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You're muddling up matters and confusing different concepts. Do you intend to communicate by typing on a keyboard? If you do, then why do you intend t...

You type on a keyboard because you want to communicate, and you want to communicate because you see it as good no? Sure. That's not a judgement but th...

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Yes. For something to be aimed towards something else does not require that this act is intentional. For example, for Aristotle, the final cause of a ...

Not "strictly" deterministic. He qualifies the statement, and that's because he has a spiritual axe to grind. De Broglie did qualify it as causal and ...

I've read it, but just as I expected, it's the kind of drivel that you can only find in the New York Times and other such sources for "popularisation"...

There's also Pilot Wave theory which removes the non-determinism and collapse issue, but at the cost of non-locality. The theory is quite simple in th...

So how did you get to know what 2 means? Yeah, and we could make alternative orders, only that they're not so useful at describing our reality.

What's the QM problem? Why is it a problem that the result is indeterministic (better said probabilistic)? And no I don't think that approach is valid...

1+1=2 isn't a relation, it's a description of a relation. Counting is an empirical matter. It's only in our world that we count 1, 2, etc. We learn to...

I agree with you. But I'm asking the question to BC, apparently he thinks it can be discrete, and if it's discrete, it's somehow less morally wrong th...

How can it be discrete if there's always the possibility that the other party will find out? :s It seems to me whoever thinks it can be discrete is de...

I think there's a difference between folks having sex, and us having a culture that's about sex, as we do today. Sex didn't use to be a source of self...

I noted the lack of interesting discussion on their boards. Philosophers seem to be rarely, if ever mentioned there, which I did find very strange. Yo...

It's not only a PR move - you have to be socially liberal to be in line with modern culture - it's good for business, you'll get more people being wil...

Most Jews in the US, or most Jews in Israel? Because in the US most Jews lean liberal, but they aren't really Orthodox either - they're actually secul...

In addition, for all those who have never worked in research in a scientific evidence based field (notice I didn't say philosophical), I think knowled...

I saw you around at Philosophy Now, you're quite a star there :P - I haven't even made an appearance there, though I do have an account, but can't be ...

But the relations are certainly not invented. Certainly the way we add things, and the number system we use, and so forth - they're invented. But the ...

Hello Maw! Welcome! :)

>:O I've never seen that occur here, though it sometimes happened at PF. The only possibility for that, to be honest, would be spam-bots. No person wo...

Flooding? What's that?

https://aeon.co/essays/could-we-explain-the-world-without-cause-and-effect

Which things don't you do because you think them good? Again, this doesn't disprove my point. Even if I'd rather please my penis (he said it!) than li...

Fine, if those are the rules, they are the rules.

>:O

Fine, I don't mind doing that. The only issue is that the point remains quite abstract, whereas being vulgar not only points to it but shows it.

But what if their position implies vulgarity? It sounds vulgar to me, and so I'm merely illustrating that. Why is illustrating the vulgarity inherent ...

My posts have actually been moderated before as far as I remember, and I have no problems with it mostly (in fact I don't remember ever complaining be...

It was part of the very same conversation actually, check the messages. It was the continuation of it. At my request? You're talking as if I am your b...

Well clearly a post which says global warming is happening because the Earth is getting closer to the Sun because of the Sun's gravity is bullshit - b...

Below are my arguments that have never been addressed, or have been improperly addressed (although many of them have in fact never been replied to eve...

I don't have time right now, but i will soon quote you lengthy arguments that none of you have even bothered to address

Yeah too bad that my argument wasn't even about that. It was about the direction of rationality itself, which is always aimed at the good. Even if goo...

Because I am drawn to Goodness. Goodness is the end in-itself, that for which we do all things. Reason is directed towards goodness - we do things bec...

I'm saying that I simply wouldn't consider that whatever to be God if He is not Good. If God, whatever God is appeared in front of me, and God wasn't ...

God cannot be evil by definition. That's simply part of what we mean by God. If God were evil, then that would be no different than there being no God...

If God were some cruel and evil demon, who enjoyed torturing his creation for no purpose at all - would God be worth worshipping? Is a tyrant, the dic...

If this isn't God, would God be worth worshipping?

Because God is deserving of worshipping. God is deserving that you angle your whole life towards Him. If He were evil, instead of good, would he be as...

I actually agree with you here :P (*goes off to write the event in the calendar*)

If he orders you to do evil, would he be God? Would God be God if he were evil? Isn't Goodness part of what makes God God?

Would God assign you to do evil? Do you think God has prepared thorns for you?

Hmmm... I think this needs to be qualified in some way, and I find it to be more Stoic than Buddhist personally... Buddhism is more about the extingui...

Oh common, as if the whole game doesn't change if they are desires and not needs? Really Hanover. Have some dignity man. This is philosophy, not your ...

No Sir, but that can't be the role God has created for you, can it?

I think this raises an interesting problem. Even the materialist and atheist Epicurus considered sex to be a natural desire, but not a need. He distin...

Please refer to the article from Forbes that Baden has linked :P Yes we are, because if we weren't, sexual advertising wouldn't work. We first need to...

>:O But certainly God must be happy in my happiness no? He made man and woman one for the other didn't he? Why would God have made sex possible if it ...

Great excuse not to deal with matters when they get real, not merely some "casual sex" in a beaker isolated from the rest of life. Sure it's difficult...