But you do use that argument in your thesis. As a premis. I never said you created that argument. I said "where did you get that argument". Using a fa...
That is an unanswerable question. You can only appeal to spirituality and not to science, to philosophy or to reason to answer it for you. And the ans...
I am incredibly sorry, @"Sushi", but I still don't get it. Purpose in an ant, for instance, or in a maple-tree, or in a mosquito-larva, is brought abo...
Who says god is a concrete object? The biggest, falsest, most mistaken premis I have ever read in an argument. Nobody has ever seen, heard of, touched...
5. I am a secularist / atheist, but I don't know what "Teleonomical" means, or what you mean by it, so I can't answer your question. But I sure hain't...
You guys like to think to your guns, do you. "Not nothing" can be something, and it can be everything. But something is not necessary everything. For ...
What's the Ape-Iron theory? In my estimate Anaximander lived in the Bronze age, and had no knowledge of iron; and definitely no knowledge of the class...
Current thought is, I see it in so many places, that the spirit or soul or "I" does not exist. Sure it does. It is not a physical thing, but it dies w...
The Dresden bombing was ordered by President Eisenhower, because intelligence suggested there were weapons of mass distructions hidden there. (I'm bul...
This completely discounts the fact that it is scientists who have discovered global warming, and it is media's job to deliver the scientific findings ...
Alcontali, the post you posted makes no sense to me. I am not putting you down; maybe your intellect is much higher than mine, and that's why. But you...
I agree. Furthermore, to preempt any arguments why the bosses should not be responsible and expected to not be horribly abusive: this belongs in the a...
I may be totally off the target, but in my opinion the BIV has no sensations; no ways of taking in impulses from the physical world, due to its lack o...
It is a psychological term you calim. But isn't there a philosophy of psychology? Of family? Darwinism? Of social bonding, of family ties, of blood be...
I just talked to a Jewish friend of mine whose parents are Modern Orthodox. He said that those who observe the laws and live according to them, will r...
Anarchy means, literally, "no rule". It is not democratic, but it is egalitarian. Nobody rules over anyone else. --------------------- Monarchy - mono...
To prove that the system of math, the system of the universe, or anything empirical is impossible to prove because of the need to use parts of the sys...
And while you are at it, maybe you could give a brief (one or two paragraphs, no longer than 80 words each) summary of what Goedel's incompleteness th...
What is the undecidability of the halting problem? What is the halting problem? This is factual knowledge to gain before anyone can contribute to your...
Some might argue that a person's body was not born with the consciousness of the individual. It may have developed along with the developing mind of t...
@"Devans99", it's funny that we argue about this. I may win in logical terms, but you are devoted to a principle, from which you won't budge, and that...
Not really. You say if you go from -4, you can get a difference more than if you start at +4. That is not true. If the difference is 16, then you get ...
No. A mind without memory is not a mind, but a life without ANY suffering due to evil is a LIFE, and no memory of evil is needed to experience joy and...
PTSD. People who have experienced pure evil suffer to the end of their lives. They never again experience joy in their lives, especially because of th...
Let's see if I had been naive. I propose this question to you: If all the politicians were employed in political ways to reverse or stop the global wa...
So... Greta is a politician? It is not only the politician that makes people vote one way or another. it is the scientists who have given us the facts...
If that is true, that's a great invention to curb human population explosion. I suggest we introduce democracy in all countries in the world, and then...
I don't mind your inconsistency. It is like the food I cook for my children... it has a certain uncertain flavour peppered with a consistency of indes...
Furthermore, "at least one" is not something; "at least one" is a definition of "some" in syllogisms, and in syllogisms only. In syllogisms you don't ...
This is wrong. Not everything can be negated by something as well as by nothing. Your further analysis is meaningless because you started off with the...
This is absolutely true. But what you don't mention is that under tyranny by one tyrant or under anarchy, the people's wishes are completely ignored. ...
They (beaurocracy) do many other things, but granted, they do obfuscate as well. I agree with you, that we live under a tyranny. But the tyrant is the...
Message to some of the correspondents: Why are we trying to convince Frank of something that he won't be convinced of, based on his principles? It's c...
This is a million dollar question. We are a loving, caring society, the globe is with its people. In some areas. Not all. But it used to be not like t...
That's a lack of social constraints, but there are other constraints, and you can't completely ignore the other constraints, unless you declare a cert...
This occurred to me just now: I read a book, an anthology. On the contents page, there was the title of a piece (the anthology consisted of many short...
I don't know much about Jewish religion, but I know they have not much of a concept of an afterlife in Heaven. So the only reason for Jews to love, ob...
I was happy as a child, without a baseline of suffering. I can conceive of a system where people are happy, and they consciously realize that, without...
I am a great-grandson of God. I lied! God is my third cousin, twice removed. I lied! God is my brother-in-law's uncle's pet canary who was sold to him...
If one has a false belief, then his misrepresenting his own belief may produce that he is representing things truthfully. This is not a slippery slope...
I am not sure if it's values that are lied about, or facts. The orator may give an example of how value affects behaviour; and the example is the key....
Without Moore's addition, it makes sense: the listener has no way of knowing whether Frankfurter has 20 bucks in his pocket. If Frankfurter swears on ...
There was a time when a (wo)man showed up and said something and everyone believed s/he was saying the truth. That was the time from grade 1 through g...
Duty to love? I don't get it. Can you elaborate? I thought it was attraction, compatibility and apparent availability (or imagined) that makes people ...
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