferences we are born with are quite universal, they can be found in all babies and toddlers re...
The way you describe moral behavior it can be applied to all social species (apes, wolves, dolphins...) but nobody - not even Frans de Waal! - in his ...
writes: "Meaning is subjective for example. It only occurs in persons' heads." Not true. If your sentence was true, Humpty Dumpty would be right ("Whe...
I do not understand the question. What is the ontological status of words and their meanings? If you can answer that question, you'll have the answer ...
There is a way out of this conundrum about God and Evil: The "Chain of Being" as in the philosophy of Plotin. "God" - according to this philosophy - i...
True, but when the minds of many individuals are linked, their judgments converge and create intersubjective entities that are neither subjective nor ...
I have consulted several textbooks on Human evolutionary psychology - none of them stipulates that the mind has to be studied as a "computational" dev...
Moral norms are IMO neither subjective nor objective; they are inter-subjective (or simply "social") phenomena: An *objective* phenomenon exists indep...
Evolutionary psychologists just study the human mind from an evolutionary perspective, as a set of evolved capacities and faculties. Most of them (as ...
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