If you concede that our intentions can be imperfectly realized, as you said, then it follows that what we are trying to do is at least as well exempli...
Essentially, traditional religious values provided a morally realist framework. Durkheim's anomie is the state of normlessness that arises from aliena...
There doesn't have to be a standard for there to be a spectrum. There is no "standard" of colour, but there are lots of colours. I personally know lot...
There is no "standard" of foreseeability. Some people act carefully. Others act recklessly. Many people think that they know what they are doing and d...
You have misdirected my rebuttal by mis-characterizing it. Intentionality is not just about what is aimed at, it is also about what is the reason for ...
If I push someone around because I am bigger and stronger, and that person then goes and pushes another because he is upset that I pushed him around a...
Is it even relevant for people to know or say of others that they are in bad-faith? As you point out, it is an 'internal' concept. Perhaps the cafe wa...
And I think this is the rational approach. Human beings do act "automatically" in the sense that they enact their own physical "habits", but they can ...
But is something accidental if it not only could have but should have been forseen? People manifest different degrees of "epistemic responsibility." I...
Absolutely. The core of Scepticism revolves around the recognition of deep (epistemic) subjective relativism, which extends so far as to be able to sh...
How do you mean exactly? Certainly, I'm construing it within the composite framework of the subject-object system. As such, it is measurable and quant...
Yes, that would be one way of describing it. Phase space is a physical characterization of the possible states of a system. A bicycle-rider system can...
The proof isn't in the institutions, it is in my immediate perceptions. If I tried to lift my arm, and it didn't elevate, then I would wonder. If I wa...
I agree. The evidence is so overwhelmingly on the side of freedom of will (it is the basis of all law, qua responsibility for actions, which is the fo...
Sure. If you know Archimedes principle of the lever then you can lift something you otherwise couldn't. Practical knowledge is inherently instrumental...
Doesn't the condition that there is no free-will exclude the possibility of the instrumentality of belief, and therefore of knowledge? And yet knowled...
I would further call attention to the fact that the earliest conceptions of "god" were of animistic spirits of particular natural phenomena (whose cau...
Yes, that is precisely my point. As I said, my experiences on earth have included events indicative of meaningful connections that transcend current s...
And I already provided the example by way of analogy with the theory of the atom. We have no problem seeing Democritus' theory as a "precursor" to a m...
I'm asking you why a narrative that is from the limited human-centric perspective cannot both be inaccurate but also refer to something that in fact e...
Is the "Sun" of the geocentric cosmology the same as the "Sun" of the Heliocentric cosmology? If you say no, then possibly Odin does not exist. If you...
You could state it thus. This is the problem with symbolic logic, the elevation of form over content. Existence is not purely logical. Certainly quant...
Doing the same action repeatedly expecting a different result is not a contradiction either, but it is illogical. The logic of human actions is not en...
It's a non sequitur to argue within the stated parameters of the question? That is a very strange conception of logic indeed. Which IS precisely to th...
I'll go you one better. Show me where this thread is about the defining attributes of "theism". This thread is about whether atheism is illogical. Ath...
It isn't against you. It is a generalized fact about the epistemological makeup of individual entities, of which you happen to be one. "In general, if...
Or you have failed to observe the evidence in the events comprising your own life due to your own attitude, or simply some inherent limitation of your...
"Do I really have free will?" Doesn't asking the question itself imply that you do? It is like asking "Am I conscious now?" i.e. it is the difference ...
It's funny how the same circumstances can breed opposite results. One self-made man who raised himself up from poverty believes "anyone can do it" bec...
Ok. I believe that I make decisions based on a process of reasoning. This belief is itself (per now) a process of reasoning. So you are saying that th...
:up: Realistically, there may well be things happening in the universe that the human mind - intermediated by the limited faculties of the human body ...
This single condition alone defines the being practically and can be the sole sufficient condition to account for your other conditions, such as havin...
Your muddled interpretations aside, the actual state of affairs is that the concept of "God" exists across all cultures and in such variety that your ...
Ever hear of pantheism? This is a complete non-sequitur. I said that the description of the being(s) that I provided did not preclude them being consi...
Our bookstore outing last weekend was a bit disappointing. The first store had a lot of inventory, but it was poorly sorted, shelved, and laid out. An...
My sine qua non theistic claims are that there are greater-than-human conscious entities. And that the most general definition of a deity is a being p...
Sorry, that's just plain ridiculous. This doesn't in any way shape or form contradict the generalized description I provided. Exactly. Every other con...
What academy are you referring to? The main defining feature of a "god" is having abilities which transcend human understanding. That's really not a v...
If that seems reasonable to you. It doesn't strike me as something someone striving to frame a credible concept would do though. Rather, someone striv...
That's right. And my definition is empirical. Given that consciousness obviously exists, and there are gradations of consciousness, there is come grea...
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