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'Berkeley is begging the question.' This is what I refute Berkeley's position. 'Berkeley is confused.' This is what Moore refuted Berkeley's position....

If you are not mentally-disordered fellow, go back to read 'your broken mug cup' examples. Do you still think it is begging the question? All of Berke...

'Berkeley is stupid and wrong. And Moore failed to refute Berkeley. Berkeley remains stupid and wrong.' This is based on your comment. I gave you the ...

No. Berkeley is begging the question. 'Objects are collections of sensations.' Why? 'Objects exist without human perception because god is perceiving....

Sensations of broken mug cup depend on mind. Material broken cup does not depend on mind. You can manipulate sensations of your broken mug cup. Howeve...

Your broken mug cup is different from your idea of your broken mug cup *in kind*. Your broken mug cup ceased to be as it used to be. You can't use it ...

I still think that material objects are not identical to ideas. Suppose that I broke your mug cup. Your mug cup is material and destroyed. However, th...

If existing things are ideas plus spirits, why are material things not allowed? Berkeley just claims that there are ideas and spirits. Anyone can clai...

Did Berkeley really say that bearers of ideas are spirits? What's the difference between ideas and spirits? Any citations???

I think that Berkeley's thoughts are still absurd. Berkeley's idealism was refuted by Moore as well as Frege. Berkeley's idealism implies that bearers...

Suppose that your mother put some gift on your bed in Christmas eve night. You found the gift in Christmas morning. You might respond like either: (1)...

It's silly. I'm criticizing Berkeley, and you are defending Putnam. It's like I'm doing kick boxing, and you're doing figure skating.

Didn't Berkeley say "esse est percipi"? Your version of Berkeley is weird. Whom do you defend?

Moore claims that Berkeley did not distinguish perceptions of objects from objects. See 'The Refutation of Idealism'. Berkeley is confused between 'a ...

I forgot about eastern traditions.

The question was whether there is a better approach than of Quine... Simple rejection does not help.

Agustino believes there is a spy.

I think that you are an idiot. I repeatedly say that 'begging the question' is irrelevant to how many premises are, over and over again. I have explai...

Quine actually offers '(7) (?x)(Ralph believes that x is a spy). It is interpreted in Quine's method as '(?x)(Ralph believes y(y is a spy) of x) In Qu...

Such an argument is formally valid. In logic, formally valid arguments are *good arguments*. Again, formal logic is only concerned with forms. Let's s...

Anything true regardless of how matters stand in the world is called 'logical truth'. 'Tautology' is a kind of logical truths. Many arguments are offe...

Actually, Quine offers two possible interpretation on 'Ralph believes there is a spy': (1) Ralph believes there exists some x such that x is a spy. (d...

I am 100% sure that you never touched Lewis's books. Your opinions about Lewis are formed by secondary sources.

Single premise arguments which do not beg the question are structurally formally valid. Logic is only concerned with forms, not with contents. This is...

If you have a complain about modal realism, then provide citations.

'Begging the question' is irrelevant to the number of premises. Arguments can be valid with one premise. 'Validity' is related to structures of argume...

Your definition of 'begging the question' is screwed up. https://postimg.org/image/8u6lx1n6x/ There are many one-premise arguments.

I am certain that some members of this forum who are good at logic know that you are a stupid idiot. Either you never opened any textbook on logic or ...

Agustino said that arguments with simple premise can't be arguments. Ludwig Wittgenstein replied, "Are you insane?"

Why?

I was eating Ramen for dinner. Two don't-know-anything-about-Moore-idiots took a shit while I was having dinner. I cleaned up the dung heap they produ...

Hello?

Moore says that Berkeley did not tell objects from perceptions of objects.

With his 'The Refutation of Idealism'.

Tom believes Cicero denounced Catilline.

The most over-rated philosophers are three philosophers: Plotinus, Malebranche, Berkeley. It seems that Plotinus is not similar to Plato. I don't thin...

Ralph believes there is a spy.

Not all logicians are happy.

Some logicians are happy.

I think that Plantinga is a skillful and technical philosopher. Plantinga is known as one among top 4 possible worlds theoreticians (the others are Le...

I think that religious beliefs are not basic. There is no evidence that religious beliefs are rational. I think that atheists can be spiritual. The wh...

Some Christian philosophers including Alvin Plantinga tried to offer a slogan like 'Faith and Rationality'. Plantinga claims that theistic beliefs are...

I changed the question.

You can choose your favorite work.

Every formally valid argument is not begging the question.

If a motorcycle runs, then Agustino is an idiot. A motorcycle runs. Therefore, Agustino is an idiot. This argument has two premises. The proof goes as...

It's an argument. The structure goes as follows: A Therefore, A It is proved by natural deduction as follows: 1. A // A 2. asm: ~A 3. A (from 1, reite...

You are a stupid idiot. Therefore, you are a stupid idiot. This argument is better than your objection to modal realism. So, what's your argument agai...

Your attack is not on modal realism, but on the reason for modal realism. I defended the latter. Modal realism won.

It's logic. Conclusions follow from premises. Good arguments are formally valid arguments. My argument is formally valid. You say that the premises an...