I.... am not so sure about that. A finch or a warbler or a gold fish could think the same of its own kind, and declare that humans behave colorfully, ...
Depends how you define ham sandwich and heavenly bliss. If heavenly bliss involves never getting to the washroom, because it's such a dirty, unholy th...
The laws of probability compares, as a ratio, what the outcome is, related to what the expectation of the outcome is. There is no probabiliy of causat...
It is not to be our worry why he does what he does. Let him be and don't let him negatively influence you. He is an autonomous human being, and we mus...
I guess it's his privilege, as it is our privilege to behave any way we want. I don't like him at all, but I guess he figures (no knowledge claimed, I...
ayy. Is it not your will that makes you decisions, but something else? That is bizarre. You state that your will is determined. But your choices are n...
you're right Why then did I say this? It was simply posted to help you to realize that rational thoght also influences the will, free or not. You spec...
In response to the OP: human nature is manifold, and that is why it appears to be a subject of philosophy: something that humans can't grasp yet, they...
The biological thinkers? You mean that all others are also biological thinkers, all philosophers, etc.? Becasue they are thinkers based on a biologica...
You'd be right except that conscious, emotional and rational influences also affect free will, not only subcounscious, unconscious ones. So debate is ...
In other word: the OP simply had a choice, which he had worked out rather skillfully: "Either I believe in God, or in Free Will, but I can't believe i...
There is, however some value for me in the view of the OP. If humans had free will, in the sense of classical philosophy, then the causation chain wou...
Aside from all arguments presented, without making a choice who is right and who is wrong, and without the assumption of a master plan or with the ass...
Maybe we need to drop an apple on it to make it accelerate. Seriously speaking, yes, when you drop the apple, it accelerates toward the Earth, and he ...
Actually, after blasting @"Noble Dust" I gave myself to thinking. Maybe I am and have been looking at this issue too dogmatically. It dawned on me tha...
thank you. I think it came to focus here: I still have questions that need to be clarified. (1) I state a proposition P. (2) Then I state ~P. (3) whic...
I honestly seek forgiveness from you and extend an apology for the little psychoanalysis I have attempted. This was uncalled for on my part, and I apo...
If you can't figure out on your own any causal explanations to guide my will to do this, then there is no way anyone else can explain it to you, eithe...
This is brilliant, TMF! I like this. And I think we found that person already, s/he's joined this thread and I so rudely dismissed him or her! Noble D...
I'll read your response and reply at another time; my brain still hurts from absorbing the replies from Noble Dust. I need to take a breather. Will co...
Jesus the Lord Christ. This is going from nowhere to nothing. Please don't do this to me, Oh Lord. Noble Dust, I am sorry, but the difference in our u...
These are descriptions of your own sentiments that you attach to words and concepts. That is nice. But it can't be disagreed with, so there you go, no...
You are adding a whole bunch of EXTRENOUS qualifiers. Yes, the two images CAN be made different; but there are instances when they are not different. ...
I do not accept this definition. It is incomplete. if you use this definition, you throw away the difference between "difference" and "distinction". D...
Now, this I understand. This makes sense, and I fully agree with it. I just wish to add that while you may be right in saying that greed is not a virt...
Okay, that's different. So in what way is it wrong to frame the question? A direct and logical criticism is something I can deal with, in which you de...
The starting point of WHAT? It has to be a starting point of something or other, which you haven't named. I can't put words in your mouth. Please stat...
That's a different quesion, requiring a different answer. I wish to have the discussion on this thread to focus and deal with the "free of" aspect, an...
Let's for a moment accept that philosophy possesses no legitimacy. Then the question "Does philosophy possess legitimacy" can't be answered philosophi...
Free fall is not a velocity. It is an acceleration where the gravitational force acts on your mass, and your mass inertia provides the counter force t...
I am sorry, jgill, I don't understand your objection... mainly because you did not support it with well-researched quotation from the Internet, which ...
Not at all. Your initial defintion of metaphysics is this: You wrote this. Your definition. Your words. Verbatim. Please don't deny this, because even...
They are different because you made several mistakes in the structuring of your original post. I pointed the mistakes out in my immediately preceding ...
Contradictions in classical logic are allowed as conclusions. They are used to prove a proposition false. It's called recuctio ad absurdum... if you c...
The starting point of a proof or of an argument is never a contradiction. And a contradicion is never a starting point. I have never seen an argument ...
For your information only, Engineer1952, this is complete nonsense to your readers. You need to force yourself to learn to communicate more meaningful...
Yes, you're back on track in my books. Differences don't take a man off the track. Not recognizing differences or similarities does. You are okay. I w...
Well, the question is a bit ambivalent. If I see a house, I see a house, so the image is in my mind (in my head) and outside. There is no difference. ...
This is not coming from a dicitonary, but from my own analysis of how I use and how I've ever seen used these two words: distinciton and difference. A...
This is a first occurrance of naming size of faith by volume. A person has a faith the size of a mustard seed. The other person has faith of a bucket ...
Because the difference is a complete nonsequitor. Come over to my place, move the mountain in front of my house, and I'll change my by your unapproved...
You are saying nobody has any faith, not even like a grain of mustard seed. No occurrance of moving mountains by saying a few words, and by saying a f...
Written by a technically illiterate person. 1. He says the same thing three times. 2. He does not realize that he just did that. 3. he calls the one a...
I'm sorry, but while all along this post you're right, you are not making an argument that has any effect on mine. Rights do not equate to actual stat...
You are actually almost right about that. I reject any hint of supernatural explanations of phenomena. And you're right, it is my beleif and if you li...
I don't understand the logical link you employ, and I think it is not true, when you say (paraphrased) that "omnibelenevolence necessitates non-interf...
It is interesting how little credit you give me in understanding your concept of parallel between god and a parent. My point was you can't STOP sudden...
re your op your only support is your good parent analogy and thus your failure too A parent will alleviate harmful competition among her kids. God doe...
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