No, I don't agree with you. I've just rephrased: The cause is the movement of the pencil, and the effect is the creation of the line, not its being. T...
One thing I learned from Indian people I've met, is the importance and strength of an extended family. I almost couldn't believe some of the things I ...
What does one have to do with the other? If you're independent you should go live in the forest all alone to prove it, or what? :s That seems more of ...
What does being dependent on others (we're always dependent on others to some extent, btw) have to do with lacking cognitive capacity? And with regard...
Nobody can really understand consequences though. When I started my business, you think I understood consequences of all that I was doing? No, I was c...
What do you mean "immature"? Well, if you were mature at all those things, I really really can't see what you mean by the fact that you were immature ...
Does Kant ever say it is? No. He agrees with Hume that causality is added by the mind. And in some sense, Kant absolutely has to be right. Modern neur...
The first quote that you quote me as saying refers to what lawyers can demonstrate with regards to mentally disabled people. We don't know much about ...
So you and @"unenlightened" haven't yet shown that Euclid's first postulate isn't a priori, since its absolute necessity is still there, unshaken. And...
I don't think so. This is what Kant says: "Now, in the first place, if we have a proposition which contains the idea of necessity in its very concepti...
I mean, the danger is that if you don't allow the mentally disabled to pursue sexual relationships, get married, etc. you're really cutting off their ...
Okay, but let's leave that to the side and discuss what the law ought to be, not what it is. I think that 14-year-olds really do have sufficient cogni...
I think I've seen several guys in their late teens or early 20s dating 14-16 year old girls over my life. So... I don't think that should count as rap...
Yes. I would set the boundary at 16 or 14. I think there is a lot of oppression by parents and society of young people in that age group, 14-18. And t...
Yep, exactly. The cause is the movement of the pencil, and the effect is the creation of the line. Yes, but the creation of the line does not cause th...
Okay, but then we've just moved the problem one step further no? I mean from the POV of this higher dimensional space that contains the geometric spac...
Hmmm... In spherical geometry, assuming we're talking about an intrinsic as opposed to an extrinsic curvature of space, there would be no point at the...
Ahh, wait a second, I remember, first you Brits have pre-drinks... then you start the real drinking at around like 22:00-23:00 >:O >:O >:O . Never for...
Indeed, and this is precisely Kant's point. Kant thinks that Hume is right about this: "That which effects that the content of the phenomenon can be a...
Why do you say that? And have you read Kant's first Critique? Let's take a simple synthetic a priori judgement. Here it is. It's Euclid's first postul...
There doesn't need to be a temporal progression. The cause is logically, though not temporarily, prior to the effect. Why logically? Because the cause...
I would say that's close, but if you want to be really accurate, you'd say that the universal constant of acceleration G is a property of all gravitat...
I don't think Hume's skepticism is taken that seriously even in philosophical discussions, to be honest. Or at least, it ought not to. I mean it's dif...
Aristotle's 4 causes. Basically, the 4 causes leave no gaps. Efficient cause and effect are understood to be temporarily simultaneous, so the Humean n...
I think philosophy has already settled this matter. The interesting question now is whether the causality is a priori (presupposed by our experience, ...
You can say that, but the big problem with it is that the concept of cause is entirely different from the concept of constant conjunction. They are no...
Hope you enjoy your lunch. No, of course it doesn't. But you cannot outright reject the testimony of many millions of people without reason. So until ...
Yeah, mystical experiences are real, people experience them, you know :B Right good. So we settled that your first assumption that you can disbelieve ...
So you should clarify your question. Your first question wasn't that. It was telling me how I should disbelieve the doctrine based on what it never cl...
In what sense does the fig transform into a flying octopus if it keeps the physical appearance of a fig? You might say in a mystical sense. Well then,...
You can disbelieve it, but not for the reason you gave, namely that there is no biological evidence in the wine and bread that they are the body and b...
It's not about believing it at this point, it's about judging a doctrine by the claims that it makes. If a doctrine claims that X is false, you cannot...
It says here in The Complete Dicktionary Of All English And Non-English Words The Agustino Version: Tradition: a. The word “tradition” has several usa...
Oh really? For what reason? >:) Have you modified the guidelines to say that negative remarks about our dear leader Baden aren't allowed? You made you...
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