god must be atheist

Trump was popular with the masses. It's the rich that wanted him out. Hence the leftist-sounding mainstream media. The MSM are in the pocket of the ri...

Between my arms, silent legs. What does this have to do with chess?

My chess program laughs at me and calls me a ninny when I lose. If I beat him three times in a row, it asks my wife to come over and hit me over the h...

I am sorry, but I like to eat meat. And I can't afford expensive meat. I figure the meat I buy is factory raised. I am an asshole if you ask any chick...

I remember this scene from an animated movie (or tv show) made for adults. Two robots (resembling humans in appearance) sit down to play chess. They b...

I somehow can't but think that the authors (Berkeley and Hume) used English words not only in different meaning from how we understand them because th...

What about the anti-nihilists, or rather, the reverse-nihilists? "Out of nothing came I." Sort of reverse-engineering nihilism. Transcoping decadence ...

It is not nice to beat defenseless creatures. It is horrible. But why would it be unethical? Is there an ethics book that says "this type of behaviour...

But not all integers can be conceived by a single brain. By conceiving I mean just simply naming them. Integers are simple numbers. But you (or any ot...

Thisi is a diversion from the original topic. It diverges from the claim that the mind can contain more data elements than what the brain can hold.

Not all numbers can be conceived distinctly and discretely. Any number can be conceived, but not any number of numbers can be conceived. There is a li...

Listen, you person: chemical compounds don't acquire knowledge. I am running out of patience with you. If you only listened to your grade 11 chemistry...

May I say something unpopular? The nations, states, countries, governments, are a superstructure, capable of making decisions by their servants, the t...

Ayayyayayyay. zNajd, you got the philosophers' blues. Many people don't realize it, but philosophy is more dangeruos than airplane wing walking or lio...

This is the sort of statement because of which I have a strong suspicion you don't understand evolutionary theory. But you're right, there are more th...

There is a strong chance that we are both right. Because humans have not been made in each other's image. We are diverse, in looks, preferences, and i...

Drugs. As in "substance abuse". Hence, it is matter, in gaseous, liquid or solid form, which comprises atoms, and/or molecules, either in homogenous o...

I may have infinite differences with you, becasue I beleive in the evolutionary theory. level one (this is the main thrust of your questioning, as I s...

Past experiences don't lie. Past experiences vouch for that. You can trust past experiences therefore. Unknown future experiences are not going to imp...

substances are elementary things? I doubt that that definition holds. Maybe in the middle ages.

I don't deny that the origin of the concepts, of at least some of them, have been planted by societal influence, such as by language. In school in gra...

I apologize for my disrespectful post.

That's quite a philosophy. Right there.

It's the mind/body problem. And also the level of movement problem. The second entails the fact that no amount of microphysics can explain biological ...

I totally agree with what you say. I just wish to add that some symbols that are means of communication and their understanding and or / transmission ...

I found that defining "morality" or "moral behaviour" is the hardest. Well, maybe the second hardest, after defining "beauty". There is no consensus, ...

One language is symbolic, the other is an inborn (previously mutated) language. Human lingual communication is fully (save for onomatopoeias) symbolic...

The problems of science: no science. The biggest problem science faces is that it is not known by most people. The second biggest problem is that peop...

To me it is unclear, from your description, what the "origianal position:" is. It may be so totally because I am not smart enough to comprehend your d...

We agreed that the CI is to be understood as quoted. I said I will only make arguments on an established description on it that everyone accepts. I ac...

I am sorry, philosopher, I have to run with what @"charles ferraro" Proposed to you: respectfully tell you that we can't agree on several elements of ...

Let me see what this is. You are a practicing clinical psychologist. A client walks in, with any number of psychological problems on any depth of seve...

My philosoophy on philosophy: it's a lot of fun, until it is not. I do it whille I enjoy it, and I don't pursue things that I don't enjoy philosophisi...

I see questions repeated. Questions I already had explained earlier, and questions to which I had answered (or had wanted to) that I can't explain tho...

I am saying much more than that. If you did not read those parts, or refuse to comprehend what I wrote, that's not my fault in presenting my opinion.

Here you demonstrated perfectly what you need ot deny: that words (scribbled or uttered) have meaning. You, yourself, explained what the red of the ap...

Let's say you are correct. If strings of scribbles or sounds can't represent thughts, then uttering or writing them also would not represent thoughts;...

It is actually correct: humans (most of them) think in scribbles and sounds. The part that you glide over is that the scribbles and sounds have meanin...

This does not give credit to humans' ability to conceptualize things. I believe that when someone says he thinks in words, he thinks in words. Early t...

this is true. The question begs itself, however unanswerable it may be, to be: is there understanding of physics that make space travel possible? It's...

It's not a matter of decision... it's a matter of translation. From conceptual thougths into language. So far, so good. Although in spoken language I ...

I dream in images, but don't think in images. In my dreams, the characters do communicate: it is UNDERSTOOD that someone said something, and it is UND...

This is what D's actual argument looks like: Th e argument has three premises: p1. God is the supremely perfect being. No more perfect being can be co...

This I contest. A thinks of B. Therefore B exists. This is clearly false. I can think of a unicorn; and it clearly does not manifest its existence. B ...

I don't think in words or language, and I don't dream in words or language. Of course I can't prove it to you. I can only appeal to you that I have no...

Okay, let's work with this. It's great. Please note: I use the F word. It is not to be rude or obnoxious. It is not to incite offence. It is for the p...

Very true. Sometimes the obvious is the truth, and it's not complex also sometimes. Some other times the truth is complex, and not obvious. In those t...

Maybe. I was saying something completely different, though. You are saying something completely different from what I was saying. The exchange of idea...

Rafaela, coincidence does not mean causation. In fact, it can not. Religion and morality, as you say, came into existence together. Well, maybe you di...

Birthdays are celebrated for one particularly good logical reason: it keeps the consumer society healthy, because we feed the backbone of our economy,...